Driving your startup.
Where Do I Begin
Where are you on your entrepreneurial journey?
Find helpful resources, offerings, community support and partners that fit you.
Idea Formation
Ideating: You have entrepreneurial ambition and/or a potential scalable product or service idea for a big enough target market.
Concepting: You are defining vision and mission with initial strategy and key milestones for the next few years.
Lean Startup
Committing: You have a committed, skills balanced co-founding team with shared vision, values and attitude.
Validating: You are iterating and testing assumptions for your solution, demonstrating initial user growth and/or revenue.
Scale Up for Growth
Scaling: Your focus is on KPI based measurable growth in users, customers and revenues and/or market traction and market share in a big or fast growing target market.
Establishing: You've achieved great growth that can be expected to continue.
Services
We're working to make Calgary a global hub for startups and innovation and, whether you're looking for mentorship, advice or space to work on your startup, our efforts are focused on providing you with the right guidance to fit your current place in the startup journey.
Programs & events
We love founders and we believe that helping you build a strong foundation as an entrepreneur is key in helping you accelerate the success of your startup. Our programs are vetted by one question, “is it founder friendly?” This ensures we always deliver content and help based on your best interests.
Our Community
The innovation community is designed to guide entrepreneurs at different stages of their journey, from formation to validation to growth. Learn more about this community of passionate professionals who are supporting that journey and maximizing the success of each entrepreneur.
Upcoming Events
321 Growth Academy: Marketing Kickstarter
December 3, 2019Marketing Kickstarter is a full-day crash course in growth marketing for business and technical founders in both scale-ups and startups. This course gives you an overview of how to build a marketing engine to support revenue growth. You’ll assess where you’re at, identify your key gaps, and develop a high-level action plan of how to move forward.
Food, Nutrition, Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)
December 1, 2019FNSSA 2019 is an international scientific event which has been jointly launched and organized by the Agro-Food Industries Alliance (funded by Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in Egypt), World Food Program, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) Alexandria University, IEREK – International Experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange in collaboration with Springer as publishing partner
321 Growth Academy: Sales Kickstarter
November 22, 2019Sales Kickstarter is our one-day course on B2B sales for startups and scale-ups. We provide an overview of what a great “sales engine” looks like, walk you through an in-depth self-assessment of your company’s current sales capabilities, and lead you through development of an action plan to move you forward.
Have An Idea? We want to hear!
Let us help you on your startup and entrepreneurial journey.
Looking for Startup or Office Space?
Tell Us About Your Space Needs!
From virtual space to coworking to your own square footage, we're here to support the physical growth of your startup.
