1. General information
1.1 What is the name of your company? *
1.2 Please enter the 30-word public description of your company, which you placed on the cover page of your five-page startup plan *
1.5 In which sector does your company primarily operate (select the main one)? *
- Select - Administrative Services Advertising Agriculture and Farming Apps Articificial Intelligence Biotechnology Clothing and Apparel Commerce and Shopping Community and Lifestyle Consumer Electronics Consumer goods Data and Analytics Design Education Energy Events Financial Services Food and Beverage Gaming Government and Military Hardware Health Care Information Technologies Internet Services Lending and Investments Manufacturing Media and Entertainment Messaging and Telecommunications Mobile Music and Audio Natural resources Navigation and Mapping Payments Privacy and Security Professional Services Real estate Sales and Marketing Science and Engineering Software Sports Sustainability Transportation Travel and Tourism Video Other
Please specify if necessary
What is the total percentage of equity owned by the McGill affiliated members of the team?* *
Explain and name the members if relevant. If there was no equity split, please mention it.
Provide incorporation number *
1.8 Currently, in which country are your company's main operations? *
1.9 In which city and country is your company headquartered? *
Please indicate which year you participated in each Dobson program *
2. Communication platforms
Indicate website link *
2.2 Do you have an active Facebook page? *
Indicate Facebook page link *
2.3 Do you have a LinkedIn page? *
Indicate LinkedIn page link: *
Indicate Twitter handle: *
3. Intellectual Property
3.2. Please specify (number, type, dates). *
4. Revenue and traction
4.1 To date, what is your company’s total cumulative revenue since founding? *
Please do not include any philanthropic investments or donations in this amount. Indicate all values in CAD dollars.
4.2 To date, how much did your company borrow/receive from all funding sources (equity, debt, government grants and incentives, philanthropy, or other) since founding? *
Please indicate the amounts in CAD dollars.
4.3 To date, excluding the founding team, how many users or paying customers or benefactors do you currently have engaged? *
4.4 To date, excluding the founding team, how many paid employees do you currently have engaged? *
Please indicate the number employees.
5. Team composition
5.1 How many equity holding founders on your team are working full time on this project (more than 35 hours a week)? *
5.2 How many founders are working part time on this project? *
5.3 How many founders will be participating in full on the X-1 Accelerator? *
Please add all participating team members in the next section.
5.4 First Founder and Primary Contact
5.5 Second Founder
5.6 Third Founder
5.7 Fourth founder
5.8 Fifth Founder
6. Application Documents
6.1 Five Page Startup Plan
Please note that your startup plan must use the provided word template provided here .
It must be a pdf document, no longer than 5 pages (+ cover page), and should be named according to the following model:
Name Of Startup_X1_year.pdf
For example, if a company is named "Technology for All", the file name will be: TechnologyForAll_X1_2024.pdf
Files must be less than 5 MB .
Allowed file types: PDF .
For more information, please read the McGill X-1 Accelerator Guidelines .
Please attach your five-page startup plan here. *