Accelerators Canadians can join

Next AI accelerates early-stage, AI-enabled ventures through an intensive immersion week, founder education courses in machine learning and entrepreneurial strategy, mentorship, and investor pitch events culminating at Venture Day.

Next Founders provides growth-stage entrepreneurs with masters-level education, workshops, mentorship from industry leaders, and investor networking to scale their businesses.

Project accelerator providing $2,500 grants to six Enactus teams to identify, create, and implement projects advancing equity using financial education to strengthen resilience of underserved populations including visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and women.

Get funding to assist your Nova Scotia-based seafood company

Play to Lead creates a network for girls and their coaches to come together through sport, offering hands-on training, mentorship, and relationship-building that contributes to gender equity within local sport organizations and communities. The program empowers women and girls through the power of sport.

A 6-week program designed to help climate ventures validate their value proposition and business model, hone their pitch, and develop their minimum viable product.

Empowers Enactus teams to create and implement projects promoting equality and access across education, healthcare, technology, environment, food security, housing, and economic sectors. Six teams receive $2,500 project grants.

Project accelerator providing $2,500 grants to fifteen Enactus teams to identify, create, and implement projects helping Canadians prepare for an evolving workforce through professional skills acquisition. Targets underserved populations including youth (15-29 years), newcomers, Indigenous peoples, First Nations, and persons with disabilities.

A Canada-wide accelerator for food and beverage entrepreneurs with products already in market, seeking to scale. Provides expert-led, hands-on support in operations, branding, marketing, sales, distribution, and growth strategy, delivered virtually and culminating in a pitch competition.

A 12-week program for six Enactus students working in small teams using human-centered design thinking to develop innovative solutions for survivors of domestic violence. Participants receive mentorship, learning opportunities, and up to $1,000 in travel funding to present at the National Exposition.

A 12-week growth accelerator program presented by RBC for women entrepreneurs generating $200K to $1M in annual revenue with 2 to 20 employees, focusing on strategic clarity and roadmaps in Finance, Leadership, or Operations.

THRIVE Accelerator Programs for Seed to Series A stage companies develop go-to-market plans and provide access to customers, investment, and expert mentorship.

Accelerator program for Seed to Series A stage startups in the Asia-Pacific region that develops go-to-market plan and provides access to customers, investment, and expert mentorship.

An equity-free accelerator program supported by Farm Credit Canada for late Seed to Series A Canadian agri-food and climate tech startups, offering scaling readiness assessments, expert mentorship, corporate connections, and investor exposure.

Export support for SMEs

International acceleration support for small technology firms

A free 6–9 week online entrepreneurship program combining business training, group coaching, and mentorship for cis women, trans women, and non-binary individuals who have experienced mental health or addiction challenges and want to launch or grow a small business in Canada.

Breakthru is NBIF's flagship startup accelerator program designed to take early-stage founders from across New Brunswick and shape them into investment-ready companies through intensive bootcamps, mentorship, and pitch refinement. The top 5 finalists pitch live on stage for equity investment at an annual finale. The 2026 cohort is coming soon with applications to be announced.