Indigenous Entrepreneurship Program
MitacsMentorship and funding for Indigenous founders.
A program combining mentorship, community and funding to support Indigenous-led ventures.
Best suited for
- Ideating: You have an entrepreneurial itch and the seed of a scalable product or service, with an early sense of the value it could create.
- Concepting: You are framing the opportunity, the target market and how a solution might create value, while assembling the right people around it.
- Committing: A committed, skills-balanced founding team shares a vision and is ready to build a first version of the product or service.
- Validating: You are iterating and testing assumptions to prove your solution, tracking early indicators of user growth and revenue.
- Scaling: You are focused on measurable growth in users, customers and revenue in a large or fast-growing market, and can attract resources to grow quickly.