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”.