Mobility grants in Canada

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Funds private investment in British Columbia small businesses through tax-supported incentives and provincial partnership support.

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Funds loan participation for Black Canadian entrepreneurs through mission-aligned lenders to expand growth-capable businesses.

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Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.

Pays Canadian employers up to about $10,000 per employee toward eligible training costs when they upskill their team.

Covers up to 50% of eligible export development costs for Canadian SMEs, up to a maximum of $50,000 per project.

Gives Kingston post-secondary students phased seed funding and a part-time venture-building program for projects that improve city life or municipal services.

Awards Canadian student founders up to $10,000 in a national bracket-style pitch competition.

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Funds Canadian companies through federal innovation tax deductions for qualifying innovation experimentation costs.

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Offers Canadian provinces extra incentives that top up federal measures for qualifying innovation activity.

Pays Canadian youth aged 14 to 18 cash awards for innovation projects that address community, national or global challenges.

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Funds exceptional early-career North American STEM researchers through prestigious academic fellowships.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

Runs a climatetech accelerator that pairs carbon-materials startups with ExxonMobil for validation and collaboration, including a needs-based stipend to support participation.

Awards €10,000 per category to energy-transition startups founded within the last 10 years.

Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.

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Funds early climate research by university experts, enabling high-upside experiments before ventures are spun out.

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Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.

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Funds innovators piloting solutions for Qatar-based entities through Qatar Open Innovation challenge grants.

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Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

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Supports climate founders with catalytic funding and mentoring to advance early technology ideas into deployment-ready ventures.

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Awards over €300,000 in cash prizes to entrepreneurs building Earth-observation data products.

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Paid $10 million to teams building production-ready cars that hit over 100 miles per gallon.

Pays category-winning climate and energy startups €10,000, equity free.

Invests up to $1 million in seed-stage uncrewed-systems and air-mobility startups.