Biotech grants in Canada

Funds companies scaling up sustainable macroalgae cultivation and turning the harvest into new bio-based food, feed or industrial products.

Funds late-stage clinical trials of treatments and diagnostics for six climate-linked diarrhoeal disease pathogens in sub-Saharan Africa.

Closed

Funds clinical and pre-clinical research that pins down the causes of, and builds better diagnostics and treatments for, medical conditions that are common but poorly understood, such as ME/CFS, autism, gynaecological diseases and low back pain.

Closed

Co-funds Polish translational cancer-metabolism research done with an international team.

Funds beyond-proof-of-concept innovations that make infectious-disease prevention, treatment or diagnostics cheaper, more accessible or better suited to sub-Saharan Africa.

Closed

Pays biomedical New Approach Methodology developers a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate animal-free testing methods and prepare them for regulatory use.

Funds one project mining research cohorts and biobanks to find causal links between infections and non-communicable diseases, aimed at new vaccines, diagnostics and early treatments.

Closed

Funds research into how environmental exposures interact with genetic and lifestyle factors to cause cancer in children, adolescents and young adults.

Closed

Funds AI and digital-twin tools that speed up bio-based manufacturing — from biorefinery process control to predicting biosynthesis pathways.

Funds a full-scale flagship biorefinery that turns separately-collected urban bio-waste into higher-value bio-based products instead of compost or biomethane.

Closed

Funds the advancement of existing vaccine candidates against one named epidemic-prone virus, from lab testing through to a first human safety trial.

Funds research into new tools and conversion routes that turn low-value forest residues into bio-based chemicals, materials or products beyond bioenergy.

Open

Funds Canadian firms in EUREKA low-carbon energy R&D consortia.

Awards University of Toronto-affiliated early-stage founders up to $15,000 CAD for a three-minute pitch, as part of an annual competition with over $100,000 in total prizes.

Awards University of Toronto-affiliated later-stage founders up to $40,000 CAD for a three-minute pitch, as part of an annual competition with over $100,000 in total prizes.

Open

Funds private investment in British Columbia small businesses through tax-supported incentives and provincial partnership support.

Open

Funds loan participation for Black Canadian entrepreneurs through mission-aligned lenders to expand growth-capable businesses.

Open

Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.

Pays Canadian employers up to about $10,000 per employee toward eligible training costs when they upskill their team.

Covers up to 50% of eligible export development costs for Canadian SMEs, up to a maximum of $50,000 per project.

Gives Kingston post-secondary students phased seed funding and a part-time venture-building program for projects that improve city life or municipal services.

Awards Canadian student founders up to $10,000 in a national bracket-style pitch competition.

Between cycles

Funds Canadian companies through federal innovation tax deductions for qualifying innovation experimentation costs.

Between cycles

Offers Canadian provinces extra incentives that top up federal measures for qualifying innovation activity.