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From Planning to Funding

Essential Tools for Entrepreneurs & Founders

Access our collection of resources, templates, and guides designed to help you build, and scale your business.

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Planning & Templates

Ready-to-use templates to structure your business strategy and operations efficiently.

Funding & Grants

Explore funding opportunities, grants, and financial resources to support your startup.

Support Organizations

Connect with organizations that provide mentorship, training, and business support.

Legal & Compliance

Essential legal guidelines and compliance resources to protect your business.

Events & Networking

Find industry events and networking opportunities to grow your connections.

Marketing & Growth

Strategies and tools to expand your brand, attract customers, and scale effectively.

Planning & Templates

Flourishing Business Canvas

Strategic visual framework to help organizations improve, understand, share, measure, diagnose, simulate, their business model.

HubSpot Templates

All of HubSpot's startup templates, amazing set of resources for all areas of business.

Creately

Curated a collection of essential templates designed to simplify every aspect of your startup journey.

Industry Canada

Sample business plans and templates can help you develop a professional document that will serve as an in-depth marketing tool to convince others of your venture's potential for success.

Funding & Grants

Fundica

Find what programs you qualify for and is the most relevant government funding for your startup, now!

FACE

Provides Black Entrepreneurs with loans up to $250,000 to support business growth.

Black Opportunity Fund

As part of its mandate to provide funding and capacity building support for Canadian Black-led businesses providing entrepreneurs with business education, financial literacy, skills training.

Business Development Bank of Canada

At BDC, we know business owners. We know their challenges and we understand their needs. And we want them to grow and succeed.

Support Organizations

Invest Ottawa

Invest Ottawa has a full range of programs and services for every type and stage of business.

Futurpreneur

Canadian Incubator for startup founders ages 18-39. Training, Mentoring and business programs.

BlackNorth Initiative

Online platform for Black entrepreneurs to access tailored resources and connect with networks, mentors, and support services.

The Entrepreneurship Hub

The eHub helps foster an entrepreneurial mindset across the University of Ottawa through programs designed to generate innovation, forge strategic partnerships.

Ottawa Business Center

Get help starting or growing your business · Programs and projects.

StartUp Canada

With vast entrepreneurial expertise, our knowledgeable and talented team is dedicated to serving Canada’s early-stage founders.

L-Spark

Supports Canadian B2B SaaS companies, helping them scale through strategic mentorship, access to funding, and industry connections.

Canadian Technology Accelerator

The Canadian Technology Accelerator offers market entry support to high-potential Canadian firms.

Joule - CMA

Joule launches programs to help scale up innovative ideas in healthcare. They provide resources, mentorship.

Founders Institute

The Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses.

Accelerator Centre

Work with entrepreneurs across Canada and offer a holistic, milestone-based program that helps you get sales, attract investors.

Carleton University Innovation Hub

The Innovation Hub invites students from all faculties on campus to join a vibrant community where high-performance, thought-leadership, and entrepreneurial exploration is key.

Hatch

Hatch allows new and aspiring student entrepreneurs to explore new ideas in the hope of making a new business venture a reality.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is a non-profit organization that advocates for small and medium-sized businesses in Canada, providing resources, advice, and a voice to influence policies and regulations that impact them.

SheBoot

SheBoot is tackling the funding gap facing women entrepreneurs by increasing the number of women making and receiving investment. We’re charting a new path for women founders—to grow, scale and compete globally.

Legal & Compliance

Clause Hound

Prompt your document repository in self-curated collections, with quality control this resource is a subscription program for legal documents and council.

Economic Development Canada

Canada’s trade policy and approach to inclusive trade. Sell goods, products or services abroad, support services, financing and permits, import goods, products or services.

Wires Law

While there are lots of legal considerations for your startup, here is a list of baseline startup issues to consider.

Candian Compliance Hub

Welcome to the Bureau’s Compliance Hub, the go-to place for businesses of all sizes to understand how to stay on the right side of the law.

Canada Business Guide

Step by Step Resource guide for entrepreneurs consider before operating a business in Canada.

Economic Development Canada

Works with Canadians in all areas of the economy and in all parts of the country to improve conditions for investment, enhance innovation, performance, increase global trade, efficient and competitive marketplace.

Events & Networking

Legacy Conference

Canada’s Student Entrepreneurship conference made for students by students

Women Speak Up

Empowering women to achieve their goals by providing a supportive space to grow their businesses and communities.

StartUp Grind

Startup Grind was founded in 2010 when some friends and fellow entrepreneurs got together to crack the same problem they were all facing.

Wesley Clover Foundation

TechTuesday is a free monthly event brought to you by the Wesley Clover Foundation and open to all who are interested.

Mayor's Breakfast

Join us for information, inspiration and opportunities to grow your business and our community.

Creative Mornings

The largest creative community; hosting local chapter events in cities around the world every Friday, Virtual FieldTrips every week, and job postings and company profiles via the CreativeGuild.