FedDev Ontario is committed to supporting small business across southern Ontario through funding opportunities and business support.
FedDev Ontario works actively to advance and diversify the southern Ontario economy through funding opportunities and business services that support innovation and growth in Canada’s most populous region.
The Agency is delivering impressive results, which can be seen in southern Ontario businesses that are creating innovative technologies, improving their productivity, growing their revenues, and in the economic advancement of communities across the region.
Supporting Ontario
FedDev Ontario delivers programming to help grow businesses, cultivate partnerships, and build stronger communities.
Eligibility
You may be eligible if you meet the following:
- Innovative and globally-oriented businesses seeking to accelerate their growth
- High-potential firms (including accelerator graduates) commercializing innovative products, technologies, and processes
- Firms with scale-up potential looking to improve productivity through highly innovative, first-of-its-kind technologies with the goal of global competitiveness and market expansion
Additional Information
- No-interest, repayable contributions from $500,000 up to $10 million per project for incorporated businesses, including indigenous businesses.
Application Open Date (Status)
Open
Application End Date (Deadline)
N/A
Funding Limits
No-interest loan from $250,000 to $10 million per project
Funding rules are strictly bound to the terms of the successful Grant Application.
Purpose & Commonly Used For
- Enhance business attraction, investment, retention and employment opportunities in Southern Ontario communities
- Develop and expand collaborative efforts that strengthen regional competitiveness
- Support regional businesses, hubs and communities with the goal of economic diversification, integration and transformation
More Information
FedDev Ontario is helping to build a green, inclusive, and globally competitive southern Ontario by investing in companies to innovate, expand, and diversify and supporting organizations to provide business support and services in communities across the region.
FedDev Ontario supports businesses and organizations in southern Ontario, from Cornwall in the east to Owen Sound in the west, and from Pembroke in the north to Windsor in the south. Its mandate covers 37 Statistics Canada census divisions.
