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30 of 177 CAIN member organizations are based in Québec.
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Montréal, Québec
Welcome to Québec Tech (formerly Startup Montréal), the new catalyst for high-potential tech startups in Quebec. Our mission is propel Quebec into the international limelight by mobilizing key stakeholders.
Montréal, Québec
Accélérateur des entrepreneur.e.s d'impact
Esplanade Québec is the first accelerator for social and environmental impact entrepreneurs in Quebec.
Montréal, Québec
Techstars is a global startup network that accelerates success for entrepreneurs through mentorship, investment, and innovation, supporting over 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.
Montréal, Québec
FounderFuel helps founders reach escape velocity
FounderFuel is a mentor-driven accelerator program that helps early-stage web, mobile, and software startups raise seed capital. It is a 4-month intensive program supported by a network of veteran entrepreneurs, operators, and executives.
Montréal, Québec
Le Centre d'entrepreneuriat ESG UQAM offre des services de consultation et d'aide au démarrage d'entreprise pour l'ensemble de étudiants et diplômés récents de l'UQAM. Le Centre offre des conférences à thématiques entrepreneuriales gratuites tout au long des sessions d'automne et d'hiver. Pour consulter notre calendrier de conférences, visiter notre site Internet. www.entrepreneuriat.uqam.ca Le Centre coordonne également le concours «Mon entreprise» avec quelques 15 000 $ en prix annuellement, ainsi qu'un programme de développement d'entreprises intitulé «Mon entreprise science techno» qui vise à développer et accompagner les entreprises scientifiques et technologiques jusqu'à la phase du financement.
Montréal, Québec
Where Builders Thrive at Every Stage
Accelerating innovation and empowering the tech entrepreneur community since 2008. ElanTech has evolved into a vibrant ecosystem where founders, operators, creatives, and innovators come together to connect, collaborate, and grow. We believe meaningful innovation is driven by authentic relationships and creative exchange. From small group meetups to large-scale immersive events, our community experiences are designed to ignite ideas, nurture relationships, and create lasting impact. Rooted in Montreal and connected globally, ElanTech is dedicated to fostering an inclusive, forward-thinking tech community that creates impact through shared purpose and collective growth. 🌍 Local roots, global vision 🎯 Purpose-driven collaboration 🤝 Inclusive and welcoming Join us to connect, create, and shape the future together.
Montréal, Québec
Le premier Hub dédié aux entrepreneurs de l'agroalimentaire
Accelerator specialized in helping food startups. Un accélérateur qui accompagne les entreprises agroalimentaires en démarrage.
Longueuil, Québec
Garage co est un hub d'innovation dédié aux technologies Hardtech
Garage&co is a startup incubation company that focuses on hardtech startups. They provide a holistic approach to design and work with entrepreneurs to develop a functional prototype that can be brought to market.
Terrebonne, Québec
Des services pour les startups et les entreprises innovantes!
Innohub La Centrale is an incubator and accelerator that supports innovative projects in the industrial, technological, and business services sectors.
Laval, Québec
Laval Innov est l'ERAC de Laval. Notre rôle est de soutenir les entreprises innovantes sur le territoire de Laval et ce, dans tous les domaines.
Québec City, Québec
MAIN Québec is the first network of business accelerators and incubators in Quebec. They provide business acceleration and incubation services to non-profit organizations. They also offer momentumPI, a service that provides free training on intellectua...
Montréal, Québec
l'accélérateur d'opportunités en tourisme, culture et divertissement
MT Lab is the premier innovation incubator in North America for tourism, culture, and entertainment. Based in Montreal, MT Lab serves as a meeting place, startup incubator/accelerator, and exchange platform, fostering innovation and collaboration betwe...
Montréal, Québec
Founded in 1873, Polytechnique Montréal, technological university, is one of Canada's largest engineering teaching and research institutions. It is the Québec leader for the scope of its engineering research activities. It is located on the campus of Université de Montreal, the largest French-language university campus in the Americas. With over 49,000 graduates, Polytechnique Montréal has educated 22% of the current members of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec. The institution offers more than 120 programs. Polytechnique has 260 professors and 8,600 students. It has an annual operating budget of $215 million, including a research budget of $81 million.
Montréal, Québec
Scale your potential. Accelerating AI integration across business sectors.
At Scale AI, we believe now is the time to take AI out of the lab and into the real world. Where businesses can show not what AI will do, but what AI can do. We accelerate the integration of AI across all industries, scaling large and small organizations along the way. Reshaping business models, enhancing decision making, elevating workforce performance. Unleashing new avenues to embolden your business, the economy and the world, to reach our full potential. Together we form a collective committed to strengthening Canada’s position on a global scale.
Montréal, Québec
Startup en résidence accompagne les entreprises en prédémarrage et en démarrage qui ont un impact socio économique positif sur les collectivités au Canada.
