What is Fundica?

Edmonton has partnered with Fundica to provide an easy way to find government funding in Canada. Through its proprietary search tool and intelligent filtering, Fundica helps entrepreneurs find grants, tax credits, and loan guarantees.

What types of programs are in Fundica’s funding search tool?

Grants. Grants include government and private sector non-repayable financial contributions to support specific objectives - including wage subsidies, job creation funding, and other non-repayable contributions. Grants are generally provided before or during the investment period.

Tax Credits. Tax credits are government refunds and tax reductions meant to encourage certain types of investments. Tax credits are generally provided following the investment period.

Loans. Loans include government sector repayable contributions. Government loans may have more relaxed conditions/guarantees and lower interest rates. Loans are provided prior to the investment period.

Loan Guarantees. Loan guarantees are government support for a loan by guaranteeing or "insuring" the loan or a portion of it in the event of default by the entrepreneur. Loan guarantees are provided prior to being accepted for a loan.

What kind of businesses can sign up for this service?

Any business in Canada that is incorporated or planning to incorporate can sign up on Fundica; this includes startups as well as medium and large-sized corporations in all industries.

How does Fundica identify available funding?

Using our unique search system, we intelligently filter and identify grants, tax credits, and loan guarantees for specific corporations based on their location (i.e., postal code) and several other criteria. We only include programs that are currently offering funding and that fit within the selected criteria.

How does Fundica keep its system up to date?

Fundica’s funding search tool is kept up to date by funders who add and modify their programs, our dedicated funding research team, and our patent-pending, semi-automated crawling, tracking, and updating system.

How does Fundica filter funding programs?

Fundica uses both primary and secondary filters to optimize your search results:

• The company profile you create while setting up your account contains the primary filters, determining which funding programs are displayed when you first log in.
• The filtering options located on the upper right-hand side of your search results are your secondary filters. These filters are tailored to any business activity or project you may be conducting and for which funding may be available.

Why do you have both year of creation and year of incorporation?

• Year of creation: Many funding opportunities and support programs exist for early-stage businesses and startups, such as microgrants, incubators and accelerators. However, most government funding and some commercial financing requires businesses to be incorporated in order to be eligible.
• Year of incorporation: Once a business becomes incorporated, they become eligible for more government grants, loans, loan guarantees, and tax credits, as well as many other sources of financing. Certain programs also use the age of the business as condition for eligibility. In that case, the date of incorporation is almost always used instead of the date of creation.

How do I create an account?

Visit the sign up page and fill in your company profile to find the most relevant funding opportunities available to you.

How can I make a product suggestion?

Please submit your suggestion to contact@fundica.com. The Fundica product team regularly reviews all ideas, so keep them coming. Thank you!