Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Edmonton, Canada
The 31 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Edmonton, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: GroceryBox.
Our analysis of 50 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
$7.9b in tracked funding; 83% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Edmonton
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GroceryBox Grocery pick-up and home delivery service in Edmonton | $123M | 162 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2015 | RubyVideoJSRuby on Rails+16 | — | — |
| 2 | Ceapro Developer of pharmaceutical and diagnostic products addressing unmet medical needs | $17M | 86 mo ago | Public | Gilles Gagnon President & CEO | 1997 | — | 63 patents Beta‑glucan extraction, purification, and pharmaceutical/nutraceutical formulations from oats | — |
| 3 | Environmental Material Science Provider of soil remediation technology | $4M | 50 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 4 | G2V Optics Commercial horticulture lighting and solar simulation solution provider | $2M | 66 mo ago | Seed | Ryan Tucker CEO | 2013 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+41 | 10 patents Advanced LED illumination control systems for horticultural lighting and area monitoring | — |
| 5 | Truffle Provider of cloud-based suite solutions for restaurants, virtual kitchens, and food franchises | $2M | 52 mo ago | Seed | — | 2010 | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — | — |
| 6 | TrustBIX Agri-food supply chain solutions for trust, waste reduction, and sustainability | $633K | 22 mo ago | Public | Hubert Lau President and CEO | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Sustainitech Cultivates green leafy vegetables in refrigerated shipping containers | $398K | 112 mo ago | Seed | Joey Hundert Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Edging AI Mobile application to detect bacteria on contaminated surfaces | — | 50 mo ago | Seed | Robin Li Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | — | — |
Top 9 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Edmonton
#1
Public · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2011 · 68 employees$633Kraised▾
Agri-food supply chain solutions for trust, waste reduction, and sustainability. The company provides Gate to Plate solutions, leveraging technology to enhance transparency and integrity in the agri-food industry. They offer services like auditing, certification, chain of custody tracking, sustainability reporting, and incentive programs. Their technologies, including ViewTrak and BIX, offer tools for livestock auction markets, carcass data collection, supply chain measurement, and impact reporting. They also provide Industrial IoT devices for asset and quality tracking, and indoor farming technology. The company aims to improve supply chain sustainability and provide consumers with confidence in food products. This is a technology company offering software solutions for the agri-food sector, promoting sustainable practices and transparency.
- Dec 2024Post IPO$21.6K
- Dec 2024Post IPO$39.8K
- Nov 2024Post IPO$71.6K
- Jan 2023Post IPO$500K
#2
Deadpooled · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2014 · 175 employees$123.2Mraised▾
GroceryBox is a local Alberta based grocery delivery service serving Edmonton and Calgary locations. They pick up grocery from the user preferred store and deliver. As of June 2015, they deliver in Calgary and Edmonton including Sherwood Park, St Albert, Spruce Grove, Beaumont and Nisku. They have a default 2 hour delivery window for delivery.
#3
Public · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 1997 · 38 employees$16.6Mraised▾
Developer of pharmaceutical and diagnostic products addressing unmet medical needs. It focuses on natural-based active ingredients, including oat beta glucan, oat avenanthramides and oat oil. These ingredients are utilized in cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. The company develops and commercializes its portfolio of products.
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$670.3K
- Sep 2016Grant (prize money)$250K
- Jul 2016Post IPO$7.7M
- Jul 2016Post IPO$5.7M
#4
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2019 · 20 employees$4.1Mraised▾
Provider of soil remediation technology. It offers solutions to the environmental management and sustainability challenges faced by its customers. It offers "SoilSense" to provide an access to the status of the soil, consisting of three solid-state sensor packs installed at different depths to constantly assess hydrocarbon vapors, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and methane. It uses "Optimizer", to get access to the correct solution to any contamination issue. Offers a solar-powered "Distributor" that uses groundwater while it delivers a lab-test solution to help clean the spill on the site.
- Aug 2022Angel—
- May 2021Grant (prize money)$4.1M
#5
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2010 · 3 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based suite solutions for restaurants, virtual kitchens, and food franchises. The platform offer services like order management, delivery management, kitchen order display system, inventory management, table reservation management, loyalty & referral management, etc.
- Jul 2022Seed$1.8M
#6
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2013 · 36 employees$2Mraised▾
G2V Optics is a provider of commercial horticulture lighting and solar simulation solutions. It offers G2V Perihelion lights for vertical farming. It allows users to control and adjust the spectrum of the lights according to different horticulture environments with software called One Click Sun. It also offers solar simulating lights knowns as pico solar simulator and sun brick solar simulator.
- May 2021Seed$2M
#7
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2012 · 5 employees$397.7Kraised▾
Sustainitech has developed indoor vertical hydroponic farming infrastructure based out of shipping containers. The company has equipped these containers with environment control equipment such as ventilation, temperature control, indoor LED lighting and has also installed vertical hydroponic growing systems. The company grows leafy green vegetables in these set ups, harvests and supplies the same to grocery stores.
- Jul 2017Seed$397.7K
#8
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2021—raised▾
Mobile application to detect bacteria on contaminated surfaces. The company offers AI-enabled add-on devices that allow smartphones to detect bacteria contamination using non-intrusive methods to prevent foodborne illnesses and other bacteria-related outbreaks.
- Sep 2022Seed—
#9
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2021—raised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence platform intended to provide data management and analysis to the livestock industry. The company utilizes digital tools to assess dairy cows for health and structural traits and also provides consulting services, smart analysis, and time and cost management enabling farmers to improve production and animal longevity as well as take care of their animal health and welfare.
- Sep 2022Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food and Agriculture Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Food Technology is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Food Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 830 Canada-affiliated papers.
- McGill University71
- University of Guelph68
- Ministry of Agriculture50
- University of British Columbia49
- Ministry of Health46
- Food safety2→12
- Food processing4→33
- Food safety4→30
- Agriculture1→23
- Food industry3→15
- Shelf life2→14
- Food safety9→70
- Food security9→69
- Food processing10→67
- Agriculture7→43
- Production (economics)1→34
Where food tech 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.
Who's filing food tech patents in Canada
Canada food tech patent filing is accelerating — 14 filings from 11 assignees (2016–2025), led by Lucid, COTE Benjamin, KATZ Design; annual filings 1→5.
- Lucid7
- COTE Benjamin3
- KATZ Design2
- G E Leblanc2
- Charlottetown Metal Products2
- Anohekra1
- Grima Daniel J1
- Brillinger TINA1
Common questions
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