With our support and funding during seed, start-up and scale-up stages, we are accelerating Canadian companies’ ability to become global leaders in their fields.
From coast to coast to coast, Canadians are coming up with novel ideas that have the power to solve our most pressing environmental problems.
This recognition that the next great idea can come from our own backyards is our North Star, driving us to find, fund and foster those ideas and bring them to market.
SDTC recognizes that equity, diversity, and inclusion enable organizations to leverage the range of perspectives needed to address today’s complex challenges. As a result, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is an important consideration for optimal operation of our organization, as well as for SDTC funded companies.
– Equity – SDTC ensures that equal opportunities to be successful are provided for all.
– Diversity – SDTC values diversity because it generates more ideas and possibilities for improvements.
– Inclusion – SDTC encourages collaboration to optimize inclusion in all that we do, internally and externally.
We look at the world through the entrepreneurs’ lens: Who are their customers? Who are their investors? What policies and trends impact their growth? To meet our shared outcomes of getting more sustainable solutions in the market, we continue to evolve our approaches to match entrepreneurs’ needs.
We support entrepreneurs throughout their commercialization with our seed, start-up and scale-up funding, with less administrative burden to meet market needs. We are seen as a catalyst, creating a feeder group of companies that go on to scale.
Our network of partnerships offer ecosystems supports and connectivity to create opportunities for collaboration, mentorship and peer-to-peer connections.
We are known for our thinking on innovation and for our excellence in due diligence of companies. Through our in-house portfolio analytics team, we leverage our unique client data to observe portfolio trends, learn from past performance and monitor outcomes to identify companies making an environmental impact while becoming globally successful.
We fund across all sectors to support entrepreneurs whose ideas have the potential to deliver environmental and economic outcomes for Canada. We measure sustainability impact in three areas: climate change; circular economy; and people, nature and communities.
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At SDTC, we fund Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) advancing innovative technologies that are pre-commercial and have the potential to demonstrate significant and quantifiable environmental and economic benefits.
Our application process is simple and designed for busy entrepreneurs like you. To find out more, download our comprehensive How To Apply booklet or visit our Get Funding page.
As an SDTC team member you’ll be part of a fast-paced and agile organization that supports a world-class portfolio of funded companies. You’ll have the opportunity to work with dynamic sustainable technology companies, ecosystem partners including provincial and federal government entities, accelerators and innovation hubs, academics and thought leaders.
Funded by the Government of Canada
