Exka Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Mirabel|Mirabel, QC · grants and contributions register · Mount Royal

Exka Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 8 agreements; $3.0M value; 2 departments; 5 programs.

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8agreements
$3.0Mvalue
2departments
5programs

Largest agreements

400057254$1.5Mvalue2020start2024end

Equipment acquisition and commercialization: the project aims at starting a life sciences company specialized in the extraction of pharmaceutical grade cannabis oil.

Improve process of varieties development with scaling up of micropropagation techniques.$820Kvalue2024start2027end

The project aims to develop a high-throughput process for breeding and propagating elite cannabis varieties, identifying and crossing parents, accelerating seed-to-seed generation, and efficiently producing, screening, and propagating new varieties for the market.

Increasing cannabis micropropagation efficiency and development of a comprehensive cannabis clonal repository$447Kvalue2021start2023end

This project aims to increase the efficiency of all stages plant microculture, starting with the establishment (Stage 1), multiplication or micropropagation (Stage 2), rooting (Stage 3) and acclimatization (Stage 4). The project also intends to develop, organize and maintain an in vitro library of plants to allow more efficient storage.

Innovation Assistance Program – Round 2$85.2Kvalue2020start2020end

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$71.1Kvalue2020start2020end

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.

ARP - Hop Micropropagation Developments.$50.0Kvalue2019start2020end

Common hop or hops (Humulus lupulus) is a species of flowering plant in the hemp family (Cannabaceae) that will be used as a model, in this project, for cannabis (Cannabis sativa) micropropagation in vitro and establishment of microcuttings ex vitro.

Innovation Assistance Program – Round 2.5$37.9Kvalue2020start2021end

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.

Exka Inc.-2026-2027-1042721$30.0Kvalue2026start2027end

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.

Departments

National Research Council Canada7agreements$1.5Mvalue4programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program
  • Innovation Assistance Program
  • CanExport

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions1agreements$1.5Mvalue1programs
  • The Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation Program (REGI)

All grants from Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions

Years

20261agreements$30.0Kvalue1programs
  • CanExport
20241agreements$820Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20211agreements$447Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20204agreements$1.7Mvalue3programs
  • The Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation Program (REGI)
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program
  • Innovation Assistance Program
20191agreements$50.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

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.