Foresight 50
Foresight 50 shines a spotlight on compelling climate solutions by recognizing Canada’s 50 most investible cleantech ventures.
Our 2021 companies raised almost $600M. Our 2022 cohort was featured in over 900 international media hits. Our 2023 honourees have been announced.
Meet the 2023 Foresight 50Thank You to Our 2023 Sponsors
Foresight 50 2023 is powered by Gowling WLG with support from Alberta Ecotrust Foundation, BackStretch Recruitment Group, Copoint, Easly, National Angel Capital Organization, Pathways Alliance, and Startup TNT. Foresight would also like to thank the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP), for providing funding support for its Cleantech Ventures program, part of which makes this initiative possible.
Announcing our inclusion on the Foresight 50 list helped us close our $2M round with US investors. It was definitely helpful for our process to be acknowledged!
Sheida Shahi Adaptis, 2022 Foresight 50 Honouree
Meet the 2023 Foresight 50
Each year, the Foresight 50 represents hope for our future. Covering a wide range of sectors and regions across the country, these are the ventures leading the way to net zero.
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Adaptis
The world is committing to decarbonization. We help deliver the net zero promise, one building at a time.
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Arca
Abundant life needs a healthy climate. We remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere, and transform it into rocks – naturally storing it for millennia.
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Asset Market
Bringing clean mobility and enhanced connectivity to communities worldwide.
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Axine Water
The Onsite Solution for Destroying PFAS and Emerging Contaminants.
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Ayrton Energy
Breaking the limits of traditional hydrogen storage. Our technology enables the safe, efficient delivery of hydrogen and paves the way for a hydrogen future.
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Azzera Inc
The transportation sector represents 21 per cent of global emissions. That includes ground transport, shipping, and aviation. In fact, every minute, airplanes generate about 2,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere.
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Brickeye
Build Smarter, Safer, and Faster. Brickeye is a leader in Industrial IoT and Data Analytics for risk mitigation in construction and infrastructure management.
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Build Smartr Robotics
The mass sustainable production of housing.
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Calogy Solutions
Thermal management and energy storage for electric and hydrogen transport. Today, the obstacles to the mass adoption of electric and hydrogen vehicles are linked to issues of safety, cost, and performance.
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CleanInnoGen Energy Solutions Inc.
A Pathway to Net Zero with Low Cost Green Hydrogen
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CO2 Lock Corp
Using the earth’s minerals to remove carbon from the atmosphere — permanently.
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Cvictus
Cvictus’s patented technology can decarbonize the most difficult sectors by producing hydrogen and chemical feedstocks that are ‘cleaner than green and cheaper than grey’ from incumbent technologies.
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Daanaa
A new solution to the world’s energy challenges.
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Dispersa
We're transforming food waste into the most sustainable biosurfactants.
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Earthware Reusables Inc.
Tasty, Without The Wastey
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Ekona Power Inc.
Today’s natural gas infrastructure meets tomorrow’s net-zero targets. Low-cost, industrial-scale clean hydrogen, whenever and wherever you need it.
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Enoverra Energy & Environment Inc.
Enoverra's low energy DeepWell Reactor safely, efficiently and cost effectively converts biowaste to easily refinable drop in carbon neutral fuels and sequestered carbon with global megaton potential.
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Environmental Material Sciences
Smarter sensors for better decisions about your land.
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Gaia Refinery
We are working to permanently restore earth’s balance by removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Haze Automotive
Driving the Adoption of Automated Composites. We're taking material science that has powered the rocket industry and applying it to vehicles. Lighter and stronger materials now at affordable prices.
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Innervision Borehole Technologies
Innovative Well Integrity Solutions.
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Intelligent City
We rethink urban living. Intelligent City envisions carbon-neutral urban living as a network of resilient communities and environments.
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Kanin Energy
We help heavy industry monetize their waste heat and decarbonize their operations.
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Litus
Litus is an emerging leader in the application of advanced chemistry and nanotechnology for the development of ground-breaking solutions to address some of the world’s biggest energy challenges.
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MineSense
Make informed decisions at the face with real-time data where you need it the most. MineSense is a pioneer in digital mining solutions that create new precision ore in waste and waste in ore routing decisions where profit and sustainability impact are greatest.
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Miru Smart Technologies Corp.
Expand your view with smart windows.
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Novamera
Surgical Mining Technologies. Add to production, quickly easily and sustainably.
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NULIFE GreenTech
Waste Solutions, Reimagined. Solving wet waste challenges one ton at a time.
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Orca Water
Orca Water is a Water Solutions Company. Focusing on usage monitoring, leak detection, consumption analysis, and water conservation.
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Permalution
Create a brighter future for everyone. If we deliver fog collectors around the world, we will achieve a reduction of water stress areas.
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pH7 Technologies
We share a passion to create a more habitable and sustainable planet for future generations.
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PLAEX Building Systems Inc.
Make it simple. Make it sustainable. Make it with PLAEX.
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Pressure Corp
Clean Power from Waste Pressure. Creating value from waste.
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QEA Tech
Outsmart Building Energy Loss. Recoup up to 51% building envelope energy loss with the #1 drone energy audit technology in Canada.
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Rainforest Automation
Manage your residential customers and their varying loads with instant feedback and control — and boost your program results!
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Recover Inc.
A new solution to a long-standing waste liability.
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Relocalize
Autonomous Food & Beverage Micro-Factories. Eliminating middle-mile logistics with hyper-local production.
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Rithmik Solutions
Cut through the noise and surface the key insights that matter. The most advanced AI-powered analytics system purpose-built for mobile mining equipment.
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Rockburst Technologies
Rockburst is a mining startup developing a new comminution (the crushing and grinding of ore) technology called Transcritical CO2 Pulverization, which has the potential to slash 2% of the world’s electricity consumption and associated GHG emissions.
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Rotoliptic Technologies Inc.
The Future of Artificial Lift
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SolarSteam Inc.
SolarSteam delivers renewable heat through enclosed concentrated solar technology, and offers a game-changing solution for industrial clients by reducing their costs and emissions.
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Solfium Inc.
Power The Change
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SWTCH Energy Inc.
Smart Charging for Busy Buildings
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Symboticware
Operating System of Intelligence built for 4 million units of industrial equipment, worldwide.
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Titan Clean Energy Projects Corp.
Leading the way to a Carbon-Smart future.
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TROES Corp.
Modular Battery Energy Storage Systems. Using proprietary technologies, TROES sets itself apart from other energy storage providers by enabling mid-size projects with safe, cost-effective and adaptable one-stop battery energy storage products and solutions.
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Viridis Research
Advanced Water Technology Solutions. Protecting Water Sources.
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VoltSafe Inc.
Meet the world's first high-voltage prongless plug. VoltSafe tech eliminates prongs, using magnets and an ‘electrical fingerprint’ to connect to electricity.
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Waterotor Energy Technologies Inc.
Changing The World. Waterotor creates a new era in renewable energy.
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