Get a guarantee to help you access more money from your financial institution. EDC shares the risk with your lender by guaranteeing part of your loan or line of credit, allowing you to access more working capital and enabling you to take on larger projects.

Use this to

• Enter new markets
• Streamline cash flow
• Grow your business
• Take new contracts
• Pursue other opportunities to grow your business internationally

Get a non-dilutive investment to scale and commercialize your innovative project that aligns with the one of following priority areas, low carbon bio and synthetic fuels, battery and energy storage, low carbon hydrogen, and carbon management.

Your project

• Must have a technology readiness level of 4-9
• Will be carried out in British Columbia

Options 

• Stream 1 – Education and Awareness
• Steam 2 – Mentorship and Strategy: Maximum $25,000 and 1:1 mentoring  
• Stream 3 – Implementation: Maximum of $60,000 to cover eligible legal implementation costs

You

• Have a startup based in BC, Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut
• Fewer than 500 full-time employees
• Have an innovative technology and/or operate in the tech sector
• Own or have the rights to use your IP in Canada

Get a grant of up to $15,000 in this 16-week program, with access to mentors and advisors, with opportunities for networking and partnerships as you look to develop, test and commercialize or license your science and technology-enabled innovation.

Money 

• Maximum: $15,000

Canadian SMEs can apply for up to $600,000 in funding to help cover research and development project costs while working with a partner in Brazil, China, India, Israel or South Korea. When there is a call for proposals with one of these countries, Canadian SMEs and their partner can submit co-innovation project applications.

Money 

• Maximum: $600 000
• Non-repayable (An interest-free contribution, to be spent as outlined in your agreement, that does not have to be paid back as long as the conditions are met)

Funding Limits

• This program will cover a maximum of 50% of eligible costs

You 

• Are a Canadian company that is:
  • incorporated, for-profit SME
  • seeking to develop new or improved products services or processes with a high potential for commercialization
  • ready to collaborate on a R&D project with a foreign partners

Use this to

• Build clean technology projects that generate jobs and create economic value
• Utilize the Centre for Commercialization of Sustainable Chemistry Innovation
• Build robust raw material supply chains
• Identify and address chemistry value chain gaps
• Leverage regional and global partners along the value chain
• Grow to global scale and become a world-class player