SPUR is built to spur entrepreneurship and innovation across Canada. We open our doors, our compute, and our courses to the people, schools, and organizations around us - locally in Waterloo, regionally across Ontario, and nationally from coast to coast.
The 700,000 sq ft Waterloo headquarters is open to the community as a place to build, learn, and meet. Hackathons, demo days, robotics events with local schools, and drop-in office hours for early-stage founders happen on the same campus that hosts the SPUR data centre.
From Windsor to Ottawa, SPUR works with schools, colleges, and regional partners to put real frontier-tech tools in students' and educators' hands. The Toronto-Waterloo innovation corridor is a single market and we treat it that way - one curriculum, one events calendar, one mentor network.
2M+ sq ft of innovation and data-centre space across Canada, sovereign GPU compute, and programs any Canadian can access regardless of where they live. The studio is open coast to coast. The courses are free and online. The compute is in Canada under PIPEDA.
Pick the entry point that fits where you are.
Co-build a frontier-tech company with SPUR. Compute, capital, and operating support for founders ready to ship.
Funded scholarships for emerging Canadian founders and students working at the frontier.
A free AI assessment of how your team and operations can apply AI today, with a clear next-step plan.
Hackathons, pitch nights, demo days, and workshops on the Waterloo campus and partner sites across Canada.
Free, certificate-bearing AI courses for kids, students, teachers, and professionals - from fundamentals to deploying frontier models.
Spin up a classroom, share a 6-character invite code, watch student progress on your dashboard. Free for any teacher.
Host an event, bring SPUR Learn to your classroom, request compute, or partner on a community program. Reach out and we will route you.
