Take your idea—whether it’s for an app, software, or physical product—and make it a reality at Manitoba’s North Forge Technology Exchange where they can help you take your business idea to the next level. With 35,000 square feet spread over multiple  locations—two in Winnipeg and one in Thompson—North Forge works with founders and start-ups to “develop faster, cheaper and more successfully.”

North Forge is an incubator accelerator and a powerhouse entrepreneur community fuelling Manitoba’s innovative science-based, technology-enabled, and advanced manufacturing start-ups. They curate resources to help entrepreneurs solve problems in real-time and reduce the cost and risk of innovation.

Then and now
North Forge was born in 2016, when six organizations with similar visions recognized they were competing with each other for the same funding dollars in the same space. “We began to negotiate how we could amalgamate to work together and have a bigger impact,” says Joelle Foster, North Forge’s president and CEO. “In the end, four organizations came together and North Forge was created.”

Seven years later, North Forge is home to one of North America’s largest fabrication and rapid prototyping facilities (the FabLab™), and the only incubator-accelerator in the country that offers services for both manufacturing and technology. “We just keep growing to serve entrepreneurs here and around the world,” says Foster. “There are so many great opportunities and ideas out there, and our job is to help bring them to market.”

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