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There are a variety of funding programs available to startups.
**[VeloCity Fund Finals](http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/vvf)**
There are 4 grants of $25K provided every single term. Read the webpage for more information including criteria, FAQ and more.
**[Ontario Youth Employment Fund](http://news.ontario.ca/tcu/en/2013/09/applications-open-for-provinces-youth-employment-fund.html?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p)**
Young people can now apply to Ontario's new Youth Employment Fund to find jobs and gain valuable work experience.
Businesses and eligible youth aged 15 to 29 can apply to the fund by making an appointment with a local Employment Ontario service provider. The fund helps employers offer four- to six-month job and training placements for young people looking for employment.
**OCE Funding Programs**
Deadline: Various
OCE is now running a large number of programs which may be suitable for some of the teams in our space.
Market Readiness - http://www.oce-ontario.org/programs/collaborative-commercialization/market-readiness
Intelligent Vehicles program – if you are building technologies used for smart, automated cars they are going to be adding a program soon to help provide some additional funding.
High Performance Computing – if you are pushing the boundaries of computers right now (big data, cluster computing, etc) then there is funding for that too. http://www.oce-ontario.org/programs/collaborative-commercialization/hpc
Voucher Program – OCE announced a new voucher program that is intended to allow startups to apply once for funding and get access to multiple
programs (IRAP, NSERC Engage, etc)
http://www.oce-ontario.org/about-oce/collaboration-voucher-program
**OCE SmartStart**
Deadline: Not available yet. Coming soon.
Similar to JumpStart, VentureStart and other FedDev funded programs you can get up to $30K for your company in matching funding.
More details on their website here: http://www.oce-ontario.org/programs/collaborative-commercialization/smartstart
**[Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions](http://www.aihealthsolutions.ca/funding/)**
Invests millions of dollars a year in health research and innovation spanning activity from the lab to the bedside to the community. Our funding programs emphasize collaborative research and innovation activity and target Albertans’ health priorities.
**[Echoing Green Fellowship - up to $90K](http://engageduniversity.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/12/04/echoing-green-fellowship-up-to-90k-applications-due-16/)**
Echoing Green’s Fellowship Programs will offer more than $4.6 million in seed-stage funding and support this year to emerging leaders working to bring about positive social change
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**[Kickstart K/W](http://kickstartkw.ca/join-in/)**
**[Build In Canada's Innovation Program](http://www.mentorworks.ca/blog/government-funding/build-in-canada-innovation-program-10-2013/)**
The federal BCIP program just opened this week and has a deadline for submission of Jan 7th - a very short window for applications. This type of funding is dedicated to Government Acquisition through first sale of new innovation with a total fund of $17M in this round. Companies can submit multiple proposals for multiple innovations.
Company Eligibility: Canadian Company that owns the IP for the innovation; innovation must be minimum of 80% Canadian content.
**[Communitech Business Development Fund](https://communitech.wufoo.eu/forms/the-communitech-business-development-fund/?utm_source=Communitech+Business+Development+Fund+2014&utm_campaign=CBDF+2014&utm_medium=email)**
Business development related activities may include trade show registration, specialized service provider support, marketing communication, and other related activities. Other types of projects may be considered on a case-by-case basis provided that such projects can be directly attributed to attaining a near-term milestone which significantly advances the company's investigations of market demand or technological feasibility, de-risks the venture, or otherwise achieves a new objective which substantially improves the company's footing to move forward.