Where bold ideas become reality
SPUR Innovation Centre spurs innovation. We help individuals, startups, and innovators develop revolutionary technology - giving them the capital, compute, talent, and physical space to turn an idea into a company.
We are a Canadian frontier-tech venture studio and infrastructure operator. From a 700,000 sq ft Waterloo headquarters and more than 2 million sq ft of innovation and data-centre space across Canada, we build companies and the sovereign infrastructure they run on.
SPUR works across six pillars, each reinforcing the others - a founder building an AI company can draw on our compute, our capital, our talent network, and our campus all at once.
Sovereign GPU compute, managed AI products, and live frontier-model inference on Canadian soil.
Dense, generator-backed data-centre capacity engineered for modern GPU and HPC workloads.
Research and early-stage company building at the edge of quantum computing.
Hardware and applied-robotics ventures, from prototype to deployment.
We invest in, co-build, and operate startups - capital, compute, talent, and space under one roof.
Free AI courses for teachers and schools, plus scholarships and funding for emerging founders.
Whatever the stage, there is a way to work with SPUR.
The SPUR Innovation Centre is the former BlackBerry headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario - a 700,000 sq ft, four-building campus we acquired in 2025 and reopened as a world-class data centre, R&D space, and venture-studio hub. It is backed by a secondary site and more than 2 million sq ft of additional innovation and data-centre space across Canada.
Everything SPUR operates stays under Canadian jurisdiction - no US CLOUD Act exposure - and is PIPEDA-compliant by default. Our compute and operations are engineered to meet and exceed SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001 standards, with public verification rather than "trust us."
Standards posture ->Compute, colocation, an AI product, studio funding, or a classroom partnership - tell us what you need and we will route you to the right team.
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