Skip to content
BlackBerry/L-SPARK Accelerator Applications Open Until October 21st
Apply now

Building a startup is hard!

One of the best ways to mitigate risk is to validate your startup idea as quickly as possible so that you can determine if it’s a viable business. L-SPARK can help you gain the validation you need by:

  • Working with you to create the operational framework needed to reach your goals
  • Introductions to the investors when the time is right
  • Challenging your assumptions every step of the way, while respecting that it is your company
  • Refining your investor presentation and value proposition
  • Providing perspective based on real life startup experience

L-SPARK helps startups get the traction they need to stand out, gain traction and pitch successfully to angels, institutional investors and VCs.

Learn more about the program

L-SPARK was the perfect accelerator for us since their program is focused toward building and selling a B2B SaaS product. At Heyday, we were starting the transition from a service company to a product company when we joined the program and the very experienced L-SPARK team got behind us and guided us, on a weekly basis, toward our goals. We would have not reached our $2M seed round as quickly as we did without them. Thanks L-SPARK!

Steve Desjarlais

Steve Desjarlais
CEO Heyday

L-SPARK by the numbers

51

companies

$45.7M

in follow-on funding

10K

members

Alumni Success Stories

Upchain

John Laslavic, CEO

“We’ve closed a $7.4M Series A. We’ve grown our company three-fold and we’re close to 60 people right now. We’ve also just closed our largest contract to date. One of the things that have helped us get here has been the connections we’ve made and work we’ve done at L-SPARK.”

Mydoma Studio

Sarah Daniele, CEO

“We’ve truly de-risked our product. I now know my product inside and out, who’s going to use it, who’s going to pay for it, how long they’re going to pay for it. I now have the metrics and I can take them and grow Mydoma.”

Building a SaaS company? Check out our helpful (and free!) guides

Learn more

Being part of L-SPARK has changed everything for me personally and for Brokrete. The mentor team helped us structure the idea, challenge ourselves, be accountable and they gave us the specific tools and knowledge we needed to get to the next level. I learned more in this program than I’ve learned elsewhere and the value they bring to a technology company is unmatchable.

The mentors are dedicated, fun and the best in their fields. They have the channels and means to put you in front of hundreds of qualified investors and VCs and prepare you/your business to raise growth capital. We raised our first round immediately at the end of the program. I personally had one of the best experiences of my life with L-SPARK and recommend it to everyone.

Jordan Latourelle

Jordan Latourelle
CEO and Founder of Brokrete

Logos of sponsors including TMX, Dentons, Logan Katz, numbercrunch, PwC, RBC, Welch LLP, Oxygen Events, Colliers International, Algonquin College, Osler, Wesley Clover, Canada, IRAP-NRC, and Invest Ottawa

Return to top