IDEA Square One Entrepreneurship Hub – Mississauga’s anchor innovation location – celebrated one year of supporting small businesses, startups, and scale-ups in Mississauga.
IDEA Square One Entrepreneurship Hub celebrated its first year of operation with an open house yesterday. The event, held by Mississauga Economic Development in partnership with Oxford Realty Properties, brought together community leaders, clients, entrepreneurs, and supporters to mark the occasion.
Located in the Square One Shopping Centre in downtown Mississauga, IDEA Square One is a 4,300 square-foot facility for small businesses, startups, scale-ups, corporate leaders, and investors to collaborate and grow together.
IDEA Square One continues Economic Development’s long-standing support of the small business community and has evolved to become the hub for innovative companies to launch and scale. The IDEA team provides mentorship, advisory services and tailored programming to companies at all stages of growth and from all sectors, along with co-working and meeting facilities.
In IDEA Square One’s first year, IDEA staff:
- responded to over 2,200 client inquiries
- conducted 367 business consults
- supported the creation of 253 jobs
- supported the start or expansion of 57 businesses
- onboarded 15 resident companies to IDEA Square One
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