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Financing and Strategy

Driving Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Northumberland CFDC

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Our Vision: Community Futures

Prosperity in Northumberland (and across Eastern Ontario) through innovation and entrepreneurship.

How do we get there?

By providing financing and strategy for entrepreneurs. We provide loans of up to $250.000 for business start up, stabilization and expansion.

Who do we work with?

Growth oriented SMEs, next generation startups and twenty-first century institutions who are creating local economic opportunities and high quality jobs.

BUSINESS FINANCING

CFP

We provide loans of up to $250,000 for qualifying startups and small and medium-sized enterprises.

Nventure

Our co-investment fund (sidecar) for technology startups and innovation-driven enterprises.

DELIA

New program launching soon!

STRATEGIC FUNDING

RIIEO – LOCAL

Non-repayable performance-based funding transitioning SMEs in Northumberland to expand business growth and innovation.

RIIEO - REGIONAL

Non-repayable performance-based funding to accelerate SMEs on the innovation track, benefiting multiple communities within Eastern Ontario.

FedDev Ontario

A federal institution providing funding for innovation and economic growth across Southern Ontario.

STARTUP ACCELERATION

Venture13

Soft land your innovation-driven enterprise in our flexible V13 VentureZone.

N100

Compete in our biennial open invitational $250,000 technology startup competition.

N1M

No longer accepting applications.
Click here to see a list of approved projects.

Events

January 23, 2020

Fireside Chat: Smart Cities @Venture13
The development of SMART CITIES presents new opportunities and advances in artificial intelligence, and data science which can be applied to manufacturing, healthcare, communications, transportation, digital and physical infrastructure. Attend and hear more from our panel of guest speakers and Fireside chat moderator. REGISTER HERE

February 13, 2020

GO CODE GIRL! @Venture13
Ontario Tech University is offering this free event Open to girls in grades 7-10 across Canada, Go CODE Girl programs are designed to introduce you to the wide range of career possibilities available in the rapidly-growing fields of technology, computing and software engineering. REGISTER HERE

Ongoing

Northumberland Makers is offering a wide variety of educational opportunities at Venture13. Click here to learn more!

Venture13 is where it’s at when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship in Northumberland County. Click here to see a list of upcoming events.

The Northumberland Manufacturers Association runs a whole series of industry events, workshops and meeting at Venture13. Check out what’s coming up next at thenma.ca.

Twitter

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Supporting Innovation as a Pathway to Future Prosperity with Financing and Strategy for Entrepreneurs | Tweets by JH and ES

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A 2017 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises was released today by the Government of Canada.

Demographics of SME owners, industry distribution and age of primary decision maker statistics would be of particular interest.

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/061.nsf/eng/h_03115.html

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Didn't make it to last nights Fireside on Smart Cities? We've got you covered! We'll be posting a video of the entire chat to our YouTube channel next week! For now, here's a sneak peak:

Thanks @CobourgPolice @ambiencedata @ontariotech_u @LUSINews @NrthmbrlndCFDC @NorthMakers

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Great to see @LendingLoop has joined Northumberland CFDC on the list of @Nthld_County @BizExpertise community partners providing access to capital for local start-ups! https://www.northumberland.ca/en/news/partnership-between-becn-fintech-leader-lending-loop-to-expand-opportunities-for-local-start-ups.aspx #fintech #partnerships CC: @Venture_13 @TownofCobourg @THE_NMA_ @bdc_ca @OCEinnovation

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Northumberland CFDC at Venture13

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NCFDC Board and Staff - Dec. 2019
Pricing for Profitability
Cybersecurity hackathon winners Command Line
In the Venture13 demo hall
Northumberland CFDC clients Team Eagle, ConnexHealth, Foundation Cloud Systems, Microfactory Co-operative Inc.
Northumberland CFDC Executive Director Wendy Curtis with our 2019 engineering intern Aman Bhargava
UOIT Engineering outreach team with Liz from Venture13 and Catherine from Northumberland Makers
Keynote Sarah Stockdale from Valkerie
Past Chair of Northumberland CFDC Rick Holmes speaking at an event at Venture13
Northumberland CFDC's John Hayden with the guys from BigClic_AudienceGPS (Jon and Conrad)
Pitch Night at Northumberland CFDC's Startup Competition N100
At the Venture13 Anniversary Event
Northumberland CFDC Past Chair Rick Holmes and Executive Director Wendy Curtis with N100 2018 Winner Bolis Ibrahim from Argentum
At a FedDev Ontario funding announcement event with our CFDC colleagues from Frontenac, 1000 Islands and Cornwall CFDCs
Northumberland CFDC's John Hayden with Spark Centre CEO Sherry Colbourne
OCE VP Jeremy Laurin visiting the V13 MakerLab
Cobot demo in the V13 Lecture Hall
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