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District 3 Innovation Hub

Montréal, QuébecFinesseMember

Transform your ideas into startups and companies with global impact

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District 3 Innovation Hub is a leading innovation hub in Montreal that nurtures and develops multidisciplinary startup teams. They focus on harnessing emerging technologies to create businesses with global impact.

Type

University-backed (ie. the University is the formal entity)

Founded

2013

Affiliation

Concordia University

Only incubator in Quebec with specialized expertise in biotech sector. Generated 500+ average active jobs per year. Community of 12,000+ members. $573M+ in sales funds since inception. Takes no equity from startups and allows founders to retain IP. Offers sector-specific expertise tailored to biotech, healthcare, high tech, and social innovation. Features both virtual and physical workspace including prototyping lab.

Industries

General/industry agnosticOther

Focus Areas

BiotechBiopharmaAgri-foodClean technologiesBiomaterialsMedical devicesDigital healthParamedical solutionsSocial innovationEducationEnvironmentCultureESG-aligned innovation

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Stages supported

DiscoveryValidationEfficiencyScale

Services offered

  • Access to free or discounted licenses for products or devkits
  • Access to specialized equipment, lab facilities, and/or services
  • Discounted and/or free professional services (legal, accounting, bookkeeping, etc.)
  • Financing opportunities and connections with investor groups
  • Free educational events or programming (ie. lunch and learns)
  • Intellectual property education and assistance (Includes: patent, trademark and copyright evaluation, intellectual property strategy, protection and licensing)
  • Mentorship and access to advisors
  • Networking opportunities and community events
  • Office space, co-working environment
  • Paid programming (Equity)
  • Practical prototype/MVP development assistance
  • Regulatory assistance
  • Trade and export support (Includes: Business development missions, internationalization, and any other activities linked to international market development)
Finessehigh confidence

Refining and expanding venture growth and entrepreneurial competencies and create the connections across innovation ecosystem

Sector-agnostic (broad industry focus). Higher accountability signals (equity/paid programs, later-stage focus).

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Systems Mapping

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Free 6-week program for aspiring entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental challenges, featuring systems thinking, impact mapping, and sustainable solutions through weekly workshops and mentorship

Validation

incubator

Free 12-week intensive for early-stage startups to validate their business model and bring innovations to market, including 1:1 coaching, hands-on workshops, and downtown Montreal coworking space

Launch

accelerator

Program for startups with proven traction offering biweekly 1:1 coaching, tailored workshops, and access to a global network

Grow

accelerator

Program to accelerate startups with expert coaching, funding support, and investor connections

MentorConnect

other

MIT-licensed Venture Mentoring program providing monthly sessions with three experienced mentors in confidential, NDA-bound environment with ongoing support at no cost

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IL

InnoHub La Centrale

Terrebonne, Québec

Des services pour les startups et les entreprises innovantes!

Innohub La Centrale is an incubator and accelerator that supports innovative projects in the industrial, technological, and business services sectors.

General/industry agnosticOther
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SA

Scale AI

Montréal, Québec

Scale your potential. Accelerating AI integration across business sectors.

At Scale AI, we believe now is the time to take AI out of the lab and into the real world. Where businesses can show not what AI will do, but what AI can do. We accelerate the integration of AI across all industries, scaling large and small organizations along the way. Reshaping business models, enhancing decision making, elevating workforce performance. Unleashing new avenues to embolden your business, the economy and the world, to reach our full potential. Together we form a collective committed to strengthening Canada’s position on a global scale.

General/industry agnosticOther
Finesse
CM

Cycle Momentum

Montréal, Québec

Start-up Accelerator & Innovation Platform

Cycle Momentum, a start-up accelerator and innovation engine, offers acceleration programmes for clean technology companies and open innovation programmes for large companies. As an integral part of the Cycle Capital platform, Cycle Momentum works closely with companies that develop and commercialize clean technologies and thus supports the early stage development of companies with international competitive potential. Anchored in the cleantech ecosystem, Cycle Momentum propels impactful innovation in early-stage companies through training workshops, networking sessions, mentoring and access to investors. In addition, its various corporate programmes foster innovation within large organisations. To increase the impact of its programs, Cycle Momentum has brought together several local and international investment funds in its Partner Fund Circle, whose members are involved with participating start-ups. I

Clean technologiesGeneral/industry agnosticOther
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EQ

Esplanade Québec

Montréal, Québec

Accélérateur des entrepreneur.e.s d'impact

Esplanade Québec is the first accelerator for social and environmental impact entrepreneurs in Quebec.

Other
Precision