Founder Hot Seat 🪑🔥
Could you get a VC to understand your startup in just 60 seconds? Join Dragonfruit Ventures and Creative Blocks Club for a hands-on elevator pitch workshop. At the end, 6 founders will take the hot seat, pitch their ideas live, and receive feedback from a VC partner in real time. All participants will get a chance to workshop their elevator pitch for their startup, project, or professional work during a guided Creative Blocks focus block.
- When
- 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Cost
- Always free.
What's happened so far
- 89sessionshosted
- 137strangers havecome together
- 412+creative blockscompleted together
Where this session happens and what past members say
Where
Creeds Coffee Bar
Open in maps450 Dupont Street, Toronto, ON M5R 3P3, Canada
The structure really helped me stay focused and be very productive. The built in check-ins make it feel sustainable. It's a mix of work and socializing that I don't always find on my own.
The ritual
The room hears you,
and the work shifts.
Pre-block
Out loud: what you're about to do.
Post-block
Out loud: how it went.
That's the ritual. Two questions, asked out loud, with other people in the room. It's how the work gets real.
Schedule
All times in EDT
Your host
Dragonfruit Ventures
Dragonfruit Ventures is a pre seed and seed fund backing consumer tech and future of work founders. Creative Blocks Club runs structured deep work sessions across Toronto. Together we are pairing focused working time with live, candid pitch feedback.
Questions you probably have
FAQ
No. There are two tickets: Pitch as Founder if you want the hot seat, or Standard if you would rather watch, learn, and quietly sharpen your own pitch. Both get the full workshop.
Apply with the Pitch as Founder ticket. Spots are approved by the hosts and there are only six, so grab one early. If they fill up you can still come and work on your pitch during the working block.
Come anyway. The working block is about describing what you do clearly, whether that is a company, a side project, or your day job. Plenty of people leave with a much better answer to "so what do you do?"
No. Spoken pitch only, roughly 60 seconds. No slides, no deck, nothing to prepare in advance.
A guided stretch of focused work with a clear start and end. Phones down, one thing at a time. Here you will use it to write and tighten your pitch before the hot seats begin.
A Toronto venture fund investing at the earliest stages in consumer tech and future of work companies. One of their partners will be giving the live feedback.
Decide
One day. One thing finished.
- When
- Thursday, July 30
- 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Where
- Creeds Coffee Bar
- The Annex
- Cost
- Always free.
Wrong timing?
We'll let you know when the next session opens.