Where Builders Thrive
at Every Stage
Reclaiming billions in brain drain by helping experience compound in Canada, not exit it.
bold
founders
Cultivating tech startup communities,
by and for
bold
founders
The overlooked challenge behind
Canada's innovation economy
Canada's challenge isn't about creating first-time founders. It's about what happens to experienced builders between ventures... when companies stall, exit, or pivot.
Most founders step back. Not because they've lost the ability to build, but because there's no infrastructure to keep them engaged while rebuilding.
$1B
lost annually as founders
don't build again
50%
fewer repeat founders
per capita than the U.S.
71%
productivity decline
from lost experience
Repeat founders are 50% more likely to succeed, raise capital faster, and create sustainable jobs. What's missing isn't another program—it's infrastructure that keeps builders in motion.
ElanTech has operated for nearly two decades as a builder-led grassroots ecosystem in Montreal. We're formalizing what works: 10,000+ builders annually, 50,000+ founders through the system. Turning social fabric into structural support.
OUR MISSION
A healthy entrepreneurial tech ecosystem is centered around and driven by founders.
Just as nature regenerates with seeds born from its own fruit, founders are the driving force at the heart of the entrepreneurial cycle.
At Elan Tech, we cultivate, nurture, and support communities of rising and established tech founders, driving venture creation and fostering sustainable growth to empower bold, ambitious, and resilient tech startups.
For 18 years, ElanTech has helped builders remain
Economically, socially, and intellectually inside the ecosystem... across exits, stalls, and second acts...
Canada’s challenge isn’t talent or ambition.It’s what happens when experienced builders have no place to stay between chapters.
ElanTech exists to solve that, by designing circles, programs, and convenings that keep experience compounding.
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Supporting 5,000 builders
This portion of the program is open to everyone and gives you the chance to tap into:
Build & Connect
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Online Discord Community
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Monthly AI Build Day Spaces to build, find a co-founder and experiment
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Monthly peer to peer sessions on special topics and new technologies & tools.
Every quarter, 10 new groups of standout projects unlock access to:
Unlocked incentives
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1-1 Mentorship with experienced founders
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Elan’s Angels & VC’s special meetups
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Elan senior founder network support
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Supporting 100 rebuilders
All 100 selected rebuilders/repeat founders can benefit from:
Build & Connect
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Monthly Peer to Peer for Repeat Entrepreneurs
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Access to all build in MTL activities
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Build weekly space access
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Workshop to design quarterly milestones
Every quarter, 10 new groups of standout projects unlock access to:
Unlocked incentives
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1-1 access to Elan senior founders network
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Bi-weekly milestone touchpoint with Elan Entrepreneur in Residence
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Access to Fractional board of advisors
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Access to Founders’s Circle advance program post MVP
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Elan’s Angels & VC’s special meetup
Shared Elan Resources
Community WhatSapp Group
Bi-weekly Events/Opportunities Newsletter
Discounted Ecosystem Events
A Journey for Every Founder
No matter where you are in your founder journey, we’re here to support you. Whether you're aspiring to launch, building, scaling, or giving back, Elan Tech connects you with the right people, insights, and opportunities to help you move forward.
For Rising Founders & Builders in Motion
We want you to move further and faster by connecting you with the right people, resources, and support along the way.
For Established Tech Founders
We help you sustain your venture by unlocking peer-driven insights, practical knowledge, and tailored growth opportunities.
For Founders
Community Builders
We provide frameworks, tools, resources and support to make giving back to the startup ecosystem simpler and more rewarding, so you can stay focused on growing your own venture.
We want you to move further and faster by connecting you with the right people, resources, and support along the way.
For Rising Founders
& Builders in Motion
We help you sustain your venture by unlocking peer-driven insights, practical knowledge, and tailored growth opportunities.
For Established
Tech Founders
We provide frameworks, tools, resources and support to make giving back to the startup ecosystem simpler and more rewarding, so you can stay focused on growing your own venture.
For Founders
Community Builders
A Journey for Every Founder
No matter where you are in your founder journey, we’re here to support you. Whether you're aspiring to launch, building, scaling, or giving back, Elan Tech connects you with the right people, insights, and opportunities to help you move forward.
For Rising Founders
& Builders in Motion
We want you to move further and faster by connecting you with the right people, resources, and support along the way.
For Established
Tech Founders
We help you sustain your venture by unlocking peer-driven insights, practical knowledge, and tailored growth opportunities.
For Founders'
Community Builders
We provide frameworks, tools, resources and support to make giving back to the startup ecosystem simpler and more rewarding, so you can stay focused on growing your own venture.
OUR IMPACT
17
Active Years
280+
Activities Organized
1 500+
Supported Startups
300+
Local & Global Partners
800+
Projects & Startups Co-created
50 000+
Mobilized Individuals Across Canada
15
Active presence in 9 cities in Quebec and 6 more across Canada
60
activities
organised
10 000
Builders mobilised
20+
Incorporations
100+
Projects created
12
co-founder matched
40
employment
created
4 000
founders represented
100
startups showcased
200+
partners collaborated
4
programs run
800+
Projects and startups
co-created
15
Active presence in 9 cities in Quebec
and 6 more across Canada
50 000+
Mobilized individuals Across Canada
Creating Impact, One Step at a Time
Our 2025 Impact
OUR IMPACT
Our Impact
The past 17 Years
18
Active years
280+
Activities Organized
1 500+
Supported Startups
300+
Local and Global Partners
800+
Projects and startups
co-created
15
Active presence in 9 cities in Quebec
and 6 more across Canada
50 000+
Mobilized individuals Across Canada
Our Partners
We believe every partner is a valuable, long-term partner.
We believe in the power of genuine collaboration among like minded people and organizations to give new momentum to our tech entrepreneur ecosystem.
If you :
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Want to help give an élan forward to the tech startup community.
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Believe in a founder-centric community thriving at a fast pace.
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Want to be part of a journey to empower the bold.
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Have the unfettered ambition of genuine tech founders...
This is your call to act. Get in touch with us today!