If you are looking to start your business in Ontario, it is never a bad idea to join an accelerator or incubator.

These organizations are designed to help startup businesses by providing them with office space, advice and access to potential partners, investors, and customers.

In this article, we have collected the 36 most popular accelerators and incubators from Ontario.

1) NEXT Canada

NEXT Canada is a national, non-profit organization that trains talented people to start world-class businesses and get more people to use technology.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2010
Founders: Ajay Agrawal, Claudia Hepburn, Reza Satchu, Tim Hodgson
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://www.nextcanada.com/

2) Velocity

Velocity is a leading entrepreneurship program at the University of Waterloo that has helped more than 400 companies start and grow.

Details of the startup:

Started in: 2008
Industries: HealthTech
Apply now: https://velocityincubator.com/

3) DMZ

DMZ is a startup incubator at Toronto Metropolitan University that is one of the best in the world.

Details of the startup:

Started in: 2006
Industries: Healthcare, Technology
Apply now: https://dmz.torontomu.ca/

4) Accelerator Centre

Accelerator Centre is committed to making a community for entrepreneurs that is diverse, fair, and open to people from all walks of life.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2006
Industries: Healthcare, Technology
Apply now: https://www.acceleratorcentre.com/

5) NextAI

NEXT Canada is a national, non-profit organisation that trains talented entrepreneurs to start world-class businesses and get more people to use technology.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2016
Founders: Ajay Agrawal
Industries: Technology
Apply now: https://www.nextcanada.com/

6) UTEST

The University of Toronto Early Stage Technology (UTEST) Program helps entrepreneurs at the University of Toronto turn their cutting-edge research into businesses.

Details of the startup:

Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://utest.to/

7) Extreme Venture Partners

Extreme Venture Partners (EVP) is one of Canada’s most successful venture capital funds over the past decade.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2007
Founders: Imran Bashir, Ken Teslia, Ray Sharma, Sunil Sharma
Industries: Internet, Mobile Applications, Cloud, AI
Learn more: https://www.evp.vc/

8) L-SPARK

The L-SPARK Accelerator is where SaaS and cloud companies that are ready to go to market can meet with SaaS experts from Canada.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2014
Founders: Leo Lax
Industries: SaaS, Av, IoT, Cyber Security
Learn more: https://www.l-spark.com/

9) DigitalCPR

DigitalCPR is a company that makes software and runs a creative studio. It also has its own pre-accelerator for startups.

Details of the startup:
Founders: Andrew Magdy Kamal
Industries: SaaS, Aerospace, Blockchain, eSports, Telecommunications Startups, Social Enterprises, Quantum Computing
Number of investments: 39
Learn more: https://www.digitalcpr.net/for-startups

10) Canadian Technology Accelerator

Canadian Technology Accelerator helps businesses of all sizes do well on international markets and make decisions that are better, faster, and less expensive.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2013
Founders: Christine Carr
Industries: Cleantech, Information, Communications Technologies, Life Sciences, HealthTech
Apply now: https://www.canada.ca/en.html

11) LatAm Startups

LatAm Startups is a non-profit accelerator in Toronto that only works with international startups and newcomers based in Canada.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2014
Founders: Miryam Lazarte
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://latamstartups.org/

12) Communitech

Communitech was started by people who saw the need for a community of support for Canadian tech.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 1997
Founders: Danielle Graham, Tom Jenkins
Industries: Technology
Apply now: https://communitech.ca/

13) Highline Beta

Startup Canada is the most important organisation for entrepreneurs in Canada.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2016
Founders: Benjamin Yoskovitz, Marcus Daniels
Industries: Insurance Tech, Health, FinTech, Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, FoodTech, Media, Entertainment
Apply now: https://highlinebeta.com/

14) Startup Canada

Startup Canada is the most important organisation for entrepreneurs in Canada.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2012
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://www.startupcan.ca/

15) Costarter

Costarter helps you get in touch with the resources you need and learn from what other startups have done.

