Mahi Sall, Advisor, Fintech-Bank Partnerships, Payments and Financial Inclusivity
January 25th, 2023
Posted by: Craig Asano | November 28, 2012
Brief forward by NCFA Canada: Canada needs a broad-based and inclusive entrepreneurial hub to expand the power and reach of startup feeder networks across the country that currently independently exists from one another. A centralized portal would allow mentors, incubators, VCs, academia, government and affiliate associations to plug-into a home base to collaborate and share expertise and networks with active and next generation entrepreneurs. Canada needs to reignite the passion and come together as a collective community to support SMEs and cultivate the social economic seeds and ideas planted in this country. Take Action and Support the Startup Canada Funding Campaign.
One of the key messages we heard from entrepreneurs during the Startup Canada six-month National Tour was the need for a One-Stop-Shop to help Canadian entrepreneurs quickly and effectively plug into their local and national startup communities, to access support as and when they need it.
Startup Canada is a grassroots, entrepreneur-led, volunteer-run, non-profit network that launched in May 2012 to bring together and give a voice to the Canadian entrepreneurship community and to promote a vibrant entrepreneurial culture.
Since launching, Startup Canada embarked on a six-month National Tour as a cross-Canada community-building exercise and to kick-start a conversation about how we can better support Canadian entrepreneurs and cultivate a culture of entrepreneurship. The Tour brought together 20,000 Canadians and 300 partners through 200 events fuelled by hundreds of volunteers.
The Tour provided a platform for the Canadian entrepreneurship community to come together, share ideas, identify gaps and opportunities, and commit to community-level action. Collectively, participants gave life to more than a dozen community-led projects, and for the first time, the Canadian entrepreneurship community connected in a common activity and conversation that will continue online and offline.
In 2013, Startup Canada will build on its grassroots entrepreneurial agenda to create a stronger, more competitive and more prosperous Canada through:
As a volunteer-run organization, STARTING UP CANADA will require all of us pulling together in the same direction. Take action today by supporting the Startup Canada movement.
Insights Gained from Startup Canada Tour: here
Video Testimonials: here
Learn Our Way Forward: here
En Français: here
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