Centre for Housing Innovation Canada Accelerator Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Centre for Housing Innovation Canada Accelerator Program 2025. This six-month initiative is designed to assist scalable, modern options within the housing and proptech industries. This program is part of a nationwide effort to drive innovation and deal with important challenges within the housing worth chain, together with affordability, sustainability, know-how adoption, and effectivity.

Starting on April 1, 2025, the CHI Acceleration Program will empower corporations to drive innovation in housing productiveness and sustainability. Each cohort will final six months, with at the least 4 cohorts deliberate. This complete program supplies corporations with mentorship, trade connections, investor introductions, and assets to quick-monitor their affect.

Benefits

By collaborating within the CHI Acceleration Program, corporations will acquire entry to:

• Tailored Mentorship: Monthly one-on-one check-ins with program results in monitor progress and overcome challenges. Biweekly Lead Expert-in-Residence periods will present knowledgeable teaching on technique, development, and trade developments.
• Training & Skill Development: CHI coaching workshops that includes Skillhouse coaching modules to construct important enterprise and management expertise. Monthly workplace hours with GroundBreak Ventures, NGen, and CivicAction will supply tailor-made mentorship, insights, and assist.
• Networking & Visibility: Opportunities to attach with buyers, trade leaders, and like-minded entrepreneurs by trade occasions and mixers. A commencement meetup will present a demo day-type occasion the place corporations can showcase their progress and have interaction with key stakeholders.

Cost

• The program is totally free and doesn’t take fairness from collaborating corporations.

Eligibility

They are in search of scaling (Seed or Series A) corporations which have:

• An modern answer that addresses housing challenges and enhances productiveness within the trade.
• Demonstrated traction inside Canada (scaling/Seed/Series A stage).
• At least one full-time founder and a coachable management group.
• Incorporation in Canada (or plans to include).
• A transparent affect on Canada’s housing sector.

Special concerns could apply to startups from rural areas, Indigenous innovators, academia-primarily based entrepreneurs, and chopping-edge applied sciences.

Application

The program is primarily digital, however choose in-particular person networking occasions and pitch alternatives could also be accessible. Companies may additionally have entry to co-working and assembly areas by DMZ’s community.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Centre for Housing Innovation Canada Accelerator Program.