BDC, as my colleague was suggesting, is involved in the creation of companies. So we do, actually, venture capital. The business of venture capital is to commercialize research and development from university and other research labs in Canada.
We are involved in the creation of companies, but we're also involved in the growth of these companies. We do support globalization of these companies in one way or another. When it comes to the more traditional financing, it's financing projects. Usually an entrepreneur has a project they want to expand, they want to buy a new piece of equipment, or they want to invest in researching a new market, a new product. So we call ourselves project financing.
We also provide management support, consulting services, because with an SME, there are two things that are growing at the same time. There's the business and there's the management that has to evolve, and we have to invest in that. So that's why we have those three lines of business. Venture capital is in the creation and formation of companies. Traditional financing for us is more the support and the growth of these companies.
At the higher end, when these companies become more global, we do work with EDC.