Discover the ecosystem

Created in April 2021, Axelys is a non-profit organization whose mission is to contribute to the economic and social prosperity of Quebec by accelerating the development and transfer of high-potential innovations stemming from public research.Axelys offers consulting and support services in development, intellectual property management and innovation transfer to all public research institutions in Quebec, in all regions. In addition, Axelys contributes to the creation of scientific companies spun off from public research.

CQDM is a non-profit biopharmaceutical research consortium whose mission is to support and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaborative R&D that accelerates translation of leading-edge discoveries into vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics addressing unmet medical needs while generating significant benefits for the Canadian economy.

Among the first organizations to emphasize and promote the transformation of Quebec green aluminium, the CQRDA is entirely dedicated to encourage and support aluminium transformation. Our doors are wide open to welcome and assist you in achieving your creative and collaborative projects with educational institutions, research centers and enterprises devoted to the production and transformation of aluminium.

The Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Québec (CRIAQ) is a driver of innovation and pioneer of collaborative research. It generates and fosters dialogue and collaboration between industry and academia. It provides access to a network of renowned experts and funding to carry out pre-competitive research projects in the field of aerospace in partnership with these stakeholders.

The Quebec consortium for industrial bioprocess research and innovation (CRIBIQ) is a non-profit organisation created in 2008 with financial support from the Quebec government. Its mission is to promote and support innovative development projects in the various branches of the Québec bio-economy.CRIBIQ’s actions are focused mainly on 3 industrial sectors: 1. Industrial bioproducts (bioenergy, biobased chemistry and materials) 2. The Environnement 3. Agriculture/Agri-food

The Metal Transformation Research and Innovation Consortium (CRITM – Consortium de recherche et d’innovation en transformation métallique) is one of nine sectoral clusters of industrial research (RSRI – Regroupement sectorial de recherche industrielle) in Quebec: An industrial research network. It provides strategic and financial support to companies involved in research projects and organizes value-added activities with access to specialized equipment and expert advice.CRITM operates in wide-ranging transformation industry sectors including extraction and concentration, primary production, first, second and third processing, finished products and recycling of different metals.

The organization helps funding collaborative research projects related to the electric industry, transportation electrification and intelligent transportation.

From concept to commercialization, MEDTEQ+ supports innovators who are strengthening the healthcare of tomorrow.

Accelia Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in innovative companies with high technological potential. We aim for diversity, performance, and impact by fostering businesses owned or led by women.We invest in the most promising seed and other early-stage start-ups that have completed the development of a product or service, and have gained some market validation. Our portfolio companies also benefit from the support of renowned investor-contributors who contribute their network of contacts and their expertise in various fields.

AmorChem is a leading early stage venture fund dedicated to creating the next generation of biotech companies from academic research.AmorChem focuses its investments on the translational research necessary to bridge this innovation gap.

Anges Québec's mission is to contribute to the growth of Québec's companies of tomorrow by injecting value-added capital. They are the largest angel investors network in Canada.

Bank of Montreal is a financial institution founded in 1817 that provides personal and business banking, wealth management and merchant banking services. It is the oldest chartered bank in Canada.

BCF Ventures, a spin-off of BCF Business Law Firm, is a pioneer in the Canadian investment scene and one of the first corporate venture capital funds to be launched by a law firm.

At Boreal Ventures, we strive to fund Quebec’s most promising deep tech start-ups, become a partner of choice for international investors and shape the ecosystem alongside Canada’s largest applied science incubator, Centech.

Brightspark Capital is a leading Canadian venture capital firm behind every single investment. Their mandate was, and remains, to find the best early-stage VC investments in Canada and help build value in these businesses.

For more than 75 years, the Business Development Bank of Canada has supported small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice.

adMare BioInnovations is Canada’s global life sciences venture, building the Canadian life sciences industry from sea to sea. We do this by sourcing therapeutically and commercially promising research from leading academic and biotech partners to create new companies of scale.

The Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal (CEIM) is an incubator and accelerator dedicated to young technology startups. Their mission is to support entrepreneurs who present innovative projets by offering a wide range of services that are tailored to their specific needs.

