The Market Readiness Co-Investment Fund provides direct investment to Ontario companies and passionate entrepreneurs with competitive/transformational IP building disruptive/next generation technologies to support their growth into scalable businesses.

Best suited for:

• Intellectual Property from an Ontario-based academic institution or part of a Campus Incubator/accelerator at Academic Institutes (Companies with their team /IP origins at a university (“university spin-out”), college or research hospital are also eligible, even if not campus affiliated.)
• Incorporated for no more than five years (Ontario or Canadian for-profit incorporation) and have principal operations in Ontario.
• Companies that have raised less than $1 million in third-party capital are eligible for their first MR investment.
• OCI supports early-stage companies that are raising pre-seed and seed investments (total round sizes range from $500,000 to $2 million).