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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 13 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
BioLabs at MaRS is a 40,000 square-foot wet-lab incubator and co-working space that supports early-stage life sciences.
The Black Founders Network (BFN) is an inclusive community for Black entrepreneurs at all stages of their journey.
The Centre for Entrepreneurship is home to entrepreneurship education, co-curricular programs, venture incubation and acceleration in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
The Creative Destruction Lab is a non-profit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.
Health Innovation Hub (H2i) is U of T’s health-focused accelerator, housed at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine that aims to inspire, enable and empower aspiring and early-stage health entrepreneurs.
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.
As the education entrepreneurship initiative of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), InnovED is a collaborative community focused on education systems improvement.
The Sam Ibrahim Centre for Inclusive Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Leadership (SICIEEIL) is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs across every stage of their journey.
SpinUp is the first wet lab startup incubator at the University of Toronto, purpose built to drive lab-based innovation.
Start@UTIAS encourages University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies graduate students to utilize the knowledge and skills they have gained through their education to create business startups.
The BRIDGE is a partnership between UTSC’s Department of Management and Library that combines business, research, and innovation to deliver exceptional student experiences.
The Entrepreneurship Hatchery provides a suite of activities and programs to create startup companies, bringing together engineering students, faculty, and the U of T community to solve meaningful problems and secure seed funding.
The University of Toronto Early-Stage Technology (UTEST) program provides support to U of T entrepreneurs to create research-based companies.