Dedicated to deeptech companies with high growth potential, Centech is a world-class business incubator based in Montreal. Centech performs particularly well in the fields of medical technology, manufacturing, telecoms and microelectronics and other intelligent objects.

CEuMontréal, the Center for entrepreneurship at Université de Montréal is a non-profit organization that aims to develop an entrepreneurial and innovation culture at the Université de Montréal and to concretely support entrepreneurs and the creation of scientific and technological businesses.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.

Specialized in innovative healthcare technology solutions, CTS is an à la carte growth accelerator who responds to the particular challenges and needs of each startup.

Cycle Momentum is an accelerator and open innovation platform that brings together an international collective of entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators.

Défi Montréal is the largest program in Quebec for the acceleration of high-growth innovative companies with more than 75 companies supported each year for their financing and business development.

At Workbase is a coworking space for companies of all sizes wishing to work in a creative and interactive environment. Their goal is to recreate this knowledge-sharing community by bringing together companies and startups.

Crew Collective & Café is a public café, coworking community, and event venue located in a historical building in the heart of Old Montreal.

ECTO is a coworking space for self-employed workers and small businesses in Montreal.

Espace Beaubien is an office space rental company in the heart of the Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie borough. It offers entrepreneurs, the self-employed, creatives and business people a place to mingle and thrive.

The Montréal FinTech station, as a focal point for innovation and collaboration, is dedicated to young Quebec companies operating in the FinTech ecosystem. It gives access to modern workspaces and offers you turnkey services that help propel your growth.

GamePlay Space is the dedicated co-­working space for the games industry in Montreal.

La Halte 24-7 is a coworking space for professionals, small businesses and self-employed workers. Their goal is to help entrepreneurs in their business development and professional networks.

IDEAL Coworking offers offices for rent for self-employed workers and small businesses. It is a professional and friendly coworking space for independent workers, self-employed, freelancers, consultants, micro-enterprises and startups.

BCF Imagine is an exclusive program that helps startups to accelerate their business’ development, by giving them a comprehensive view of the business world.

Cossette Lab is an initiative of the Cossette marketing and communication agency supporting the growth of startups. They accept applications from tourism-related startups for its accelerators across Canada.

The Desjardins Lab — Desjardins R&D space — is a place to explore technologies and approaches in the spirit of co-creation. It helps accelerate initiatives through rapid prototyping and human-centred design.

Ericsson is the lifeblood of the networked society, a global leader in communications technology and services. Their relationships with the main telecommunications operators allow companies to realize their full potential while creating a more sustainable future.

Espace CDPQ is an investment and development hub bringing together partners and collaborators that are dedicated to accelerating the growth of innovative, high-potential Québec businesses.

Around the world, GIRO is transforming the landscape of urban mobility and postal and parcel distribution. Its software solutions optimize operations in more than 25 countries.

Inno Startup is an Open Innovation Platform that aims to bring these two worlds closer together by connecting challenges and solutions while facilitating the journey to business collaborations.

Intact Lab is the innovation lab powered by the Intact Financial Corporation. It is an innovation lab using machine learning, data science, software engineering, AI, agility, UX and design thinking to transform the customer experience for millions of Canadians.

Baron mag is an online magazine that focuses on culture, design and entrepreneurship in all its manifestations through their covers of events, their portraits of entrepreneurs and interviews.

BetaKit is Canada’s startup and tech innovation publication of record.

Devenir entrepreneur is an inspiring platform chock full of information exploring the many facets, challenges and satisfactory aspects of becoming an entrepreneur. The entrepreneurs and major players in entrepreneurship are engaged in taking concrete action to help build the rising generation—tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.

Le Lien MULTIMÉDIA is the Internet portal for digital professionals.

Quebec leader in French-language business information content, Les Affaires provides concrete keys to better understanding and spotting trends, better anticipating changes and making better decisions.

Les Catalystes is a firm specialized in corporate identity and storytelling. Les Catalystes make you (entrepreneur, company, VSE, SME, ETI, large Group), your product or your brand, a hero to be able to tell his story.

