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Technology has re-shaped the way customers are engaging with main street businesses.
Digital Main Street is a program that enables main street businesses to connect with the digital technologies, tools and service providers needed to increase sales, engage new customers and grow their business.
There are four parts of the program:
1. The Digital Main Street Platform: Provides main street businesses with a digital assessment, to-do list and connections to trusted digital service providers (www.digitalmainstreet.ca)
2. The BIAcademy: A learning resource for businesses (workshops/training/online content)
3. The Digital Service Squad: Think a "geek squad" for main street to help businesses on-board and sustain digital tools/tech.
4. BIA Lab: Turning main street into a digital lab, where retail innovation startups can test/demonstrate their product with retailers.
If you're a main street business, or a digital service provider join Digital Main Street today!
This program is delivered in partnership by TABIA and the City of Toronto.
Digital Main Street is a program that enables main street businesses to connect with the digital technologies, tools and service providers needed to increase sales, engage new customers and grow their business.
There are four parts of the program:
1. The Digital Main Street Platform: Provides main street businesses with a digital assessment, to-do list and connections to trusted digital service providers (www.digitalmainstreet.ca)
2. The BIAcademy: A learning resource for businesses (workshops/training/online content)
3. The Digital Service Squad: Think a "geek squad" for main street to help businesses on-board and sustain digital tools/tech.
4. BIA Lab: Turning main street into a digital lab, where retail innovation startups can test/demonstrate their product with retailers.
If you're a main street business, or a digital service provider join Digital Main Street today!
This program is delivered in partnership by TABIA and the City of Toronto.
Overview
Location
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$57M
Founded date
2015
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 13
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| Oct 18, 2021 | CIRA encourages small businesses to own their digital presence during Small Business Week 2021 | OTTAWA, Oct. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As CIRA celebrates the amazing Canadians who channel their ideas into action during Small Business Week 2021, it is also an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of building a strong, rel... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | CIRA encourages small businesses to own their digital presence during Small Business Week 2021 | Recent major outages demonstrate the dangers of relying exclusively on social media for online presence OTTAWA, Oct. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As CIRA celebrates the amazing Canadians who channel their ideas into action during Small Busi... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | MRKT360 joins Digital Main Street to support small businesses through digital marketing services | As a vendor on Digital Main Street, Mrkt360 is ready to give back to the community by helping small businesses thrive in the ever complicated digital landscape. VAUGHAN, Ontario (PRWEB) July 27, 2021 Mrkt360 is proud to announce they are of... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Digital Main Street’s Future Proof program supports 75 pilot projects in Ontario | Across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significantly disruptive impact on small businesses. As a result of this, a number of initiatives have emerged to support small businesses and help them adapt to the new normal. One of the... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | FedDev Ontario Supports Toronto’s Underrepresented Entrepreneurs | FedDev Ontario has announced an investment of $750,000 towards the Parkdale Centre for Innovation (PCI), a not-for-profit business accelerator, to expand its entrepreneurship program and support options for less represented groups. PCI plan... |
| Aug 19, 2020 | Digital Main Street launching new programs for small businesses following federal, provincial funding | Digital Main Street is set to launch the Future Proof Program, an initiative comprising three programs aimed at helping “future proof” main street businesses and their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital Main Street is set to ... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Facebook commits $1 million in ad credits to ShopHERE initiative | Facebook has revealed it is committing $1 million to Digital Main Street’s ShopHERE powered by Google initiative, a program aimed to help 50,000 local businesses build and optimize their stores online amid the COVID-19 crisis. “It’s more im... |
| Jun 22, 2020 | Ontario Helping Small Businesses Create Their Online Presence | The Ontario provincial and Canadian federal governments have partnered together in creating a new fund dedicated to helping small businesses reach more customers online. This $57-million fund will help up to 22,900 Ontario businesses create... |
| Jun 19, 2020 | Toronto Region Board of Trade launches program to help Ontario businesses go digital | The free, new online business support program is designed to help Ontario businesses adapt to a more digital world during and post-COVID-19. The program is part of the Toronto Board of Trade’s Reimagining Recovery Framework. The Toronto Reg... |
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FAQ about Digital Main Street
When was Digital Main Street founded?
Digital Main Street was founded in 2015.
How much funding has Digital Main Street raised?
Digital Main Street has raised $57M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Digital Main Street?
Parsers VC has collected 13 articles mentioning Digital Main Street, among them “CIRA encourages small businesses to own their digital presence during Small Business Week 2021” (Oct 18, 2021) and “CIRA encourages small businesses to own their digital presence during Small Business Week 2021” (Oct 18, 2021).
Is Digital Main Street still active?
Yes, Digital Main Street is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 13, 2021.