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Top 25 Business incubators based in Canada

Name: Business incubators based in Canada
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026 923 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 923 business incubators headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 9,525 professional contacts across them, including 2,119 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers business incubators headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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9,525Contacts tracked

2,119Verified emails

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The 25 largest business incubators based in Canada

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 923 business incubators based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to business incubators: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Student Works Management Program	Indirect evidence	Markham, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	n/a	739 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Student Works, through its Management Program, is a developmental organization focused on helping hard-working students gain a competitive advantage over their peers in today’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2	Creative Destruction LAB	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	515 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3	Futurpreneur	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	329 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Since 1996, Futurpreneur has fostered the entrepreneurial passions of Canada’s diverse startup founders ages 18-39.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4	Mars Discovery District	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	246 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “MaRS is the world's largest urban innovation hub in Toronto that supports startups in the health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5	UK	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	184 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Established in 1992, The UK Business Financing Centre has been a partner in bridging the gap between Government funding programmes and Entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6	Communitech	Indirect evidence	Kitchener, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	134 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Communitech helps founders start, grow and succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7	CEIM	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	119 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “You have a technological innovation and are looking for help to launch and grow your company?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8	Centech MTL	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	115 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Le Centech est un incubateur de calibre mondial dédié aux entreprises de haute technologie (deeptech) à fort potentiel de croissance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9	Innovate Calgary	Indirect evidence	Calgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	112 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We help bridge the gap between discovery and innovation operating as the technology transfer and business-incubation centre for the University of Calgary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10	Venture For Canada	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	107 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Venture for Canada is a national charity that fosters entrepreneurial skills and mindset in young Canadians.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11	Venturelab	Indirect evidence	Markham, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	92 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “ventureLAB is a leading global founder community for hardware technology and enterprise software companies in Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12	Toronto Business Development Centre	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	86 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The strategic gateway for global expansion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13	Next Canada	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	86 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “NEXT Canada is a national non-profit dedicated to accelerating Canada’s most ambitious entrepreneurs and innovators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14	Lab2market	Indirect evidence	CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	84 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Make science your business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15	École D'entrepreneurship DE Beauce	Indirect evidence	Saint-georges, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	66 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “L’École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce est un lieu d’entraînement pour les entrepreneurs de demain où tous les programmes développés seront livrés par des entrepreneurs de haut…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16	CEED	Indirect evidence	Dartmouth, NS, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	66 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “CEED (Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Development) empowers entrepreneurs across Nova Scotia to start, grow and scale businesses by providing personalised pathways…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17	District 3 Innovation	Strong evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	65 contacts →
	Strong evidence “District 3, Concordia University’s startup incubator in downtown Montreal, has supported over 1,400 startups in the past decade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18	Startup Ecosystem Canada	Indirect evidence	Toronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	61 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Startup Ecosystem Canada is designed to nurture the next generation of world-changing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19	École DES Entrepreneurs DU Québec	Indirect evidence	Montréal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	60 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “L’École des entrepreneurs du Québec (ÉEQ) est un OBNL dont la mission est de développer les compétences des entrepreneur.e.s avec une approche accessible, innovante et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20	Innovation Factory	Indirect evidence	Hamilton, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	53 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Innovation Factory is a not-for-profit business accelerator, located in Hamilton and Halton, Ontario, committed to building the province’s innovation community and helping…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21	Velocity	Indirect evidence	Kitchener, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	53 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Strengthened by the University of Waterloo, since 2008 Velocity has helped the founders of more than 500 startups achieve a collective enterprise value of $40 billion, create…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22	Accelerator Centre	Indirect evidence	Waterloo, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	52 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Among the World's Top 5 Private Business Accelerators Since 2017.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23	Boundless Accelerator	Indirect evidence	Guelph, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	52 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Award-winning accelerator for innovative, profitable, sustainable businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24	Uoft Hatchery	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	51 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Hatchery is invested in building a strong entrepreneurial community at the University of Toronto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25	VOLTA	Indirect evidence	Halifax, NS, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	n/a	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Volta is Canada's East Coast Startup Hub and Co-Working Space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: business incubators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names business incubators.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of business incubators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name business incubators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Business incubators based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026

22.2%Verified-email coverage

10.3Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

17.4%Largest-city concentration · Toronto

Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

656

11-50

209

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 923 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among business incubators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “business incubators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names business incubators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among business incubators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,119 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names business incubators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many business incubators are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 923 business incubators headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Student Works Management Program, headquartered in Markham, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most business incubators?

Toronto leads with 161 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (88) and Vancouver (66).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,119 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 923 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.