Les Dérangeants is the podcast for the new generation of entrepreneurs in Quebec. Its mission is to stimulate entrepreneurship, give the next generation a strong voice and provide the general public with unprecedented access behind the scenes of their startups.

MTLinTECH is a non-profit news website created for Montreal’s tech and startup community. Its mission is to reinforce that Montreal is a place where people can build great companies.

Grants Office is a full-service provider of grant resources for public and private sector organization. Our support is tailor-fit to meet the needs of your next grant application.

Aligo is a university research commercialization company. They valorize the research results of universities and their institutional partners from all areas of innovation.

AquaAction is a platform to help you explore North America’s urgent water crisis, imagine new solutions, and take action to save freshwater and protect our future.

The Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal (CEIM) is an incubator and accelerator dedicated to young technology startups. Their mission is to support entrepreneurs who present innovative projets by offering a wide range of services that are tailored to their specific needs.

This program, subsidized by the Ministry of Economy and Innovation, identifies opportunities for digital project with high potential among manufacturing SMEs.

The Chambre de commerce de l’Est de Montréal is the largest group of business people in its territory. Its mission is to defend and promote the economic and social interests of the 32,000 companies that make up its territory.

Communautique is a community organisation supporting civic participation by promoting information literacy, appropriation of information and communications technologies and contribution to their development.

The Computer Research Institute of Montréal (CRIM) is a leading IT expertise centre that generates concrete results as well as a strategic partner in innovation for organizations.

The AI4Good Lab is a non-profit training program for women-identified STEM students across Canada. Its visions is to revitalize the use of AI as a force for social good by stimulating a new generation of creative tech leaders.

Concordia is an English-language university recognized for their flexible approach to learning, and for their commitment to examining societal issues from a broad perspective in their teaching and research.

DecodeMTL is a full-stack javascript programming bootcamp located in Montreal. Accepted students run through an intensive 8 week program designed to turn them into junior level web developers.

The École des entrepreneurs du Québec (ÉEQ) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop the skills of entrepreneurs from all walks of life by providing an accessible, innovative and collaborative learning environment.

The École de technologie supérieure is a constituent establishment of the Université du Québec. ÉTS, which specializes in engineering and technological transfer education as well as applied research, trains engineers and researchers who are recognized for their practical and innovative approach.

The Factry Foundation is a modern foundation which contributes to make Québec a society in which creativity is a vector of transformation. It works to heighten Montréal’s international profile with regards to creativity in business.

HEC Montréal is a French-language university institution offering internationally renowned management education and research. HEC Montréal trains management leaders who make a responsible contribution to the success of organizations and to sustainable social development.

Le Wagon is a programming bootcamp. Their programming trainings, delivered by world-class teachers, give students all the skills and tools needed to start their careers in tech, land a promising job or start their own business.

Young entrepreneurs are developing innovative solutions to Canada’s most critical freshwater issues. After 10 Challenges in watersheds across Canada, and with all that we learned as we pivoted to virtual in the last two years, we are working on exciting programming for Fall 2022. Stay tuned for more about AquaHacking Québec and AquaHacking Atlantic.

Batimatech is a catalyst in the construction, technology and sustainable development world whose mission is to foster innovation, collaboration, agility and the integration of the best digital solutions in our business ecosystem and in our institutions.

C2 is a one-of-a-kind international business event that invites today's and tomorrow's leaders every year. It brings together Commerce and Creativity to explore trends, opportunities, disruptions and major shifts on the horizon.

Designed by Desjardins, the Cooperathon brings citizens, communities, entrepreneurs, researchers and academic groups together to build a responsible future. It's the biggest open innovation competition in Canada. The event draws thousands of participants, over 100 partners and 550 mentors and volunteers.

Behind the Scenes of Financing is an event specially designed for entrepreneurs who wanted to find out everything there is to know about startup financing, and meet all the players in the ecosystem.

CreativeMornings is a free, monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Started in NYC by Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder of swissmiss, CreativeMornings has cole to 200 chapters around the world including New York, Chicago, London, Zurich, LA, San Francisco, Berlin, and Montréal among others.

Expo Entrepreneurs is the first event in Quebec dedicated to entrepreneurs from all walks of life and those who work for their success. Its objective is to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Quebec.

