Small business funding in Canada
854 small business funding programs are open across Canada right now, representing over $367.1M in total funding — every one checked against its official funder source.
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Small business funding is mostly not one program — it is size-capped access to everything else. The rows on this page either target small and medium businesses outright or reserve their terms for them, with the common federal convention drawing the line at 499 employees.
The instruments skew practical: micro-loans and loan guarantees, advisory-cost grants, export-readiness support and wage subsidies for early hires. Amounts run smaller than the capital programs elsewhere in this directory, but so does the application burden — several of these programs decide in weeks, not quarters.
Small businesses also stack well: a company can hold a training subsidy and an export grant at once, and incorporation is not the universal requirement it is often assumed to be — each program’s page states the legal structures it accepts.
