Overview

The Global Market Acceleration Fund (GMAF) is designed to increase the production, marketing and sales capacities of globally competitive businesses that build proven technologies and solutions for reducing GHG emissions. The fund helps Ontario businesses expand into provincial, national and global marketplaces by backing technologies that reduce GHG emissions, the GMAF supports the Climate Change Action Plan.

Types of projects the program will consider include:

  • enhancing proven GHG reduction technologies and solutions in order to make them easier to manufacture, meet specific downstream customer requirements or address significant new market applications
  • increasing production capacity by building new or expanded production facilities, acquiring new production equipment or substantially improving existing production equipment
  • increasing commercialization capacity in order to strengthen channels of distribution and achieve higher provincial, national or global market share
  • initiatives to enhance supply chain capacity in support of scaled-up production and commercialization

Funding

If a project is approved, the GMAF provides between $2 million and $5 million in funding, which can cover up to 50% of eligible costs.

Who can apply

Applications are welcome from companies and entrepreneurs with:

  • proven clean technologies
  • solutions that reduce GHG emissions
  • demonstrable market demand in Ontario and beyond

Eligibility

General requirements

The project must:

  • be completed in Ontario
  • involve scaling-up of production, marketing or sales of a proven technology with the ability to reduce GHG emissions in Ontario by replacing or offsetting a more carbon-intensive technology or directly reducing the emissions of another process or technology (e.g., carbon capture)
  • be complete within two years

You must:

  • be a company incorporated in Ontario or Canada with a permanent establishment in Ontario or a proposal to establish permanent operations in Ontario
  • have funding commitments from sources other than the Government of Ontario at the time of business case submission
  • be able to scale-up your operations in Ontario
  • meet all other eligibility requirements identified in the program guidelines

How to apply

GMAF is currently closed for submissions.

Contact us

For inquiries, please email us or contact us by telephone at 416-325-6666 or toll free at 1-866-668-4289