Accessing Grants 101

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In this episode Shauna will sit down with Brianna Blaney and Aria Hahn, Co-founders of Pocketed, to discuss what entrepreneurs and business owners should know about accessing grants. Pocketed’s mission is to eliminate financial barriers for businesses. They thrive on simplifying access to capital. Thier user-focused platform was built to make funding your business a smooth, intuitive journey. In three minutes, make an account and their intelligent grant matching platform will help you find, and apply to, the right funding programs for your business. As an experienced founder, Brianna co-founded Pocketed to level the playing field, helping Canadian businesses easily access over $5.9B annually in government funding including grants, tax credits, and other business incentives. To date, more than 7,500 companies have used Pocketed to apply for over $80M in government funding. Together with her team, Brianna is on a mission to eliminate barriers for businesses. Brianna is recognized as an Emerging Leader by The Peak and 30 Under 30 by BC Business. Aria is passionate about data and believes that combined with intelligent statistical and computational technologies, data hold the answers to many burgeoning questions facing multiple industries today. Aria has built tech to solve technical challenges for multiple industries and is now helping to scale technology for Pocketed, a company focused on democratizing access to over $5.9B annually in grant funding in Canada. Since 2021, Pocketed has been named a 2021 ‘Emerging Rocket (ICT)', featured in The Globe & Mail, interviewed by CBC Radio, and recognized as a Fast Growing BC Business by The Peak. Resources Connect with Pocketed Twitter: https://twitter.com/hellopocketed LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/hellopocketed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellopocketed/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellopocketed Website: www.hellopocketed.io Use the code: FinanceCafexPocketed at checkout for 20% off their basic subscription! Sponsors In Canada, November is financial literacy month. It's a time when we'll be encouraged to invest in our own financial well-being. Helping us bring this special seven-week series to life leading up to and through financial literacy month, is BDC. As Canada’s development bank, BDC’s purpose is to help entrepreneurs create a prosperous, inclusive and green economy. They are here to help your business be more productive. More agile. More profitable. More resilient. BDC is proud to support this Financial Literacy series and bring a better understanding of the story numbers tell, what they mean for your business, and the type of financing needed to enable sustainable business growth. For more resources and information for women entrepreneurs be sure to connect to our incredible podcast sponsor the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub  Connect with Us Website: thefinancecafe.ca/ Instagram: @thefinancecafeofficial  LinkedIn: The Finance Cafe  Learn more about our financial literacy program designed specifically for you and don’t forget to use code PODCAST10 to save 10% off at www.thefinancecafe.ca/

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