CASIPA Overview
The Canada-Africa
Innovation Institution
CASIPA is a Canadian institution building structured innovation partnerships between Canada and Africa. Headquartered at the Toronto Innovation Hub, CASIPA operates three integrated delivery streams: founder development, institutional partnerships, and bilateral programming. IDEAS2030 is the long-term strategic agenda anchoring all institutional activity.
20
Founders per Cohort
2×
Cohorts per Year
3+
MoU Partners (Target)
300+
Summit Attendees
◈ Institutional Foundation
Program Streams
Three integrated delivery streams. One operating institution.
CASIPA Founders
A structured 12-week cohort program for African founders based in Canada or seeking Canadian market entry. Twenty founders per intake, twice a year. Mentorship, investor access, and a direct pathway into the CASIPA commercialization network.
Strategic Pillars
What CASIPA builds and why it matters
Founder Development
Structured cohort programs with mentorship, investor introductions, and Canadian market-entry support. Twenty founders per intake, twice a year. Open to founders across Africa.
Institutional Partnerships
MoU-based collaboration with leading Canadian innovation hubs, accelerators, and universities. All agreements are issued in CASIPA's name. Partners engage the institution, not a program.
Bilateral Programming
Annual Canada Africa Innovation Summit, quarterly diaspora networking events, and rotating sector panels across Canada and Africa. Programming that builds visible evidence of bilateral activity.
IDEAS2030 Mission
CASIPA champions the IDEAS2030 agenda, a ten-pillar, five-phase framework to position Africa among the world's top innovation economies by 2030. Beginning with Nigeria, building continent-wide.
Ecosystem Partners
Canadian Innovation Infrastructure
CASIPA manages all partner relationships under its institutional mandate. We issue MoUs in CASIPA's name. These organisations engage CASIPA as a peer institution. African partner institutions apply through the CASIPA Partners portal.
MaRS Discovery District
Creative Destruction Lab
University of Toronto
Toronto Metropolitan University
Communitech
York University, Schulich
Canada-Africa Innovation Corridor
The Africa-Canada corridor is open.
Your pathway starts here.
Whether you are a founder from Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, or anywhere across Africa, or a Canadian institution ready to partner, CASIPA has a structured pathway for you. Africa-wide participation. One institutional framework.