Canada Starts empowers aspiring entrepreneurs throughout Canada to take the first step and launch their businesses. If you’ve ever thought about starting a business, this grant is for you.
Canada Starts is jointly funded by Ownr by RBC Ventures, Shopify, Staples, and Moneris. As key players in the Canadian small business and entrepreneurship industry, all four companies value the importance of supporting small businesses—and understand that getting started is often the hardest part.
Do you have a business idea you want to launch?
Ownr simplifies the process of registering or incorporating a business and makes it easy, accessible, and affordable. By combining technology, seamless customer service, and the resources business owners need, Ownr enables entrepreneurs to start, manage, and grow their business. Ownr has helped over 20,000 Canadians launch their dreams since 2017. Ownr is an RBC Ventures business.
Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Shopify powers over one million businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples and many more.
Staples Canada is The Working and Learning Company. With a focus on community, inspiration and services, the company is committed to being a dynamic, inspiring partner to customers who visit its 305 locations across the country and online at staples.ca. The company offers four co-working facilities in Toronto, Kelowna, Oakville, and Ottawa under the banner Staples Studio. Since its transformation to The Working and Learning Company, Staples Canada has been demonstrating a renewed commitment to small businesses and consumers, through expanded services that go beyond printing in Solutionshop, thousands of new products, tech services, special events, and informative content with the Spotlight Speaker Series and newly-launched blog.
Moneris is Canada’s largest provider of innovative solutions for mobile, online and in-store payments, processing more than one in three transactions. Serving businesses of every size and industry, Moneris offers hardware, software and solutions to help transform the way businesses grow and operate, in payments and beyond.
