What is the Women in Cleantech Accelerator?
The RBC Women in Cleantech Accelerator is a two-year program that recruits 7-10 outstanding women entrepreneurs to advance their breakthrough ideas into market-ready cleantech products with the potential for global impact. The program is guided by principles of diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as a commitment to the planet.
What is the Women in Cleantech Accelerator?
Why does this matter?
Women are a powerful force in Canada’s innovation economy, but are significantly underrepresented in cleantech. Only one in 10 cleantech founders is a woman, and only 19 percent of Canadian cleantech companies have at least one female founder.
Why does this matter?
Who is this for?
The RBC Women in Cleantech Accelerator’s main objective is to seek out and support the most-promising women entrepreneurs who represent Canada’s strong diversity.
This includes:
- Woman-identifying and/or non-binary leaders who are working to commercialize a cleantech innovation with potential for global impact.
- Leaders of a business that is registered as a Canadian corporation.
Who is this for?
What does the program offer?
- A leading business advisor with deep sector knowledge to help build your business and develop your product.
- Potential opportunity to work with a federal government lab facility that is matched to your specific R&D needs.
- A significantly enhanced profile through the RBC Women in Cleantech brand, including press release coverage and cleantech industry events.
- A curriculum, designed in collaboration with MaRS subject-matter experts and program alumni, to help your company gain an edge in hard-to-crack markets.
- Introductions to domestic and international investors and corporations.
- Access to mentor networks, industry experts and influential women business leaders via investor showcases and curated events.
- The opportunity to build relationships with fellow ventures and accelerator alumni.
- Potential to participate in the Canadian Tech Accelerators program(s) organized by Global Affairs Canada (Trade Commissioner Service) to introduce you to opportunities in key U.S. markets.
- Access to market intelligence, capital, talent and communications services offered through MaRS.
