For several years, the Ottawa-based company Illumisoft Lighting has been a leader in providing high-efficiency optical lens systems and innovative LED lighting solutions. Conscious of the significant opportunities for growth in this industry through USA markets, Illumisoft Lighting regularly carries out marketing and advertising activities abroad. Their team knew that significant financial assistance is available to SMEs for such purposes, subsidizing up to 75% of their eligible costs up to $75,000, through Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service CanExport programs. Knowing how competitive this program is, they enrolled in Arctech Accelerate’s services and successfully obtained funding for an application that accurately and eloquently depicted how their proposed foreign growth strategy for 2020-2021 made them not only eligible but a perfect fit for CanExport SME’s mandate. In addition to the CanExport SME program, with the assistance of Arctech Accelerate’s partner, they were successful in also obtaining ISC-Testing Stream funding equalling over $100,000 which can also result in national scaling.