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1) Victory Square

1) Victory Square

Victory Square develops, finances, and implements sports, health, and entertainment concepts.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Ray Walia, Shafin Diamond Tejani
  • Industries: Business Development, Digital Entertainment, Fantasy Sports, Finance, Financial Services, Sports
  • Number of investments: 11
  • Number of exits: 1

You can find their website here.

2) Mobio Technologies

2) Mobio Technologies

Mobio, the parent company of Strutta, is a publicly traded corporation on the TSX-V and the OTCQX, headquartered in Vancouver, BC.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2003
  • Founders: Keir Reynolds
  • Industries: Incubators, Internet, Software
  • Number of investments: 4
  • Number of exits: 2

You can find their website here.

3) Spring Activator

3) Spring Activator

Spring Activator is an entrepreneurship incubator and accelerator that is transforming the world.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Keith Ippel
  • Industries: Consulting, Financial Services, Incubators, Social Entrepreneurship, Training
  • Number of investments: 37
  • Number of exits: 1
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 17

You can find their website here.

4) Innovate BC

4) Innovate BC

Innovate BC is a Crown agency of the British Columbia government in Canada.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2004
  • Number of investments: 16

You can find their website here.

5) adMare Bio Innovations

5) adMare Bio Innovations

adMare Bio Innovations is a global life sciences company dedicated to advancing Canadian life sciences from coast to coast.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2019
  • Number of investments: 3
  • Number of exits: 1

You can find their website here.

6) BC Tech Association

6) BC Tech Association

BC Tech provides programs to assist tech companies as a platform to support the province's fastest growing industry.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 1993
  • Industries: Business Development, Non Profit, Service Industry
  • Number of investments: 3

You can find their website here.

7) Empowered Startups

7) Empowered Startups

Empowered connects entrepreneurs with institutional funding to help them build amazing enterprises.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2009
  • Founders: Amber Allen
  • Industries: Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
  • Number of investments: 20

You can find their website here.

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8) entrepreneurship@UBC

8) entrepreneurship@UBC

Entrepreneurship@UBC is a program that uses entrepreneurship and venture creation to get UBC discoveries out into the world.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2013
  • Number of investments: 112
  • Number of exits: 5

You can find their website here.

9) New Ventures BC

9) New Ventures BC

New Ventures BC seeks to diversify and extend tech enterprises in their early stages.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2001
  • Industries: Information Technology
  • Number of investments: 15
  • Number of exits: 1

You can find their website here.

10) Moken

10) Moken

From inception to scalability, a worldwide hub for entrepreneurs and founders that guides them through the road of developing a successful enterprise.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2020
  • Founders: Kendra Garagan, Mohamed Ibshara
  • Industries: Angel Investment, Apps, Communities, Consulting, Events, Incubators, Marketing, Personal Branding
  • Number of investments: 3

You can find their website here.

11) HATCH ventures

11) HATCH ventures

HATCH ventures is a collaboration between the University of British Columbia's Institute for Computing, Information, and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) and entrepreneurship@UBC.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2016
  • Industries: Funding Platform, Incubators
  • Number of investments: 36
  • Number of exits: 1

You can find their website here.

12) Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator

12) Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator

Accel-Rx is a business accelerator specializing in firms in the health sciences.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2014
  • Number of investments: 14
  • Number of exits: 2

You can find their website here.

13) Wavefront

13) Wavefront

Accelerating the growth and impact of wireless innovation in Canada.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Industries: Consulting, Non Profit, Test and Measurement, Wireless

You can find their website here.

14) Launch.vc

14) Launch.vc

Incubators and investment funds form a network.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Ray Walia
  • Number of investments: 1

You can find their website here.

15) Grow Tech Labs

15) Grow Tech Labs

Grow Tech Labs is a cannabis-focused accelerator program.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Barinder Rasode
  • Industries: Cannabis, Financial Services, Incubators, Information Technology
  • Number of investments: 1

You can find their website here.

16) RADIUS

16) RADIUS

RADIUS (RADical Ideas Useful to Society) is a social innovation cluster situated at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Industries: Consulting
  • Number of investments: 4
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 24

You can find their website here.

17) Invoke Labs

17) Invoke Labs

Invoke Labs is a startup accelerator.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Dario Meli, David Tedman, Ryan Holmes
  • Industries: Incubators
  • Number of investments: 1

You can find their website here.

18) The IMPACT Startup Visa Accelerator Program

18) The IMPACT Startup Visa Accelerator Program

The IMPACT Startup Visa (ISV) Program, which begins this spring, is a four-month business accelerator for impact-focused entrepreneurs interested in relocating to Canada.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Industries: Management Consulting
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 17

You can find their website here.

19) SRCkode

19) SRCkode

For entrepreneurs and startups, SRCkode is an agile consultant and accelerator.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2017
  • Industries: Funding Platform, Impact Investing

You can find their website here.

20) Moken Programs

20) Moken Programs

Where startups can learn and grow.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Started in: 2019
  • Founders: Kendra Garagan, Mohamed Ibshara
  • Industries: Education, Incubators

You can find their website here.

21) Impact Startup Visa Accelerator 10/2020

21) Impact Startup Visa Accelerator 10/2020

The IMPACT Startup Visa (ISV) Accelerator, which begins in the spring, is a four-month program.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 17

You can find their website here.

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