Details of the startup:
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: http://www.costarter.ca/

16) ventureLAB

ventureLAB is the best place in Canada for people who want to start hardware technology and enterprise software businesses.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2011
Founders: Melissa M. Chee
Industries: Hardware, Software Technologies
Apply now: https://www.venturelab.ca/

17) SheEO

SheEO is a non-profit organisation in Ontario that helps women business owners with their finances.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2013
Founders: Vicki Saunders
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://coralus.world/

18) Innovation Guelph

Innovation Guelph helps innovative businesses start up, grow, and do well by giving them mentors, programs, and other services.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2010
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://innovationguelph.ca/

19) Bioenterprise Canada

Bioenterprise is Canada’s Food & Agri-Tech Engine investor.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2003
Industries: AgTech, Food, Beverage
Apply now: https://bioenterprise.ca/

20) York Entrepreneurship Development Institute

York Entrepreneurship Development Institute is a nonprofit organisation whose goal is to help innovative entrepreneurs from any sector or industry build and grow successful businesses and efficient non-profits.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2013
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://yedi.ca/

21) The Narwhal Project

The Narwhal Project was started to find out what makes world-class technology companies grow and thrive.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2018
Founders: Charles Plant
Industries: HealthTech
Apply now: https://narwhalproject.org/

22) The CDMN Soft-Landing Program

CDMN helps bring more digital media solutions to market to create more companies, jobs and wealth in Canada.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2009
Industries: Technology, Information Technology, Communications
Apply now: https://canadastechnetwork.ca/soft-landing-program/overview

23) Invest Ottawa

Invest Ottawa is the leading economic development agency in Ottawa. Its goal is to help the region’s knowledge-based institutions and industries become more competitive on a global scale.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 1983
Industries: Life Science, Cleantech, MedTech, Marketing, Technology, AI, HealthTech, Cyber Security
Number of investments: 03
Apply now: https://www.investottawa.ca/

24) Safe x Connected Cities Accelerator

Highline Beta is a combination of a corporate venture studio and a venture capital firm. It improves on the traditional management consulting model so that things can be done instead of just planned

Details of the startup:
Industries: Road Safety, Data
Apply now: https://highlinebeta.com/safe-x-connected-cities-accelerator-is-ready-for-applications/

25) Social Ventures Zone

The Social Ventures Zone is where social innovators reside, as Canada’s most entrepreneurial university’s hub.

Details of the startup:
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://www.torontomu.ca/svz/

26) Toronto Fashion Incubator

The Toronto Fashion Incubator helps new fashion business owners become successful by teaching them how to run a fashion business.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 1987
Industries: Fashion
Apply now: https://fashionincubator.com/

27) R-LABS Canada Inc.

R-LABS Canada helps creates new companies that solve big problems in the real estate industry.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2017
Founders: George Carras
Industries: Real Estate, Housing Industry
Apply now: https://rlabs.ca/

28) INcubes

INcubes is an accelerator in Toronto that works with new entrepreneurs and talented startup teams to build strong businesses.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2010
Founders: Ben Zlotnick
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://incubes.ca/

29) Climate Ventures

Climate Ventures helps entrepreneurs and innovators in their early stages find and implement solutions to the climate crisis more quickly.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2017
Industries: Cleantech
Apply now: https://climateventures.org/

30) EPICentre

EPICentre is the centre of all business activities at the University of Windsor.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2014
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://www.epicentreuwindsor.ca/

31) Berkshire International Finance, Inc.

Berkshire International Finance, Inc. is a Corporate Finance/Business Consulting firm based in Toronto, Ontario.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 1992
Founders: John Figliolini
Industries: Medical, Technology, Space
Apply now: https://www.berkshire-inc.com/

32) Prodigy Ventures Inc.

Prodigy Ventures is an innovation company and a chance to invest in new technologies at an early stage.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2015
Founders: Tom Beckerman
Industries: Mobile Video, Wearables, AR, 3D
Apply now: https://genifi.com/

33) Shad Valley

Shad is the best live-in summer enrichment program for high school students with a lot of potential in Canada. The program focuses on STEAM and entrepreneurship.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 1980
Industries: Science, Technology
Apply now: http://www.shad.ca/

34) Public Incubator

Public Incubator is a “no-barrier” business incubation platform for new entrepreneurs who want to start from scratch and build a successful business.

Details of the startup:
Started in: 2019
Founders: Ratna Chourasia, Sanjiv Chourasia
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: https://www.publicincubator.com/

35) Startup Ottawa

Startup Ottawa brings together the local Startup and Small Business Ecosystems to help them do well.

Details of the startup:
Industries: Industry Agnostic
Apply now: http://www.startupottawa.ca/

36) Canada India Accelerator Program

The Canada-India Acceleration Program (CIAP) is a non-profit program that assists women in building meaningful connections, learning essential skills, and entering new markets to help their businesses develop.

Details of the startup:
Industries: Women, Technology
Apply now: https://carleton.ca/ciap/