Foresight

Cavero Quantum develops lightweight post-quantum cryptography for constrained environments, offering key-exchange (Symmetrikey) and endpoint authentication (Authentikey) technologies that run on SIM cards, IoT sensors, and embedded devices.

CybersecurityIoTQuantum Computing

Rango is a cross-chain DeFi aggregator that routes crypto token swaps, bridges, and transfers across 80+ blockchains by aggregating DEXs, bridges, and other aggregators to find the best rates.

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Drishya builds an industrial AI platform that turns engineering documents (P&IDs, isometrics, data sheets) into a computable "contextual graph" used to generate engineering deliverables, predict equipment failures, and answer natural-language plant queries.

AI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise Software

Acuva Technologies designs and manufactures UVC LED water disinfection systems for residential, recreational, commercial, and remote water treatment applications, using its IntenseBeam optical lensing technology for mercury-free purification.

CleantechClimate TechHardwareVancouver, CA

AI Systems (AIS) designs custom autonomous robotic solutions, including hardware and software modules and products such as Phoenix, Orion, and autonomous platforms for tasks like harvesting and cart pulling.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareRobotics

Alec SmartLighting makes lighting controllers and smart LED lights, including a conversion kit that turns existing fluorescent fixtures into dimmable smart LED lighting and a scalable networked lighting control system for new construction.

CleantechHardwareIoT

Anaconda Systems designs and builds in-vessel composting facilities that convert urban organic waste into fertilizer soil amendment in under 10 days without mechanical agitation.

Circular EconomyCleantechClimate TechVancouver, CA

Awesense provides a data platform that cleanses and prepares energy grid data for use by data scientists, engineers, and consultants to build analytics and AI models.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnergy

BC Biocarbon uses a proprietary continuous-feed pyrolysis process to convert residual wood into Black Bear Biochar, an OMRI-listed organic soil amendment that improves soil structure and water retention while sequestering carbon.

AgTechCircular EconomyClimate TechMcBride, CA

Phil Marsh(Founder)

Borealis GeoPower develops geothermal renewable energy projects that produce heating, cooling, electricity, and enriched mineral brines for communities and commodity markets.

CleantechClimate TechEnergy

Valence Water builds modular electrochemical wastewater treatment systems that combine electro-coagulation (WaterMiner) and electro-oxidation (OxiMiner) in a single reactor.

CleantechClimate TechHardware

Calmura Natural Walls makes a patented biocomposite wall system built from waste wood, offering monolithic walls designed to resist fire, mould, pests and earthquakes while sequestering carbon and reducing energy use.

CleantechConstruction TechNew MaterialsVancouver, CA

CryoLogistics builds SnowSHIP, a vacuum-insulated single-pallet shipping container that uses liquid CO2 as a refrigerant to provide precise temperature control for perishable and temperature-sensitive shipments.

CleantechIoTLogistics & Supply Chain

GRT operates a resource regeneration facility on Vancouver Island that washes and sorts excess soils, hydrovac and dredge material to produce recycled aggregate products such as rock, gravel, sand and silt.

Circular EconomyCleantechConstruction TechVancouver Island, CA

HTEC designs, builds, owns, and operates hydrogen infrastructure across the value chain, including production, liquefaction, storage, distribution, fueling stations, and fuel cell electric truck leasing.

CleantechEnergyMobility & Transportation

Hempcrete builds durable, energy-efficient homes using hempcrete — a lightweight, fibre-reinforced concrete made with natural materials and non-cement binders that regulates temperature and moisture.

CleantechConstruction TechNew Materials

Hydra Energy provides Hydrogen-as-a-Service, converting diesel trucks to run on hydrogen-diesel co-combustion and connecting low-carbon hydrogen supply with fleet operators via long-term fuel contracts.

CleantechEnergyMobility & Transportation

Hydrogen in Motion (H2M) develops solid-state hydrogen storage materials and systems, including conformable nanomaterial storage tanks and on-site systems that convert renewable energy into storable hydrogen fuel.

CleantechEnergyNew MaterialsVancouver, CA

IMR recycles used gypsum products, converting gypsum waste into raw material for use in construction.

Circular EconomyCleantechConstruction Tech

Mavi Innovations develops hydrokinetic tidal and river turbines, along with supporting engineering services such as current measurement instruments, load cells, CFD modeling, and power/energy management systems that integrate tidal power with battery storage and diesel grids.

