WHY PORCH?
Immigrant
Entrepreneurs
Your company needs constant love to grow. You need to test, learn, and improve. Nobody can do it alone.
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Build relationships
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Find opportunities
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Find talent
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Learn from others
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Raise investment
Entrepreneurs Coming to Canada
The start-up ecosystem and the immigration process are complex. Finding answers and getting help is not easy.
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Learn from others who have been in your shoes
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Get guidance
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Build relationships
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Understand the Canadian market and ecosystem
Startup
Teams
Being part of a start-up is both exciting and challenging. Learning from others going through the same journey is critical to success.
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Network with other startup teams
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Learn from other entrepreneurs and peers
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Share your expertise and help others
Future
Entrepreneurs
If you are planning to start a business and are an immigrant to Canada (or planning to come to Canada), PORCH is for you.
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Learn from others who have walked the path
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Get honest feedback
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Be inspired
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Find a mentor, coach, partner, co-founder
Experienced and Giving Back
Everyone is a student and coach. Want to give back and help immigrant entrepreneurs succeed? PORCH would love to meet you.
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Give back to the next generation
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Help others succeed
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Provide feedback
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Set the community culture
Helping 1,000,000 immigrant entrepreneurs
succeed in Canada
PORCH. CANADA.
Everything you need to grow.
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LEARN from people with the same challenges as you.
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BUILD relationships with peers, advisors, and industry experts.
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ACCESS content and insights to answer your business and career questions.
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SHARE your own experiences to help others.
Starting or growing your business?
Newcomer to Canada or on your way?
Grow your business and career.
Join PORCH.
An Exclusive Community for Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals
You don’t know how encouraging and hopeful it is when you see such great friends you've made without ever being to Canada!
I came to Canada as a student in 1999, and only became an entrepreneur years later after corporate jobs. I wish that there was a community like PORCH back then. It would have made the whole journey less lonely.
I have never thought how powerful online community engagement can be. Thanks to you and PORCH I am discovering the power of community every day. It's AMAZING!!! You are amazing!
Just attended a game-changing session on "How Not to Suck at Cold Emailing" courtesy of the fantastic PORCH Community
The Challenge
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Being an immigrant adds complexity and challenges.
Canada provides an astounding ecosystem for start-ups and entrepreneurs, but it is not perfect:
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Complex and confusing ecosystem that creates silos
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Silos make it difficult to build widespread relationships
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Existing immigrant and entrepreneur communities are not specific to their needs
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Many existing communities are actually marketplaces
What We Do
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Location-Based
Membership Pricing
PORCH
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Make the immigrant entrepreneurship journey easier and increase your chance of success.
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Provide a curated, engaging and diverse community for you to build relationships, learn, share and help you and your business succeed.
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Deliver an experience that spans accelerators, incubators, investors and even countries.
Expand your learning, your relationships, and your potential.
Through the power of community, we:
PORCH
A Global Community in Canada
Members from
45+ Countries
Members living in
35+ Countries
