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Are you opening or operating a business in Edmonton? We offer business-friendly services to make your experience as easy as possible.
We provide customized support to business owners of all sizes and stages.
We provide one point of contact for the City permits and licences. Common questions include:
Business Webinars: We bring City staff to answer questions and help understand the permits for opening or expanding a business.
There are no upcoming webinars scheduled. Please see our recorded webinars in the Small Business Series playlist.
Customized Workshops: The City partners with organizations to deliver business workshops and grant presentations. Contact businesssupport@edmonton.ca for more information.
We support made-in-Edmonton ideas that drive the launch, growth and attraction of innovative companies.
We recognize the need to help companies test and validate their products and services. City as a Lab is one of the ways the City of Edmonton is supporting the local innovation ecosystem. This pilot program allows businesses to test or validate their technologies within the City’s infrastructure and services. It creates a low-risk scenario where the City can act as a partner in helping a business test and validate their service in a real-world environment.
"Technology North Digital Services (TNDS) owes much of its growth and national recognition to the early support and vision of the City of Edmonton’s City as a Lab program. Their collaborative and forward-thinking approach created the bridge between TNDS and the Edmonton Police Service, a connection that became the foundation for one of Canada’s most innovative public-private partnerships in digital inclusion."
— Ling Huang, CEO, Technology North Digital Services
The City partners with many innovative organizations to make Edmonton a great place to do business.
Alberta Health Services helps food handling and personal services related businesses in securing the required permits and making businesses safe for customers.
Alberta Women Entrepreneurs is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women gain access to capital, connections and business development capacity.
Business Link is a non-profit organization that assists in navigating the steps of business development, including market research, business planning, human resource advice and income tax information.
Edmonton Global is a regional economic development corporation working to create local, regional, provincial, national and global partnerships and enter a new international market.
Edmonton Unlimited stewards equitable innovation and intensive entrepreneurship at every stage of business growth from start-up to scale-up.
Explore Edmonton works in collaboration with tourism industry partners to showcase Alberta's capital city to the world.
Futurpreneur provides financing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18-39.
PrairiesCan is a federal department that aims to help diversify the economy by supporting business, innovation and community economic development in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Rainbow Registered Accreditation Program is a national accreditation for 2SLGBTQI+ friendly businesses and organizations.
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