Vendasta Technologies Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Saskatoon, SK · grants and contributions register · Saskatoon West

Vendasta Technologies Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 13 agreements; $16.8M value; 4 departments; 4 programs.

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13agreements
$16.8Mvalue
4departments
4programs

Largest agreements

15128$3.4Mvalue2018start2021end

Expand sales and marketing platform to capture new international markets

Agreement$3.3Mvalue2016start–end
515717$3.0Mvalue2026start2028end

Vendasta scales AI Employees and workflow automation to help Small and medium businesses automate customer engagement and routine sales and support tasks.

Accelerated Cloud Broker Expansion$2.9Mvalue2019start2021end

This project will broaden Vendasta platform capabilities and expand categories of SMB service providers that leverage Vendasta to serve the needs SMBs worldwide

PC0010279$1.4Mvalue2025start2029end

Commercialize AI-augmented workflows to support small and medium sized businesses

000016368$1.0Mvalue2020start2021end

Support for Vendasta Technologies Inc. to continue operations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Agreement$481Kvalue2016start–end
Agreement$450Kvalue2016start–end
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SaaS (Software as a Service) Platform Automation, Phase 1$340Kvalue2018start2019end

This project is aimed at Vendasta’s smaller customer cohorts. Key results are to automate customer acquisition, customer success, reduce support costs, improve retention and improve customer results by leveraging AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning.

Building Leadership Capacity in Data Security$200Kvalue2025start2027end

Vendasta will establish a new executive role, Vice President of Security, to lead the development of a company-wide security strategy that enables secure deployment of AI solutions for small businesses in an environment that incorporates key organizational Controls.

Agreement$125Kvalue2010start–end
Agreement$125Kvalue2012start–end
Vendasta Technologies Inc.-2021-2022-976876$22.5Kvalue2021start2022end

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

Western Economic Diversification Canada3agreements$7.7Mvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation

All grants from Western Economic Diversification Canada

National Research Council Canada8agreements$4.7Mvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport SMEs

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada1agreements$3.0Mvalue1programs
Prairies Economic Development Canada1agreements$1.4Mvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation

All grants from Prairies Economic Development Canada

Years

20261agreements$3.0Mvalue1programs
  • AI Compute Access Fund
20252agreements$1.6Mvalue2programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20211agreements$22.5Kvalue1programs
  • CanExport SMEs
20201agreements$1.0Mvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation
20191agreements$2.9Mvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20182agreements$3.7Mvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20163agreements$4.3Mvalue0programs
    20121agreements$125Kvalue0programs
      20101agreements$125Kvalue0programs

        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.