Earth Tech
Supercharging Breakthrough Technologies for a Net Zero Future
Foresight Canada and Social Innovation Canada's Earth Tech programs support cleantech ventures tackling the world’s most pressing climate challenges. Whether it's reducing emissions to reach net zero targets by 2050, or adapting infrastructure and industries for climate resilience, Earth Tech provides the mentorship, industry connections, and funding support needed to scale impact-driven solutions.
We urgently need to scale innovation to reduce emissions & adapt to the current effects of climate change.
We need bold innovation to both reduce emissions and strengthen climate resilience—and scaling these solutions is critical. Both of our Earth Tech programs provide high impact and tailored support for ventures developing cleantech solutions that drive decarbonization and/or adaptation to climate change.
Through Earth Tech: 2050 & Earth Tech: Adapt, ventures will get:
Customized Support
We engage industry experts to deeply assess each venture and design a customized support package focused on its highest-priority needs.
Industry & Market Expertise
Access to advisors and specialists who understand your sector. Connections to corporate partners, pilot opportunities, and key industry stakeholders.
Investor & Funding Support
Guidance on securing non-dilutive funding, grants, and venture capital, plus curated investor matchmaking.
Strategic Business Support
Expert guidance to strengthen your business model, refine your go-to-market strategy, and navigate IP protection and regulatory pathways for scalable growth.
Technical Insight
Access expert feedback, data-driven analysis, and techno-economic evaluations to refine your technology, validate impact, and accelerate commercialization.
Carbon & Lifecycle Analysis
Receive customized emissions modelling and lifecycle assessments that demonstrate your solution’s carbon benefits and strengthen investor and customer confidence.
Earth Tech: Adapt
Scaling technologies to protect infrastructure, communities & ecosystems from climate change.
Climate change is already here, and industries, communities, and ecosystems must adapt now. Earth Tech: Adapt accelerates ventures with innovations designed to help mitigate the effects of rising temperatures and sea levels, extreme weather, and shifting ecosystems.
The Earth Tech: Adapt program is a tailored nine-month accelerator experience that supports cleantech ventures developing solutions that help industries, communities, and ecosystems adapt to climate change. Through mentorship, market access, and funding support, we help climate adaptation solutions scale where they’re needed most.
Who It’s For
- Startups & scale-ups working on adaptation technologies for sectors such as:
- Water & Agriculture – Sustainable water management, soil health, crop resilience
- Forestry & Natural Resources – Wildfire prevention, ecosystem restoration
- Urban Infrastructure – Flood mitigation, heat reduction, climate-smart construction
- Energy & Transportation – Grid resilience, extreme weather adaptation
- Canadian-incorporated businesses at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6+, with a clear pathway to scaling their solution.
- Founders seeking deep industry expertise, investor readiness support, and market access to accelerate their path to pilot and beyond.
Earth Tech: 2050
Scaling breakthrough innovations to drive deep emissions reductions
Reaching net zero by 2050 requires transformational climate technologies that can reduce or remove significant CO₂e emissions at scale.
Earth Tech: 2050 accelerates high-impact climatetech ventures by providing custom mentorship and support, industry partnerships, investor matchmaking, and more, to help breakthrough solutions reach the market faster.
Earth Tech: 2050 accelerates the world’s most ambitious climate ventures — those capable of reducing or removing 0.5 gigatonnes of CO₂e by 2050. Over nine months, ventures receive customized mentorship, market and investor access, and funding support to scale technologies that drive deep decarbonization and global climate impact.
Who It’s For
Startups and scale-ups working on breakthrough decarbonization solutions, across all sectors, including:
- Carbon Removal & Negative Emissions Technologies
- Industrial Decarbonization & Low-Carbon Manufacturing
- Next-Generation Renewable Energy & Storage
- Sustainable Materials & Circular Economy Innovations
- Transformative AI & Data Solutions for Emissions Reduction
- Canadian-incorporated businesses at TRL 6+, with a pathway to scaling impact.
- Founders seeking deep industry expertise, investor readiness support, and market access to accelerate their path to pilot and beyond.
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Bayes StudioAutonomous aerial vehicles & sensor towers with thermal, optical and air-quality sensors that deliver real-time wildfire detection and prediction.
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CRWN.aiProviding real-time insight into the condition of transmission lines, to mitigate wildfire risk, cut emissions and reduce costs associated with transmission loss.
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eOceansInfrastructure and expertise for nature-based monitoring, research, evaluations, decisions, and actions — across land, freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems.
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![Flux Forecast by Foundry Spatial]()
Flux Forecast by Foundry SpatialMitigating flood impacts by delivering hyper-local flood risk information up to 7 days in advance of extreme precipitation events.
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GeosapiensGeosapiens equips insurers with advanced flood-risk modelling to better assess exposure and reduce climate-driven losses.
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Orca Water SolutionsNon-intrusive ultrasonic water measurement technology that delivers real-time submetering, advanced leak detection, and deep analytics, without costly plumbing retrofits.
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Resiliō Climate SolutionsClimate risk analytics helping asset owners & investors quantify future financial losses from climate hazards, and identify which adaptation investments deliver the highest return.
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SporalisBioremediation using selected fungi to break down complex pollutants in situ, restoring ecosystems, lowering costs, and reducing carbon footprints for industrial clients.
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XatomsXatoms uses its AI-driven, quantum chemistry platform to design light-activated materials that break down water pollutants in minutes.
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Apply for the Next Cohort
Think your venture is a strong fit for Earth Tech: 2050 or Earth Tech: Adapt? We’re looking for innovative cleantech startups ready to scale their impact.
Earth Tech was a phenomenal program and extremely beneficial to our company at the stage we joined. Earth Tech was an outstanding program and I would recommend it to any startup working on climate change or in clean water solutions.
Flash Forest
Earth Tech News
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![From Risk to Resilience: Canada’s Boldest Climate Tech Innovators]()
October 23, 2025 Article From Risk to Resilience: Canada’s Boldest Climate Tech Innovators Discover dual climate defence—Foresight’s Earth Tech program supports Canada's boldest innovators as they scale crucial mitigation and adaptation technologies. Meet our newest cohort! View Article -
![Innovation for Survival: New Program for Impactful Climate Adaptation Tech]()
March 5, 2025 Announcement Innovation for Survival: New Program for Impactful Climate Adaptation Tech As climate risks intensify, industries and municipalities must adopt proactive strategies to enhance resilience. Foresight is excited to announce the launch of the Earth Tech: Adapt program to support the climate adaptation technologies tackling change's biggest impacts. View Announcement -
![Amplifying Climate Solutions Through Earth Tech 2050's New Cohort]()
November 1, 2024 Announcement Amplifying Climate Solutions Through Earth Tech 2050's New Cohort From implementing sustainable copper extraction methods to tackling deforestation, our latest Earth Tech: 2050 cohort is taking on climate challenges with groundbreaking, innovative ideas. Learn more about the ventures joining the ranks of cleantech leaders driving real solutions. View Announcement
Our Partners
Earth Tech is run in partnership with SI Canada. Together, we are equipping cleantech leaders from across Canada with the tools, skills, knowledge, and connections they need to succeed. Previously, it was run for three years by the Centre for Social Innovation and SI Canada (under Climate Ventures). We are proud to offer this program for free, every year, thanks to the generosity of our partners.
