SFU VentureLabs accelerates science and technology-based new ventures.

We help companies who’ve found their product market fit become profitable, sustainable businesses—supporting them with the programs, mentoring, and services companies need most, when they need them most.

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Apply for financial support to protect, manage, and leverage your intellectual property.

AccelerateIP supports hundreds of innovative startups in BC, Yukon, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories to grow and protect their ideas and intellectual assets.

Led by New Ventures BC and prime collaborator Innovate BC, along with a network of accelerators and incubators, the AccelerateIP program provides enhanced access to education, skills development, and financial support for protecting, managing, and leveraging your intellectual property.

AccelerateIP is offered through three streams of programming:

  1. Education and Awareness: Gain foundational IP training
  2. Strategy: Get 1:1 mentorship and up to $25,000 of eligible costs covered for legal strategy development
  3. Implementation: Access financial support to cover up to $60,000 of eligible legal implementation costs

Get in touch with us at accelerateip@venturelabs.ca to learn more about how VentureLabs can help.

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SFU VentureLabs has played a critical role in our launch as a startup. We received our first investor pitch training and built a successful go-to-market strategy through a program hosted at VentureLabs. The daily interaction with other cofounders, investors, guest lecturers and entrepreneurs-in-residence at VentureLabs has been incredibly rewarding.

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