The Cohort
Italia360 backs first and second-generation and Italian-heritage founders across the Greater Toronto Area. A cohort is the group you go through it with. Everyone starts on the same day and builds in the same weeks, so the founders in your year become the network you keep long after the program ends.
Eight weeks, fully funded
Eight weeks in the Greater Toronto Area, 35+ hours of training and more than 20 workshops. It costs you nothing and we take no equity.
Mentors who have done it
One-to-one time with a board of more than 25 Italo-Canadian business leaders, plus the CIBPA, DMZ and YSpace networks.
Demo Day
You finish by pitching judges, sponsors and investors. The winner flies to Italy.
CURRENT COHORT
2026
Eleven ventures, built with YSpace at York University. Health, fintech, sport, food, language learning and creative tools.
We take one cohort a year. Read how the program works, then tell us what you are building.