CleantechEnergyHardware

NPower builds low-cost nutrient management solutions for farms and wastewater treatment operators, aimed at improving operational efficiency and water quality.

AgTechCircular EconomyCleantech

NOMAD Micro Homes designs modular, prefabricated turn-key homes that can be assembled in about 40 hours.

Construction TechPropTech

Novarc Technologies builds autonomous welding cobots and AI-driven robotic vision systems, including the Spool Welding Robot (SWR) and SWR-TIPTIG, for pipe, pressure vessel, and roll welding.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics

Open Ocean Robotics builds autonomous, solar-powered uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) that collect maritime data and provide real-time awareness for maritime security, environmental science, offshore energy, and port monitoring.

Climate TechDefense TechRobotics

Portable Electric builds the Voltstack ecosystem of battery-powered portable and mobile power stations, EV chargers, and generators as zero-emission replacements for gas generators, managed by its NeuronOS energy management platform.

CleantechEnergyHardware

Pyrowave develops microwave-based electrification technologies for chemical recycling of plastics, including depolymerization of polystyrene into virgin-identical styrene monomer, feedstock nanopurification, low-carbon cement, and carbon fiber recovery from composites.

Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials

Reforus develops a bio-based polymer coating and urethane technology, made from pulp and agricultural waste streams, that protects wood composites against water, fire, mold, and pests.

Advanced ManufacturingCleantechNew Materials

Skaha Labs designs and builds passive microwave polarimeters (dual-polarization radiometers) that measure surface and root-zone soil moisture from a distance, deployable on UAVs, vehicles, and irrigation center-pivots.

AgTechDeep TechHardware

Maik Wolleben(Founder)

T-Net (BC Technology) is an online publication covering technology industry news, top stories, and job listings focused on British Columbia's tech sector, with a weekly email newsletter.

Media & EntertainmentVancouver, CA

Summit Nanotech develops an integrated Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) platform, called denaLi, combining a multi-column extraction system, its eLivate DLE sorbent, and multi-physics predictive modeling to recover lithium from brine with low water use.

CleantechEnergyNew Materials

Synovus Solutions designs and builds custom automated test systems (ATE) for product manufacturing, including hardware-in-the-loop simulation, machine vision measurement, and its Symplify framework.

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware

Tesera is an employee-owned technology company that builds High Resolution Inventory Solutions (HRIS) using machine learning and advanced analytics to produce forest and natural resource inventories.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningClimate Tech

VoltSafe develops a prongless high-voltage electrical plug that uses magnets and an "electrical fingerprint" to connect devices to power, with monitoring and control at the plug level via WiFi-enabled devices or a dashboard.

CleantechEnergyHardware

7 Leagues is a woman-owned tannery and wholesale manufacturer of fish leather made from rescued fish skins and plant-based compounds, using chrome-free, plastic-free processing.

Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials

NULIFE uses a modular hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process to convert underutilized and residual biomass into permanent, third-party-verified carbon removals, along with biocrude that can be upgraded to renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel.

CleantechClimate TechEnergy

Legacy Watercare Innovations develops wastewater remediation and environmental technology, including a fluid treatment system, dosing equipment, and nanotechnology-based flocculation and pathogen-removal products (such as VTA Nanofloc and VTA Hydroprompt FORTE).

CleantechClimate TechNew Materials

3F Waste Recovery repurposes by-products from fish, farm, and forest industries — such as shells, fins, bones, and skins — into high-value ingredients used in nutrition, cosmetics, medicine, and pharmaceuticals.

BiotechCircular EconomyFoodTech

AbbaTek Group builds automated water monitoring networks that use laser scanning, acoustic sensing, and machine learning to detect and analyze microplastic contamination in real time.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechIoT

Good Way Homes builds high-performance prefab single residences and multi-unit dwellings that combine sustainable design with fixed, predictable pricing (models starting at $150,000).

CleantechConstruction TechPropTechRevelstoke, CA

Cleantech venture whose founder is part of the Foresight community.

Altimus is a product design and development firm that handles design, prototyping, and manufacturing, taking projects from initial idea through to production and sales.

Advanced ManufacturingHardware