INCUBATOR & ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS

• Accelerator Centre
  At the AC, we exist to help ambitious dreamers impact global change through their businesses. The AC is ranked #1 private business accelerator in Canada and is among the top five such organizations globally. We offer an extensive selection of customizable opportunities for startups across Canada‚ allowing founders to rapidly bring their innovation to life. We work with our global partners to bolster the innovation ecosystem in Waterloo and beyond.

• Alberta Innovates
  Alberta Innovates supports the entire innovation spectrum ‚ from the generation of new ideas through applied testing to commercialization or end-use. We provide funding programs, advice, connections, technical expertise and applied research services to stimulate and grow research and innovation across Alberta.

• BRIIA
  BRIIA is a Silicon-valley based accelerator supporting data-powered/AI, B2B, SaaS software startups.  We're on a mission to get 25 women-led startups funded by December 2025!  Our programs are mostly virtual with a 2-day kickoff in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Communitech
  The Fierce Founders programs support women and non-binary founders at all stages of growth. These programs were developed to help founders, build a solid foundation and grow their business, establish a robust business strategy including: sales, marketing, financials, IP etc., develop investor relations and gain access to capital, build a strong community of women and non-binary founders.

• Creative Destruction Lab - Rockies

  Creative Destruction Lab - Rockies (CDL-Rockies) delivers a mentorship-based program for technology- and science-based ventures committed to accelerating their technology and/or product commercialization. The program is delivered over a 9-month term, with four full-day objective-setting sessions approximately every 8 weeks. Through the program, ventures meet with CDL-Rockies Mentors, expert entrepreneurs, scientists, economists and industry leaders to focus on key objectives critical to their success in and out of the program. Venture applications for the 2023/24 program year open soon.

• Ethical Digital

  The percentage of women in Venture Capital firms are still vastly underrepresented.

  1) The lack of women entering the field of venture capital is due to systemic barriers.

  2) There is still a lack of momentum needed to shift these existing barriers for women to enter the venture capital world.

  The Allyship was established to address the diversity gap that exists in the investment community and to finally push the needle on changing today’s unbalanced statistics toward women in the investment community. We aim to accelerate the current pace of social change and get at least 30% of women to make up the space in the investment industry.

• Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders

  Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders is a 10-week digital accelerator program for Seed to Series A, revenue generating technology startups based in the U.S. and Canada. This equity-free accelerator is designed to bring the best of Google’s programs, products, people and technology to women-led tech startups across the region. In addition to mentorship and technical project support, the accelerator also includes deep dives and workshops focused on product design, customer acquisition and leadership development for founders. Learn more here.

• INTO Financial Coaching GmbH

  We bring group coaching to professionals and entrepreneurs to take care of their finances and reap the long-term benefits of investing. Our clients know that they can be their own advisors, but need knowledge, tools, practical support, and a community to start and keep going.

• Inspired Tenacity

  Sharing your story in a collaborative book project is a great way to build your business and support other women to dream bigger too. Become an author, build credibility and authority in your field. Connect with me to learn more about my author coaching programs and new book projects on a variety of inspiring themes.

• L-SPARK
  The L-SPARK Accelerator is the destination for market ready SaaS and cloud companies to connect with Canada’s SaaS experts. The L-SPARK acceleration model positions companies to propel their revenues to $100k MRR and beyond. Leveraging established relationships with key venture capital firms, angel investors, and the investment community at large, L-SPARK’s goal is to scale Canada’s best in SaaS to 10 x revenue growth and Series A funding.

• LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator

  LearnLaunch Fund+Accelerator invests in diverse entrepreneurs on the mission to drive access, equity, and outcomes across K-12, higher ed and workforce training markets. In addition to up to $200k in funding, companies participate in an edtech contextualized accelerator program that includes extensive individual coaching to scale business and impact.

• North Forge Technology Exchange

  North Forge is an incubator accelerator supporting science-based, tech-enabled and advanced manufacturing startups in Canada. If you are an international entrepreneur interested in moving and starting your business in Canada, or a newcomer to Canada, the Global Entrepreneurship Initiative will provide all the information you need to start your journey in building a successful startup in Canada.

• OneEleven
  OneEleven is Canada's premier community of venture-backed tech companies. We create an environment to supercharge growth by providing unparalleled access to everything that rapidly scaling companies need in one place’s including office space, programming and a vast peer and VC network.

• Radicle Growth
  Radicle Growth is a company-building platform for early-stage agriculture and food technologies. Our inclusion platform connects women and underrepresented minority entrepreneurs with Ag & Food corporations to advance diversity & inclusion goals while integrating new ideas that are strategic to the corporate partners. 50% of our portfolio CEOs are women.

• Startup Montréal

  Fondatrices is a community (founders, mentors, ecosystem players) and a pre-accelerator (program in French) that gives women all the keys they need to turn their idea into a successful business and help them realize they have what it takes to succeed.

• WNORTH
  WNORTH is North America’s premier organization dedicated to supporting women mid-career on a trajectory toward senior executive leadership. Our mission is to develop more women to leading positions in business; in doing so we will elevate the teams they work in, the families they lead, and the communities in which they live. The Members’s Club at WNORTH connects accomplished and driven leaders and offers access to exclusive experiences, unique events, and leadership development opportunities to unlock their paths to senior executive leadership.