Your Innovation Link.

We link entrepreneurs and businesses to available resources and supports to help them succeed on their journey.

Your Regional Innovation Centre (RIC) for far northeast Ontario

Link North provides advisory services and funding, and delivers programming to help entrepreneurs develop business skills and build capacity. Through our connections with northeastern Ontario organizations we also help facilitate access to additional resources or funding to support any stage of business development – discovery through to growth.

Client Services

We help clients navigate the entrepreneurial journey, and work with them to create a roadmap that aligns with their business development stage and goals.

Workshops

We offer and facilitate online and in-person workshops throughout the year in Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Kapuskasing and other far northeast Ontario communities. Our workshops build entrepreneurial skills and capacity.

BOOST Funding

Our BOOST funding program provides a 50% contribution of up to $10,000 toward eligible costs for your business or idea.

Our Flagship Workshop Series

Opportunities to develop your entrepreneurial skills and expand your network, available online and cost-free. Register so you don’t miss out on the next series here.

Building Your Business Model

Our first workshop series introduces you to the Business Model Canvas; a visual tool that assists entrepreneurs with developing their business model. Using this tool you will gain a better...

Understanding Your Customer

Participants will gain an understanding of who their customer is, what they value, and what their need or problem is and how your product or service can provide a solution...

Perfecting Your Pitch

This workshop aims not only to develop an Elevator Pitch but also to help you learn the art of communication and networking in everyday life - not just when looking...

Analyzing Your Financials

Understanding and managing finances is crucial to your business’s success. You will learn how to budget, properly forecast revenues and expenses, and measure your business’s performance. 3-part workshop series.

Conception du modèle d’entreprise

Notre première série d’ateliers vous présente la matrice de modèle d’entreprise (angl. Business Model Canvas); un outil visuel qui aide les entrepreneurs à élaborer leur modèle d’entreprise. À l’aide de...

Comprendre votre client

Les participants pourront mieux définir leur clientèle, les valeurs de leurs clients, le besoin ou le problème de leurs clients, et la mesure dans laquelle le produit ou service arrive...

DewAir is scaling operations with success in recent months, but we’ve had our share of struggles during the first year of operations. The main distribution and supply chain we were counting on to sell our disruptive technology didn’t materialize. We knew the end user would reap benefits of our technology, but unfortunately the middlemen we would have worked with didn’t see value in it for them. We weren’t prepared to give up, and Link North who’s supported us all along is providing direction, support and access to funding as we pivot our business model.

Link North helped us reconfigure and modernize our kitchen facility and chocolate-making equipment, and we realized some pretty significant productivity improvements. With their support we’ve increased our daily production by 50% and improved our tempering process, achieving higher consistency and quality with our chocolate bonbons. With a more efficient kitchen, we now have more time to delight our customers with a wider offering of products to fill their sweet tooth.

Over the years Link North’s provided strategic direction and helped us secure various funding for prototyping and market development for our Sure-Align Tracker products. With their support we’ve been able to hone our efforts on business development and growth.

Since founding SurveyTech in 2016, we’ve expanded our business to include a few satellite offices to support our growing customer base. As we scaled operations, it became apparent that the equipment tracking and client management systems adopted at startup were starting to create bottlenecks and gaps in information. Link North provided support for us to bring in an expert who assessed our needs and proposed a tailored solution. The resulting new streamlined and integrated system we now use provides accurate and reliable information from which I can make informed business decisions.

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