HeyOrca Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · St. John's|St. John's, NL · grants and contributions register · St. John's South–Mount Pearl

HeyOrca Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 16 agreements; $3.3M value; 2 departments; 6 programs.

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16agreements
$3.3Mvalue
2departments
6programs

Largest agreements

211802$500Kvalue2018start2019end

Expand business development activities and capabilities

219607$500Kvalue2021start2022end

Undertake marketing activities to penetrate new market segments

222058$500Kvalue2023start2024end

Undertake marketing activities to enhance growth opportunities in existing and new markets

227429$500Kvalue2025start2026end

Undertake marketing activities to drive market expansion and accelerate revenue growth

HeyOrca Technology Readiness for 2019$257Kvalue2018start2019end

This project aims at implementing solutions that aid the scalability of the Firm's technology, process and team to serve the Firm's exponentially expanding customer base.

215534$200Kvalue2020start2021end

Provide assistance to mitigate impacts of Covid-19

Development of HeyOrca Community Management For Agencies$150Kvalue2021start2022end

Expanding HeyOrca’s social media management suite offering to enable agencies to manage and grow client audiences.

Advanced Social Media Platform$150Kvalue2020start2021end

Transforming HeyOrca from a social media approval tool to a full social media management suite for digital agencies.

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Innovation Assistance Program$132Kvalue2020start2020end

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.

Agreement$95.1Kvalue2017start–end
Agreement$73.0Kvalue2015start–end
AI Pilot Project$52.3Kvalue2025start2025end

This project will develop an AI-powered content grader that will analyze social posts against the customer's audience profile to provide personalized improvement suggestions, enhancing the quality and engagement.

217636$50.0Kvalue2021start2022end

Enhance business development capabilities to support commercialization efforts

222179$50.0Kvalue2023start2024end

Enhance business management capabilities to accelerate international business growth

Social Media Advertising Workflow Automation$41.6Kvalue2019start2020end

To develop a new product that allows customers to generate contents, get client approvals and push the content to different ads platforms.

Technology Roadmap Research$37.6Kvalue2018start2018end

In this project, we will be performing a full internal audit of the software and infrastructure behind the service we provide, as well as any related process that contributes to it.

Departments

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency7agreements$2.3Mvalue4programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Business Development Program
  • REGI - Productivity and Business Skills
  • REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI)

All grants from Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

National Research Council Canada9agreements$989Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Innovation Assistance Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20252agreements$552Kvalue2programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20232agreements$550Kvalue2programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI)
20213agreements$700Kvalue3programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • REGI - Productivity and Business Skills
20203agreements$482Kvalue3programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Innovation Assistance Program
20191agreements$41.6Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20183agreements$795Kvalue2programs
  • Business Development Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20171agreements$95.1Kvalue0programs
    20151agreements$73.0Kvalue0programs

      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.