Funding to early-stage projects that are building a product to demonstrate its intended functionalities and design by experimenting, testing, and validating different concepts and hypothesizing to arrive at a first functional prototype.
Canada Media Fund
Overview of the Prototyping Program program:
This program has an open-funding application that allows you to describe your product's financial needs.
Benefits of the Prototyping Program program:
Gain capital to prove your product and test your hypothesis, this will help you make the necessary changes to improve your prototype idea.
Eligibility criteria of the Prototyping Program program:
To be eligible as an eligible applicant you must:
Meet the specific Eligible Applicant criteria noted in Program Guidelines (Download PDF)
Be Canadian-controlled as determined in sections 26 to 28 of the Investment Canada Act
Have your head office in Canada
Be in good standing with all applicable talent and industry associations and guilds
Have affirmed and attested that the Project submitted for funding complies with the CMFs Narrative Positioning Policy
Have registered for a PERSONA-ID https://cmf-fmc.ca/persona-id/ account(s) and have provided this account number as part of their Application.
Must own and control all rights necessary to produce and exploit the Eligible Project
IMPORTANT: *Entities that provide services but do not own applicable rights are not eligible to apply to the CMF.*
For your project to be eligible, it must:
Rights of ownership, significantly and meaningfully developed, by Canadians
It is conceptualized in Canada, with at least 75% of its Eligible Costs being Canadian costs
It is under Canadian ownership and Canadian executive, creative, and financial control