Montréal, Québec
Zú is an incubator initiated by Guy Laliberté in 2018. It supports and propels creative entrepreneurs who use technology to develop products and content that revolutionize the cultural, creative, and entertainment industries by generating innovative projects and world-class intellectual property. Zú offers support programs for startups, open innovation services for SMEs and large corporations, financing expertise including privileged access to a venture capital fund and a local and international network of over 100 renowned coaches. It also offers a unique creative hub in downtown Montreal that brings together state-of-the-art tools and studios, business hosting opportunities and showcase spaces for research and experimentation with the public. Zú is a non-profit organization that rallies a community whose ambition is to create wealth in Quebec by promoting our creativity around the world.
Montréal, Québec
BUILD SOMETHING MASSIVE
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives based program for massively scalable, seed stage, science and technology based companies.
Montréal, Québec
Next AI is a leading national accelerator and founder development program for early-stage AI-powered startups. It is delivered to founders all accross Canada and has physical sites in both Montreal and Toronto.
Montréal, Québec
Le Pont is a non-profit catalyst dedicated to immigrant entrepreneurs launching or growing their business in Quebec, with a double mission of supporting an innovative business and the integration of an entrepreneur in Montreal.
Montréal, Québec
Not-for-profit supporting ecosystem's collaboration and development through the strenght of collaboraive and community events.
Montréal, Québec
Founded in September 2016, QueerTech is a not-for-profit advocacy group for gender, sex and sexual minority (LGBTQ) professionals in the technology sector. Our mandate centres particular focus on the needs and activities of LGBTQ tech-entrepreneurs implicated within the start-up ecosystem of Montreal. We embrace diversity and inclusion as core guiding principles, so Ally and non-Queer professionals are always welcomed with open arms into our network of fun, astute and benevolent members. Our community congregates monthly at different venues located in our hometown that has witnessed a recent flurry of growth within its tech industry.
Québec City, Québec
In front of the evidence of the importance of acting and this very strong desire to have a concrete impact was born 2 Degrees, an incubator specialized in cleantech in order to: fulfill a need in the ecosystem, foster the development of innovations, showcase and pool our talents and expertise, fight climate change. Our mission is to accelerate the development of clean technologies with the aim of reducing our carbon footprint. This is aligned with our vision that clean technologies are a major driver of global impact and wealth creation.
Montréal, Québec
Backing the most globally ambitious fintech founders
The Holt Xchange is a global early-stage fintech fund. As investors, they are also modern-day brokers, accelerating deals for early-stage fintechs between corporate clients, as well as follow-on investors. Supported by an extensive advisory network and powered by an advanced AI-driven data platform – Holt Xchange makes the right connection at the right time to propel its portfolio companies to the next stage.
Montréal, Québec
Accélérateur d'entreprises créatives et culturelles
Created in 2015, 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. Since its creation, the organization has implemented successful incubation and acceleration programs to accompany the development of creative and cultural entrepreneurs and companies with high growth potential. In addition, La Piscine delivers made-to-measure services to help private sector companies and public institutions mobilize the most innovative cultural and creative industry players to leverage effective and strategic business solutions. La Piscine is currently working with Gestion Georges Coulombe on the development of the Rodier Project, the first site dedicated to cultural and creative entrepreneurship in Montréal.
Longueil, Québec
Communauté d'innovation Pour des territoires plus intelligents et durables
Organisme sans but lucratif, financé par le gouvernement du Québec et ses villes partenaires, IVÉO accompagne les villes petites et moyennes dans le déploiement de solutions innovantes sur leur territoire. En favorisant le montage de projets pilotes, IVÉO contribue également à accélérer la validation et la commercialisation d'innovations technologiques dans le secteur des villes intelligentes et durables.
Magog, Québec
Un pôle d'innovation pour les entreprises technologiques et novatrices
Magog Technopole est une entité sans but lucratif dont la mission est d’attirer et favoriser la croissance des entreprises technologiques et novatrices en leur offrant un environnement de travail et un cadre de vie exceptionnel au sein d’une communauté passionnée axée sur le partage de connaissances, et ce, au bénéfice de la grande région de Magog.
Montréal, Québec
Advancing the financial system to serve all Canadians for the better.
Fintech Cadence is Canada's Fintech Hub. We focus on education, supporting fintech startups and collaborating with FIs.
Montréal, Québec
Ready to change the world?
Open to all, Centech supports companies and deeptech projects with high growth potential from the science, engineering and the medical fields. We offer support services for startups free of charge, without taking equity in the companies or the intellectual property they generate.
Montréal, Québec
Start-up Accelerator & Innovation Platform
Cycle Momentum, a start-up accelerator and innovation engine, offers acceleration programmes for clean technology companies and open innovation programmes for large companies. As an integral part of the Cycle Capital platform, Cycle Momentum works closely with companies that develop and commercialize clean technologies and thus supports the early stage development of companies with international competitive potential. Anchored in the cleantech ecosystem, Cycle Momentum propels impactful innovation in early-stage companies through training workshops, networking sessions, mentoring and access to investors. In addition, its various corporate programmes foster innovation within large organisations. To increase the impact of its programs, Cycle Momentum has brought together several local and international investment funds in its Partner Fund Circle, whose members are involved with participating start-ups. I
Montréal, Québec
Transform your ideas into startups and companies with global impact
District 3 Innovation Hub is a leading innovation hub in Montreal that nurtures and develops multidisciplinary startup teams. They focus on harnessing emerging technologies to create businesses with global impact.