NorthLight Innovation

Name

NorthLight Innovation

Legal name

Yukonstruct Society

Website

https://yukonstruct.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Whitehorse

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Coworking Space Memberships (Cospace): Monthly recurring subscriptions for hotdesking, dedicated desks, and micro offices. Hotdesking ranges from $135-$235/month; dedicated desks from $409-$449/month; micro offices from $525/month. Community membership at $37/month provides discounts without physical access.
2. Makerspace Memberships (Makespace): Monthly recurring memberships for workshop and maker space access. Daytime membership $66-$166/month; family plans at $169-$329/month; micro-studios at $515/month. Wood/metal shops require additional orientations.
3. Space and Event Rentals: Hourly and daily rental of meeting rooms, event spaces, podcast studio, and classrooms. Podcast studio at $39/hr; Air North Event Space at $90/hr or $684/full day; combined event space up to $90/hr.
4. Entrepreneur Bootcamp Programs: Paid cohort programs including Food & Beverage Bootcamp ($300), Early Tech Bootcamp ($750), Entrepreneurial Fundamentals ($99), Hougen Mentorship Program ($199 for mentees), and Maker Academy ($999 for 6-week intensive).
5. Government and Foundation Grants: Funding from CanNor (Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency) and Yukon Government's Department of Economic Development supports operations and programming.
6. Merchandise Sales: Sale of Yukonstruct branded merchandise including t-shirts, hoodies, ball caps, beanies, and tote bags with member pricing discounts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

NorthLight Innovation, operated by the Yukonstruct Society, is a non-profit community innovation hub in Whitehorse, Yukon. It provides shared coworking space (Cospace), a community workshop and makerspace (Makespace) with woodworking, metalworking, digital fabrication, and electronics tools, and a suite of entrepreneurial programming including bootcamps, mentorship, and pathfinding business advisory services.

Product overview

NorthLight Innovation (operated by Yukonstruct Society) is a community innovation hub offering a platform of interconnected physical spaces and programs. The core offerings include Cospace (a collaborative coworking space with hotdesking, dedicated desks, and micro-offices) and Makespace (a fully-equipped community workshop with woodshop, metalshop, digital fabrication, electronics, and sewing facilities). The organization supplements these with Startup Support—a suite of entrepreneurial programs including Pathfinding Services, Entrepreneurship Fundamentals, Hougen Mentorship, Early Tech Bootcamp, Food & Beverage Bootcamp, and the Launchpad accelerator. Additional services include Maker Academy training programs, event space and podcast studio rentals, and free mentoring services. The portfolio functions as a unified innovation ecosystem supporting makers, entrepreneurs, and creatives from idea through market launch.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cospace (Coworking) A shared coworking space offering hotdesking, dedicated desks, and micro-offices with high-speed internet, coffee, meeting rooms, and a collaborative community for freelancers, remote workers, and small businesses in the Yukon.
• Makespace A community workshop facility including woodshop, metalshop, digital fabrication lab, hackerspace, electronics lab, sewing loft, 3D printers, CNC routers, laser cutters, and other maker equipment for members to learn, build, and create.
• Startup Support Program Suite

Quantifiable outcome

• 90+ entrepreneurs graduated from Food & Beverage Bootcamp over 10 cohorts, with graduates selling products at markets, stores, and via e-commerce
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered major, minor and core.

• FuturpreneurmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025National non-profit organization supporting young entrepreneurs aged 18-39. Through this partnership, Yukonstruct connects local entrepreneurs with Futurpreneur's national resources, mentoring, and startup financing programs.
• Women's Enterprise Organizations of Canada (WEOC)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025National umbrella organization for women's enterprise support organizations across Canada. Partnership helps connect women entrepreneurs in the Yukon with national resources and networks.
• Invest OttawamajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Leading innovation hub and economic development organization in Ottawa. Partnership enables knowledge sharing, program delivery, and connections between Ottawa and Yukon entrepreneurship ecosystems.
• Camp TechminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Digital skills and technology training organization that partners with innovation hubs across Canada. Helps Yukonstruct deliver tech-focused programming and connect members with broader Canadian tech communities.
• The ForumminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025National entrepreneurship organization that connects Canadian startups with resources, mentors, and community events. Partnership extends Yukon's entrepreneurial ecosystem nationally.
• Whitehorse Chamber of CommercemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Partnership with the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce to co-deliver the Hougen Group of Companies Mentorship Program. The Chamber helps connect emerging entrepreneurs with established business leaders in the Yukon business community.
• Air North, Yukon's AirlineminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Major Yukon airline providing sponsorship for the Air North Event Space at Northlight Innovation. Partnership includes brand visibility in the event space and support for community events.
• Tech YukonminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Local non-profit and social enterprise focused on technology in the Yukon. Member of Yukonstruct's community, sharing resources and programming with the broader Yukon tech ecosystem.
• Yukon First Nations Education DirectorateminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Organization supporting First Nations education across the Yukon. Partnership helps extend Yukonstruct's services and programming to Indigenous entrepreneurs and communities.
• Yukon Invasive Species CouncilOthers · 1 January 2024Non-profit focused on conservation and environmental protection. Active member of the Yukonstruct community.
• Yukon University (YukonU) - Innovation & EntrepreneurshipcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2018Yukon University's Innovation & Entrepreneurship department is co-located at Northlight Innovation, sharing the facility with Yukonstruct. This partnership supports students and faculty access to makerspace and startup resources, and connects the academic community with Yukon's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Yukonstruct's Business Coordinator Simon Kishchuk is a graduate of Yukon University's Multimedia Communications program.
• Northern Vision DevelopmentcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Northern Vision Development partnered with Yukonstruct to provide the lease for the old Supervalu Foods building at 2180 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse. This partnership enabled the consolidation of the makerspace and coworking space under one roof in 2018.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• WeWork: Global coworking and flexible office provider offering hotdesking, dedicated desks, and private offices with community programming. Comparable in the coworking and community-as-value proposition, though lacking the makerspace and maker-education components that define NorthLight.
• Communitech: Established Canadian innovation hub in Kitchener-Waterloo offering accelerator programming, coworking, and corporate partnership networks for tech startups. Comparable in mission and programming structure, though operates at substantially larger scale in a denser ecosystem.
• Impact Hub: Global network of impact-focused innovation hubs providing coworking, accelerator programming, and community for social entrepreneurs. Comparable to NorthLight's mission-driven community + startup support model, but operates a much broader network footprint.
• District 3 Innovation Center: Montreal-based innovation hub offering coworking, accelerators, and startup support programming. Comparable as a non-academic, member-supported innovation hub combining physical space with entrepreneur programming.

Direct peers

• Makerspace North: Ottawa-based community makerspace and innovation hub offering woodworking, metalworking, digital fabrication, and coworking alongside startup programming. Functionally similar to Yukonstruct's integrated facility, and notably a documented partner of Yukonstruct, indicating ecosystem overlap.
• Calgary Maker Space: Member-run community makerspace providing access to woodworking, metalworking, electronics, and digital fabrication tools with mentorship and workshops. Comparable in the community-membership and equipment-access model to NorthLight's Makespace.
• Vancouver Hack Space: Non-profit community hackerspace/makerspace offering shared access to electronics, fabrication, and prototyping tools, plus educational programming. Comparable in non-profit, member-driven structure and maker community focus to Yukonstruct.
• Makery Coworking & Makerspace: Community makerspace and coworking facility combining digital fabrication tools, shared workshop space, and event programming for makers and entrepreneurs. Directly comparable to NorthLight's Cospace + Makespace hybrid model, though operating in a different Canadian city.

Emerging players

• Spring Activator: Canadian impact accelerator and coworking hub providing cohort-based programming and workspace for social enterprises and innovators. Comparable in mission-driven accelerator + coworking offering, though focused on impact ventures rather than general entrepreneurs.
• Maker Faire (Make Community): Global event series and community celebrating the maker movement, including Maker Faire Yukon (inaugurated 2024 by Yukonstruct). Comparable as an emerging network operator in the maker-education space where Yukonstruct participates as a host/partner.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@yukonstruct-society
• Facebookfacebook.com/yukonstruct
• Instagraminstagram.com/yukonstruct
• Xx.com/yukonstruct
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/yukonstruct

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles23 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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