Vanedge Capital is a Vancouver-based early-stage venture capital fund that backs deep-technology companies and applies operating experience, board support, and follow-on investor networks to help technical teams scale.
Innovate BC is British Columbia's Crown agency for technology and innovation, delivering programs and partnerships that help companies develop, demonstrate, adopt and commercialize technology.
Government innovation officeProfiled for its ecosystem role
Lux Bio is a Vancouver biotechnology company developing long-duration bioluminescent-enzyme technologies and biodegradable light products as alternatives to conventional chemical lighting.
What they build
Bioluminescent lighting platform
Test, Training & SustainmentAdvanced Manufacturing & Integration
Avivo Biomedical is a Canadian biotechnology company developing enzyme-enabled approaches intended to convert donated blood and organs to universal type O and improve the availability of urgent treatment options.
What they build
Universal blood-type conversion platform
Test, Training & SustainmentAdvanced Manufacturing & Integration
Camcor Diving Services is a Sidney, British Columbia underwater-construction, aquaculture-maintenance and marine-survey company that uses a light inspection-class ROV for underwater inspections.
Kîsik GeoSpatial is a Delta, British Columbia aerial-survey company delivering end-to-end airborne acquisition, processing and analytics, including full-spectrum VNIR-SWIR hyperspectral imagery.
Hydrogen in Motion is a British Columbia clean-energy company developing solid-state hydrogen storage materials and portable storage systems for mobile, stationary and off-grid applications.
Pacific Geomatics is a privately owned Canadian Earth-observation data provider that supplies commercial optical, radar, elevation and hyperspectral imagery and derived products to government, defence, resource and environmental customers.
Atreides is a Victoria, British Columbia intelligence-software company that converts multi-domain, fragmented data into structured mission-ready insight for high-consequence decisions.
What they build
Mission intelligence and edge decision-support systems
Launch Academy is a Vancouver technology incubator and accelerator that helps Canadian and international founders build and scale startups through education, mentorship, market-entry programs, startup-community access and investor preparation.
Canada's particle accelerator centre and national laboratory with advanced accelerator, isotope, materials and applied-technology infrastructure and a broad university and industry collaboration network.
Research and test centreProfiled for its ecosystem role
Ven-Tech Subsea is a North Vancouver commercial-diving and marine-robotics company providing rapidly deployable ROV inspection, survey, mapping, intervention and recovery services across Western Canada, Nunavut and offshore environments.
Shift Coastal Technologies is a Nanaimo autonomous-maritime systems integrator that combines platforms, sensing or effecting payloads, onboard compute, communications and command infrastructure into field-deployable systems.
What they build
Mission-Ready Autonomous Maritime Systems Integration
Vancouver-based venture-capital firm investing in hard-technology companies that improve heavy industry, energy, mining, industrial optimization, infrastructure resilience, and related operational technologies.
University of Victoria ocean-observatory research and data infrastructure operating deep-sea, coastal and land-based observatories across Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic environments.
Research and test centreProfiled for its ecosystem role