Arca has been selected for the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) Clean Tech initiative, securing up to $2 million funding and federal advisory services for a $7.4 million research, development and demonstration project. The project will advance Arca’s Mineral Activation and Engineered Carbonation technologies from laboratory scale to field deployment, enabling high-performance carbon removal using alkaline industrial waste.

Vancouver-based AquaEye has completed a third procurement with the U.S. Air Force, which is expanding its deployment of AquaEye Pro intelligent sonar scanners. AquaEye technology, designed to quickly locate humans under water, is currently used by hundreds of first responders, government agencies and military units across the world.

The company has also launched Command Hub, a new search management platform that overlays data collected from multiple AquaEye Pro scanners onto live maps, enabling operators to coordinate searched areas, coverage gaps and rescue efforts in real time.

AquaEye Command Hub and AquaEye Pro water rescue technology.

Vancouver-based ChopValue is expanding its presence in the United Kingdom with plans to open a London Microfactory to meet growing demand from new and existing commercial partners. ChopValue’s first entry into the U.K. market began with a Liverpool Microfactory, which has so far diverted 13 million chopsticks from landfills and collaborated with leading brands such as Wagamama and Yo! Sushi.

Custom-manufactured ChopValue installations featured at commercial locations in the U.K.

Clarius Mobile Health’s Ejection Fraction (EF) AI has been cleared for use by the United States Federal Department of Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The intelligent cardiac assessment tool, now available, integrates directly with the Clarius Ultrasound App to provide clinicians with automated, objective measurement of left ventricular function.

Demonstration of Clarius Ejection Fraction AI.

Novarc Technologies has partnered with Yaskawa America to integrate its AI-powered adaptive welding intelligence platform with the Yaskawa robotic platform, combining Novarc’s leadership in Physical AI and welding intelligence with Yaskawa’s industrial automation and robotics expertise across a wide range of industries and applications.

In May, the company also signed an MOU with Hanwha Ocean, one of the world’s largest shipbuilders, to collaborate on the development of AI-powered manufacturing processes in the maritime sector.

MOU signing between Novarc Technologies and Hanwha Ocean.

ThoughtExchange, based in Rossland, B.C., continues to expand its market presence across North America. Most recently, it has partnered with AASA, The School Superintendents Association, to harness strategic insights from the collective perspectives of its members over time and support school system leaders across the United States. AASA currently represents more than 10,000 school system leaders and 50 million students across the nation.

Supported by Evok Innovations

Moment Energy has opened its Megafactory 1, the world’s largest EV battery repurposing facility, in Surrey, B.C. The facility is transforming retired EV batteries into energy storage systems that support critical infrastructure, including data centres, hospitals, factories and microgrids. It is expected to produce 1 GWh of battery energy storage systems by 2030, supporting the domestic battery energy storage manufacturing capacity.

Moment Energy’s Megafactory 1 in Surrey, B.C.

Supported by Pender Ventures

Vancouver-based Traction Complete has been named one of the Best Workplaces^TM in Canada 2026 by Great Place to Work®. Ninety-seven percent of employees rate Traction Complete as a great place to work, compared to 62% at a typical company.

Learn more about working for Traction Complete and see career opportunities: https://tractioncomplete.com/careers/

4AG Robotics has introduced its Forager HX800 mushroom harvesting robot, which can harvest, trim and pack into punnets, detect disease and optimize stem length, and make real-time decisions for size, quality and placement. Developed in collaboration with commercial growers, the HX800 retrofits onto standard Dutch rack systems, and can operate 24/7 and service multiple rooms.

4AG was just named in The Globe and Mail’s annual list of the Top Growing Companies in Canada.

ChopValue has published its 2024 Urban Impact Report, which includes highlights such as 199 million chopsticks diverted from landfills, 9.7 million kg of CO₂ emissions saved and more than 80 micro-factories operating or in development worldwide. The company continues to install its climate-positive premium wood furniture, engineered from recycled chopsticks, for clients across the world including most recently at the office of global non-profit The Bridgespan Group and 7-Eleven in Hong Kong.

Clarius’ Median Nerve AI and Prostate AI technology are now approved in Canada and available for clinical use, helping healthcare providers to enhance the accuracy and speed of carpal tunnel and prostate assessments. The company also launched a new release of its Clarius App, improving patient care with AI-powered ultrasound tools for clinicians such as physiotherapists, plastic surgeons and veterinarians, and for ultrasound education.

Mangrove Lithium was part of the Critical Minerals Trade Mission to Japan, hosted by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). CEO Dr. Saad Dara had the opportunity to present at the Canadian Critical Minerals Investment Seminar at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, sharing the company’s vision for clean, scalable lithium refining. The company was also able to connect with its trade partners in Japan and meet other organizations across the battery and clean energy value chain.

Netskrt Systems has teamed up with Lumen Technologies to scale its live-streaming services. Lumen will provide Netskrt with dynamic Edge Bare Metal (EMB) capacity to support the company’s rapidly expanding content delivery on a multi-national level, increasing Netskrt’s reach and providing more communities with access to high quality live streaming.  

