{"id":4709,"date":"2013-04-08T13:53:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:39:04","slug":"cybf-and-spin-master-ltd-partner-again-to-support-canadas-innovative-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/blog\/cybf-and-spin-master-ltd-partner-again-to-support-canadas-innovative-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"CYBF and Spin Master Ltd. partner again to support Canada\u2019s innovative entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation is important to our country and our economy, and when it comes to supporting these start-ups, Canada ranks among the world\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p>For the third consecutive year, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) and Spin Master Ltd. have teamed up to offer the exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spin Master Innovation Fund<\/a>, which gives up to 10 innovative start-ups in Canada an injection of financing and mentoring to launch and build a successful business. Open to entrepreneurs aged 18-39 years old, the fund offers each recipient:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to $50,000 in financing;<\/li>\n<li>Two years of business mentoring;<\/li>\n<li>An exclusive innovation workshop;<\/li>\n<li>Expert advice from key business leaders; and<\/li>\n<li>Access to helpful business resources &amp; CYBF\u2019s community of over 5,000 members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Spin Master Innovation Fund supports Canadian entrepreneurs in the discovery, development or refinement of a product or service, which has strong commercial potential both in Canada and internationally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications are now open! <\/strong>Full details, including eligibility, are available at<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cybf.ca\/innovation<\/a>.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline to apply is May 21, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interested in finding out about past Spin Master Innovation Fund recipients? Check out our \u201cWhere are they now?\u201d campaign over the next six weeks on the CYBF blog and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cybfcanada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> which includes stories such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/2013\/merchlar-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric St. Pierre and Awane Moufide Jones, founders of Merchlar\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/2013\/char-tech-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew White, founder of CHAR Technologies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/2013\/sweetseat-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan MacGregor, founder of SweetSeat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/2013\/pplconnect-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenviev Azzolin, founder of pplconnect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/2013\/twenty-one-toys-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilana Ben-Ari, founder of Twenty One Toys Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/2013\/eyewear-evolution-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Sylvestre, founder of Eyewear Evolution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation is important to our country and our economy, and when it comes to supporting these start-ups, Canada ranks among the world\u2019s best. For the third consecutive year, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) and Spin Master Ltd. have teamed up to offer the exclusive Spin Master Innovation Fund, which gives up to 10 innovative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurpreneurs-and-partners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}