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.
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Farm Animal Welfare Fund — RFP: Humane Fish Slaughter
Coefficient · United States
Funds practical technologies that improve humane fish handling and slaughter outcomes.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
WFF · Global / Multinational
Pays youth-led agrifood startups at least $7,500 to fight malnutrition and food insecurity.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
WFF · Global / Multinational
Pays youth-led food-security startups at least $7,500, plus a shot at $500,000 more.
Grow-NY Food & Agriculture Startup Competition
ESD · United States
Awards up to $1 million to food and ag startups that build their business in New York.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)
Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.
Humane Fish Slaughter RFP
Coefficient · United States
Supports humane fish capture and slaughter innovation to improve welfare in aquaculture and fishing operations.
Innovate for Impact Challenge
World Food Prize · United States
Awards $50,000 to the top early-stage AgTech startup pitching at the Borlaug Dialogue.
LDC Climate Resilience Prize 2025
LDC · Netherlands
Pays a non-dilutive CHF 100,000 to the startup with the biggest climate impact on food and ag.
Startup Innovation Awards
WFF · Global / Multinational
Awards at least $7,500 per category, plus a $10,000 bonus for the top agrifood startup.
Alternative Protein R&D RFP
Coefficient · United States
Funds global R&D teams developing alternative protein ingredients and food-science methods through Coefficient Giving grant awards.
Grand Challenges — Micronutrient Absorption Barriers in Fortified Foods
Gates Foundation · United States
Funds global teams researching novel approaches to overcome infection, inflammation, and microbiome-related barriers that reduce the effectiveness of food fortification programs.
MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.
European Prize for Women Innovators
🇪🇺EIT · European Union
Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.
Pillar II: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.
Pillar III: Promoting public engagement in R&I and scientific literacy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.
Pillar III: Science comes to town 2029
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a group of 3-6 cities to jointly run a year-long 'Science comes to town' public-engagement programme, including the EUCYS and EU TalentOn competitions.
MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds part of the cost of talent-recruitment programmes that give postdoctoral researchers a two-phase path to a stable research career in Europe.
MSCA COFUND 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds part of the cost of running new or existing doctoral training programmes at universities and research organisations.
Deploying circular systemic solutions through living labs in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative topic)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds city and regional authorities to run living labs that scale up circular-economy solutions across Europe.
MSCA and Citizens 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring MSCA-funded scientists face to face with the public and pupils.
Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – development of complementarities, synergies and/or integration between a set of pan-European research infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds complementary services, synergies and integration across Europe’s major research infrastructures.
Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – individual support for evolution, long-term sustainability and emerging needs of pan-European research infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds individual support to a single ESFRI Landmark or European Research Infrastructure Consortium to strengthen, evolve or sustain a pan-European research infrastructure.
Reinforcing synergies between experimentation spaces and innovation procurement
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds public buyers to test and procure breakthrough solutions with experimentation spaces and regulators.
Closing the learning gap: uncovering causes and effective policy interventions for declining youth skills in mathematics, reading, and science
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into the structural causes of Europe's 15-year decline in youth maths, reading and science skills.