Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Ottawa, Canada
The 47 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Ottawa, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Tweed Main Street.
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 Ottawa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tweed Main Street Online platform to sell medicinal cannabis products | $12M | 149 mo ago | Series A | Bruce Linton Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 2 | Vida Cannabis Canadian Biopharma producing medical grade marijuana via hydroponics | $10M | 138 mo ago | Series A | Gregory Wilson Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 3 | The Growcer Manufacturer and supplier of hydroponic growing systems | $3M | 27 mo ago | Series A | Alida Burke Co-Founder & CFO | 2016 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+25 | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Tablz Provider of SaaS-based table reservation management solutions for restaurants | $2M | 51 mo ago | Seed | Frazer Nagy CEO | 2020 | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+15 | — |
| 5 | Else Labs Provider of connected cooking robots | $2M | 107 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | — | — |
| 6 | App8 Integrated digital ordering solutions for foodservice brands | $850K | 79 mo ago | Seed | Hani Jabbour Co-Founder | 2018 | Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+17 | — |
| 7 | Spoonity Loyalty program for restaurants | $300K | 178 mo ago | Funding Raised | Max Bailey Co-Founder | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+40 | — |
| 8 | Shop4me E-distributor of multi-category grocery products | $115K | 49 mo ago | Seed | Mohamed Beitelmal Co-Founder | 2001 | — | — |
| 9 | Hoppier Snack delivery service provider for offices | $112K | 96 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowAnimate.css+30 | — |
| 10 | Aggressive Good Platform offering reusable cartridge facilitates for grocery businesses | $100K | 56 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2018 | — | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Ottawa
#1
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2016 · 37 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Manufacturer and supplier of hydroponic growing systems. It offers modular plug-and-play hydroponic systems. Its flagship product, Arctic Growing System IV is a vertical hydroponic growing system built within retrofitted insulated shipping containers. It offers solutions for the home gardeners, entrepreneurs, community agriculture groups.
- May 2024Series A$3M
- Feb 2023Seed—
- Mar 2019Seed$186.5K
#2
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2020 · 26 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS-based table reservation management solutions for restaurants. It offers a reservation system that can be integrated into the existing workflow. Its features include 3D mapping of the dining room, table management, booking information management, and more.
- May 2022Seed$2.5M
#3
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2014$9.9Mraised▾
Vida Cannabis is a Canadian medical Marijuana manufacturer ensuring product consistency via hydroponics. The Hydroponics methodology ensures minimal wastage and consistent product while getting up to 5 crops per year. The method also eliminates insects and infections and helps producers reduce unwanted minerals while harvesting. The company provides assisted pricing discounts for patients that qualify for their compassionate use program.
- Jan 2015Series A$380K
- Nov 2014Series A$82K
- Jul 2014Series A$5.8M
- May 2014Series A$2.5M
#4
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2012$11.9Mraised▾
Tweed Main Street is an online platform to sell medicinal cannabis products. Its product offerings are cannabis oil and cannabis soft-gel products of sativa, indica, and hybrid varieties. It produces cannabis products via its sister company Tweed Farms and sells them under the brand name of Tweed. It cultivates its strains in a climate controlled greenhouse facility and has an integrated oil extraction and processing facility for the development of final products. It also has physical stores and sells other cannabis products from brands like Spectrum Cannabis, Foria, Bedrocan, etc.
- Mar 2014Series A$6.5M
- Feb 2014Series A$1.4M
- Jan 2014Series A$999.7K
- Dec 2013Series A$3M
#5
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2001 · 10 employees$115Kraised▾
E-distributor of multi-category grocery products. It caters to restaurants, retail stores, clinics, and offices. The product catalog includes fruits, vegetables, aerated drinks, water, snacks, and more. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users
- Jul 2022Seed$115K
#6
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2013 · 18 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of connected cooking robots. Else Labs lab has designed and developed a smart and internet-connected automatic cooking device called Oliver which is monitored and controlled using a mobile app. The app has pre-programmed recipes and will also guide the user step-by-step on how to proceed and load them into the 7 designated canisters in the device. After loading all the ingredients, the user can program Oliver to start cooking.
- Aug 2017Seed$1.8M
- Oct 2015Angel—
- Angel$150K
#7
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2018 · 15 employees$850Kraised▾
Integrated digital ordering solutions for foodservice brands. Offers a digital guest experience suite for the food service industry. The Order Anywhere service is an omnichannel, digital ordering solution for food and beverage establishments that enables guests to view digital menus, order dine-in, pickup, or delivery, and pay for their meals, all from their own smartphones. App8’s extensive suite delivers contactless transactions with guest feedback, advanced reporting, and actionable insights.
- Jan 2020Seed$850K
#8
Funding Raised · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2018 · 6 employees$100Kraised▾
Platform offering reusable cartridges facilitates for grocery businesses. The company developing tech solutions that eliminate waste in the supply chain. It offers a patented TAGPod integrated into supply chain solution from supplier to retailer to consumer. The TAGPod reusable cartridge facilitates the elimination of waste by controlling the amount of product handled. It tracks products to reduce theft, etc. It also provides real-time data analytics to optimize inventory control, product decisions, and customer loyalty.
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$100K
#9
Funding Raised · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2011 · 23 employees$300Kraised▾
Spoonity is a online loyalty platform that allows restaurants to implement and manage a customer rewards system. Customers are able to sign up for loyalty program once and earn rewards to build status based on the amount they spend at restaurant. Restaurants have full control over the status rewards and have the ability to offer groups of customers exclusive rewards. Compiles data about what customers are buying and when they are coming to give personalised experience and help restaurants optimize by giving insights into purchasing and other trends.
- Oct 2011Grant (prize money)$300K
#10
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2016 · 11 employees$112.5Kraised▾
Hoppier is a provider of snack delivery services for offices. It offers products such as snack bars, bulk snacks, chips, popcorn, drinks, fruits, sweets. It also offers stationary and office supplies. The platform allows users to customize snacks as per requirement and budget and provides free delivery of the products to the offices.
- Jul 2018Seed$112.5K
- Jul 2018Conventional Debt$250K
#11
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2015 · 6 employees$67.5Kraised▾
Provider of cloud-based platform for keg tracking and management solutions. It offers tools for managing kegs, containers, inventory, and assets. It enables users to process deliveries, returns, fills, and lookups. It is a tool available on the subscription-based pricing model. It is available on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
- Jul 2017Seed$67.5K
- Oct 2016Grant (prize money)—
#12
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2014 · 9 employees—raised▾
Transparent Kitchen is an intelligent food and beverage discovery platform. It allows users to make an area-specific search for discovering restaurants in that area. It provides restaurant information such as featured dishes, photos of dishes, types of food offered, availability of the restaurant, etc. It allows users to sign up on the platform and make a booking in their preferred restaurant.
- Jul 2019Seed—
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