CFIR · Who we are
Who we are.
Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Research (CFIR) is a federal not-for-profit corporation in Toronto, at research.ca. It funds scholarships for entrepreneurs and provides capital toward seed grants. The name and the record below are as the public registry holds them.
The name
One name, as registered.
- Legal name
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Research (CFIR)
- Short name
- CFIR
- Website
- research.ca
- City
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The record
On the federal registry.
- Legal form
- Federal not-for-profit corporation, Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
- Corporation no.
- 1674045-6 · The registry record (Corporations Canada, opens in a new tab)
- Business no.
- 718160229RC0001
- Incorporated
- 11 February 2025
- Registered office
- 909 Alness St, Toronto, ON M3J 2J1, Canada
What we fund
Scholarships, seed grants, and research.
- Scholarships
- Full tuition for the three programmes at YEDI The scholarships ›
- Seed grants
- Capital for ventures out of the Incubator, applied for after the programme and decided by YEDI’s venture fund The grants ›
- Research
- Applied research, published open-access The studies ›
- The full record
- The Foundation ›