Resources

resources

Our Objectives & Services Include

  • Help with business basics
  • Availability of co-working space
  • Networking activities
  • Marketing assistance
  • Market Research
  • High-Speed Internet access
  • Help with accounting/financial management
  • Access to loans and grants
  • Help with presentation skills
  • Links to higher education resources
  • Links to strategic partners
  • Access to angel investors or venture capital
  • Comprehensive business training programs
  • Advisory boards and mentors
  • Management and team identification
  • Help with business etiquette
  • Technology commercialization assistance
  • Help with regulatory compliance
  • Intellectual property management
  • Assistance with preparation of legal documents
  • Incorporation and corporate maintenance services for startup companies
  • Assistance in preparing documents for seed funding applications
  • One-on-one business mentorship provided by the incubator’s instructors
  • Information on Canadian business culture, education, and the business lifecycle
  • Information sessions and workshops on business related issues, community matters, and windows of opportunity
  • Employment/career counselling, employee search workshops, and information on the local labor market
  • Help preparing job postings, descriptions, and preparation for interviews
  • Referrals for mentoring for incubated youth and Indigenous startups
  • Formal endorsement / attesting of business-related documents
  • Canadian Income Tax information
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Information 
  • Types of businesses and industry information

Fundraising

  • Debt financing
  • Funding strategy
  • Investor communication
  • Venture capital (VC)

Company Building

  • Company formation
  • Go-to-market
  • Masters of Growth
  • Positioning
  • Company culture
  • Compensation
  • Employee benefits
  • Employer responsibilities
  • Managing performance

Operations

  • Agreements
  • Legal

Sales

  • Mastering sales
  • Sales calls
  • Sales process
  • Sales teams

Product

  • Intellectual property (IP)
  • Product development
  • Product launches
  • Product roadmaps

Recruiting

  • Hiring
  • Screening & interviewing
  • Sourcing candidates

Marketing

  • Branding
  • Competition
  • Growth Marketing Playbook
  • Growth strategy
  • Marketing Communications

Finance

  • Accounting
  • Forecasting
  • Revenue models

Health

  • Chemistry, manufacturing & controls 
  • Product development for life sciences
  • Product safety & clinical trials
  • Regulatory agencies: Submissions & documentation

Strategy & leadership

  • Boards of directors & advisors
  • Business models
  • Customer Development Model
  • International expansion
  • Strategic foresight

Customer Satisfaction & Community Engagement

  • Design
  • Prototypes with 3D printers available at Innovatus co-working offices for use by incumbents of Innovatus
  • User experience

Innovatus helps companies go from idea to IPO. From early-stage startups to companies with significant market traction and serial entrepreneurs looking to grow their latest venture, Innovatus offers programs and services that will help members succeed—all tailored to the stage of growth of the customer’s company.