Food Tech grants in Canada
Explore Food Tech grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for alternative proteins, food safety, nutrition, processing and supply-chain innovation from Canadian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Canada, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Food Tech in Canada come first.
Showing 1-24 of 223 grants
Strengthening the Canadian Supply Chain Program
🇨🇦PIC · Canada
Funds Canadian food manufacturers and processors through Protein Industries Canada co-investment to reformulate or scale up products using domestic plant-protein ingredients.
Artificial Intelligence Program
🇨🇦PIC · Canada
Supports collaborative teams in Canada through Protein Industries Canada Artificial Intelligence co-investment for plant-based innovation.
Core Technology Leadership Program
🇨🇦OSC · Canada
Funds ocean-economy innovation consortia developing scaled energy, sustainable seafood, and ocean technology.
Innovation Ecosystem Projects and Activity Program
🇨🇦OSC · Canada
Funds ocean innovation ecosystems with workforce, training, and partnerships to strengthen real-world implementation.
Technology Leadership Program
🇨🇦PIC · Canada
Funds collaborative plant-protein research and production projects in Canada through partner-led co-investment.
PSCE Volet 2 — Europe
🇨🇦IQ · Canada
Supports Quebec small firms expanding into Europe by funding export-market projects and international business development.
India-Canada Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2025
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds joint India-Canada industrial R&D projects with a grant up to INR 1.5 crore per project.
Ocean Idea Challenge
🇨🇦OSP · Canada
Pays up to $8,000 to Canada-based individuals, teams and very early-stage companies who complete a milestone-based customer discovery sprint validating an ocean-sustainability idea.
Oceans Stream
Creative Destruction Lab · Canada
Offers ocean-economy founders and researchers a nine-month, no-fee, no-equity mentorship program in Halifax where they meet mentors five times to set and hit growth objectives.
Team Grant — Collaborative (Seed)
🇨🇦CIHR (Canadian Institutes of H · Canada
Funds team-based health grants tackling national and international priorities to strengthen real-world implementation.
Biotechnology for Healthy Soil and Resilient Agriculture
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6.4M projects that turn soil-friendly biotechnology into scalable, safe and market-ready farm solutions.
Landscape Agroforestry for Healthy Soil
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €8M projects that scale agroforestry across landscapes and make healthier soil a practical, profitable choice.
Horizon SCAR: Research Agenda Coordination
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €4.75M action linking research agendas, initiatives and practitioners across Europe's food, farming, forestry, fisheries and bioeconomy sectors.
Circular Seafood Supply Chains
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €7.2–7.7M projects that turn seafood waste and by-products into circular, profitable and lower-impact ocean value chains.
Horizon Biomass Flows: Circular Platforms
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects to turn underused biomass and bio-waste into valuable products through local platforms, better logistics and circular business models.
African Union – European Union Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one coordination project to run the AU-EU food-security research partnership and seed-fund African agri-food startups.
Horizon Agriculture and Forestry Resilience Evidence
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M research projects that turn systemic-risk evidence into stronger resilience policies for European agriculture, forestry and supply chains.
Horizon AI Foodome Characterisation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €7.8M Innovation Action that uses AI to map the foodome and make food-safety and nutrition research more predictive.
Horizon Food Microbiome Market
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7–8M innovation projects that move food-system microbiome products from validated testing toward reliable EU-market scale-up.
Horizon Organic Farming Data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €6M coordination action that makes organic-farming data more complete, interoperable and useful from farm to consumer.
Horizon Small-Scale Aquatic Food Communities
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects to help small-scale fisheries and aquaculture build resilient aquatic-food businesses and stronger local communities.
Horizon Urban Food Innovation Ecosystems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M Innovation Actions that help cities grow inclusive, sustainable urban food start-ups and local innovation ecosystems.
Boosting data availability and AI solutions in food for consumers and food service professionals
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that build generative AI tools for food purchasing, preparation and preservation, with dedicated support packages for AI startups and SMEs.
Boosting the competitiveness of protein crops in Europe
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds innovation projects that make European-grown protein crops more competitive, from farm-level breeding and machinery to new value chains and by-product uses.