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RED2i & the SmartStart Seed Fund Training & Services

About the SmartStart Seed Fund

SmartStart Seed Fund is an exciting new opportunity for Ontario's next generation of entrepreneurs to access much-needed funding to take their companies to the next level. Open to young entrepreneurs from the ages of 18 to 29 and non-youth led start-ups from the age of 30+, the program provides both seed financing and financing for entrepreneurship skills training to help recipients grow their companies and make them investment and customer ready.


SmartStart is co-funded by the Government of Canada, through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), and the Government of Ontario, as part of its Ontario Youth Jobs Strategy. 

Applications to this program are accepted at any time. Link here

How we can help:​

Companies who receive the SmartStart Seed Fund ($7,500) can partner with RED2i who will provide entrepreneurship training and services specific to the organization’s needs. ​

Our team includes entrepreneurship, technology, business, finance, media and marketing specialists and experts. We provide customized solutions for every organization we work with, no one plan or strategy is the same, and is unique for their solution and industry.

We provide training and services in: business strategy, planning, and design; marketing analysis, strategy and planning; Entrepreneurship: customer discovery and development; Growth hacking; Product development & design; and R&D planning.
RED2i
110 Uxbridge Ave.,
Toronto, Ontario, M6N 2Y4
HST Number: 80658 6582 RT0001
RED2i is a Canadian not-for-profit co-operative innovation strategic group which works on projects with entrepreneurs, and industry to create technology which helps humanity.
Cooperative Principles: canadianworker.coop/about/statement-of-co-operative-identity/

​“Co-operatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others.” 
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