samdesk Canada Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Edmonton|Edmonton, AB · grants and contributions register · Edmonton Centre

samdesk Canada Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 7 agreements; $5.0M value; 2 departments; 3 programs.

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7agreements
$5.0Mvalue
2departments
3programs

Largest agreements

PC0010150$1.8Mvalue2025start2028end

Expand AI-powered solutions for crisis detection and specialized travel risk management

000023422$1.3Mvalue2023start2025end

Expansion of crisis alerting service to new markets and industry verticals - Budget 2021

Real Time AI for Risk Intelligence and Response with Multimodal Agentic Analysts$960Kvalue2025start2027end

Samdesk’s Impact Agents initiative delivers real-time, domain-specific AI agents that help organizations understand the operational relevance of global disruptions. These agents reason across multiple modalities (text, audio, image, and video) to produce actionable, customer-specific insights. The project focuses on expanding our AI infrastructure and agent capabilities.

Crisis Alert Pipeline Enhancements$600Kvalue2024start2026end

Samdesk is enhancing its crisis alert pipeline with advanced AI and machine learning to improve location identification accuracy and develop comprehensive analytics functionality.

Business Innovation - Business Process Engineering$140Kvalue2024start2025end

This business innovation project for samdesk Canada Inc. aims to establish a scalable business process and generate IP in business methods. The focus is on increasing media placements, LinkedIn engagement, webinar registrations, landing page conversions, and case study publications. Key activities include experimenting with media pitches, enhancing LinkedIn content, optimizing webinars, refining targeted landing pages, and developing a client feedback system. By refining these areas, the project seeks to significantly boost brand visibility and engagement in target markets.

Defence Market Readiness and Business Development$75.0Kvalue2026start2027end

A Canadian technology SME will conduct market research, product validation, and stakeholder engagement to advance commercial readiness in the Canadian and allied defence and intelligence markets, building the expertise, relationships, and compliance pathways needed to sell dual-use AI situational awareness technology to defence customers.

FedRAMP Certification$72.9Kvalue2024start2024end

As samdesk aims to serve larger and more complex markets, we require privacy and security certifications such as SOC2 and/or FedRamp, which require extensive internal resources as well as the engagement of third party assessors and auditors. This project specifically aims to further samdesk’s progress on obtaining these certifications, namely FedRamp, which will significantly enhance our ability to penetrate the US Federal Government market. As the work required to achieve SOC2 and FedRamp have significant overlap, both certifications have been included here and we will be working to achieve t

Departments

Prairies Economic Development Canada2agreements$3.1Mvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation

All grants from Prairies Economic Development Canada

National Research Council Canada5agreements$1.8Mvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20261agreements$75.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
20252agreements$2.8Mvalue2programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20243agreements$813Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20231agreements$1.3Mvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation

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.