Ecostrat Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Toronto|Toronto, ON · grants and contributions register · Toronto–St. Paul's

Ecostrat Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 10 agreements; $2.4M value; 2 departments; 5 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-0SMG8650OW · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Ecostrat Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/ecostrat-inc/

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10agreements
$2.4Mvalue
2departments
5programs

Largest agreements

International BDO Zone Rating Agency Platform Technology and Framework Development$700Kvalue2023start2025end

The goal of the project is to research, develop, refine and consolidate BDO Zone rating technology, processes, tools and intellectual property (IP) in four key IBRA Mission Areas in order to enable the rapid deployment and scale of Ecostrat's BDO Zone ratings globally and thereby accelerate the buildout of bioindustrial manufacturing around the world. CONFIDENTIAL: ============= The International Biomass Ratings Agency (IBRA) will license Ecostrat’s BDO Zone intellectual property (IP), validate and issue BDO Zone ratings, develop a global network of rating Licensees, and support both BDO Zo

Ratings IQ: Enabling and Expanding IBRA’s Product Deployment Platform$630Kvalue2025start2027end

This project represents a comprehensive artificial intelligence initiative that will be strategically integrated across the entire IBRA product and service platform, significantly enhancing functionality, accuracy, and market value. Ratings IQ represents a transformative evolution in biomass supply chain assessment, combining advanced machine learning, predictive analytics, and natural language processing to dramatically enhance and expand the efficiency, market value and catalogue of IBRA’s rating services, and solidify Ecostrat’s position as the undisputed global leader for feedstock ratings

Bioeconomy Development (BD) Zone Risk Ratings: Developing a Regional Biomass Risk Rating Framework and Validating the Impact on Bio-Based Economic Development.$560Kvalue2021start2023end

Project summary is confidential. For more information, please refer to the attached document "NRC-IRAP Ecostrat proposal v6".

Developing Biomass Supply Chain Risk Standards for Canada$325Kvalue2018start2019end

Development of new investment risk support tool for biomass availability, helping replicability of innovation technologies deployment.

Export Market Development for Biomass Supply Chain Intelligence: UK and France$49.6Kvalue2020start2020end

Ecostrat will exhibit at leading global biomass trade events to gather market information, develop our business profile, and generate export sales of our biomass supply chain advisory services in the UK and France.

YEP - Rebecca Gomez$30.0Kvalue2022start2023end

This candidate will be involved in creating proprietary, licensable risk rating IP— the Bioeconomy Development (BD) Zone Ratings Framework-- that de-risks a key investment barrier for bio-based projects and that can be used by local, provincial, and national governments and by economic development organizations globally to powerfully accelerate investment into new bioenergy, biofuel, biochemical and biomaterial production facilities located in “A” rated BD Zones.

YEP - Aryn Garswood (BD Zone Ratings Framework)$29.2Kvalue2021start2022end

This project will further develop and test the accuracy and impact of the BD Zone Ratings Framework. The BD Zone Ratings Framework will enable project developers and capital markets to identify low-risk, investment-ready ‘BD Zones’ around the country and drive biobased investment to specific zones where bio-project success is more likely. By effectively signaling low feedstock risk to developers and investors, it will mitigate a key barrier to biobased development.

Ecostrat Inc.-2024-2025-1017083$27.5Kvalue2024start2025end

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Ecostrat Inc.-2022-2023-998543$22.5Kvalue2022start2023end

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

YEP - Ryan Magwood$18.3Kvalue2022start2023end

Objectives: - Provide technical improvement for the Firm - Provide business improvement for the Firm - Provide resources for the Firm - Develop a new product/service/process for the Firm - Support marketing and market research for the Firm Activities will include developing ratings criteria, tools transparent scoring protocols and standardized alphanumeric risk ratings (AA, A BB, etc.), to combine the risks and rankings from multiple BSCRS Risk Indicators into a risk score for each Risk Factor and then into a single probabilistic expression of risk and rank for each Risk Category on the BSCR

Departments

National Research Council Canada9agreements$2.1Mvalue4programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
  • CanExport SME
  • CanExport SMEs

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Natural Resources Canada1agreements$325Kvalue1programs
  • Contributions in support of Investments in the Forest Industry Transformation Program

All grants from Natural Resources Canada

Years

20251agreements$630Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20241agreements$27.5Kvalue1programs
  • CanExport SME
20231agreements$700Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20223agreements$70.8Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
  • CanExport SME
20212agreements$589Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20201agreements$49.6Kvalue1programs
  • CanExport SMEs
20181agreements$325Kvalue1programs
  • Contributions in support of Investments in the Forest Industry Transformation Program

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.