Community Partners

Bay Area Health Trust is a Hamilton Ontario based company that operates life science businesses and invests in growth oriented opportunities with the goal of returning value to its beneficiaries.

CityLAB is an innovation hub that brings together student, academic, and civic leaders to co-create a better Hamilton for all.

Based in Waterloo Region, Communitech has helped founders build strong teams, access capital and commercialize products for more than 25 years.

Hamilton Health Sciences is a community of 18,000 staff, physicians, researchers and volunteers that proudly serves southwestern Ontario residents. It also provides specialized, advanced care to people from across the province.

Hamilton Technology Centre is an innovation hub for new and emerging companies. It is an active participant in Canada’s Innovation Corridor, connecting entrepreneurs to other communities and resources in the region.

Leverage up to $15,000 worth of services to work directly with the Research Administration groups at Hamilton Health Sciences or St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton to create the pre-trial protocols and documents required to undertake a commercialization project or clinical trial in one of Canada’s leading research hospitals.

The Innovation Factory supports entrepreneurs with guidance on launching, building and scaling businesses.

Hamilton’s industries were built from a steel manufacturing and textiles backbone, which have since grown into exceptionally advanced technology-driven businesses.

MILO helps facilitate collaborative research with industry partners and supports the dissemination of research results through commercialization.

OBIO advances its goals through collaborative partnerships with industry, the investment community, academia, patients and government.

Synapse is a not-for-profit focused on supporting initiatives and projects that magnify the impact of collective action across the cluster ecosystem, and accelerate the commercialization of life science innovation.

The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton was incorporated as a charitable, non-profit organization in 2014 to ensure the growth of research and innovation at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and across St. Joseph's Health System.