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About us

Commercializing ideas into reality

OCRI Investment and Commercialization provides resources to start-ups and entrepreneurs to help them grow their business at the critical early stages. Our team is made up of professionals with diverse backgrounds in fields such as venture capital, angel financing, strategic management, market intelligence, channel strategies, institutional commercialization, and start-up success. 

Mentors and advisors bring industry and start-up experience to work closely with entrepreneurs providing them with one-on-one advice and support to design business strategy, identify investment criteria, define channel partners, create opportunities and facilitate introductions. Mentors and OCRI in-house advisors have both industry and start-up experience and are able to provide strategic and tactical insights to company management teams and bridge a fundamental resource gap that many start-up companies face. Project engagements vary depending on the fit with advisor resources and the stage of a company’s growth.

OCRI Investment and Commercialization is broken into four main resource areas:

• Business Advisory Services
• Market Intelligence
• Mentorship Program
• Access to Capital

In addition to these four core service areas, OCRI Investment and Commercialization also houses the OCRI Business Accelerator, a merit-based program for some of Ottawa’s most promising companies to gain access to all of OCRI’s services and more.

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