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Building Successful and Innovative Businesses

Podcast Atlantic

Joined CEED: December 2018
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Joined CEED: August 2013
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Sawpit Creative

Joined CEED: January 2018
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Empire Moto Works Inc.

Joined CEED: December 2018
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TruePath Financial Consulting Inc.

Joined CEED: November 2017
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Adaptz Electronic Repair & Services

Joined CEED: December 2017
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Canopy Landscape Design Studio

Joined CEED: October 2019
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Dove Driving Academy

Joined CEED: December 2018
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Rapid Renewal Massage Therapy

Joined CEED: December 2018
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Joined CEED: June 2021
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Programs Designed Around Your Needs

Each of our entrepreneurship and innovation programs has been designed around empowering you as a business owner to achieve success the way you want to.

Impact Business Advisory and Mentorship

Our advisors and mentors will challenge you to think critically about your business, to be financially astute in your planning, and to execute your plan effectively.

Access to Start-Up & Expansion Financing

CEED connects entrepreneurs with a wide range of resources to help fund their ventures. Our Impact Loans helps you as a business owner to start or expand your business.

A Community of Founders and Advisors

As a CEED program or workshop participant, you will gain great value from the shared insight, wisdom and experience of our alumni, advisors and mentors.

Urban Main Street Recovery Initiative
UMSLI Loans Return

Recognizing that Covid-19 continues to create significant challenges for small, locally owned urban businesses, CEED is proud to announce that the Urban Main Street Loan Initiative (UMSLI) is once again available to assist eligible entrepreneurs during these challenging times. Administered by CEED, UMSLI is a Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF) provided by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). 

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Entrepreneurship Programming

Participative, interactive, programming that gives you the upper edge

Incubator

Have you always dreamed of having your own business, but you’re not sure how to plan, launch or finance it?

CEED | SME INCUBATOR

CEED | SME incubator

The CEED | SME Incubator Program will help you realize your dream. In this intensive, 6-week program you get expert guidance from CEED's experienced business professionals. You will also receive supportive feedback on your business ideas from other aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Accelerator

Are you poised for accelerated growth after a successful start-up launch? Trying to catch up with increasing customer demand?

CEED | SME ACCELERATOR

CEED | SME Accelerator

If your business is facing increasingly complex challenges, the CEED | SME Accelerator Program is the program for you. Through these 6 intensive sessions you get expert guidance from CEED's experienced business professionals to help you manage your businesses accelerated growth.
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Recovery

Has your business been underperforming? Does it feel like you're reacting to effects, rather than addressing the causes?

CEED | SME RECOVERY

CEED | SME RECOVERY

CEED | Recovery & Optimization has been designed to help you, as the business owner, put your business on an actionable path of recovery and optimization. This program runs over 6-weeks, and consist of 4 sessions supported by individual business advisory sessions.
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Visit CEED’s Entrepreneurship Programs  Incubator, Accelerator and our Recovery Program

Technology & Science Start Ups

Early funnel programming that helps you turn your innovative idea into a commercial venture

INNOVATOR

So What, Who Cares, Why You?
Do you have an innovative idea that you want to turn into a
commercial venture?

CEED | INNOVATOR

CEED | Innovator

CEED | Innovator is a 6-week program to help scientists and technology entrepreneurs discover and communicate the business value of their innovations. The participants will apply a business-focused lens to their idea and assess their readiness for the next stage of development, whether it’s incubation, licensing, or partnerships.
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Looking for a “break-out”
commercial launch?
Then CEED | LaunchPad is the program for you!

CEED | LAUNCHPAD

CEED | LAUNCHPAD

Have you already done some planning and development work around your business idea and concept? Do you have some preliminary problem-solution validation? Are you still a member of an incubator, or still in the incubation stage – but need to establish your business model for a “break-out” commercial launch? Then CEED | LaunchPad is the program for you!
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Visit CEED’s Technology & Science Start-Up Programs  Innovator, and LaunchPad

Our Innovator and LaunchPad programs focus on three core components:

A Founder Focus

Innovator and LaunchPad bring together small groups of founders to collaborate and help each other discover the value of their innovative idea.

It’s About Conversations

Active, dynamic conversations about business value, for people who are not ‘business people’. These conversations promote debates, laughter, and intense discussion – and push founders to consider the possibilities for their ideas.

Action Oriented & Outcome Driven

This is not a training class! This is a program where decisions get made and the business value is defined. Every session ends with actions taken and an element of the business value decision made.

Youth Entrepreneurship
Education & Development

You are never too young to be an entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship Workshops

Participative, Interactive Youth Entrepreneurship Education

Entrepreneurship Workshops

CEED’s Youth Entrepreneurship Workshops are designed to provide interactive entrepreneurial experience to young entrepreneurs.
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Juniorpreneur
Camps

Engaging 5 day entrepreneurship camps for youth ages 8-14

Juniorpreneur CAMPS

Campers will develop new skills and hone existing ones as they learn what it takes to be an Entrepreneur. Campers engage in activities involving teamwork, innovation, critical thinking, risk-taking and leadership, as they work towards running their own business for half a day.
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After School
Challenge

16 week extra-curricular program for entrepreneurial youth

After School Challenge

CEED's After School Entrepreneurship Challenge helps youth develop and sharpen their entrepreneurial skill set, building a lasting foundation for future success. Across this 16 week program, participants will collaborate to develop their idea into a business venture or community initiative.
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Visit CEED’s Youth Education Entrepreneurship Workshops,  Juniorpreneur Camps, or After School Entrepreneurship Challenge