Novarc Technologies has launched the SWR+TIPTIG Autonomy, an autonomous welding cobot that can perform high-precision TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welding. The world’s first fully autonomous robot for the TIG weld process, capable of x-ray quality TIG root welds, the SWR+TIPTIG Autonomy is setting a new standard for the pipe fabrication industry.

Novarc Technologies is a finalist in this year’s BC Technology Impact Awards in the Gamechanger AI category.

Svante has been awarded funding from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to enhance its testing capabilities on the durability of its filters for point of source carbon capture. This funding is part of the federal government’s larger investment in Canadian-made carbon management technologies, announced at Svante’s Centre of Excellence for Carbon Capture and Removal in Burnaby, B.C.

The company is also expanding its support for Speed Skating Canada to ensure Canadian athletes have the resources to perform at the highest level leading up to the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. In 2024, Svante collaborated with Speed Skating Canada to highlight the adverse effects of climate change on outdoor winter sports. Svante’s branding will now be on national team uniforms throughout the 2025-26 season, bringing international awareness to the work it is doing to accelerate a cleaner, more sustainable future.

Svante is a finalist in this year’s BC Technology Impact Awards for the Company of the Year – Ambition category.

Poseidon Ocean Systems has reached a milestone, celebrating its 500th Depth Charge Plume (DCP) unit sold worldwide. Poseidon’s DCP oxygen diffuser technology is a key part of their end-to-end fish life support system for the aquaculture industry, offering advanced aeration, oxygenation and automation, enabling farms to improve fish welfare, increase efficiencies and reduce energy consumption.

Brightspark Ventures has led the seed round for ShopVision, a B.C.-based technology company with an e-commerce intelligence platform. An AI super agent helping merchants to understand the market in real-time and move quickly, ShopVision is already trusted by leading brands like Arc’teryx and Herschel.

Since unveiling robots that can pack mushrooms directly into small punnet containers ready for the grocery store, 4AG Robotics’ new modular robots have now made their way onto a Canadian farm — picking into punnets for the first time on a working farm. The company has also installed their bulk box robots onto a new Canadian farm, bringing their total live farms to four of the largest farms worldwide. 4AG Robotics continues to expand its farm partnerships, now fulfilling orders into 2026, and its AI-enhanced robots continue to learn in real-world environments across the world.

Arca Climate Technology has revealed its upgraded lab and office space in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, which will support the company’s groundbreaking research and growing team of employees in B.C. In February, the company announced new partnerships in Australia, which coincided with the Team Canada Trade Mission to Australia reinforcing our two countries’ commitment to collaborating for economic growth.

Arca’s new whitepaper “Beyond Extraction: Transforming Mine Waste into a Net Zero, Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity”, has also been well received with more than 250 downloads so far and over 200 registrations for the launch webinar, demonstrating the interest from industry and other stakeholders in carbon dioxide removal technologies.

This year, ChopValue celebrated a major achievement having recycled its 200 millionth chopstick, collected at Vancouver’s Marugame Udon Canada. More recently, the company welcomed a trade delegation from Vietnam to its HQ Microfactory in Vancouver. Now, it is preparing for Expo 2025 Osaka in collaboration with the Canadian Embassy. It also continues to launch more microfactories across the world, including upcoming in Japan, bringing its local approach to manufacturing to more markets.

Clarius Mobile Health has been busy launching new products, such as the Clarius Enterprise Solution for healthcare institutions managing multiple Clarius scanners, the A-Mode enabling ophthalmologists to measure the axial length of the eye, and new releases of the T-Mode AI learning tool now available for certain musculoskeletal applications and breast ultrasound training. The company also continues to expand its market presence, bringing more Clarius products to countries such as Japan and Egypt.

Recently, Great Place to Work Canada named Clarius one of the Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams.

Mangrove Lithium has been busy building its new facility in Delta, B.C., slated to open later in the year as the company’s first industrial scale plant.

Recently, the company was named a finalist in Foresight Canada’s BC Cleantech Awards as Scaleup Venture of the Year, and in Cleantech Group’s Global Cleantech 100 list as one of the world’s most promising private companies in cleantech.

Soon after unveiling new touch sensors, Sanctuary AI has now integrated the technology into its general purpose robots. In a recent blog, the company details how it leverages NVIDIA Isaac Lab, an open-source, unified framework for robot learning, to accelerate dexterous learning.

Earlier this year, Svante launched the “Save the Ice” campaign with Speed Skating Canada, featuring Canadian Olympic speed skater, Gaétan Boucher. This innovative campaign invites the audience to learn about how CO₂ impacts climate change and enables them to take action. Users who watch and share the video will trigger Svante and its Canadian carbon removal partner, Deep Sky, to remove CO₂ from the air via direct air capture (DAC). Check it out in the video below!

Svante was just named one of the World’s Top Greentech Companies by Time Magazine and Statista; it was one of five Canadian companies selected from a pool of over 8,000 worldwide. It was also recognized in Cleantech Group’s Global Cleantech 100 list as a leader in cleantech.

