{"id":6044,"date":"2019-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/2019\/03\/22\/announcing-the-2019-rbc-prize-winners\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T16:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:46:05","slug":"announcing-the-2019-rbc-prize-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/announcing-the-2019-rbc-prize-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2019 RBC Prize winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <div class=\"wp-block-group wp-block-group--featured-image-offset-hero is-style-default has-white-color has-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-95b75a0ae5a33479a8d4b8a6568ed0fc is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7252e1a2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">        <div class=\"breadcrumb breadcrumb--center\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\" class=\"breadcrumb__link\">news<\/a>        <\/div>\n    \n        <h1 class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide wp-block-post-title\">Announcing the 2019 RBC Prize winners<\/h1>\n        <figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/All-winners.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/All-winners.jpg 600w, https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/All-winners-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/All-winners-211x100.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"wp-block-columns wp-block-columns--standard-sidebar is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n        \n        <div class=\"wp-block-column wp-block-column--content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n            Announcing the 2019 RBC Prize for Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship winners. \n \n \n \n Ten cutting-edge University of Toronto student startup teams&nbsp;competed in&nbsp;RBC Prize for Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship&nbsp;\u2013 our largest pitch competition of the year \u2013 on March 21, 2019 as part of the&nbsp;True Blue Expo. The annual RBC Prize offers $50,000 in prizes to recognize, reward, and accelerate U of T\u2019s most innovative startups.The&nbsp;#UofTStartup&nbsp;teams showcased their business idea via a five-minute pitch to a panel of judges:&nbsp;Sally Daub (Pool Global Partners), Kerri Golden (Information Venture Partners), Barry Gekiere (MaRS), Alexander Peh (RBC), Paul Pirri (City of Toronto), and Prathna Ramesh (Maple Leaf Angels). Thanks to our judges and Chancellor Rose Patten for being there to celebrate entrepreneurial excellence at U of T.&nbsp;We\u2019re excited to announce the winners!\n        <\/div>\n        \n\n        \n        <div class=\"wp-block-column wp-block-column--sidebar is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n        \n        <div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n            \n            <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"> \n                  <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata date \">\n                           <span class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata__label label\">Date<\/span>\n                        <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata__value has-regular-font-size has-text-color has-text-grey-color\">March 22, 2019<\/div>\n         <\/div>\n         \n   <\/div>\n        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The annual RBC Prize offers $50,000 in prizes to recognize, reward, and accelerate U of T\u2019s most innovative startups.The&nbsp;#UofTStartup&nbsp;teams showcased their business idea via a five-minute pitch to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"feed":[],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16767,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/16767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"feed","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feed?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}