Uken Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Toronto|Toronto, ON · grants and contributions register · Spadina–Fort York

Uken Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 6 agreements; $1.1M value; 2 departments; 4 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-0NSGEQ31HI · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Uken Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/uken-inc/

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6agreements
$1.1Mvalue
2departments
4programs

Largest agreements

Reinforcement and imitation learning based AI for the automation of creation match3 level design$588Kvalue2021start2022end

Uken, Inc. operating as Uken Games (Uken) is a game developer with its head office in Toronto, Ontario.  The company’s primary source of revenue comes through the sale of virtual goods and advertising revenues via the games.   Uken specializes in mobile gaming with many titles launched such as Bingo Pop, Kings of Pool, Puzzle Solitaire, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Jeopardy etc.  The firm is currently looking to develop a game in the match3 segment of the mobile gaming market.  They want to do an IRAP project to use machine learning and AI in the game development narrative.  By using AI and

AI Game Host$280Kvalue2025start2025end

Development and training of an innovative AI-based game host model for integration into a new title on a cloud gaming platform.

Influencer Marketing for Ava's Manor$150Kvalue2022start2023end

Creative Export Canada

Advanced network communications$46.0Kvalue2024start2024end

The Advanced Network Communication prototype will serve as the base network communication layer for the company's upcoming PvP mobile game combined with another classic genre where up to 100 players will compete against each other in real time.

Business development for investment and publishing opportunities$17.2Kvalue2019start2020end

Exploring investment, partnership and publishing opportunities. It is necessary as we are expecting to increase our scale, which will bring more revenue and increase our workforce.

Uken Inc.-2024-2025-1025630$16.0Kvalue2024start2025end

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.

Departments

National Research Council Canada5agreements$947Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport
  • CanExport SME

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Canadian Heritage1agreements$150Kvalue1programs
  • Creative Export Canada

All grants from Canadian Heritage

Years

20251agreements$280Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20242agreements$62.0Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport SME
20221agreements$150Kvalue1programs
  • Creative Export Canada
20211agreements$588Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20191agreements$17.2Kvalue1programs
  • CanExport

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.