QReserve launches Collaborative Funding Directory

Hamilton, Ontario, March 31, 2015 — McMaster University startup, QReserve Inc., is happy to announce the launch of their Collaborative Funding Directory as a free resource for researchers and industry to discover funding opportunities in support of collaborative research projects.

“Academia and industry are working together more than ever and our funding atmosphere reflects this, with an increasing number of grant programs requiring some form of collaboration”, say QReserve Inc.’s CEO, Brandon Aubie. “The QReserve Collaborative Funding Directory provides an easy to access, free resource to both academics and industry to explore the multitude of funding opportunities available to them in Canada.”

The QReserve Collaborative Funding has been hand curated from multiple sources to provide a directory of over 50 funding sources uniquely targeted toward collaborative research. All funding sources can be browsed in one location with links to their respective program and sub-program websites for further information. QReserve plans to update the Collaborative Funding Directory on an ongoing basis to continue offering up-to-date information that supports collaborative research.

Browse the QReserve Collaborative Funding Directory online at www.qreserve.com/funding.

About QReserve Inc.

QReserve Inc. was founded in 2014 at McMaster University to support collaborative research. The company provides an open-access online platform for cataloguing and searching research equipment and services across universities, colleges and research institution. QReserve offers a student support program to help universities catalogue resources across research groups and their search platform integrates with existing university websites to provide turn-key institutional resource databases. QReserve currently operates out of the McMaster Innovation Park in Hamilton, Ontario and has received generous funding from the Ontario Centres of Excellence, FedDev, IRAP (Government of Canada).