Canada IV Cohort
AdvancedUAV is a Canadian drone technology developer and manufacturer committed to advancing precision agriculture through locally produced UAV solutions. Our drones provide high-precision field inspection and targeted spraying, helping farmers optimize resources, increase yields, and improve sustainability. By integrating advanced sensors, AI-driven analytics, and autonomous flight, we deliver real-time insights that enhance efficiency and environmental impact. With a strong commitment to local manufacturing, AdvancedUAV ensures reliable and scalable UAV solutions tailored for North American farmers.
BloomIQ Technologies brings AI pattern recognition to the fresh produce industry. In real-time, BloomIQ centralizes data and provides actionable intelligence, predicting supply, demand, price, and quality. BloomIQ brings better decision making and a more reliable and efficient supply chain to fresh produce. We will reimagine the industry into an engine for a more equitable, sustainable planet.
Bloom Climate provides an automated Climate-as-a-Service solution for the growing greenhouses and indoor farms sector. Managing climate is the #2 concern of growers after labor shortage and need for automation. All other software on the market is limited by the capabilities of current hardware technologies: HVAC hardware designed for humans in buildings, not designed for the dynamic needs of plants in buildings. By combining proprietary hardware and agronomic logic in software, with advanced sensors, Bloom Climate’s flagship solution, the Dahlia, provides a game-changing approach to tackle the hard-to-manage, and critical environmental factors such as humidity and temperature, achieving optimal growing conditions. Their scalable integrated solution helps growers improve crop yields, minimize crop losses from diseases while significantly reducing energy consumption, offering farmers and growers a more sustainable, profitable and resilient operation.
Brilliant Harvest is an AI platform made to empower equipment dealer teams and their customers across the entire customer experience (CX), from purchase to repair.
Ki-Era Cattle, has a long history working directly with Farmers in the beef industry, scaling their business and financial operations. We are dedicated to revolutionizing sustainability within the agricultural sector, with a visionary approach, collaborating with key industry players to address the critical challenge of emissions from cattle. Ki-Era Cattle is grounded on a producer-driven ethos and is strategically positioned to take advantage of Alberta’s (to start) voluntary and regulatory carbon market for livestock. Our unique platform leverages the conversion of beef waste into renewable energy, generating carbon credit opportunities, benefiting both the environment and industry stakeholders.We are uniquely positioned to develop and scale our platform through our partnerships with Rimrock Renewables and Pirate Ship projects, in which Kendra Donnelly (Ki-Era’s President and founder) holds an ownership stake and has secured contracts. These projects have collectively raised over $100M to date.
- Calgary, AB & Port Coquitlam, BC
ApiSave is a biotechnology firm, committed to revolutionizing the approach to some of the world’s most pressing challenges by harnessing the power of nature. We develop cutting-edge, plant-based solutions to address issues such as overreliance on synthetic pesticides, antibiotic resistance, and persistent biofilms. We utilize our patented extraction technology through the ApiSave™ brand, which protects bee health and combats critical pathogens. This approach tackles bacterial pathogens and varroa mites without leaving harmful residues, providing a cleaner, greener method to safeguard humans and our planet’s pollinators.
Planteva Farms enhances crop quality and yield through innovative seedling production and advanced plant propagation techniques. We offer a turnkey solution called “Seedlings as a Service”, delivering transplanted trays ready for direct integration into customers’ growing systems. This service reduces labor costs, saves time, and increases overall growing surface by reclaiming space typically used for seedling production. Additionally, Planteva engages in R&D to improve plant health, yield, and reduce transplant shock, partnering with agricultural entities to develop new genetics and test cutting-edge technologies.
QuantoTech is decarbonizing food production and increasing food security with our proprietary technology allowing us to operate a unique, decentralized farming model that disrupts the traditional value chain with highly replicable, in-building, “hub and spoke” farms, that reduce food waste, and maximize profit by cutting out middlemen.
We sell our living produce wholesale and direct-to-consumer through our brand “Northern Greens” including a variety of leafy greens and herbs including butterhead, romaine, red/green looseleaf, oakleaf, chard, basil, parsley, and cilantro. We are constantly adding new products. We’ve just added a variety of gourmet mushrooms whose natural CO2 production enhances the growth of our existing and new plant crops.
SoilOptix® is revolutionizing agriculture by providing high-resolution soil mapping technology that empowers farmers to make smarter, data-driven decisions. By utilizing advanced sensors and software, SoilOptix® generates precise, detailed soil nutrient and texture maps, revealing insights previously unseen with traditional sampling. This enables farmers to optimize crop inputs, reduce environmental impact, and boost yields efficiently and sustainably. Our scalable, user-friendly technology provides actionable insights at an affordable cost, positioning SoilOptix® as an essential tool in the future of precision agriculture.
YEX is a breakthrough alternative to fetal bovine serum (FBS) and serum-free media (SFM), delivering superior cellgrowth, batch consistency, and cost efficiency. Designed for biopharmaceuticals and livestock vaccine production,YEX eliminates supply chain risks and ethical concerns while enhancing scalability and reliability. Our proprietaryformulation optimizes vaccine yield and accelerates biomanufacturing, securing the future of animal vaccineproduction and global food security.YEX empowers biotech innovators in the livestock vaccination space with a stable, ethical, and cost-effective solution.The future of biomanufacturing starts here.