The Ontario Capital Growth Corporation (OCGC) was established by the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation Act, 2008 and was launched on February 27, 2009. The principal business of the OCGC is to manage the interest of the Government of Ontario in the limited partnership known as the Ontario Venture Capital Fund LP (OVCF) and to manage and operate the Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund (OETF).

Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund

The Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund is a $250 million co-investment fund which has been established by the Province of Ontario to respond to the challenges that Ontario-based companies in the following sectors are facing in raising venture capital and other capital:

  • clean technology
  • life sciences and advanced health technologies
  • digital media and information and communications technology
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Ontario Venture Capital Fund

The $205 million Ontario Venture Capital Fund (OVCF) is a joint initiative between the Government of Ontario and leading institutional investors to invest primarily in Ontario-based and Ontario-focused venture capital and growth equity funds that support innovative, high growth companies.

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News

  • OETF Service Providers Selected

    Through a competitive procurement process executed by the Ministry of Government Services via the Ontario MERX system, the Ministry of Research and Innovation, on behalf of the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation (OCGC), has selected Covington Capital Corporation and Northwater Capital Management Inc. to evaluate applications to OCGC in relation to the new Ontario Emerging Technologies [...]