Avestec Technologies Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · North Vancouver|North Vancouver, BC · in the contract register · grants and contributions register · North Vancouver

Avestec Technologies Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 13 agreements; $2.7M value; 3 departments; 6 programs.

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13agreements
$2.7Mvalue
3departments
6programs

Largest agreements

23571$1.3Mvalue2024start2025end

Commercializing Aerial Robots for Industrial Asset Inspection - Budget 2021

Modular Flexible FPV UAS (Mini-SKYRON FPV)$350Kvalue2026start2027end

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Drone surge: Scaling tactical Uncrewed Aerial Systems manufacturing for modern defence. The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) seek innovative, low-cost, attritable Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) to address gaps in military readiness and industrial capacity.

Intelligent Aerial Inspection for Industrial Hazardous Spaces – phase 2$330Kvalue2020start2022end

Develop robotic technology for inspection of industrial/hard-to-reach spaces in various industries including oil and gas, clean energy, mining and other.

Intelligent Aerial Inspection for Industrial Hazardous Spaces$250Kvalue2018start2020end

Avestec aims to develop a tethered unmanned robotic drone for inspection of hazardous spaces, open or confined, such as storage tanks.

Intelligent Robotic Inspection (Oil spill risk assessment and mitigation)$150Kvalue2019start2020end

Fast Pilot testing of unmanned robotic drone for inspection of industrial assets such as oil tanks, off shore platforms, towers and pipes.

Agreement$100Kvalue2017start–end
Innovation Assistance Program – Round 2$60.9Kvalue2020start2020end

The funding provided from the Innovation Assistance Program is to assist innovative, early-stage small- and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access existing COVID-19 business support.

Innovation Assistance Program$50.8Kvalue2020start2020end

The funding provided by the IAP program is intended to assist innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up phase that cannot access existing commercial support related to COVID-19.

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ICAP 2024 – International Co-Innovation Action Plan$50.0Kvalue2024start2025end

This International Co-Innovation Action Program (ICAP) project will support the Firm to collaborate with a partner in Brazil with expertise in FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) to validate and adapt the Firm’s robotic technology for the offshore market.

Modular Flexible FPV UAS (mini-SKYRON FPV)$35.0Kvalue2025start2025end

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Drone surge: Scaling tactical Uncrewed Aerial Systems manufacturing for modern defence. The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) seek innovative, low-cost, attritable Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) to address gaps in military readiness and industrial capacity.

Innovation Assistance Program – Round 2.5$27.1Kvalue2020start2021end

The funding provided from the Innovation Assistance Program is to assist innovative, early-stage small- and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access existing COVID-19 business support.

Avestec Technologies Inc.-2023-2024-1009557$18.6Kvalue2023start2024end

The purpose of this CanExport Innovation agreement is to support Canadian organizations to carry out activities related to pursuing opportunities that would lead to establishing new collaborative Research and Development (R&D) partnerships between the Recipient and foreign organizations in order to support R&D on the Recipient’s technology and advance its commercialization.

Avestec Technologies Inc.-2022-2023-996500$9.1Kvalue2022start2023end

The purpose of this CanExport Innovation agreement is to support Canadian organizations to carry out activities related to pursuing opportunities that would lead to establishing new collaborative Research and Development (R&D) partnerships between the Recipient and foreign organizations in order to support R&D on the Recipient’s technology and advance its commercialization.

Departments

Pacific Economic Development Canada1agreements$1.3Mvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation

All grants from Pacific Economic Development Canada

National Research Council Canada10agreements$1.0Mvalue4programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program
  • Innovation Assistance Program
  • CanExport Innovation

All grants from National Research Council Canada

National Defence2agreements$385Kvalue1programs
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program

All grants from National Defence

Years

20261agreements$350Kvalue1programs
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
20251agreements$35.0Kvalue1programs
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
20242agreements$1.3Mvalue2programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20231agreements$18.6Kvalue1programs
  • CanExport Innovation
20221agreements$9.1Kvalue1programs
  • CanExport Innovation
20204agreements$469Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program
  • Innovation Assistance Program
20191agreements$150Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20181agreements$250Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20171agreements$100Kvalue0programs

    Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.