THRIVE Canada V Accelerator Cohort
Crush Dynamics, an innovative agritech company based in BC, Canada, has created a patented bio mechanical process for transforming wine by-product into highly nutritious food ingredients. CDI’s ingredients enable food and nutraceutical producers to meet increasing consumer demand for more sustainable solutions with outstanding nutritional value.
The CDI process enables wineries to lower their carbon footprint by avoiding the methane emissions from discarded derivatives.
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Summerland, British Columbia
Wherever grain is handled, Ground Truth’s system provides fast, reliable grading results. By combining Machine Vision for visual grading and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for non-visual quality factors, you gain instant, actionable insights that streamline workflows, reduce disputes, and support better marketing and operational decisions.They work where you work – delivering results on bulk high throughput grain as its handled, processed and moved.
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Regina, Saskatchewan
Insporos has developed a non-destructive physical AI seed analysis technology that predicts germination, vigour, and disease risk at the individual seed level. Starting with high-value greenhouse crops and expanding into broader seed and field crop systems, Insporos aims to help agriculture move beyond destructive sampling and low-resolution batch testing toward rapid, per-seed quality insights that can reduce waste, improve operational decision-making, and support more reliable crop production.
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Vancouver, British Columbia
Maia Farms is the expert at integrating mushrooms into everyday foods, for food manufacturers. We are a B2B ingredient company that produces nutrient dense and versatile ingredients that improve taste, texture and function of food productions. Founded by a farmer, an engineer, and scientist after winning first place on a mission to feed astronauts in deep space. We are now bridging the gap between food technology and food security through our Nourish Life mission.
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Vancouver, British Columbia
Nfinite is developing the world’s highest performing recyclable barrier paper to replace metallized plastic for the flexible packaging industry. Metalized plastic, the predominant material for flexible packaging requiring high shelf life is not recycled and leads to millions of tons of annual plastic waste.
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Waterloo, Ontario
SomaDetect leverages light-scattering directly from the milking line, to provide insights from every cow, at every milking. We deliver actionable shortlists to improve herd health, nutritional quality, and reproductive timing. In the past few months, we’ve grown quickly – onboarding farms across Ontario, New York, Maine and California. Our existing partnerships and testimonials position us well for further business development via Thrive’s accelerator program.
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Tillsonburg, Ontario