RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Sherwood Park|Sherwood Park, AB · in the contract register · grants and contributions register · Sherwood Park–Fort Saskatchewan

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 28 agreements; $3.1M value; 4 departments; 10 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-08POUY70NC · Cite as: Assay Systems, “RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/runwithit-synthetics-inc/

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28agreements
$3.1Mvalue
4departments
10programs

Largest agreements

Eureka Cluster ITEA - 23010 - PHRESH - Patient Health Response in Emergent and Secure Habitats for Connected Healthcare$583Kvalue2025start2027end

As part of the international consortium project “PHRESH: Patient Health Response in Emergent and Secure Habitats for Connected Healthcare," this project will show the impact of connected care on rural and remote communities and demonstrate RWI’s capacity to model, analyze, and visualize health attributes, disease states, connected care networks, and connected device deployments. RWI will map a selection of disease states into rural and remote Synthetic Populations with enough fidelity to enable the optimization of medical device deployment within communities and populations. Outcomes for popul

000021317$500Kvalue2021start2024end

Increase marketing & adoption of synthetic modelling platform in energy transition futures

000021317$500Kvalue2021start2024end

Increase marketing & adoption of synthetic modelling platform in energy transition futures

Synthetic Surveys, Visual Modelling, and Visual Explanations$411Kvalue2022start2024end

A project consisting of three sub-projects: 1) Synthetic Surveys and machine learning; 2) high-level visual modelling for non-programmers; as well as 3) integrated visual explanations and explorations of data.

Business Innovation - Business Process Engineering$159Kvalue2024start2025end

This is an R&D project to test hypotheses and experiment with new mechanisms to design a repeatable and scalable business process and to develop IP in business methods.

Localized Synthetic Population Generation$121Kvalue2021start2021end

To inform the activity of people in specific cities and regions in RUNWITHIT’s (RWI) Synthetic Environments (SE), RWI is looking to design, trial and validate a modular, repeatable approach to generate synthetic populations, with geo-locational and attribute specificity. When RWI generates Synthetic Populations they become a complete facsimile in composition and demonstrate the level of fidelity to support the demographics and psychographics for our energy, resilience and mobility models, an extraordinary accelerator for RWI’s commercial application of SEs, enhancing our ability to rapidly m

AI Assist: AIGenCI - AI Generative Configurable Interactivity$115Kvalue2024start2025end

The project focuses on VR interactions by groups and individuals with AIGenCI, a dynamic and configurable generative AI agentic intelligence scenario. Use cases include a live presenter brokering interaction for attendees and a facilitator guiding groups through a shared and interactive tabletop exercise. Technical innovations enable AIGenCI scenario interactions via VR user experiences in a web browser or desktop application, integrated through service interfaces to back-end cloud servers, to allow dynamic and interactive shared GenAI/VR experiences based on data, best-available research, a

000015428$100Kvalue2019start2021end

Implement a strategy to increase access to markets for artificial intelligence services

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Synthetic City Design Environment Integrations$92.0Kvalue2019start2020end

RUNWITHIT Synthetics will formalize the capability to interface research and data models into layers in a Synthetic City design environment. The first proposed POC will be with the Canada Research Chair of Intelligent Energy Systems select areas where Synthetic modelling would benefit further research and publishing.

BARRIER (Building AI Resilience Readiness Intelligence for Emergent Responsiveness)$75.0Kvalue2026start2027end

RUNWITHIT will advance relationships with primes and Canada’s Department of National Defence, and prepare for procurement processes with BARRIER. BARRIER is a Synthetic Twin of Canada where virtual deployments and choices in resilience, energy, security, communities, commercial and industrial development, and defence play forward from a converged model of the present into the future to plot pathways to achieve measured goal outcomes. BARRIER is an Artificial Intelligence platform for advancing cleantech and resilience in the build-out of Canada’s defence capabilities. BARRIER blends augme

Convergence Hub for the Exploration of Space Science (CHESS) Enhancements$50.0Kvalue2022start2022end

To furnish diverse stakeholders access to RUNWITHIT’s (RWI) Synthetic Environments (SE) during live table-top exercises, orchestrating interactive interfaces, data, and visuals, for this project RWI will be enhancing our ability to integrate and visualize templates and complex data sets supplied by outside expert parties. The first RWI Synthetic Table-top MVP will be used with the CHESS group as they challenge a dynamic simulation of an emerging space weather event, grid operator response, and impacts of space weather on unmitigated assets including grid failures, humans, business and infrast

RWI Export Market Development$41.3Kvalue2020start2020end

RUNWITHIT Synthetics will be attending trade shows in Mexico and the US, a trade mission in the US, and advancing our market development efforts in Mexico, Europe and SE Asia.

