The organization was birthed out of conversations among members of the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship’s Advisory Board at the Ivey Business School at Western. These conversations began with a clear concern: Canada has extraordinary entrepreneurial talent, strong institutions, and promising regional ecosystems, but the country still needs a more honest, practical, and nationally connected conversation about what it takes for companies to scale here.

Scale Here was created to help advance that conversation. Our work focuses on the realities of building and growing companies in Canada. We examine the founders, regions, policies, capital conditions, institutions, and cultural choices that shape whether Canadian businesses grow, stall, stay, or leave. We are interested not only in startup activity, but in the deeper question of what allows ambitious companies to become enduring contributors to Canada’s economy.

Scale Here sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship journalism, regional ecosystem analysis, public policy insight, and practical institutional accountability. We go beyond surface-level narratives by asking harder questions about how companies are built, what barriers they face, where ecosystems are working, where gaps remain, and what changes are needed from governments, investors, institutions, and other ecosystem actors.

Although Scale Here emerged from a Western and Ivey-connected network, it is not designed to be a university-focused publication. It is a national professional initiative serving founders, operators, investors, policymakers, and ecosystem builders across Canada. At the same time, Scale Here is powered in part by the next generation of Canadian entrepreneurial leaders. Students contribute research capacity, editorial energy, regional curiosity, and fresh perspective, while experienced entrepreneurs and industry leaders provide strategic guidance and practical judgment.

Our purpose as an organization is simple: to help Canada better understand the engines of its entrepreneurial economy, identify the patterns that produce growth, and challenge the country to create the conditions for more companies to scale, compete, and remain here.

Scale Here exists to uncover what it truly takes to build Canada’s entrepreneurial economy, region by region and founder by founder. We examine the founders, operators, policies, capital conditions, and cultural choices that shape whether Canadian businesses grow, stall, stay, or leave. Our mission is to help Canada understand what it truly takes to build enduring companies here, and to challenge actors, to create the conditions for more of them to scale and succeed.

Our vision is to become Canada’s trusted platform for journalism on building companies beyond the startup stage, regional ecosystem insight, and constructive national advocacy focused on the future of the country’s scale up economy. We envision a Canada where ambitious founders and operators can build world class companies without treating departure as the default path to growth, where entrepreneurial support is strengthened region by region, and where the people, institutions, markets, and policy choices shaping business growth are examined with the depth, honesty, and foresight they deserve.