Directory Category: Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs

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BDC offers business loans and advisory services to help Canadian businesses grow, both at home and abroad. Through our subsidiary—BDC Capital, we also offer a full spectrum of specialized financing, including venture capital, equity as well as growth and business transition capital.

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Explore Entrepreneurship delivers practical, actionable training for new and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Based on a curriculum developed for the University of Toronto, Explore Entrepreneurship empowers everyone, regardless of their background, to fully explore entrepreneurship and self-employment as career options, now or later.

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This organizations connect entrepreneurs, funders and advisors by providing a comprehensive funding tool for entrepreneurs to identify grants, loans, tax credits and equity funding from private, municipal, provincial and federal funders.

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Futurpreneur Canada is a national, non-profit organization that provides financing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18-39.

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NEXT Canada is a national non-profit charity with a focus on increasing national prosperity through innovation and entrepreneurship. The organization grew out of The Next 36, a program founded in 2010 by a group of visionary business leaders and academics.

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Startup Canada is a grassroots network of entrepreneurs working together to build an environment for entrepreneurship in Canada. Through online platforms, grassroots Startup Communities and cross-sector initiatives, Startup Canada is advancing entrepreneurial momentum and a culture of entrepreneurship, as the voice of Canadian entrepreneurs.

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This site offers part-time, contract, summer jobs, internships in the follow sectors: Digital and visual arts, fashion design, environmental design, entrepreneurship, video game creation, leadership, media & cinema, music, opera, robotics, healthy living, science and technology, dramatic arts.  Positions in Greater Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Ontario, etc.

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CEDEC works with adult learning centres, Cégeps, organizations, service providers and entrepreneurs in communities across Quebec to help young adults between the ages of 18-39 achieve their business dreams. CEDEC’s Youth Start-Up workshops enable youth to take their business ideas and move from intention to action.

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MTL NewTech is a non-profit organization dedicated to the success of Montreal startup entrepreneurs.  The organization organizes events, startup demos and network opportunities.

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This site provides a list of startups.  The companies are searchable by business sectors.

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This club, located in Montreal, gives entrepreneurs a chance to pitch what they are working on and get immediate, constructive feedback from like-minded entrepreneurs.

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Startups organizes events in Montreal for startup communities.  They also offer prizes to startups.

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UP supports new ventures, provides resources for entrepreneurs, and connects the community. UP Montreal is a part of a global movement dedicated to ensuring that anyone can experience entrepreneurship, no matter where they live. We’re fully driven by local volunteer efforts, being led by the best and brightest Montreal’s entrepreneurial community has to offer.

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CFDCs and CBDCs meet community needs by offering young entrepreneurs specialized services, ranging from market studies to business plan analyses, and financing.  

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Quebec Government’s services to entrepreneurs.  Information on how to start your business in Quebec and how to register your business with the government.