Canadian Food Innovation Network Innovation Scouting Fund 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Canadian Food Innovation Network Innovation Scouting Fund 2025. The Innovation Scouting Fund seeks to instantly deal with actual-world enterprise challenges recognized by main Canadian meals producers, distributors, foodservice, or grocery retail corporations. Each name is sponsored by one among these potential expertise adopters and invites Canadian Small or Medium Enterprises and educational researchers to apply with their options for consideration and additional validation.

The program will present funding help for the profitable foodtech innovator(s) to collaborate instantly with a notable participant within the Canadian meals panorama. These funds will facilitate a strong pilot mission, masking important prices for the innovator and the partnering agency, enabling efficient testing and validation in actual-world functions.  

Each Innovation Scouting Fund name is supported by a Call Details doc that outlines the precedence areas for initiatives. Applicants will define their proposed answer and element their readiness for a pilot.

Funding

• The whole eligible mission prices ought to be between $20,000 and $105,000, and the utmost degree of matching funding from CFIN will likely be 60% of whole eligible mission prices (between $12,000 and $75,000). 

Eligibility

• Open to Canadian SMEs with at the least one 12 months of incorporation. 
• Academic researchers at Canadian establishments. 
• Proposing a expertise or answer that aligns with the decision priorities and has achieved at the least a TRL of three. 

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, see FAQ and go to Innovation Scouting Fund.