Growth Accelerator

QPI supported over 200 startups to attract over $29 million in revenues

Apr 17, 2024

Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation (QPI) supported the creation of 209 new patents and intellectual property assets and saw 136 new products, services or processes developed through the first phase of FedDev Ontario project.

Queen’s professors develop therapy platform to help mental health professionals’ patients

Nov 24, 2021

Two Queen’s University professors have developed a tool that is proving to not only fill this gap but that can also improve access to care by allowing people to get mental health assistance on their own time, and in between appointments.

QPI’s Growth Accelerator gave AST Microwave a path to the future

Mar 25, 2021

AST Microwave growth made possible with support from QPI, the Government of Canada to Queen’s University through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario and the Scale-Up Platform Project.

Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation’s new Growth Accelerator program helps startup ask the right questions

Aug 12, 2020

Since their time in the Queen's Innovation Centre Summer Initiative, Spectra Plasmonics has been growing steadily. They've recently completed the Growth Accelerator program.

Queen’s Growth Accelerator program helps young company understand its competition and see the way ahead

Aug 10, 2020

QC Integrated Solutions gains a lot of knowledge through the Growth Accelerator program to help get them to the next level of their business.

Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation Growth Accelerator helps breathe life into a novel fitness idea

Aug 08, 2020

Qubit Systems hopes to make a scientific fitness test a reality for the broader market.

Queen’s Growth Accelerator helps Rillea Technologies see the forest for the trees

Jul 28, 2020

Lisa and Rob Hallsworth have been building Rillea Technologies for the past four years. Today the company’s clients include 45 organizations and 115 workplaces, with thousands of employees, who depend on Rillea Tech’s SDS RiskAssist.

Queen’s Growth Accelerator Program gives bioplastics firm a tighter focus and new connections

Jul 28, 2020

Plantee Bioplastics have received two grants totalling several hundred thousand dollars from the Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans to work on developing biodegradable alternatives to synthetic nets, lines and other related fishing gear.

Queen’s Growth Accelerator provided the opportunity to “slow down and dig deep”

Jul 24, 2020

Accessing the kind of computing power needed for large scale equations can be prohibitively expensive. KDS has developed a solution.

Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation’s program taught one entrepreneur the value of delegation and teamwork

Jul 15, 2020

To be truly successful, RentalGauge has to scale up to tens of thousands of properties across Canada.