It's a great question. The accelerator program is very much a process for young entrepreneurs to go through. They're followed for three to six months and sometimes even longer. When they graduate from that program, a convertible note program that BDC has developed allows us to invest in that company alongside angel investors. Often we're the first institutional investor to come in at that stage, and the leverage of our money is often two or three times the money we put in that company. The money is used to bridge them to an A round of financing. This is a bit of matching with angel investors, and we see this a lot. We see it in the venture capital industry as well. When a fund invests, we'll go in and invest in collaboration.
That's the type of matching we do with angel investors at the very early stage. In terms of technology and start-ups, two weeks ago we launched a technology start-up loan that goes up to $500,000. The presentation you had was prior to the launch of that program. We spent some time in Kitchener-Waterloo, and we know that Communitech was vocal in expressing the needs of entrepreneurs, and we were quite responsive to the voice of reason, and we launched that product. We're hoping to scale that across Canada, as the first money those entrepreneurs can receive in taking that first step. A combination of the VC and those technology loans will go a long way, and in terms of manufacturing—