TORONTO, ON — April 2nd, 2026 — GRANTED Technologies Inc., the AI-powered grant discovery and writing co-pilot, is thrilled to announce a strategic community partnership with The Fashion Zone at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada’s fastest-growing fashion and technology incubator. Because of the platform’s sector-agnostic capabilities, this partnership is also being amplified across TMU’s entire Zone Learning Network, equipping founders from all 10 campus zones—spanning STEM, retail, and creative tech—with the AI infrastructure they need to easily secure non-dilutive capital.
Securing funding can be notoriously challenging and intimidating for early-stage entrepreneurs. Founders often spend hundreds of hours navigating fragmented grant portals and writing tedious applications instead of building their products and growing their businesses.
GRANTED removes this friction. By leveraging specialized AI trained on strict Canadian grant criteria and a proprietary database of over 1,500 funding opportunities, GRANTED matches founders to highly relevant grants. Instead of just pointing founders to a portal, GRANTED’s AI acts as a true co-pilot, generating up to 80% of the complex application narrative and saving founders hundreds of hours. Additionally, GRANTED equips accelerator directors with a centralized dashboard to track their cohorts’ real-time funding success.
“Having worked deeply within the university accelerator ecosystem, I know firsthand the barriers founders face when trying to capitalize their visions,” says Justina Kanza, CEO and Founder of GRANTED. “Creative, retail, and STEM startups are incredibly innovative, yet the grant process is incredibly overwhelming. We are thrilled to partner with The Fashion Zone and the broader TMU Zone Learning Network to put our AI directly into the hands of these brilliant founders, helping them secure the funding they deserve.”
“We’re excited to partner with GRANTED because it tackles one of the biggest hidden bottlenecks for early-stage founders – accessing non-dilutive capital without adding more work to their plate.
At Fashion Zone, we see firsthand how much time founders lose navigating complex grant processes instead of building and scaling their ventures.
GRANTED flips that dynamic by making grant discovery and writing faster, smarter, and more accessible.” says Angelique Bowen-Achong, Program Coordinator at the Fashion Zone.
Partnership Kick-Off Events & Exclusive Perks
To officially launch the partnership and introduce the new platform, GRANTED will be hosting two major events:
- Wednesday, April 8, 2026: The official public launch and Demo Day of the newly improved GRANTED platform. You can register here: https://luma.com/g9gm41vy
- Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 5:30 PM EST: An exclusive “Grant Writing 101 For Creatives” hosted specifically for the TMU Zone Learning community. You can register here: https://luma.com/3nurfgpt
Community Perks
As part of this ongoing partnership, GRANTED is offering exclusive platform discounts to the TMU entrepreneurial community. Please reach out to your TMU Learning Zone Program Coordinator for an exclusive discount code.
About GRANTED
GRANTED is an AI-powered B2B2C SaaS platform that streamlines how founders, nonprofits, professional grant writers, and ecosystem organizations access non-dilutive capital. By automating the discovery and drafting process, GRANTED acts as a co-pilot for founders, while providing incubators and accelerators with enterprise-grade dashboards to track their cohort’s funding success in real-time. For more information, visit grantedtech.ca.
About The Fashion Zone & Zone Learning at TMU
Located at the intersection of fashion and technology, The Fashion Zone is an interdisciplinary incubator at Toronto Metropolitan University that provides growth and funding opportunities to ignite fashion innovation in Canada. It is part of TMU’s broader Zone Learning Network—10 distinct campus incubators that help entrepreneurs across multiple disciplines build, scale, and redefine their industries.
Media Contact:
Ayomide Ilegbemi
marketing@grantedtech.ca
GRANTED Technologies Inc.