Deadline Date: April 15, 2026
The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation is accepting applications for its Fuel program, designed to remove barriers and accelerate innovative solutions that have the potential to transform the aging experience.
The program focuses on supporting start-up companies and healthcare or research organizations in advancing innovations, achieving research, development, or validation milestones, accessing investment and non-dilutive funding, committing sufficient personnel resources, ensuring intellectual property ownership within eligible organizations, and promoting the development of scalable and impactful solutions that improve the quality of life for older adults.
CABHI’s Fuel program offers two funding streams. Stream A targets start-up companies, providing up to $500,000 CAD to help selected companies achieve research, development, or validation milestones over a 12-month period. Eligible start-ups must be federally or provincially registered in Canada, have a valuation or valuation cap of at least $6 million CAD, or gross revenue exceeding $250,000 CAD in the past 12 months, and the lead applicant must have signing authority for the company.
Stream B supports healthcare and research organizations (HCROs) with up to $500,000 CAD in non-dilutive funding, released in tranches aligned with specific milestones. Eligible HCROs must be affiliated with accredited Canadian academic institutions, recognized research organizations, or healthcare organizations, focus on creating or validating intellectual property owned by the HCRO or institution, operate at Technology Readiness Levels 3-8, commit a minimum of one full-time equivalent personnel, and be eligible to receive funding through their institution.
The Fuel program aims to remove common barriers that stall innovation, facilitate access to critical resources, and accelerate the development and validation of solutions that can meaningfully improve the aging experience in Canada.
For more information, visit CABHI.
