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A venture initiated by ICUBE at the Institute for Management & Innovation of the University of Toronto Mississauga. ICUBE Studio intends to serve the prototyping and design needs of the ICUBE and other University of Toronto Entrepreneurship start-ups, while also providing UTM students with a professional work-integrated-learning (WIL) experience while they are still enrolled in school.
Our Services
ICUBE Studio’s students are talented consultants, marketers, business individuals, designers, and software developers who have undergone a screening process and are supervised by faculty and staff who have extensive business experience. Students work individually or in small creative teams and take responsibility for all project stages — design, production and implementation.
Branding
Creating a unique brand and identity for our ventures. Helping them resonate, connect and grow with their unique audiences.
Web/App Development
Creating unique, responsive & optimized platforms to better help ventures grow, prototype & sell to their audiences.
Graphic Design
Creating graphics package and templates for our ventures. These may include product packaging, social media templates or posters.
Digital Marketing
Creating and managing social media and marketing campaigns to help ventures engage best with their audiences.
Search Engine Optimization
Helping ventures improve their SEO and better reach their audience through technical, local and managed SEO services and packages.
UX/UI
Designing beautiful and user friendly designs for any need of our ventures, including website, app, web technology and many more.
Free Services for
our Ventures
Are you part of the Ideation Lab Program or Venture Forward Program? Then great news! you are qualified for free ICUBE Studio hours. Ideation Lab members get up to 25 hours of free services, and Venture Forward members get up to 50 hours of free service. To learn more about this opportunity, please contact us.
CTO as a Service
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Simply put, a we will act is a technical expert who provides guidance and support to your venture on a part-time or project basis. Our Fractional CTO service is designed to help you at any stage of your journey, whether you are just starting out or looking to scale your venture.
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Pricing Packages
The pricing packages are designed for those interested in supporting ICUBE Studio. Through these packages, we provide different packaged hours with ICUBE Studio.
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Frequently asked questions
ICUBE builds and plans, innovative experiences to execute a bold entrepreneurial vision. Can’t find the question you’re looking for? Get in touch with us.
A business incubator is a program that gives very early-stage companies access to mentorship, investors and other support to help them get established. Business incubators work with early-stage companies to get them to move beyond their embryonic phase.
A business accelerator is a program that gives developing companies access to mentorship, investors and other support that help them become stable, self-sufficient businesses. Companies that use business accelerators are typically start-ups that have moved beyond the earliest stages of getting established. They have basically entered their “adolescence,” meaning they can stand on their own two feet but need guidance and peer support to gain strength. Less developed companies not ready for an accelerator would instead use a business incubator for support.
No! All of ICUBE’s programs are free. We are fully funded by grants and the University of Toronto.
No! ICUBE does not take any equity or ownership interest, including but not limited to shares, stocks, membership units, or any other equivalent form of ownership in our ventures business in exchange for providing programming or services. However, please note that when being connected to investors, or when using particular UofT resources (i.e. research facilities), founders are responsible to review those terms separately, as we cannot guarantee what parties external to ICUBEUTM require.
All of ICUBEUTM’s programs are open to students, staff, or alumni of any of the UofT three campuses. Additionally, our programs are open to members of the Peel region. ICUBE Studio’s paid services are open to any business in Canada.
No, ICUBEUTM is not a student club, we are a university student life unit under the Institution of Management & Innovation at University of Toronto Mississauga.
ICUBE is simply i3 which stands for: Inspiration, Ideation and Innovation. Finally, UTM is the University of Toronto Mississauga campus.
ICUBE hires work study students every term! Keep an eye out for our job postings on CLNx at clnx.utoronto.ca.
Venture Forward is a one-year program designed to accelerate your business growth in a sustainable way. This is ideal for businesses who are already set, have a product, or are currently selling products/services and need an extra push to grow and scale their business.
Ideation Lab is a one year program that is ideal for teams who have identified a business idea and are in the ideation or early startup phase.
This program is open to self-identifying Indigenous people across the GTA, with preference given to U of T students, staff, and faculty which focuses on bringing an Indigenous and non-Indigenous lens to entrepreneurship.
Yes absolutely! In fact it’s encouraged to do so. It is very common for ventures to be part of multiple different incubator programs to help solve different problems and raise more funding.
Not particularly. While we do highlight social innovation more, we accept ventures from all different fields and categories as long as they are ethical businesses and are not against any of University of Toronto’s policies.
An ICUBE membership is for one year from the date of acceptance into Ideation Lab or Venture Forward program. After the one year is up, you are encouraged to apply again.
ICUBE UTM, The home of Social Entrepreneurship at UofT, offers resources, programs, workshops and mentorship for people who are changing the world. If you want to make a difference, ICUBE is here to help you make it.
Room L1240 & L1212, Innovation Complex, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
icube.utm@utoronto.ca
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