York Entrepreneurship Development Institute is a sector-agnostic start-up accelerator that provides mentorship to innovative entrepreneurs. The company's mission is to develop a free institute where innovators can pursue training, education, and mentorship in order to produce quality effective businesses and not-for-profit organizations. The company ensures that ideas with high impact are not lost due to a lack of knowledge during the start-up process. It guides innovators to process ideas and create tested proof of concepts that are attractive to investors and will benefit Canadian society. Serving Toronto, York Region and internationally based ventures, YEDI presents programs and guided processes for its participants, including lecture-based learning, seminar training, deliverable milestones, peer workshops, and mentorship by subject matter experts. YEDI offers an array of programs to serve Canadian & International for-profit and not-for-profit innovators from a diversity of sectors.