Grit Ventures is Mississauga’s innovation hub. We provide office space, advisory services and access to our global network of investors managing over $5 billion.

Innovation York, is the innovation office for York University and is made up of three entrepreneurship hubs: YSpace Markham, a physical incubator in downtown Markham; YSpace Digital, a virtual hub that delivers programming through workshops, accelerators, and speaker series; and ELLA, a women entrepreneurship program that delivers programming through two accelerators. It takes a founder-first approach to community, assisting participants [...]

Sci Innovation Centre  has established cooperative relationships with over 20 partners across 5 continents, including University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Western University, OCE, MaRS, GTAN, Gowling WLG, Invest Ottawa, etc. It aims to provide entrepreneur supporting, incubating and investing services. Sci Innovation centre has set up innovative co-working spaces in both Shenzhen and Toronto. These sites bring together a [...]

Sci Innovation Centre invites promising tech ventures to a roadshow to choose 10 companies from Canada to represent Canada at the 5th China (Shenzhen) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (IEIC) in September 2021. The 10 finalists from the Sci Innovation Competition Canada final in Toronto will be awarded cash prizes ranging from CA$6K to CA$200K each plus an expense-paid [...]

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

The Conrad School is an immersive educational environment for entrepreneurs. Located within Canada’s most innovative university, in a region ranked among the top startup ecosystems in the world, the Conrad School is the academic engine for entrepreneurship on campus, offering programs that are entrepreneurial by design.

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 [...]

ventureLAB is where talented entrepreneurs get help bringing their innovations to market. We apply a unique combination of mentoring, partnering, and connecting to help pioneering entrepreneurs turn their great ideas into globally competitive businesses with successful start-up business training. Since its inception in 2011, ventureLAB has supported over 3,000 start-ups in the fields of: Advanced health technology Digital media [...]

The Laurier LaunchPad is a campus-linked accelerator dedicated to help Laurier students and alumni start and scale unique and distinctive ventures across all domains and faculties. LaunchPad Start focuses on achieving your product-solution fit through iteration and customer interviews. By the end of this part of the program, you will have confidence in whether your venture concept is viable. LaunchPad [...]