Startup Canada is helping Canadians rediscover their entrepreneurial roots and embrace entrepreneurship as central to their national culture. By leveraging media, national institutions and social media channels and celebrating and showcasing a diverse range of entrepreneurial role models, Startup Canada is working to own the podium for entrepreneurship and show that entrepreneurship is for everyone.
Creating a vibrant culture of entrepreneurship requires that we reimagine the role of universities and colleges as feeders of entrepreneurial communities; cultivate entrepreneurial awareness, skills and mind-sets amongst Canadians of all ages and backgrounds; and, build an infrastructure of experiential learning principled on empowerment and giving back. As a nation, we need to celebrate and cheer on our entrepreneurs to increase their confidence and growth propensity; because their success advantages us all.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (www.CIRA.ca), the organization that manages the .CA domain, is partnering with grassroots entrepreneurship non-profit Startup Canada to position .CA at the heart of the Canadian startup culture. CIRA and Startup Canada will showcase cutting-edge startups that are wearing their .CA domains proudly as they venture out to global markets....
Victoria Lennox, CEO and Co-Founder of Startup Canada will kick off the LatAm Conference in Santiago, Chile at Centro de Innovacion at the Universidad Catolica as the keynote speaker on the 26th and 27th of September. Victoria is no stranger to building and sustaining startup ecosystems. Her work has focused on providing support for the collective advancement of grassroots entrepreneurs through Startup Canada....
Community comes together to Start Up Sparks Street OTTAWA, November 19, 2014 – Startup Canada and the Sparks Street Business Improvement Association (BIA) are working together again this year to celebrate entrepreneurship as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week and the lead up to Startup Canada......
PETERBOROUGH, ON June 9, 2015 – The national spotlight is on Peterborough today as local entrepreneurs, enterprise-support organizations, and government celebrate the city’s designation as an official Startup Canada Community. The Startup Canada Communities Program is the flagship program of Startup Canada, a national movement......
Community comes together to Start Up Sparks Street OTTAWA, November 19, 2014 – Startup Canada and the Sparks Street Business Improvement Association (BIA) are working together again this year to celebrate entrepreneurship as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week and the lead up to Startup Canada......
Five Startup Canada Communities have been awarded with the first-ever round of investment from the Startup Canada Ecosystem Investment Fund. The Fund launched in Spring 2015 and invests in high-impact, entrepreneur-driven initiatives that connect and strengthen local startup communities across Canada. Funding was awarded to......
September 8, 2015 – Startup Canada issued a call for proposals today to partner with grassroots, entrepreneur-led co-working spaces, incubators, and makerspaces across Canada that will create or provide physical spaces for Startup Canada Members to start and grow their businesses. “Co-working spaces help entrepreneurs......