Fuckup Nights is a global movement and event series of networking & educational events featuring entrepreneurs telling stories of learning from failure & entrepreneurship.

Aéro Montréal, Quebec's aerospace cluster, is a strategic think tank that groups all the major decision makers in Quebec's aerospace sector, including companies, educational and research institutions, associations and unions.

AluQuébec co-ordinates working groups that create synergies between national and international customers/users and companies active in the Québec aluminium industry.

CargoM is the cluster that brings together all Greater Montreal freight transport and logistics stakeholders whose activities promote Montreal as an industry hub around common goals and concerted actions to increase its cohesion, competitiveness, growth and reach.

As the first organization of this kind in Canada, Ecotech Quebec mobilizes key players of the green economy to create the most favorable conditions for the development and growth of companies, and encourages end-users to increase the deployment of clean technologies.

Finance Montréal, Québec’s financial cluster, aims to develop and promote Québec’s financial services industry. Finance Montréal fosters cooperation among a vast range of institutions to stimulate the industry’s growth while raising awareness of the financial specializations found in Montréal.

Mmode, the Metropolitan Fashion Clusters, is a non-profit organisation with the mission of bringing together players of Québec’s fashion industry, including from its four main pillars: designers, manufacturers, wholesalers-distributors and retailers.

Propulsion Québec, the cluster for Electric and Smart Transportation (EST), rallies the entire sector around joint projects aimed at positioning Quebec as a global leader in developing and implementing smart and electric modes of ground transportation.

Numana est un catalyseur d’écosystèmes technologiques. Avec ses partenaires, ils rassemble les acteurs des technologies autour de projets structurants pilotés par l’industrie, et pour tout le Québec.

Dedicated to deeptech companies with high growth potential, Centech is a world-class business incubator based in Montreal. Centech performs particularly well in the fields of medical technology, manufacturing, telecoms and microelectronics and other intelligent objects.

District 3 is a community dedicated to collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship. Their mission is to nurture and develop multidisciplinary startup teams that harness emerging tech to create businesses with global impact.

Espace CDPQ is an investment and development hub bringing together partners and collaborators that are dedicated to accelerating the growth of innovative, high-potential Québec businesses.

Fintech Cadence is the Canada’s fintech hub and provides multiple programs and events for the fintech community from coast to coast. Structured as a non-profit organization, they are dedicated to serve early-stage startups and build fintech products from the grassroots level.

La base is the entrepreneurial space of HEC Montreal, which helps the founders of startups or businesses buyers to develop their full potential as a business leader.

A not-for-profit organization, the MIS is an important player in Québec’s social innovation ecosystem and a decisive lever in the emergence and development of projects with a strong positive social impact, among citizen collectives and government organizations, universities and the entrepreneurial community.

La Piscine is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to catalyze and cultivate the first-ever ecosystem dedicated to the development of entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative sectors in Montréal and across Québec.

Notman is a technology hub that provides office, event, and communal space for startups, investors, technology partners, and community groups.

The Cabinet Créatif de Montréal aims to support 20 creative and cultural businesses and organizations in the development of their new respective markets, by providing them keys to success and long-term tools.

Défi propulsion DEC is the competition for young Quebec entrepreneurs. It aims in particular to strengthen the assets of the regions by focusing on daring and ingenuity.

This program helps young entrepreneurs ages 18 to 35 who are starting a business or have been in business for less than 3 years by providing coaching, mentoring and financial aid in the form of loans and grants

From evaluating your export potential to organizing meetings with buyers and identifying business opportunities, including preparation and support, Investissement Québec International's service offering covers all the stages of an export.

Futurpreneur Canada is a national, not-for-profit organization that provides financing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18-39.

The Government of Canada holds executive power at the federal level for all of Canada.

Info entrepreneurs is a leader in the delivery of quality strategic information on government programs and services directed to the business community. Info entrepreneurs constitutes a privileged source of commercial information, thus contributing to the economic growth of SMEs.

The Ministry's mission is to support business growth, entrepreneurship, science, innovation, export trade and investment. The MEI is coordinating the elaboration and the implementation of the digital strategy.