17 Toronto Startup Ecosystem Support Organisations

Planning to build a startup in Toronto or already working on one?

Here is a list of awesome organizations that proactively help startups in Toronto and beyond.

• Techstars Toronto: The Techstars Toronto Accelerator is Techstars’ first Canadian accelerator program started in partnership with Real Ventures. With Eddy Travels startup we’re part of the current Techstars Toronto class 2019 and that’s where we had a chance to meet with all the below-listed organizations. Thank you Sunil and Tariq for organizing #EcosystemMadness!
• London & Partners: The Mayor of London’s official promotional company.
• Ryerson DMZ: “Your gateway to the North American market.”
• 43 North: A startup competition in Buffalo, NY that invests $5 million each year in companies with a deployable product, strong team, and a desire to relocate to Buffalo for at least a year.
• Communitech: helps tech companies start, grow and succeed in the Waterloo Region.
• Toronto Region Board of Trade: one of the largest and most influential chambers of commerce in North America.
• UKTI: UK’s Trade and Investment organization.
• Collision Conference (WebSummit): “North America’s fastest-growing tech conference”. Collision brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry. Join them in Toronto in May 2019.
• MaRS: supports Canada’s most promising startups — helping them grow, create jobs and solve society’s greatest challenges.
• OCE: accelerates innovation through game-changing research leading to successful commercialization and vibrant collaboration between industry and academia helping to launch the next generation of products and jobs.
• OneEleven: OneEleven is home to a community of high-performing technology scaleups. Membership in OneEleven unlocks unparalleled access to a highly-curated peer network, investment capital, best-in-class partners, on-demand services, and strategic support designed specifically to help businesses successfully navigate periods of substantial growth.
• Next Canada: accelerating the development of Canada’s most promising entrepreneurs. NEXT Canada is a national, non-profit organization that develops exceptional talent to build world-class ventures and propel technology adoption.
• NRC-IRAP: National Research Council Canada is Canada’s largest federal research and development organization.
• WeWork Labs: WeWork’s global innovation platform powering the next generation of industry transformation by helping startups and corporations create the future. … Our programs and services provide the community, education, connections, and mentorship to help anyone take the startup path and grow with us.
• Sidewalk Labs: Alphabet Inc.’s urban innovation organization. Its goal is to improve urban infrastructure through technological solutions, and tackle issues such as the cost of living, efficient transportation, and energy usage.
• City of Toronto: “The Toronto-Waterloo Region Corridor is an innovation centre with the second highest startup density in the world, second to Silicon Valley. The relationship and distance between Toronto and Waterloo Region is similar to other global innovation hubs like San Francisco and Silicon Valley, London and Cambridge, and Tel Aviv and Haifa.”
• Launch YU: advancing entrepreneurship at York University and beyond with an accelerator and coaching.
• Founder Institute Toronto: build your startup in Toronto with the world’s premier pre-seed accelerator.