YSpace Lunch & Learn: Accessing Grants for Your Agri-Food Business

​Join us for an interactive Lunch & Learn designed for Canadian agri-food and food & beverage founders who want to unlock government grants and non-dilutive funding to fuel growth — without giving up equity.

​Canada offers significant funding opportunities across federal and provincial programs, but navigating them can be complex, time-consuming, and overwhelming. This session will help you identify potential grants that might be a match for your growth plans.

​What to Expect:

​This session will show you the Behind-the-scenes of a good grant: grant basics, eligibility vs. competitiveness, grant opportunities, and grant resources. 

​​​​​About The Speaker

​Van La is a Grants Specialist with Integrity Grants & Funding. She has a PhD in Integrative Biology and over 18 years of grant writing experience. With a proven track record of over 400 grants with a 94% success rate, she's secured over $18 million in funding for small to medium-sized businesses across Canada.

​​​​​About YSpace

​​​​​YSpace is York University’s pan-university entrepreneurship and innovation hub supporting startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors and communities. Our programming spans across scaling innovative technologies through customer and investor capital to scaling agri-food businesses into mass retail to diversity-focused initiatives like **ELLA powered by Desjardins** for women-led businesses and Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) for Black-led businesses. Additionally with our Start-Up Visa program, we are building a robust ecosystem, driving positive change and empowering entrepreneurs to shape the future. We are also home to two physical hubs in the City of Markham and the Town of Georgina.