Farm Credit Canada Receives $5B to Support Agri-Businesses During COVID-19
Farm Credit Canada has received $5B from the federal government to extend their lending capacity to agri-businesses facing financial hardships due to COVID-19.
Farm Credit Canada has received $5B from the federal government to extend their lending capacity to agri-businesses facing financial hardships due to COVID-19.
Kinduct Technologies shifts from the sports medicine and training market to the Nova Scotia healthcare market with $2M in government funding grants.
A Saskatoon company developing market research tools was awarded $1.1M from the Business Scale-up and Productivity (BSP) program.
The City of Hamilton is expected to receive up to $10M in funding for autonomous vehicle road testing in 2020.
North Vancouver company Aurora Solar Technologies (Aurora) has secured an R&D grant from the National Research Council (NRC). NRC funding will allow Aurora to improve its production process and secure new patents. Aurora develops and delivers inline process measurement, analysis, and control systems for solar cell manufacturers, and is a major contributor to the growing…
Canadian companies are some of the most innovative in the world. But when it comes to developing and commercializing ideas into globally competitive technologies, firms are struggling to keep up. It’s not the lack of viable ideas that holds us back, but the ability to advance these ideas into profitable, sustainable business opportunities. Fortunately, government…
Three companies in the Greater Toronto Area have in total received $5.6M in research and development funding from the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). The research and development projects of the three firms are some of the first to benefit from the federal government’s Budget 2018 investment of $700M over five…
Toronto company Datametrex AI Ltd. has been awarded $945K from the federal government’s Department of National Defence (DND) to continue the company’s development of its social media discovery and monitoring platform. Funding comes from the DND’s Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS), a federal procurement program that supports the development of defence and security…
The City of Toronto has received $5M from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) to create an Indigenous Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ICIE). The ICIE will be the first business incubator of its kind in southern Ontario and will provide space and support in Toronto for Indigenous entrepreneurs who are…
As of 2018, SCALE.AI has been one of five business-led superclusters as part of Canada’s Innovative Superclusters Initiative. SCALE.AI (Supply Chains and Logistics Excellence AI), based out of Quebec, specifically focuses on strengthening Canada’s leadership in artificial intelligence, and accelerating industry adoption of enabling technologies through collaborative and incremental projects. In summer of this year,…