- Aboriginal Business Canada (ABC): We help Aboriginal entrepreneurs and organizations to achieve their business goals.
- Agri- Opportunities Program: This fund is designed to speed up commercialization of new agriculture products, processes or services. Funding will be provided for projects that can be expected to increase market opportunities for the Canadian agriculture industry. The fund will focus on agriculture, agri-foods, and bioproducts that are not commercially sold in Canada, prototypes ready to commercialize.
- Ag-West Bio Commercialization Fund: For Economic growth and investment Ag-West Bio offers direct investment and help in locating matching grants and investments for start-ups or expanding companies. Our funding supports promising technologies at the early stages of development presenting too great a risk for private capital sources.
- Canadian Agriculture Adaptation Program: Projects funded under CAAP will be proposal-based and originate from industry. The program encourages the agricultural industry to work in partnerships across the value chain—farmers, processors, distributors, and retailers—to develop and use innovative solutions and to explore new market opportunities.
- Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF): We help young Canadians who have a great business idea and require financing, mentoring and the right business resources to start a business.
- Canada Small Business Financing: The Program's objectives are to streamline loan administration, improve its ability to achieve cost recovery and to extend financing that would otherwise have been unavailable to small-and medium-size enterprises.
- Clarence Campeau Development Fund (CCDF): The purpose of the CCDF is to provide financial assistance where currently there is a void for Metis clients.
- Community Futures (CFSK): The main services include business loans, business skills training, local entrepreneur development and community and social economic development.
- Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Program (EDP): A flexible loan that provides business loans to entrepreneurs with disabilities who are unable to obtain a financing from a traditional lender. This loan will provide access to support in the development stages of business in areas such as: developing a business plan, financial forecasts and researching capital options. Follow ups and aftercare will also be apart of this program.
- Job Start/ Future Skills: JobStart/Future Skills links training to employment. The program provides a range of skills training solutions for Saskatchewan people. It is a program offered in partnership with Saskatchewan businesses, industry associations, individuals, public training institutions and other training deliverers.
- National Research Council Industrial Research Program: The NRC-IRAP provides a range of both technical and business oriented advisory services along with potential financial support Supports innovative research and development and commercialization of new products and services.
- Northern Enterprise Fund :Northern Enterprise Fund Inc. is a corporation that was established in 1988 by SaskPower to support business and education in northern Saskatchewan.
- Precarn Funding Programs :Precarn provides an integrated suite of programs which fund research and assist in the development of highly qualified entrepreneurial people and commercialization of innovative technology which has commerical viability. The Precarn Model serves to emphasize the collaborative approach in all of these initiatives.
- Saskatchewan Angel Investor Network (SAINT): Is a member-based group of investors who have an interest in investing in early stage and growth-focused Saskatchewan companies.
- Saskatchewan Agri-Value Initiative (SAVI) :To help the development and expansion of small to medium-sized enterprises or producer/processor organizations involved in value-added processing of agricultural products which will enable them to make sound business decisions and capture market opportunities.
- Small Business Loans Association (SBLA): Encourages diversification of the Saskatchewan economy and supports community economic development by making funding available, through community-run organizations, to non-traditional entrepreneurs.
- SMART Program : The Saskatchewan Market Assessment of Research and Technology (SMART) Program provides small and medium-sized businesses access to industry specialists.
- STEP Market Access Program (MAP) : Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership’s Market Access Program (MAP) is a program designed to support the domestic and international marketing efforts of STEP regular members. Funds are provided to assist STEP regular member companies in entering new markets or are entering into a new market sector or market segment outside of Saskatchewan.
- Sustainable Development Technology Canada: SDTC is a foundation created by the Government of Canada to support the development and demonstration of clean technologies - solutions that address issues of clean air, greenhouse gases, clean water, and clean soil to deliver environmental, economic and health benefits to Canadians.
- University of Saskatchewan Industry Liason Office - Forage Ahead Fund: The Forge Ahead Fund exists to aid in the commercial development of technologies disclosed and assigned to the University of Saskatchewan through the Industry Liaison Office. The fund is used to bring technology off the lab bench and to a prototype stage that clearly demonstrates commercial potential.
- Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan (W.E.): Is a non-profit membership organization that works with women who are considering starting a business, purchasing a business, or who are operating an existing business.
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