Scale Your Dream

Applications are now closed for the 2026 Fireweed Venture Accelerator. Thank you to everyone who applied.

This 12-month, Indigenous-led accelerator is designed to strengthen your business from the inside out. Through culturally grounded strategy, expert training and mentorship, and a supportive cohort of peers, you’ll sharpen your business model, strengthen your leadership, and prepare your venture for sustainable, scalable growth.

This is more than growth. It’s about sure-footed stability, investment readiness, and aligning who you are with how you show up in your work. Together, we build ventures that thrive while staying rooted in culture, purpose, and a shared vision for our future.

Indigenous-led, culturally grounded support
Honours Indigenous values, relationships, and responsibilities to land and community.

A fully funded program
Travel, accommodations, meals, coaching, and mentorship are covered so you can focus on growth.

Build a sharper, scalable business model
Leave with clearer systems, tools, and a growth plan that fits your vision.

Become investment-ready
Build confidence to engage with investors, with potential access to leave the program with early funding.

A village of support and community
A strong entrepreneurial network of peers, kin, alumni, and advisors who can support you.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR 2026.

Is Fireweed a part of your path in the future?

Am I positioned for growth?

Do I have a proven product or service, paying customers, and a clear opportunity to scale?

Am I ready to invest time and attention in strengthening my business model?

Do I have the capacity to engage deeply?

Can I carve out consistent time for mentorship, peer learning, and implementation, knowing that growth requires both strategic focus and accountability?

Entrepreneurship

Embracing experimentation, adapting as we learn and responsive to our communities.

Reciprocity

Rooted in mutual benefit, sustainability, and shared success – shifting it from systems of extraction to models of reciprocity.

Power-Building

Creating the conditions to reclaim decision-making, access resources on our terms, and shape our economic futures.

Collaboration

Building relationships rooted in trust, and shared purpose – which honor Indigenous ways of working—valuing collective wisdom, deep listening, and co-creation.

Liberation

Reclaiming our right to shape our own futures, freedom to define success on our terms, rooted in our values, lands, and traditions.

Entrepreneurship

Embracing experimentation, adapting as we learn and responsive to our communities.

Reciprocity

Rooted in mutual benefit, sustainability, and shared success – shifting it from systems of extraction to models of reciprocity.

Power-Building

Creating the conditions to reclaim decision-making, access resources on our terms, and shape our economic futures.

Collaboration

Building relationships rooted in trust, and shared purpose – which honor Indigenous ways of working—valuing collective wisdom, deep listening, and co-creation.

Liberation

Reclaiming our right to shape our own futures, freedom to define success on our terms, rooted in our values, lands, and traditions.

Why Fireweed

We are a village of advisors, alumni, and changemakers cultivating an ecosystem that supports Indigenous-led businesses. Together, we build the conditions for ventures to thrive while staying true to cultural values. Our accelerator is more than a program; it’s a network of expertise helping you scale with integrity. Supported by experienced founders, investors, and industry leaders, you’ll learn to navigate shifting markets, harness tools like AI, and translate data into culturally aligned strategy. It’s rigorous, relational, and rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, helping you align who you are with how you show up each day, guided by purpose, curiosity, and ancestral wisdom toward a shared future.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR 2026.

Fireweed’s definition of a Scaleable business

A venture with the capacity to grow its revenue and impact significantly without incurring a proportional increase in costs, complexity, or resources like personnel, equipment, and technology. This involves building efficient systems, infrastructure, and processes to handle increased demand, allowing a company to produce more output with relatively fewer additional inputs. This efficiency creates profitability and a foundation for long-term success.

Programming Overview

Our year-long journey blends land-based gatherings, whole-person support, practical business tools, and a lifelong community, empowering Indigenous entrepreneurs to grow with confidence, culture, and connection. Review our curriculum highlights below.

We begin together on the land, grounding in kinship and ceremony. From there, we unpack how financial systems have impacted our people and build new, culturally aligned systems of abundance. This healing work strengthens your relationship with money so you can grow and thrive from stability, not survival.

Entrepreneurship is hard and lonely. You will be supported with resources such as leadership coaching, culturally sensitive therapy, and healing services that care for mind, body, and spirit and support your wellbeing.

Learn from internationally recognized experts, from bookkeeping to branding to boardroom readiness, we cover the full spectrum of business operations. You’ll strengthen financial literacy, leadership, and scalable growth strategies to thrive in both Indigenous and mainstream markets.

Over four in-person, land-based gatherings, you’ll connect with peers, Elders, and mentors in ceremony and culture. These week-long sessions offer renewal, deep learning, and a supportive ecosystem where your business and spirit grow together.

Your journey culminates in a purposeful and powerful Pitch Night with aligned investors, equipping you to present with confidence and clarity. Beyond the accelerator, you’ll remain part of Fireweed’s growing village of entrepreneurs and alumni for continued connection, collaboration, and co-creation.