CI Ventures has spent six years operating in Canada's immigrant entrepreneur programs building a modular program model with structured intake, objective-focused cycles, and evidence-based reporting. The model is designed to be deployed beyond Canada from day one, in partnership with governments, economic development bodies, and program operators working in their own jurisdictions.
The intake assessment that filters and shapes startups into a program, covering startup stage, founder fit, market context, and operational readiness. Built to function in any jurisdiction. It isn't tied to Canadian regulatory criteria; it's tied to what makes a startup credible enough to commit time and capital to. Adapt the framework to your local context, keep the analytical structure.
Objective-focused program cycles, mentor matching, milestone tracking, and structured founder support. It's the operational core of a program that does more than gather entrepreneurs in a room. Over six years of running this in Canada, refined and codified into a model that can be operated as ongoing partners.
Every founder, every cohort, every cycle contributes to a cumulative dataset from intake to outcome. The reporting model produces the evidence governments and program funders actually need: not anecdotes, but comparable, multi-cohort, defensible data. This is the part most programs lack, and the part that makes outcome reporting credible to ministers, parliaments, and auditors. How engagement actually works depends on your context. We'd start with a conversation.
If you're operating a program for international entrepreneurs in your jurisdiction, or building one, we'd like to talk.
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