OCI Market Readiness Program – Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI)
Receive up to $250,000 in Grant Funding.
The Market Readiness Program supports academic spin-off companies, OCI accelerator (CLA/OCIA) graduates, and SmartStart Seed Fund awardees with Ontario government grants to further their early-stage commercialization and support scalable business growth. The program offsets a portion of costs related to customer creation and company-building activities. The funding helps to reduce the risk of other investment opportunities and helps attract additional private investments.
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Eligible Applicants
Ontario SMEs incorporated within the last 5 years, with <$500k (project type 1) or <$1M (project type 2) in VC investment.
800+
Annual Funding Applications Supported
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Give your application the best chance of approval. Ryan supports the writing of applications for more than 100 Canadian federal and provincial government grants, tax credits, and no-interest loan programs.
Amount of Funding
Successful applicants may receive the following:
- Up to $250,000 in funding support;
- Investments may be used for a runway of up to 12 months; and
- Funding available is company already has a pre-seed or seed round funding raised.
Eligible Applicants
Companies must fit the following criteria to be eligible:
- Have advanced growth and sales strategy which is able to demonstrate repeatable traction in the market;
- Has potential to redefine a market;
- Should have a 2-4 year business model; and
- Have milestones driving a seed-extension or Series A round in the near future (1-2 years).
Eligible Activities
Eligible Activities may be:
Customer Creation: Funding to develop a scalable sales processes or,
Company Building Program: Sustainable business model development activities.
Program Deadline
Speak with a member of our team to find the latest intake period info for this program or subscribe to our newsletter to be notified.
Average of
Time Saving
95%
Throughout the application process
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Successfully applying for the right funding program at the right time, focusing on the right topics is no easy challenge. We provide an average 95% time savings to our clients, compared to businesses that apply for funding in-house.
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