Saskatchewan Rural Pitch 2025

Rules for Saskatchewan Rural Pitch 2025

Eligibility Criteria:

Contestants must be legal residents of Saskatchewan and at least eighteen (18) years old.
Contestants must live and work in rural Saskatchewan. Their business must be headquartered in a rural community and have the capacity to ensure that any seed funds awarded through this pitch competition are used in a rural setting.
Contestants may not be currently enrolled in an urban-based accelerator or incubator. However, prior participation in such programs is acceptable, provided they are no longer active participants.

“Rural Saskatchewan” means any geographic area within the Province of Saskatchewan that:

(a) is located outside the corporate boundaries of a city with a population of 30,000 or more, as defined by the most recent federal census data;
(b) includes towns, villages, resort villages, organized hamlets, rural municipalities, First Nations reserves, Métis settlements, and unorganized territories within Saskatchewan; and
(c) is characterized by low population density, dispersed settlement patterns, or a local economy primarily based on agriculture, resource extraction, or rural industry.

All submissions MUST be the entrant’s original idea (modification of an original work is not an original idea). Submissions MUST NOT copy or otherwise plagiarize from any source.

Please note: This is not a lottery. Seed funding is provided as an investment in your business. As such, these funds must be reported to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as business income.

Original idea must be technology-based in nature. For example, software, electronic hardware or an engineered process.

No employees or board members of the Southeast Techhub Inc or the Saskatchewan Indigenous Economic Development Network, nor any of their funded affiliates, nor their direct family members may enter this competition.

All Submissions

MUST be the entrant’s original idea (modification of an original work is not an original idea). Submissions MUST NOT copy or otherwise plagiarize from any source.

Original idea must be technology-based in nature. For example, software or electronic hardware.

MUST NOT contain material that is (or promote activities that are) in the SETH’s sole judgment and discretion, hateful, slanderous, libelous, tortious, sexually explicit, obscene, pornographic, inappropriate, violent, discriminatory (based on race, sex, religion, natural origin, physical disability, sexual orientation or age), illegal (e.g., underage drinking, substance abuse, computer hacking, etc.), offensive, threatening, profane or harassing; or contain material that is threatening to any person, place, business, group or world peace; or contain words or symbols that are widely considered offensive to individuals of a certain race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or socioeconomic group; or contain images, words or text portraying nudity, acts of violence, or acts that are or appear to be unlawful or dangerous or in violation of, or contrary to the laws or regulations in Saskatchewan.

MUST NOT contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to material that violates privacy, publicity, or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement.

Without limiting the foregoing, entry submissions must not include third-party trademarks, logos, insignia, location signage, photographs, artwork or sculptures, except those of the Southeast Techhub.

By agreeing to participate in the Business Pitch Competition, each team is also agreeing to have its presentation videotaped. No confidentiality is guaranteed in any way.