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Most practices in: Canada (19)
Since 2004, Toronto's TRIEC Mentoring Partnership has logged 27,000+ mentoring matches for skilled immigrants; an independent, federally funded evaluation found participants 2.5x …
Since 2003 Toronto's TRIEC has matched 5,300+ skilled immigrants with professional mentors; a 2020 evaluation found participants 2.5x more likely to land …
Founded in 1999, Mitacs now funds industry-linked graduate internships across all 198 Canadian post-secondary institutions — $292.7m invested in 7,202 projects in …
MaRS (est. 2000) is Canada's flagship urban innovation hub in Toronto. By 2022, ventures it supported had created 33,000+ jobs, raised $19B …
Founded in 2008, the University of Waterloo's Velocity incubator has supported 400+ companies whose alumni had raised $4.3bn and created 5,000+ jobs …
Ontario funds full tuition for 12,700+ nursing, paramedic and lab-tech students (C$171 M+) who commit to working in their study region in …
Canada's longest-running major innovation hub (est. 1997), operating a 120,000 sq ft campus in Waterloo with deep University of Waterloo ties — …
Montréal International facilitates inward investment and international talent recruitment across Greater Montréal. In 2024 it supported 59 projects worth C$ 2.7 B, …
Since 2011, the Immigrant Employment Council of BC has partnered with the City of Vancouver to pair skilled immigrant newcomers with local …
Toronto's 1.5-million-sq-ft innovation hub has worked to commercialise publicly funded research since 2000; MaRS reports ventures it supported raised $19B in capital …
Toronto's MaRS Discovery District has turned University of Toronto and hospital research into 1,400+ ventures since 2000, backing CAD 2.4bn in capital …
Toronto's university-to-market innovation campus (est. 2000): 2011-2014 saw 4,000+ jobs and C$750m+ capital, but its Phase 2 tower needed a C$224m provincial …
A Kitchener-Waterloo innovation hub founded in 1997 that channels University of Waterloo research and Velocity-incubated IP into industry, now serving 1,164+ member …
A 1.5-million-sq-ft Toronto innovation hub linking universities, hospitals, corporates and 1,400+ ventures since 2005; self-reported billions in capital raised, though independent press …
Incorporated in 2000 to commercialise University of Toronto and hospital research, MaRS grew into a large innovation hub — but its Phase …
Canada's federal government ran a CAD 4 billion digital-adoption programme with e-commerce micro-grants, advisory grants up to CAD 15,000 and BDC loans; …
Toronto's MaRS Discovery District has helped commercialise publicly funded research since 2000. MaRS cites $3bn in cumulative economic impact, but independent reporting …
Founded in 2001, MaRS grew into a 1,400-venture Toronto hub with $2.4B in portfolio capital raised (2020) — but by 2024 non-government …
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs spent 2.5 years and committed US$50 million designing a sensor-laden Toronto waterfront district, then cancelled it in May 2020 …
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