Invest Alberta engages the world and provides high-end tailored support to companies, investors, and major new projects to break down barriers so businesses can start up, scale up, and succeed without limits. Alberta’s strong economy, business-friendly environment, young and educated talent pool, and easy access to markets make the province the ideal location for global investments.
Today, where a business chooses to invest reflects more than economics and logistics, it mirrors the greater need to build on intangible strengths in pursuit of greater opportunity. Invest Alberta is showing organizations of all shapes and sizes what their future holds. In Alberta.
Invest Alberta was created to meet the need for job-creating and economy-diversifying private capital and foreign direct investment.
We lead Alberta in becoming one of the most attractive investment destinations in the world by leveraging deep industry knowledge in key growth sectors to connect investors and partners with Alberta opportunities that will build a flourishing economy.
Since launching in 2020, Invest Alberta has helped clients announce nearly $20 billion in investment committed to Alberta and more than 25,000 jobs.
Invest Alberta sources and maintains a qualified active funnel of investment opportunities and delivers a premium end-to-end investor experience.
Invest Alberta considers both qualitative (presence of clusters, pre-existing relationships, etc.) and quantitative (flow of outgoing FDI, market size) factors in determining which markets are priorities for business development.
Invest Alberta takes a Team Alberta approach by building strong connections with our ecosystem partners to be a reliable and trusted source for investors.
Established as a crown corporation of the Government of Alberta, Invest Alberta Corporation (Invest Alberta) promotes Alberta as an investment destination of choice to investors internationally, attracting high-value and high-impact investments to Alberta, Canada.
To support Alberta in becoming one of the most attractive investment destinations in the world. We do this by leveraging deep industry knowledge in key growth sectors to connect investors and partners with Alberta opportunities that will build a flourishing economy.
Build on Alberta’s strengths and competitive advantage to create and win opportunities that make Alberta’s economy the most dynamic in North America.
The Invest Alberta Corporation’s Annual Report for the period ended March 31, 2023, was prepared under the Board of Directors direction in accordance with the Planning and Reporting Guide, and the ministerial guidelines established pursuant to the Alberta Public Agencies Governance Act (APAGA) and the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act. All material economic, environmental, or fiscal implications, of which we are aware, have been considered in preparation of this report.
5,256
Full-time employment + construction
19
32% in Rural Alberta
68% in Urban Centres (Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Fort Saskatchewan)
$682,000,000
in Alberta
546
200%+ Increase over 2021-22
4
Deals that received a grant from the IGF created 895 jobs and had a total investment value of $319M
$18,949,000,000 Investment committed in Alberta since the inception of IAC
25,696 Jobs (since inception) *Job numbers were reported by our clients