Supporting a greener recovery

Supporting a greener recovery

Founded in 1985 with a mission to provide financing and strategy for entrepreneurs, NCFDC (also known as the Northumberland Community Futures Development Corporation) recently announced $7.7 million in funding from FedDev Ontario to support early-stage tech companies...
Powering cleantech R&D

Powering cleantech R&D

MITACS powers research and development creation by connecting private sector with the best post-secondary institutions to solve organizational challenges — in Canada and internationally. We spoke to John Hepburn, CEO, to learn more about how the organization enables...
Finding, funding & growing gigacorns

Finding, funding & growing gigacorns

Based in Toronto, venture growth fund Climate Innovation Capital (CIC) invests in companies and entrepreneurs with climate solutions that have the potential to deliver the greatest amount of absolute carbon reductions in the shortest period of time while...
Ontario Budget 2022: What’s in it for cleantech?

Ontario Budget 2022: What’s in it for cleantech?

OCTIA applauds the recognition of cleantech as a high growth sector in the Ontario 2022 budget.  In that same vein, the budget highlights Ontario’s co-investments in electric vehicle (EV) and EV battery production facilities and charging infrastructure. It points...
Creating Wealth from Waste

Creating Wealth from Waste

Based in Markham, Pond Technologies designs and operate scalable bioreactors that use industrial GHG emissions and specialized growing systems to cultivate algae and other valuable biomass. We spoke to Peter Howard, VP, Project Development, to learn more...