Salmon Arm-based 4AG Robotics has been getting its mushroom harvesting robots onto farms, expanding from one farm to now picking mushrooms on three continents. It has also made significant strides in its technology, unveiling robots that can now reliably work 24 hours a day and pack mushrooms into small punnets ready for the grocery store. To support both the increase in sales and its production capacity, the company has doubled its team to 70 employees.

4AG Robotics just won the “Best Startup Award – Investor’s Choice” at The International Forum of Agricultural Robotics. In late 2024, Foresight Canada also named the company as one of “Canada’s Most Investable Cleantech Ventures”, with a third-party auditor determining that its robots save a standard farm 8.4 million Kgs of CO₂ emissions annually.

Arca Climate Technologies has been taking its innovations global, with a mission to drive industrial-scale climate action. In the past year it has advanced the world’s first carbon dioxide removal (CDR) demonstration project at an active mine site in Western Australia, advanced the development of its patented mineral activation technology to accelerate carbon capture and storage in mine waste, and formed partnerships with multiple mining companies to explore the suitability of their operations for CDR. Currently, the company is a finalist in the globally prestigious XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition, with the grand prize winners to be announced on Earth Day 2025.

In 2024, Foresight Canada named Arca as the “BC Cleantech Startup of the Year” and one of “Canada’s Most Investable Cleantech Ventures”.

ChopValue has been taking its local approach to manufacturing to new markets, expanding its microfactory network to nine countries while committing to producing and sourcing locally in each region. With partnerships such as A&W Restaurants in Canada and wagamama in the United Kingdom, the company is showcasing how businesses can thrive while embracing sustainability. To date, ChopValue has recycled over 204 million chopsticks and saved over 10 million kgCO2e emissions.

Since InBC’s investment and the opening of its new manufacturing facility in Vancouver, Clarius Mobile Health has been rapidly expanding its presence in global markets including acquiring new distributors across Europe and the Asia Pacific region, enabling Clarius scanners to be sold in countries ranging from Germany to Japan and Australia. It has also been developing its technology, launching new products such as the Clarius OB AI for prenatal care and T-Mode AI for ultrasound education.

As of January 2025, Clarius’ ultrasound technology has touched over five million lives worldwide.

Netskrt Systems has been expanding its customer base, now providing edge caching solutions to 450 internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide and growing, including smaller ISPs serving rural and remote communities. Contributing to the company’s growth is its venture into the live streaming sports industry; Netskrt now delivers live streams of NHL games in Canada and NFL games in the United States and will be helping content providers stream NBA games later this year. To support its massive scale, the company has increased its team to more than 70 employees, the majority of whom are based in B.C.

Sanctuary AI has been developing its technology and strengthening its position as a leader in humanoid robotics intellectual property. Recently, Morgan Stanley ranked the company third in published U.S. patent filings (a report, the company points out, that only detected 51 of its approximately 140 published U.S. patent filings). This comes shortly after Tech + IP Advisory ranked it fourth globally for patent holdings for general purpose robots and dexterous manipulation. In December, Sanctuary AI launched its new robotic hand technology with 21 degrees of freedom and the ability to perform in-hand manipulation, enabling its robots to carry out high-value work tasks requiring fine manipulation.

Rossland-based ThoughtExchange has been bringing its survey and engagement technology to more education districts and is now reaching seven million students across eight provinces, one territory and 38 U.S. states. Last year, the company launched a Small District Success Plan, tailoring its services to give K-12 education districts with fewer than 5,000 students access to the same quality engagement methods and data analysis as larger districts. It also continued to pioneer its AI innovation, which can analyze millions of survey responses almost instantly. Now this year, the company has appointed George Psiharis, former COO of Clio and AlayaCare, as Chief Executive Officer to lead its next phase of growth.

In 2024, ThoughtExchange was named in The Globe and Mail’s list of “Canada’s Top Growing Companies”.

4AG Robotics

InBC has invested $4 million into 4AG Robotics, an agritech company which develops and builds leading robotics solutions for agriculture producers to grow sustainably. 4AG’s harvesting robot is helping mushroom farmers to improve their yields and increase operational efficiencies, while addressing labour challenges and reducing food waste in the agriculture sector. Learn more

Clarius Mobile Health

InBC has invested $5 million into Clarius Mobile Health Corp., producers of wireless handheld ultrasound scanners enabling healthcare practitioners to manage and perform exams from anywhere. Clarius is improving patient outcomes and accessibility to care with scanners that are affordable, ultra-portable and using artificial intelligence to deliver accurate and high-definition imaging. Learn more

Amplitude Ventures

InBC has invested $10 million into Amplitude Ventures Fund II, a venture fund that will invest in life sciences and biotechnology companies, bringing healthcare innovations to market to help improve the lives of patients. Amplitude’s Fund II will invest in early-stage companies in the areas of high-value therapies, medical technology, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. Learn more

Pender Ventures

InBC has invested $10 million into the Pender Technology Inflection Fund II, a venture fund investing in healthtech and B2B technology startups to drive efficiencies and improve clinical decision-making, patient outcomes and healthcare operations. Pender’s Fund II is focusing on companies at the growth stages between commercialization and scale up. Learn more