LEO Innovation Lab is an independent unit, established by LEO Pharma as part of a long-term strategic decision to focus on patient’s needs. We don’t develop medical treatments – instead, we look at all the aspects of everyday life that can affect a person who has psoriasis. LEO Innovation Lab has been established as a separate entity to create [...]

The France Canada Chamber of Commerce (Ontario) invites innovators based in France and Canada to showcase their unique products/services to a panel of top French and Canadian companies. As part of the Toronto French Innovation Month, an initiative program coordinated by the Consulate General of France in Toronto, France Canada Chamber of Commerce, Ontario and its partners are bringing [...]

We are an organization run completely by volunteers. Mission: To help members of our community who are experiencing food insecurity to achieve personal economic stability through entrepreneurship. What We Do: We support aspiring entrepreneurs as they turn their business ideas into reality. How We Work: In partnership with community service organizations and a volunteer network of experienced entrepreneurs, we deliver [...]

Delivered in partnership with Highline BETA, RBC Reach is an accelerator program to help high-impact startups grow while adding value to RBC’s business and consumer clients in new and innovative ways. RBC Reach will run several cohorts per year, and each will focus on a strategic theme. The program consists of three components: 1. Growth programming Over the course [...]

The Design Fabrication Zone (DFZ) at Ryerson University is an interdisciplinary incubator for design and fabrication, where emerging entrepreneurs build their ideas. From concept development to three-dimensional prototyping and beyond, the DFZ facilitates the incubation and acceleration of project ideas and strategically propels them towards real-life application and business innovation. To date, the DFZ has attracted 400 entrepreneurs and yielded [...]

Spark Innovations is an award-winning industrial design company specializing in the development of innovative products and inventions. Since our founding in 1989, Spark Innovation’s professional team of industrial designers and mechanical engineers has taken thousands of products from the early stages of an idea to the mass market. Our industrial designers and mechanical engineers work closely with our clients [...]

Startup Boost is a 6 week global pre-accelerator program with a mission to lead pre-seed stage startups towards Accelerators, Investment, and Revenue. About Startup Boost a global pre accelerator program: Each cohort takes place over a 6 week period in the evenings at a local co working space and brings the best speakers and mentors to work with selected early [...]

STEAMLabs is a community makerspace where people of all ages and abilities comes together to practice digital fabrication, coding, hand-on making and electronics.

From ideas to product development to commercialization, University of Waterloo’s Velocity program provides the knowledge, tools, space and network that startups and entrepreneurs need for success. Programs and supports include the largest free incubator in North America, a residence for entrepreneurs, science lab, workshops, mentorship programs and more. Velocity does not charge fees or take equity from startups that [...]

Transferring research innovations into the marketplace can have transformative societal impacts on improving quality of life as well as enhancing business productivity and job creation. The University of Waterloo combines world class research with a unique “creator-own” intellectual property (IP) rights policy to foster an entrepreneurial environment that drives innovations from the lab to the marketplace. The Waterloo [...]

A fully-virtual accelerator, UPPlift unites entrepreneurs, policymakers, innovators and investors to build smarter, cleaner cities. UPPlift does not just accelerate innovation — the group manages it. Its platform allows clients like governments and BIAs to release calls for products, as well as map the progress of Canada’s innovation community to make better policy decisions.