Bringing the world's best researchers to Canada —
and helping them stay.
Maple Impact is the one-stop shop that carries a researcher from a first contact abroad all the way to a Canadian venture — research funding, immigration, community, and commercialization, in one continuous path. Not a directory. National research-talent infrastructure.
Built to attract talent — and to keep it.
The value isn't any single feature. It's three layers that reinforce each other: a reason to show up, a reason to stay, and the thing no one else owns — the continuity between them.
Aggregation
One feed of every relevant opportunity — funding, immigration, and industry links, pulled from many partners.
Community
A real destination where researchers actually work and connect — groups, project spaces, and events.
Connective tissue
One verified record — credentials, IP, and consent — carried across every handoff, never re-keyed.
One platform, built for two sides at once.
Each side has its own reason to be there — the talent the platform attracts and keeps, and the government that funds it. Aggregation, community, and the connective tissue are what bind them together.
The researcher
The single place that makes coming, staying, and succeeding viable — in place of a dozen disconnected agencies, portals, and forms. One verified record, created once and carried through every step of the journey. Get this right and the pipeline fills itself.
The government
One place to offer everything it has — every program, opportunity, and pathway — and a live view of what the public investment actually produces. Neutral national infrastructure the government funds, not a product bought once.
We federate what exists — we don't rebuild it.
Many partners across government, industry, and institutions feed into one platform. That breadth of connection is the aggregation value.
We federate what exists.
Where a researcher shows up, works, and stays — orchestration and community in one place.
The result: one destination worth a researcher's time — not one more form to fill.
One record. One consent.
One continuous path.
The value chain is easiest to see in one researcher — found abroad, funded, landed, and built into a Canadian venture, never re-entering themselves along the way. Community runs across every stage.
Discovery
Reached through embassy science campaigns, targeted outreach, EURAXESS and ORCID cross-listing, or a peer referral — and inbound interest from institutions recruiting in their field. A short, low-friction intake, minutes not forms.
Verified profile — the record that travels
Connect ORCID and the scholarly record populates itself; identity, credentials, publications, IP, and preferences build into one structured, portable record — each field verified where possible, carrying its own consent.
Community — before they ever move
A real community, not a matching screen: groups, project spaces, prospective hosts and collaborators, an industry partner. Engagement starts while still abroad — the reason to stay, deliberately first.
Match & funded intake
Matched to a specific opportunity and a Canadian nominator, with eligibility checked and the application assembled directly from the verified record. The fragmented, institution-mediated scramble becomes one orchestrated handoff.
Immigration — a first-class workspace
The hardest part, treated as an orchestrated workflow: the right permit now with a permanent-residence route planned from day one, documents reused from the record, family handled as one case, one thread across IRCC and the institution.
Landing & anchoring
Housing, banking, and credit — the newcomer trap dissolved, because the bank and landlord receive a pre-vetted arrival with verified identity and a funded award behind them. The anchor that turns a placement into a life.
Research, commercialization & venture
Installed and funded, their work accrues to the same record; the platform flags commercialization potential and convenes the tech-transfer office, an incubator, and industry — and a Canadian venture forms around the research.
Canada is competing for the world's best minds. This is how it wins.
Maple Impact is raising to build the platform. If you're a partner, an institution, or a funder who wants to see the full picture, let's talk.
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