Cultivating Canadian Agtech Innovation
With a global population of 8 billion and counting, developing sustainable agtech solutions has never been more vital. Through our agriNEXT network, we’re catalyzing critical innovation across Canada’s agriculture space. Are you ready to grow with us?
Our Key Focus Areas:
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Mitigation
Improved water management comes from technology adoption and improved soil health.
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Adaptation
Reduced inputs and GHG emissions come from technology adoption, regenerative practices, and shorter supply chains.
3
Food Security
Technology, traceability and circular solutions can reduce food loss and waste.
4
Regenerative Agriculture
Nutrient density and improved yields depend on improved soil health stemming from regenerative agriculture.
The Agriculture Challenge
The Canadian agriculture industry has no shortage of challenges: population growth, changing consumer preferences, increasing costs, declining available arable land, and growing climatic uncertainty. Just to name a few. In the face of these challenges, innovation is imperative.
Canada Has the Power to
Fuel the Future of Agriculture
Through leading agtech innovation, Canada has an opportunity to increase food production, drastically reduce emissions, and tap into the $11 trillion global agriculture market. agriNEXT is empowering Canada’s agtech sector through:
Acceleration programs for agtech startups
Industry-driven Innovation Challenges
Pitch events for agtech ventures to connect with the wider ecosystem
Positioning Canada as a global agtech leader
Sector-specific training and mentorship
An active and engaged network of agtech ventures
The Foresight Community has been key in helping me close my pre-seed raise and also access grant funding available to cleantech companies that I wouldn't have even know about without them.
We’re Building a World Where There is No Food Scarcity and Net Zero Farming Emissions
Industry
Through our Innovation Challenge program, we can support you by:
- Identifying key barriers to your ag-specific climate targets
- Sourcing agritech innovators with solutions to your sustainability challenges
- Guiding you through the funding landscape to get your projects moving faster
Innovators
We want to work with you to:
- Develop your agtech at any stage, from ideation to commercialization
- Connect you with Canada’s vast agtech ecosystem
- Provide you with training, investor matchmaking opportunities and networking events to help you get to market faster
Meet Our agriNEXT Ventures
We’ve supported all kinds of agtech ventures that are innovating, disrupting, and shaping the future of agriculture in Canada.
agriNEXT News
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![Cleantech Coast to Coast: Picketa Systems]()
August 30, 2023 Article Cleantech Coast to Coast: Picketa Systems New Brunswick’s Picketa Systems is changing the future of agtech with a plant tissue analysis technology that provides real-time results, removing nearly all turnaround time in the process of analyzing plant samples. View Article -
![Cleantech Coast to Coast: Cascadia Seaweed]()
June 15, 2023 Article Cleantech Coast to Coast: Cascadia Seaweed Buckle up, and come along with us as we visit some of the change-makers and cleantech leaders who are deploying amazing climate solutions, and moving the needle toward net zero. Our first stop: Sidney, BC. View Article -
![And the Winner is.... IFAO's Soil Health and Nutrient Management Challenge]()
March 29, 2023 Announcement And the Winner is.... IFAO's Soil Health and Nutrient Management Challenge The results are in for Foresight and IFAO's Soil Health and Nutrient Management Challenge. The winners are Picketa Systems and FARMEYE. View Announcement
Our Partners
Through agriNEXT, we collaborate with a number of partners to provide unparalleled support to the Canadian agtech ecosystem:
