Grants and Contributions

This project will test hypotheses and experiment with new mechanisms to design (or optimize) a repeatable and scalable business process, which may result in new business methods in restaurant operations and customer management.

Feasibility study to design and build a multi-function thermostat and smart home control prototype to validate key technical assumptions before full product development.

The smart thermostat, codenamed Mercury, is Levven’s builder-grade platform for new residential construction, combining a full HVAC controller, a Levven 900 MHz wireless energy management system IoT gateway, and a Matter/Thread controller with border router for third-party interoperability.

Deliverables include a testable feasibility prototype with firmware and software, minimal cloud or app integration, an architecture and design package, a feasibility report, and a go/no-go recommendation for full product development.

Hire a recent graduate to enhance marketing and customer success practices to accelerate customer growth.

The youth employee will support AI and software initiatives across internal development and project delivery. The role involves working with modern digital platforms, assisting with automation and workflow improvements, contributing to early product and interface concepts, and participating in experimentation with AI-enabled processes. The focus is hands-on learning, iteration, and applying software skills to practical business challenges.

The project aims to evaluate the safety of an oral gel formulation for promoting gum health.

TerraFixing will design, build, and validate a 250-tonne-per-year Direct Air Capture pilot unit optimized for cold climates. The project includes finalizing engineering design, fabricating and integrating all subsystems, and completing controlled and real-world operational testing. This work will demonstrate reliable, high-purity CO2 production, advance the technology toward commercial readiness, and strengthen Canada’s clean-technology manufacturing and deployment capacity.

Preliminary Development of standard operating procedures to ensure consistent and efficient production of high demand produce varieties in Atlantic Canada during the offseason.

The purpose of this CanExport Innovation agreement is to support Canadian organizations to carry out activities related to pursuing opportunities that would lead to establishing new collaborative Research and Development (R&D) partnerships between the Recipient and foreign organizations in order to support R&D on the Recipient’s technology and advance its commercialization.

This Project seeks to improve the efficiency and robustness of Whitehorse’s water supply system through a combination of field observation and desktop modelling. Fieldwork includes water audits and pressure tests, soils and corrosion pit sampling, as well as the installation of a ‘smart’ bleeder control unit. Water audits involve localizing specific areas with suspected leakage and conducting a water balance using a portable flow meter. They form the basis of future leak detection and repair campaigns and help the City understand consumption throughout the network. Pressure tests help estimating pipe roughness which is needed to calibrate the computer model of the network. Soil sampling and corrosion pit analysis of a major sewage forcemain will support a statistical deterioration model to inform rehabilitation planning. Improved bleeder control units can reduce unnecessary water use in anti-freezing operations. Finally, desktop analysis will feature a criticality study of the system using existing data and information obtained from the field to examine a variety of failure/stress scenarios.

Firm proposes a 24-month field demonstration of a novel closed-loop geothermal system in an inactive oil and gas well in Alberta, designed to deliver firm, low-emissions renewable heat and a small amount of on-site power without produced fluids or induced seismicity. The project integrates a CO₂ thermosiphon, downhole power generation, and surface heat exchange to validate system performance and advance the technology from TRL 6 to TRL 8. In parallel, Firm will develop an AI-enabled digital twin to support system design, operational optimization, and replication. The primary value of the project is to generate independently validated, lender-grade performance data that reduces first-of-kind risk, enabling future commercial deployment of scalable geothermal heat solutions aligned with clean-energy and industrial decarbonization objectives.