Our Region thrives because of the support of investors, elevators, an extensive startup support system, and established and prominent research hubs. Innovation in the Region is inclusive - it's happening across diverse sectors and includes social, cultural, sustainable and indigenous innovation.
The Edmonton Region is a place to challenge boundaries, unlock your potential, and achieve the unthinkable.
Rainforest Alberta is a movement of people working together to improve Alberta’s innovation ecosystem. Rainforest is about bringing people together and facilitating those serendipitous collisions between diverse groups of people.
The Centre for Innovation in Manufacturing (CIM-TAC)is a key hub of the central Alberta innovation community. We focus on product and process development, improvement through innovative technical services, and applied research projects.
ScaleGood fund is a Social Impact Venture Capital VC fund that invests in companies who have the promise of a strong financial return coupled with measurable social impact goals. Impact Investing and Financial Returns is what we’re looking for.
Through our Scaleup Edmonton program division, Edmonton Unlimited offers programming to help companies scale their business once they have validated their product-market fit.
The SMART Network is a state-of-the-art center for researchers from engineering, medicine, rehabilitation, computer science, neuroscience, and social sciences who have come together to generate knowledge related to neural injuries and diseases, and to translate that knowledge into intelligent medical devices and innovative rehabilitation interventions.
Smart Technology (ST) Innovations is a non-profit health technology development center for advancing health innovations from discovery to market. They are located at the University of Alberta (UofA) campus
Start Alberta provides a forum to share startup and investor content, press releases, investment deals, and events, promoting the Alberta ecosystem locally and beyond. Beyond providing a comprehensive list of tech deal flow in the province, the platform provides a critical forum for telling Alberta’s entrepreneurial success story and enticing investors both internal and external to Alberta to invest in what Alberta has to offer. Data partnerships developed through Start Alberta ensure startups gain international exposure.
Start Up Edmonton helps entreprenuers with mentorship, programs, and community events to support and transofmr their ideas into successful startup companies
