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SDTC investments translate to economic and environmental benefits

SDTC is an outcomes-based investor, driving impact through the economic and environmental returns of the technologies we fund.  

We support companies from seed to success.  

With our milestone-based funding approach, our relationship with companies for each project is three to five years. We then maintain engagement through post-project reporting and support, and in many cases see the company return with further innovations as they continue to grow.  

We invest in companies with transformative environmental and economic potential, from seed to start-up to scale-up.

Read about the economic and environmental impacts below and learn more about the companies we fund.

Economic Benefits

We use two primary metrics to measure the economic benefits from our funded companies: jobs and revenues.

Here are our results as of March 31, 2023.

24,492

Estimated total jobs (direct and indirect) attributable to SDTC-funded projects

$1.71B

Of SDTC funding to sustainable technology projects

$3.0B

Estimated annual revenues generated by SDTC companies

$13.27B

Estimated total follow-on financing generated by SDTC-funded companies since 2001

Environmental Benefits

Our primary measurement of environmental benefits is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions achieved by each SDTC-supported project undertaken by the companies we invest in.
Here are our results as of March 31, 2023.

24.7

megatonnes CO2e estimated annual GHG emissions reduction attributable to SDTC-supported technologies

223

Projects in market generating environmental benefits

$354M

In estimated annual savings to the Canadian economy due to air quality, clean water and clean soil benefits

Streamlined Processes

We leverage the strengths of our lean organization and the expertise of our people to deliver a big impact. We have streamlined our application process to ensure we are putting our funds to work faster. We continue to transform how we do business, by restructuring how we operate and improving the speed and quality by which we do our business.

115

New projects approved in 2022–2023

$196M

in funding to sustainable technology projects in 2022-2023