Q&A: How Does the Selection Process Work?

Hi, my name is Sam and I'm the head of programs at Launch Academy. Today we're going to talk specifically about the Maple program and its selection process. How does the selection process work? How do we evaluate companies? This is a great question. It goes a little bit in depth, but we really focus our evaluation on four key aspects. So the first one is why do you want to move to Canada? We want to understand that you have a legitimate business reason to move to Canada. It can't be because your country's at war or other very personal things. It has to be a very business related reason, such as my clients are all in Canada or my staff is in Canada or I want to grow my team in Canada, those kind of things. The second reason or the second thing we evaluate on is would yourself personally be an asset to Canada, AKA would your skill set be relevant to furthering innovation in Canada or you'd be contributing to an exciting new business there? So that looks at your resume, your education, have you built and exited startups in the past? Those are the kind of things we would look at very highly. Thirdly is we would look at your business and itself. Is it viable and relevant in Canada? Do you have a track record of proof that that specific business that you're applying with can be sustainable or grow to create jobs in Canada? We look at that in the thirdly and fourthly, we do look for the types of companies that are specific. We're specifically interested in working with Atlant Academy. Specifically, that includes emerging tech tech sectors such as artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, AR, Mr. Blockchain, financial services, data science, quantum computing, health tech and cyber security. So with those four things is how we evaluate. And that's why our process does take about six to eight weeks for us to gingerly comb through every detail of your application. So be very careful and be very smart about how you want to put forth your application. Good luck.