We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. Our mission is to help create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. Through our subsidiary—BDC Capital, we also offer a full spectrum of specialized financing, including venture capital, equity as well as growth and business transition capital. BDC, Canada’s first B Corp bank. B Corps are certified Beneficial companies. Their purpose is to create value for society as well as money. They meet high standards of transparency and accountability, and create positive social and environmental benefit. Learn more at www.bcorporation.net. Social Media Community Guidelines: https://www.bdc.ca/EN/about/social_media/Pages/social-media-guidelines.aspx
Founded by a group of entrepreneurs in 1997, Communitech is an industry-led innovation centre in Waterloo Region, one of the world’s fastest-growing tech ecosystems. Communitech supports tech companies at all stages of their growth and development – from startups to rapidly-growing mid-sized companies and large global players.
Conestoga is a leader in polytechnic education and one of Ontario's fastest growing colleges, delivering a full range of career-focused education, training and applied research programs to prepare students for success in the new knowledge economy and promote economic prosperity throughout our region and across Ontario. As the region’s only provider of polytechnic education, Conestoga plays an integral role in the success of our community: 65 per cent of our graduates remain in the area after completing their education, contributing more than $2.3 billion each year to the local economy. More than 50 per cent of the local adult population has accessed our services. Conestoga delivers more than 200 career-focused programs, and has more degree offerings than any other college outside of the GTA, including Ontario’s only college-based, accredited engineering degrees.
Constant Contact provides email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools to help small organizations grow their businesses by building stronger customer relationships. More than 500,000 small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and member associations rely on Constant Contact's easy-to-use, affordable online tools to create and deliver personalized, professional communications that engage customers, members and prospects wherever they congregate online -- from their email inboxes to their social networks. Launched in 1998, Constant Contact made email marketing simple for small organizations and continues this tradition today providing the education and tools to make social media marketing simple for small organizations as well. As an industry leader in permission based online marketing, Constant Contact partners with the leading providers of online marketing and social media marketing solutions. Constant Contact welcomes developers and partners to utilize its API and contribute to its Constant Contact App MarketPlace.
Dematic is an intralogistics innovator that designs, builds and supports intelligent, automated solutions for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution environments for customers that are powering the future of commerce. With engineering centers, manufacturing facilities and service centers located in more than 25 countries, Dematic’s global network of 8,000 employees have helped achieve more than 6,000 worldwide customer installations for some of the world’s leading brands.