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Well.ca is “Canada’s best Angel-backed early-stage investment opportunity”

From the 25 companies that presented at Canada’s largest gathering of Angel investors, Well.ca won the #1 spot as “Canada’s best Angel-backed early-stage investment opportunity”. The award was based on a survey of all the 120+ investors present, based on an 8-minute presentation where I talked about our business, the milestones we’ve reached, and our plans for the future. The event was organized by the National Angel Capital Organization.

Congratulations, Well.ca!

We were honoured to have been invited — the companies that were there were all vetted by a regional Angel investment group before they were allowed to present at the summit.

I am happy to announce that Well.ca was one of the few companies that won a second award that night: we won the other award for being one of the five fastest growing angel-funded companies in Ontario (based on revenue and employees).

Below are the slides from my presentation (for those of you who would like to see a real-life pitch-deck). I’ve removed most of the confidential data and numbers and added some notes in yellow. The format was as follows:

1. Told the story of our product from the customer’s perspective (i.e. product value proposition)
2. Transition to how customers have responded (based on feedback and sales)
3. Typical pitch stuff: market size, customer profile, funding, plans…

This was the first award that Well.ca has ever won as a company, and we’re all very excited internally. With the growth we’ve experienced in the last 6 months, we’ve been focused very much on handling all the increased demand — it’s nice to take a moment to step back and celebrate all that we’ve achieved.

Congratulations Well.ca team — we won this award because of the hard work you’ve all been doing!