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Browse Open ProgramsHelps businesses in Southern Ontario develop and sell innovative products and services. Provides interest-free loans from $125,000 to $10 million for growth and expansion.
Repayable contribution funding to support projects that drive economic growth, innovation, and job creation in southern Ontario. Focus areas include technology adoption, process improvements, clean technology, market expansion, and business management capacity.
Business Size: small, medium
Industries: technology, manufacturing, clean technology, digital transformation, research & development
Region: Southern Ontario, Brant, Bruce, Chatham-Kent, Dufferin, Durham, Elgin, Essex, Frontenac, Grey, Haldimand–Norfolk, Haliburton, Halton, Hamilton, Hastings, Huron, Kawartha Lakes, Lambton, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, Lennox and Addington, Middlesex, Niagara, Northumberland, Ottawa, Oxford, Peel, Perth, Peterborough, Prescott and Russell, Prince Edward and Lambton, Renfrew, Simcoe, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Toronto, Waterloo, Wellington, York
Demographics: Indigenous (First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples) businesses
Other Criteria: for-profit entities, co-operatives, located and operating in southern Ontario at the time of application, minimum of 5 full-time employees and no more than 500 FTEs, incorporated and registered to do business in Canada or Ontario for at least the past 3 years, growing and established businesses, projects focused on process improvements (environmental impact reduction, new technology use), projects focused on showcasing/demonstrating new technology, projects focused on market diagnostics and studies, projects focused on acquiring, adapting or adopting new technologies or processes (e.g., digitization), projects focused on improving production efficiency and capacity, projects focused on adopting clean technologies, projects focused on increasing business management capacity, projects focused on leveraging venture capital or angel capital investment, projects focused on reshoring or onshoring of production, R&D, or expertise to southern Ontario
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Government of Nova Scotia, Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage
Due May 21
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Government of Canada, Prairies Economic Development Canada
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This program is available to small, medium businesses in technology, manufacturing, clean technology industries located in Southern Ontario, Brant, Bruce, Chatham-Kent, Dufferin, Durham, Elgin, Essex, Frontenac, Grey, Haldimand–Norfolk, Haliburton, Halton, Hamilton, Hastings, Huron, Kawartha Lakes, Lambton, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, Lennox and Addington, Middlesex, Niagara, Northumberland, Ottawa, Oxford, Peel, Perth, Peterborough, Prescott and Russell, Prince Edward and Lambton, Renfrew, Simcoe, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Toronto, Waterloo, Wellington, York.
This program offers funding up to $10,000,000 (minimum $125,000).
The application deadline is July 30, 2025.
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