From Funding to Hiring: How IRAP and SR&ED Help You Scale 🚀
A 60-Minute Playbook for Founders on Securing Grants, Avoiding Common Costly HR Pitfalls, and Providing Tax-Efficient Health Benefits
What if you could fund your next key hires without giving up equity? 🤔
For many Canadian founders and SME owners, scaling your team feels like a classic chicken-and-egg problem 🐣: you need talent to grow, but you need capital to afford talent ⚖️. The good news is that you might be leaving tens of thousands of dollars on the table in non-dilutive government funding 🔍.
In celebration of Small Business Month, this webinar is designed to give founders a practical roadmap for sustainable growth 🌳. Securing grants like IRAP and SR&ED is the first step 👣, but the real challenge is turning that funding into a high-performing team without making costly mistakes 🛡️.
Join us for a practical, 60-minute webinar where a panel of experts will demystify the entire process ♟️. We will connect the dots from funding applications to your successful hires 📍, showing you how to scale smarter, not just faster 🧠.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
💰 Unlock Non-Dilutive Funding: Demystify the IRAP and SR&ED application process and learn the key considerations to successfully secure grants for your business.
✍️ Build an Essential HR Foundation: Discover how to protect your new funding, personal savings and investments by setting up the non-negotiable legal and structural foundation for hiring - and learn hiring employees are more straightforward and lower risk than you think.
🏆 Attract & Retain Top Talent: Find out how to compete for the best people with strategic, tax-efficient health benefits and Health Spending Accounts (HSAs) that are more accessible and affordable than you imagine.
🗺️ Master the Full Cycle: See the complete playbook from grant approval to creating a thriving team and learn to avoid the common pitfalls that cost founders precious time and money.
This webinar is for you if you're a: 🎯
Business leader looking to leverage government funding for growth in Canada.
Startup Founder or SME Owner considering hiring your first employee or seeking to ensure you have a proper HR foundation that protects your business.
VC, Accelerator, or Ecosystem Partner who supports the sustainable success of scaling companies.
Seats are limited. Register today to secure your spot and get the playbook for scaling your team!
Meet Your Experts 🎤
Keaton Cameron, Account Development Executive | Leyton: Keaton is an expert in non-dilutive funding. He solves the problem of financial constraint for growing businesses by navigating the complex world of government grants and tax credits. He helps Canadian companies navigate the process, identify their eligibility, and help them to successfully secure non-dilutive funding through programs like IRAP and SR&ED.
Eugene Fung, CPHR, Founder & HR Advisor | Eugenie HR: Eugene is a Vancouver-based HR Advisor that helps startup founders establish the essential HR foundation to protect their business, gives busy leaders energy and time back by managing their day-to-day HR operations, partners with VCs and Accelerators to protect their portfolios with accessible HR expertise, and secures investors’ M&A success with SME-focused HR due diligence and managing post-merger HR integration.
Katrina Sinclair, Founder & Insurance Benefits Advisor | Healthwise Benefits: Katrina levels the playing field for small businesses in the competition for talent. Many SMEs believe that offering competitive benefits is out of reach. Katrina solves this problem by designing strategic and affordable benefits plans and Health Spending Accounts (HSAs) tailored to the unique needs of small businesses - even for solopreneurs and small teams.