Maple Leaf Angels
Maple Leaf Angels...
Maple Leaf Angels is Ontario’s largest and most active angel investor group. Since its founding in 2007, Maple Leaf Angels has invested $6m in start-ups. Maple Leaf Angels is made of about 40 accredited high net worth individuals, business leaders and entrepreneurs mostly from...
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Green Innovation Award
Green Innovation Award...
The City of Toronto along with the Toronto Community Foundation have created the Green Innovation Award – $50 000 in seed funding for innovative businesses offering green products or services. The available seed grant is shared by one or more winners as decided by grant review...
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Kickstarter.com – Funds for Creative Ideas
Kickstarter.com – Fun...
Entrepreneurs, artists or individuals with creative ideas are looking for funding. Somewhere out there are individuals or groups looking to help fund the right ideas. Traditionally, finding each other has not been easy. In this article, I discuss an exciting new website – kickstarter.com,...
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Business Incubators Help Entrepreneurs Reach the Future
Business Incubators Hel...
      From my experience, entrepreneur clients are usually focused on acquiring funding in order to afford resources such as research and development, product testing, marketing expenses, etc. However, there is a way for start-up business to obtain such resources at zero or little...
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Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) : Venture Capital
Business Development Ba...
Business Development  Bank of Canada  (BDC) offers venture capital to Canadian pioneering entrepreneurs and start-ups. Business Development Bank of Canada is a federal government owned financial institution with a mission to help develop Canadian businesses through financing, venture...
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Non-Profit Fundraising: A Holistic Strategy
Non-Profit Fundraising:...
As the world of fundraising evolves and becomes more interconnected, successful non-profit organizations are increasingly in need of a new, more holistic approach to growing their organizations. What is a Holistic Fundraising Strategy? A holistic fundraising approach is a strategy...
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Rogers Ventures – Funding for Tech Start-Ups
Rogers Ventures – Fun...
Launched in late 2009, Rogers Ventures is a “venture capital like” firm focusing on seed funding and early stage investment for Canadian technology start-ups. Why “venture capital like”? Simple, because while it operates like a venture capital firm that invests funds, it...
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Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund
Ontario Emerging Techno...
One of the Ontario’s government hottest business funding programs is the Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund. The Ontario Emerging Technology Fund (OETF) is a $250 million ($50 million a year, over 5 years, 2009 – 2014) program where the Ontario government co-invests alongside...
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Business Development Program
Business Development Pr...
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is a federal government department whose mandate is to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada through programs as well as funding that increase competitiveness, innovation, productivity and economic diversification. The...
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BC Community Futures Network – Funding for Rural Small Businesses
BC Community Futures Ne...
Are you thinking of starting a new business in a rural area? Does your current business operate in a rural area? Does your business require working capital? Has your business been turned by other lenders? If you answered yes to any of these questions then the BC Community Futures...
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