Financing
Need financing to start and position your business on the market? Looking to expand or support a research project, modernize your processes and equipment, improve the skills of your workforce or commercialize your products? The CQFA offers you a list of organizations with funding programs that can help you achieve your most ambitious projects.
- Canada Economic Development (CED) – Regional Economic Growth through Innovation (REGI) and Quebec Economic Development Program (QEDP);
- ISED – Superclusters Initiative and Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF);
- MEIE – Innovation zones and the Programme d’appui au développement des secteurs stratégiques et des créneaux d’excellence.
- Anges Québec;
- Canada Economic Development, Quebec Economic Development Program (QEDP), which primarily finances the Community Futures Program (CF) that supports the SADC-CAE, offering loans of up to $250,000;
- Investissement Québec – Impulsion PME;
- Investissement Québec – Service d’accompagnement Momentum (formerly PMEit) – managed by the Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec (MAIN);
- MEIE – Programme d’aide à l’entrepreneuriat (PAEN);
- MEIE – Fonds local d’investissement (FLI) – the main financial tool for regional county municipalities (RCMs), offering loans of up to $300,000;
- BDC – Seed Fund, Deep Tech Venture Fund, Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology (ICE) Venture Fund, Industrial Innovation Venture Fund, etc.;
- Réseau Capital – Members directory.
- BDC – Thrive venture fund and lab for women
- Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec (CDPQ) – Equity 253;
- EVOL (formerly Femmessor) which primarily manages the Fonds pour les femmes entrepreneures FQ and the MEI’s Soutien à l’entrepreneuriat inclusif et d’impact;
- Fonds Afro-Entrepreneurs;
- Investissement Québec (IQ) – Fonds Accelia Capital s.e.c.;
- Réseau des Femmes d’affaires du Québec (RFAQ);
- ISED/CED – Women Entrepreneurship Strategy (WES), Black Entrepreneurship Program (BEP);
- Secrétariat aux affaires autochtones – Indigenous initiatives fund lll.
- BDC – Growth & Transition Capital and Growth Equity Partners;
- CDPQ – Ambition ME;
- ISED – Accelerated Growth Service;
- Investissement Québec – ESSOR, Development Capital, Tailored financing.
- NRC – Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP);
- NSERC – Alliance Grants and Partnerships for Companies;
- NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR (Canada Research Coordinating Committee) – New Frontiers in Research Fund;
- Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ);
- Investissement Québec – ESSOR, Programme innovation, Compétivert, Productivité innovation;
- MEIE – Programme de soutien aux organismes de recherche et d’innovation (PSO), MEI – Programme NovaScience;
- MEIE – Fonds de soutien à l’innovation en santé et en services sociaux, delivered by MEDTEQ+;
- MEIE – Fonds d’accélération des collaborations en santé (administered by the CQDM);
- MITACS – Stages d’innovation en entreprise;
- PRIMA Québec, CQDM, CQRDA, CRIBIQ, MEDTEQ+, CRITM, CRIAQ, InnovÉÉ, PROMPT – Call for collaborative RD projects;
- ISED – Strategic Innovation Fund, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), Innovative Solutions Canada, Clean Growth Hub;
- National Defence Canada – Innovation For Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS);
- Privy Council Office – Impact Canada Initiative;
- Canada Revenue Agency – Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED);
- Revenu Québec – Tax Credits for Scientific Research and Experimental Development (R&D), Tax Credit for Salaries and Wages (R&D), Crédit d’impôt pour la recherche universitaire ou la recherche effectuée par un centre de recherche public ou par un consortium de recherche, Tax Credit for Private Partnership Pre-Competitive Research, Congé fiscal pour chercheurs étrangers, Congé fiscal pour experts étrangers, Tax Credit for Fees and Dues Paid to a Research Consortium, Crédit d’impôt pour le design de produits fabriqués industriellement, Congé d’impôt sur le revenu pour une nouvelle société dédiée à la commercialisation d’une propriété intellectuelle.
- BDC – Equipment purchase financing;
- Canada Economic Development (CED) – Regional Economic Growth through Innovation (REGI), which primarily includes the Jobs and Growth Fund and the Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative (ARRI);
- Investissement Québec – ESSOR, Productivité innovation, Compétivert, Tailored financing, CRIQ, Productivité innovation;
- ISED – Net Zero Accelerator Initiative within the Strategic Innovation Fund, Canada Digital Adoption Program (CDAP), Clean Growth Hub;
- MEIE – Programme NovaScience;
- Conseil québécois de développement durable (CQDD) and Écotech – Fonds Écoleader;
- Canada Revenue Agency – Accelerated Investment Incentive (capital cost allowance);
- Revenu Québec – Capital cost allowance;
- NGen and NRC IRAP
- Emploi Québec – Programme favorisant l’apprentissage en milieu de travail et la francisation, Programme de renforcement collectif des compétences de la main-d’œuvre, etc.
- Global Affairs Canada – Funding and support programs for doing international business;
- Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC);
- Canada Economic Development (CED) – Regional Economic Growth through Innovation (REGI);
- EDC – Financial solutions;
- Investissement Québec – Programme de soutien à la commercialisation et à l’exportation (PSCE), Tailored financing, Fonds d’investissement Euréka, Financement Exportation Afrique;
- ORPEX (regional export promotion organizations) financed by the MEI program – Programme Exportation – volet Organismes;
- BDC – Intellectual Property-Backed Financing;
Need more information about these programs? Please contact us.