The Queen’s Innovation Centre Summer Initiative (QICSI) is in its 6th year, and for the first time, regional startups are invited to compete for a chance to win seed funding to further their companies at the Dunin-Deshpande Summer Pitch Competition on August 16, 2017 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. With up to $100,000 in prize money available, the founders of early stage startups have the opportunity to pitch their venture to a panel of judges and compete against other entrepreneurs, including the QICSI cohort.