Alacrity Canada

Alacrity Canada is a nonprofit entrepreneur support organisation founded in 2009 and active across Canada, with a base in British Columbia. It works with Canadian entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses on the transition from early promise to scalable enterprise, providing training, mentorship, advisory services, funding opportunities, and market access. Assistance is tailored to each business and its stage of the scale-up journey rather than delivered as a fixed curriculum.

The organisation's programmes concentrate on several defined technical and commercial domains: cleantech, defence and security technology, technology commercialisation, and export and international market development. These translate into a set of distinct offerings - training and mentorship for SMEs and technology ventures; an export support programme helping Canadian companies reach new international markets; a cleantech funding programme; entrepreneurship initiatives addressing skills, investment, and networks; and market entry support for companies pursuing defence and security customers. For candidates from venture or founder-adjacent backgrounds, the work sits at the intersection of company building and capital formation rather than in fund management: Alacrity Canada facilitates access to funding opportunities for the ventures it supports but is not itself described as a venture fund.

Its stated orientation is founder-first, with an emphasis on building sustainable businesses and lasting impact and a mission of bringing Canadian innovation to international markets. Sector focus spans cleantech, defence and security, technology ventures, small and medium-sized businesses, and early-stage entrepreneurship.