APPENDIX 4: List of Designated Organizations – Start up Visa
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SUMMARY
Designated organizations are business groups that are approved to invest in or support possible start-ups through the Start-up Visa Program.
To apply for the Start-up Visa Program, your business idea or venture must get the support of one or more of the designated organizations listed below:
- Venture capital funds
- Angel investor groups
- Business incubators
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VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS
You must get at least one of these groups to agree to invest a minimum of $200,000:
- 7 Gate Ventures
- Alt Ventures
- Amplitude Ventures Inc.
- York Entrepreneurship
- Development Institute (YEDI) VC Fund
- Apex Innovative
- Investments Ventures
- Arete Pacific Tech Ventures (VCC) Corp
- BCF Ventures
- BDC Venture Capital
- Extreme Venture Partners LLP
- Golden Venture Partners Fund, LP
- INP Capital
- iNovia Capital Inc.
- Intrinsic Venture Capital
- Lumira Ventures
- Invest Nova Scotia
- PRIVEQ Capital Funds
- Real Ventures
- Red Leaf Capital Corp
- Relay Ventures
- Tangentia Ventures
- Top Renergy Inc.
- Vanedge Capital Limited
- Partnership
- Version One Ventures
- WhiteHaven Venture
- Westcap Management Ltd.
- Yaletown Venture Partners Inc.
ANGEL INVESTOR GROUPS
You must get one or more investors connected to these groups to agree to invest a minimum of $75,000:
- Canadian International Angel Investors
- Ekagrata Inc.
- Golden Triangle Angel Network
- Keiretsu Forum Canada
- VANTEC Angel Network Inc.
- York Angel Investors Inc.
Business Incubators
You must be accepted into one of these programs:
- Alacrity Foundation
- Alberta Agriculture and Forestry:
- Agrivalue Processing Business Incubator
- Food Processing Development Centre
- Alberta IoT Association
- Altitude Accelerator
- Bhive
- Biomedical Commercialization Canada Inc. (operating as Manitoba Technology Accelerator)
- Brilliant Catalyst
- DMZ Ventures
- Empowered Startups Ltd.
- Extreme Innovations
- Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre
- Genesis Centre
- Highline BETA Inc.
- Invest Nova Scotia
- Innovate Calgary
- Innovation Cluster – Peterborough and the Kawarthas
- Innovation Factory
- Interactive Niagara Media Cluster o/a Innovate Niagara
- Intrinsic Innovations
- Invest Ottawa
- ISM Arts & Culture Ltd
- Knowledge Park o/a Planet Hatch
- Global Startups Accelerator
- Launch Academy – Vancouver
- LaunchPad PEI Inc.
- Millworks Centre for Entrepreneurship
- NEXT Canada
- Niagara Business & Innovation Fund
- North Forge East Ltd.
- North Forge Technology Exchange
- Pacific Technology Ventures
- Platform Calgary
- Pycap
- Real Investment Fund III L.P. o/a FounderFuel
- Red Leaf Capital Corp
- Roseview Global Incubator
- Spark Commercialization and Innovation Centre
- Spring Activator
- The DMZ at Ryerson University
- Think8 Global Institute
- TiE Toronto
- Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC)
- Treefrog
- TSRV Canada Inc. (operating as Techstars Canada)
- University of Toronto Entrepreneurship Hatchery
- ventureLAB Innovation Centre
- VIATEC
- Waterloo Accelerator Centre
- York Entrepreneurship Development Institute
- YSpace (York University)
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