$100 Million Industry Challenge

Guidelines

• All information will be kept strictly confidential by intelliFLEX and will not be used for any other purposes. If we receive your permission to disclose your company (1) Total FHE-related investment and (2) FHE-related employment figures, we would include your organization totals in the TOP 25 Investors, TOP 25 Employers, Top 25 Fastest Growing Companies and Top 25 R&D Employers lists. If no permission is received from your firm, we plan to include these figures into the industry aggregate and ONLY report in aggregate form on an industry level.
• Funds must be used for FHE-related product and application research, development and commercialization activities – not day-to-day operations.
• Investments raised for activities that qualify for inclusion include construction and fitup of new facilities, acquiring new equipment, R&D, commercialization, business expansion, hiring staff.
• These activities must take place within Canada.
• Funds can be:
  • Redirect internally from own sales and cash flow, or
  • External equity investment such as seed, angel, private equity or venture capital investments they receive
  • Contributions from government programs such as NRC IRAP or other federal programs that require non-repayment.
  • Other financing sources such credit lines, leases for capital equipment, issuance of debentures etc.
• Please indicate in the appropriate year the total amount, if you obtained VC financing even if it is for planned for multi-year spend.
• Funds cannot be:
  • Government tax credits such as SR&ED