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Accelerators
Bring your big idea to life or level up your existing business. Our broad range of accelerators serve students, alumni and researchers at every stage.
Our Community
The University of Toronto Entrepreneurship Community consists of 12 Accelerators across our three campuses. Our entrepreneurial initiatives leverage the numerous strengths of a globally recognized university to provide an incredible range of unique offerings to current or aspiring innovators.
Focused on a diverse set of outcomes, we strive to ensure that anyone with the passion to build and explore has doors to enter and a community to support them.
We believe in entrepreneurship as a catalyst to accelerate:
- Entrepreneurial education to develop world-leading talent
- The adoption of new technologies
- Discussion around innovative ideas
- The participation of under-represented and racialized groups in our ecosystem
- The creation and growth of new companies for economic and social benefit
Our community of accelerators supports student entrepreneurs, alumni-led startups, and researchers to turn their passion, ideas and innovations into successful ventures.
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Accelerators
No matter what type of entrepreneur you are, U of T has an accelerator that can help your social enterprise or tech startup reach its highest potential. The University of Toronto is home to a variety of entrepreneurship programs serving students, alumni, and faculty from all disciplines and levels of experience. Some programs have formal intake programs and others are accepted on a rolling basis.
Accelerator Directory
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The Black Founders Network (BFN) is an inclusive community for Black entrepreneurs at all stages of their journey, created to provide access to the networks, resources and inspiration to build,...
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The Faculty of Arts and Science Centre for Entrepreneurship is home to entrepreneurship education, co-curricular programs, venture incubation and acceleration in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
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Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that sets early-stage, science- and technology-based companies on the trajectory to become massively scalable. The program delivers an objectives-based program by bringing...
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Health Innovation Hub (H2i) is a campus-linked accelerator housed at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. H2i supports early-stage entrepreneurs with the translation and commercialization of ideas into problem-solving designs on...
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ICUBE is the home of Social Entrepreneurship and early-stage start-ups at UTM, offering resources, programs, workshops and mentorship for people who are changing the world.
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InnovED is the education incubator and home of entrepreneurship education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), UofT. At the intersection of educational research, professional learning, and innovation,...
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Sam Ibrahim Centre for Inclusive Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Leadership is an early-stage innovation and entrepreneurship incubator that assists U of T students, recent alumni, and the community to...
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SpinUp is U of T’s first wet lab venture incubator with the objective of supporting early-stage life science companies and entrepreneurs. The wet lab space will offer affordable access to...
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Start@UTIAS encourages UTIAS graduate students to utilize the knowledge and skills they have gained through their education to create business startups. It offers the tools needed to create successful startups,...
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Business, research, and innovation are the foundation for The BRIDGE, UTSC Management’s campus-linked accelerator and platform for work-integrated learning.
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The Entrepreneurship Hatchery at the University of Toronto, an initiative out of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, provides a comprehensive suite of activities, programs and novel methodologies designed...
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The University of Toronto Early-Stage Technology (UTEST) program provides support to U of T entrepreneurs to create research-based companies. In partnership with Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners (TIAP) and with the...