Financing
- Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC): is Canada's small business bank. BDC plays a leadership role in delivering timely and relevant financial and management services, with a particular focus on the emerging and exporting sectors of the economy.
- Canada Small Business Financing Program: is a loan guarantee program delivered by financial institutions across Canada. We therefore encourage you to communicate directly with the financial institution of your choice to discuss how this program can respond to your specific financial requirements.
- Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC): is a unique export sales agency, wholly owned by the Government of Canada, with a broadly legislated mandate to assist in the development of trade between Canada and other nations.
- Canadian Consultant Trust Funds (2000-2004): when a World Bank or Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) project is being prepared, many studies are undertaken in order to design the project properly. Under the Canadian Consultant Trust Funds (CCTFs) at the World Bank and the IDB, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) provides financing to cover the costs of hiring consultants from Canada to help the Banks perform these studies.
- Cleantech Venture Network: "CLEANTECH" or the "Network" is a unique opportunity for investors and others to profitably facilitate the growth of young companies with the potential for delivering major economic, environmental and social benefits.
- Enviro-Access: a network of experts commited to the service of the environmental industry.
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- Export Development Corporation (EDC): is a Canadian financial institution devoted exclusively to providing trade finance services to support Canadian exporters and investors in some 200 markets, 130 of which are in developing markets.
- Friends of the Environment Foundation: Toronto-Dominion Bank funding for projects that address protection and preservation of the Canadian environment on a local, regional, or national level.
- IFI Network (IFINET): is your gateway to procurement business with the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and United Nations (UN) agencies markets.
- Precarn Intelligent Systems, Thinking Technology: a national consortium of corporations, research institutes and government partners working within the intelligent systems industry. Precarn funds projects in intelligent systems R&D; and helps to bridge the innovation gap between university and government research and commercial applications.
- Sources of Financing: is an extensive directory of Canadian financial providers, a powerful search engine of financial providers, information on different types of financing and financial providers, and tips to help you secure financing.
- Sustainable Development Technology Canada-Funding: a catalyst for creative, collaborative solutions that deliver positive environmental and economic impacts to Canadians.
- Steps to Growth Capital: a guide for entrepreneurs seeking to tap into the large pool of growth capital available in Canada.
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Provincial
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) - Sources of Financing: works with its many partners to help entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada access the capital they need to start-up or expand a business. ACOA also coordinates programs designed to stimulate the development and commercialization of new technologies and the climate for business growth generally in the region.
- Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD): is committed to helping Western Canadian small and medium-sized businesses grow and create jobs. WD offers a network of business professionals to help you with business planning and development, accessing capital, export or trade development, selling to government markets, and providing you with information on government programs and services for which you may be eligible.
Alberta
- Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC): is a provincial crown corporation with a private sector Board of Directors that provides farmers, agribusinesses and other small businesses loans, crop insurance and farm income disaster assistance.
British Columbia
- Working Opportunity Fund (WOF): is a tax assisted investment program that brings together business, labour and government. Its mixed portfolio will consist of equity investments in B.C. businesses, T-Bills and other money market instruments.
Manitoba
- Sustainable Development Innovations Fund: provides funding for the development, implementation and promotion of innovation projects which support sustainable development. Financial support is provided for waste management and recycling initiatives, environmental industries, environmental youth corps, and other sector areas such as water conservation and supply, agricultural development, urban environment and endangered spaces and species.
New Brunswick
- Business New Brunswick: provides assistance to small business. This site includes links to such things as New Brunswick business success stories and New Brunswick tendering services.
Ontario
- Biotech Commercialization Centre Fund: will create community-based commercialization centres that will aid the development of start-up biotechnology companies emerging from Ontario’s research institutes. Proposals to the fund will be developed by regionally based partnerships consisting of local government, universities, research institutes, hospitals and private industry.
Saskatchewan
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International
- African Development Bank Group (ADB): is the premier financial development institution of Africa, dedicated to combating poverty and improving the lives of people of the continent and engaged in the task of mobilising resources towards the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries.
- America's Business Funding Directory®: strives to provide the most up to date content available to assist companies in obtaining capital, gaining support, finding government programs, and getting expert help.
- Asian Development Bank (ADB): is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific.
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD): exists to foster the transition towards open market-oriented economies and to promote private and entrepreneurial initiative in the countries of central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) committed to and applying the principles of multiparty democracy,pluralism and market economics.
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): was created in response to a longstanding desire on the part of the Latin American nations for a development institution that would focus on the pressing problems of the region.
- North American Development Bank (NADBank): is an international financial institution established and capitalized in equal parts by the United States and Mexico for the purpose of financing environmental infrastructure projects. All NADB-financed environmental projects must be certified by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC), be related to potable water supply, wastewater treatment or municipal solid waste management and be located within the border region.
- The Worldbank: consists of five closely associated institutions. Their mission is to fight poverty for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity, and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.
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