What I've seen a lot of is "startups" that exist primarily to fulfill the role of "startup" in some kind of grant program that pays businesses to partner with s

What I've seen a lot of is "startups" that exist primarily to fulfill the role of "startup" in some kind of grant program that pays businesses to partner with startups. And if you are trying to start a tech company in canada, you end up bombarded with information about how to do this, it's all anyone really wants to talk about. Imo the while ecosystem is corrupted by government incentives or in some industries outright pretent and basically just bought with government money