Innovation Assistance Program$40.7Kvalue2020start2020end

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.

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.-2021-2022-970071$36.0Kvalue2021start2022end

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.

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.-2022-2023-1003619$32.5Kvalue2023start2023end

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.

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.-2025-2026-1035251$32.0Kvalue2025start2026end

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.

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.-2022-2023-989477$31.5Kvalue2022start2023end

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.

ITEA 2021 - European GVC / MNE Access Support$30.0Kvalue2021start2022end

This project is to help the firm engage with European partners and develop co-innovation partnerships with European multi-national enterprises (MNEs), industry leaders, and key global value chain actors, through the EUREKA ITEA Cluster.

Youth Intern$30.0Kvalue2019start2020end

RUNWITHIT is entering a market and export development growth phase that requires the addition of business development and operations/hr/admin support. To date, the CEO and Co Founder has been performing all of these duties in addition to marketing and sales. As the CEO's international role continues to expand, she is looking to develop an intern to help facilitate all aspects of running the business, hr, scheduling, implementing new systems, as well as helping with market and business development. It is a wonderful role for a young person to learn all aspects of entrepreneurial ventures in

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.-2024-2025-1019127$30.0Kvalue2024start2025end

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.

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.-2026-2027-1042725$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.

ICAP Project$28.8Kvalue2020start2021end

International Co-Innovation Action Program (ICAP) Project: To create a partnership that leads to an R&D project submission focusing on RWI’s smart cities and manufacturing vertical with a German SME or research hub. The project’s scope will be defined by discussing and documenting a list of specific project goals, deliverables, features, functions, tasks, deadlines, and costs to deliver the project submission successfully with the German SME.

Youth Intern$25.0Kvalue2020start2021end

We are looking to add more technical capacity in detailed validation and error checking to our complex modelling environments. This involves training in many development environments, building a process, the tooling and best practices around a large modelling code base, input data and output data. This is a perfect place to begin training a resource in how we approach synthetic modelling as well as will become a valuable experience in developing tooling and process. This intern will gain experience working with and being mentored by the expert members of our team, pairing for development pr

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.-2026-2027-1042727$16.2Kvalue2026start2027end

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.

IP Assist: Intellectual Property Strategy Engagement$10.0Kvalue2022start2022end

The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm.

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.-2023-2024-1014304$8.5Kvalue2024start2024end

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.

Agreement$4.1Kvalue2019start–end

Subsidy payments to industry for research and development

EUREKA Cluster - ITEA – Participation in ITEA 2023 PO Days in Berlin$3.0Kvalue2023start2023end

Participation in the ITEA PO Days held in Berlin, Germany, Sept 11-15, 2023. Delegation led by the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) to establish relationships with key customers, end-users, and other international firms, which will help set the stage for potential Canadian projects in the upcoming EUREKA ITEA Cluster call for proposals.

Departments

National Research Council Canada24agreements$2.0Mvalue9programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
  • CanExport SMEs
  • CanExport SME
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Western Economic Diversification Canada2agreements$600Kvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation

All grants from Western Economic Diversification Canada

Prairies Economic Development Canada1agreements$500Kvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation

All grants from Prairies Economic Development Canada

Global Affairs Canada1agreements$4.1Kvalue0programs

Years

20263agreements$121Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • CanExport
20252agreements$615Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • CanExport SME
20244agreements$312Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport SME
20232agreements$35.5Kvalue2programs
  • CanExport SME
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20224agreements$502Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport SMEs
20215agreements$1.2Mvalue4programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport SMEs
  • Eureka/Eurostar
20204agreements$136Kvalue4programs
  • CanExport SMEs
  • Innovation Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20194agreements$226Kvalue3programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment 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.