Grants and Contributions

The 2X Ignite Africa Warehousing Facility aims to strengthen economic stability and resilience across African markets by expanding women’s access to capital and strengthening women’s leadership in investment. The project supports women-led investment funds to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), helping unlock growth, create jobs, and build more inclusive local economies. By backing female fund managers and improving the quality of investment decision-making, the project contributes to women’s economic empowerment and more resilient African markets.
Key project activities include:
• Deploying concessional loans to female fund managers to increase the availability of capital for women-led and women-benefiting businesses.
• Warehousing SME deals to help build investment pipelines and prepare high-potential SMEs for future financing.
• Providing coaching and hands-on support to investment funds on impact measurement and management (IMM), including good practices related to gender equality and climate considerations, delivered by the investment team.
Through these activities, the project helps crowd in private investment, strengthen fund management capacity, and expand sustainable financing for SMEs across Africa.

The ultimate goal of Lighthouse is that HRDs, civil society groups, and movements most at risk worldwide are safer, more resilient, and better able to continue their human rights work through strengthened, coordinated, and needs-driven global protection efforts.
Project activities include: (1) Processing grant applications, including verification of identity and human rights work; (2) Accompanying the recipient to ensure that measures are effective and that risks and threats are handled adequately; (3) collecting accurate and useful data across programs on threats faced by HRDs; (4) disseminating the report with key stakeholders within the protection ecosystem, such as the United Nations, European Union, and national governments.

Arolytics' AroIQ uses high-frequency SCADA data and ML to continuously detect, explain and predict methane emissions from oil and gas facilities, helping operators cut emissions.

Novarc Technologies is developing advanced AI infrastructure to enhance its solutions for robotic welding automation.

iNAGO is developing domain-specific AI assistants for automotive and manufacturing using its netpeople platform.

CircuitIQ is building an AI-powered platform that maps electrical circuits and generates a digital twin to improve safety, reduce maintenance time and support proactive decisions.

SenseNet deploys AI-powered wildfire detection using cameras, sensors and satellite data to improve early detection, monitoring and response.

Super GeoAI develops a geospatial AI cloud platform that automates agricultural observations and supports workflows like damage assessment and crop optimization.

Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness across Canada will have increased support through the Program. This is accomplished by providing direct funding to communities and mobilizing collaborators at the federal, provincial/territorial and community levels, as well as the private and voluntary sectors, to address barriers to well-being faced by Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness, through two funding streams: the Services and Supports Stream and the Capacity Building Stream.

Grant as part of the Participant Funding Program to Passamaquoddy Recognition Group Inc. to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the assessment process for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project.