Radar · Food and Agriculture in Ottawa
Best Food and Agriculture Companies in Ottawa, Canada
The 33 best Food and Agriculture companies in Ottawa, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Dairy Farmers of Canada.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
33companies tracked
$7.5Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
1have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FOOD AND AGRICULTURE × OTTAWA
Our analysis of 50 Food and Agriculture companies
$6.4b in tracked funding; 81% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
50companies analysed
81%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
2015median founding year
48median Fliar Index™
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture companies in Ottawa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dairy Farmers of Canada Brand of dairy products 64Innovation top 38%Market top 41%Tech top 42%Funding top 43% All 8 signals ▾Innovationtop 38% Markettop 41% Techtop 42% Fundingtop 43% Growthtop 45% Productbottom 45% Globalbottom 29% Newsbottom 18% Innovation: 2 new-product events in 24 mo Market: 512 employees (top 19% of Food and Agriculture) · Top-1,000,000 web property rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $8M | 39 mo ago | Series A | — | 1934 | Amazon WebstoreCart FunctionalityDrupal+31 | — |
| 2 | Agape Gardens Tea-based drink brand | — | — | Unfunded | Daria Smolentseva Founder | 2012 | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+9 | — |
| 3 | Belliveau Quality Frozen Foods Retailer of frozen meats, seafood, appetizers, and desserts for home delivery | — | — | Unfunded | Dave Belliveau Owner | 2003 | — | — |
| 4 | BIG RIG Chain of breweries | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2010 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+30 | — |
| 5 | Bridgehead Brand of coffee | — | — | Acquired | — | 1981 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+21 | — |
| 6 | BUCHIPOP Tea based drink brand | — | — | Unfunded | Patricia Larkin Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 7 | Burst Brand of cider | — | — | Acquired | Vanessa Gibeault Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 8 | Clrc Provider of animal pedigree record management and DNA testing services | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityDrupalPHP+7 | — |
Top 1 Food and Agriculture companies in Ottawa
#1
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 1934 · 512 employees$7.5Mraised▾
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 1934 · 512 employees
Brand of dairy products
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 64how this company ranks against its industry peers
Innovation
top 38%Market
top 41%Tech
top 42%Funding
top 43%Growth
top 45%Product
bottom 45%Innovation: 2 new-product events in 24 mo
Market: 512 employees (top 19% of Food and Agriculture) · Top-1,000,000 web property
Tech: 34 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare · Devops: Varnish
Audience (LinkedIn): 22k LinkedIn followers — 32.1% of this cohort's audience
Investors
Canadian Space Agency
Tech stack
Acquia Cloud PlatformAmazon AdvertisingAmazon Web ServicesAmazon WebstoreAosBabel
Funding & investor landscape
$7.5Mtotal disclosed funding
1companies funded
0disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Prism market signals · Canada · country-scoped Prism corpus, 283,921 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food and Agriculture coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · Canada
How research on Agritech is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Agritech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 106 Canada-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
201820232025
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and softening — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 47% → 40% across 2018–2025.
top research entities
- University of Guelph13
- University of Saskatchewan8
- University of British Columbia8
- University of Alberta8
- University of Prince Edward Island8
leading researchers
Alben Cardenas · Aisha Syed · W. Sean Kennedy · German Monsalve · Jeffrey D. Michler · Emilia Tjernström · Simone Verkaart · Kai Mausch
▲
Breakthroughs11 · 10%
▲ 0%→12% share
7 median citations91% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→12% of field), led by Agriculture.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Agriculture6
- Robot3
- Internet of Things2
- Real-time computing2
- Big data1
Newly emergingAgriculture 0→5
Landmark Data Management and Integration of Low Power Consumption Embedded Devices IoT for Transforming Smart Agriculture into Ac · 58 cites
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Advancements36 · 34%
▲ 0%→37% share
3 median citations83% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (0%→37% of field), led by Agriculture.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Agriculture22
- Internet of Things5
- Greenhouse gas4
- Agricultural science4
- Ecology3
Newly emergingAgriculture 0→19 · Internet of Things 0→5
Landmark Energy Efficiency Optimization in SWIPT Enabled WSNs for Smart Agriculture · 85 cites
▼
Concerns36 · 34%
▲ 0%→32% share
6 median citations67% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→32% of field), led by Agriculture.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Agriculture4→14
Landmark Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Smart Agriculture: Applications, Requirements, and Challenges · 577 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Canada
Where agritech is researched across Canada
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Edmonton/Calgary10 · -0.06
Vancouver8 · +0.16
Ottawa/Kingston8 · +0.57
Montreal7 · +0.14
PATENT SIGNAL · Canada
Who's filing agritech patents in Canada
Canada agritech patent filing is cooling — 3 filings from 1 assignees (2020–2022), led by Intel; annual filings 2→1.
3 filings1 assigneespeak 2/yr2020–2022
filing momentum (YoY 2020–2022)
top patent filers
- Intel3
Common questions
How many Food and Agriculture companies are there in Ottawa, Canada?
Radar tracks 33 indexable Food and Agriculture companies headquartered in Ottawa, Canada that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Food and Agriculture companies in Ottawa, Canada?
The Food and Agriculture companies in Ottawa, Canada on this list have raised a combined $7.5M in disclosed equity funding across 1 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture company in Ottawa, Canada?
Dairy Farmers of Canada is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture company in Ottawa, Canada, with $7.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Food and Agriculture companies in Ottawa, Canada are funded?
1 of the 33 Food and Agriculture companies in Ottawa, Canada on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Food and Agriculture unicorns are there in Ottawa, Canada?
None of the Food and Agriculture companies in Ottawa, Canada on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Ottawa, Canada Food and Agriculture companies?
The most active investors in Ottawa, Canada Food and Agriculture companies on this list include Avrio Sub Debt, Canadian Space Agency, OneEleven, Position Ventures, Walter Capital Partners.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.