Start-up Visa
Ready to launch your innovative business in Canada through Canadian Immigration by Investment? We’ll help you secure a Startup Visa.
Why hire Our Start-up Visa Services
With years of experience assisting hundreds of Startup Visa applicants, we’ll guide you through the due diligence and approval process. As Startup Visa Consultants, we help you connect with a Designated Organization (incubator, angel group, or venture capitalist group) and present the proposal to Canadian Government Approved Organizations to support your startup.
What’s the Start-up Visa Program?
The Start-Up Visa Program is designed to attract individuals with business ideas that not only contribute to Canada’s economy but also create jobs for Canadians and have the potential to compete internationally.
What are the requirements?
To qualify for a start-up Visa, you must:
- Create an innovative business with the potential to compete globally.
- A letter of support from a Canadian venture capital fund, angel investor group, or business incubator with committed capital.
- Speak in English or French by meeting the Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 5 level in speaking, reading, listening, and writing.
- Prove of financial stability that you have enough funds to support yourself and your dependents upon arrival in Canada.
- Each applicant holds 10% or more of the voting rights attached to all shares of the corporation.
- Applicants hold more than 50% of the total voting rights attached to all corporation shares.
Note: While your permanent residence application is being processed, you can apply for a temporary work permit to kickstart your business in Canada.
List of designated organizations for a start-up visa
- Alacrity Foundation
- Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
- Alberta IoT Association
- Altitude Accelerator
- Bhive
- Biomedical Commercialization Canada Inc. (operating as Manitoba Technology Accelerator)
- Brilliant Catalyst
- DMZ Ventures
- Empowered Startups Ltd.
- Extreme Innovations
- Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre
- Genesis
- Global Startups Accelerator
- Highline BETA Inc.
- Innovate Calgary
- Innovate Eastman
- Innovation Cluster – Peterborough and the Kawarthas
- Innovation Factory
- Interactive Niagara Media Cluster o/a Innovate Niagara
- Intrinsic Innovations
- Invest Nova Scotia
- ISM Arts & Culture Ltd
- Knowledge Park o/a Planet Hatch
- Launch Academy – Vancouver
- LaunchPad PEI Inc.
- Millworks Centre for Entrepreneurship
- NEXT Canada
- Niagara Business & Innovation Fund
- North Forge Technology Exchange
- Pacific Technology Ventures
- Platform Calgary
- Pycap
- Red Leaf Capital Corp
- Roseview Global Incubator
- Spark Commercialization and Innovation Centre
- Spring Activator
- The DMZ
- Think8 Global Institute
- TiE Toronto
- Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC)
- Treefrog
- TSRV Canada Inc. (operating as Techstars Canada)
- University of Toronto Entrepreneurship Hatchery
- ventureLAB Innovation Centre
- VIATEC
- Waterloo Accelerator Centre
- York Entrepreneurship Development Institute
- YSpace (York University)
- 7 Gate Ventures
- Alt Ventures
- Amplitude Ventures Inc.
- Apex Innovative Investments Ventures
- Arete Pacific Tech Ventures (VCC) Corp
- BCF Ventures
- BDC Venture Capital
- Extreme Venture Partners LLP
- Golden Venture Partners Fund, LP
- INP Capital
- iNovia Capital Inc.
- Intrinsic Venture Capital
- Lumira Ventures
- Invest Nova Scotia
- PRIVEQ Capital Funds
- Real Ventures
- Red Leaf Capital Corp
- Relay Ventures
- Tangentia Ventures
- Top Renergy Inc.
- Vanedge Capital Limited Partnership
- Version One Ventures
- WhiteHaven Venture
- Westcap Management Ltd.
- Yaletown Venture Partners Inc.
- York Entrepreneurship Development Institute (YEDI) VC Fund
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