Visual Defence Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Richmond Hill|Richmond Hill, ON · grants and contributions register · Richmond Hill

Visual Defence Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 22 agreements; $3.7M value; 1 departments; 7 programs.

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22agreements
$3.7Mvalue
1departments
7programs

Largest agreements

Sustainable Infrastructure Maintenance and Traffic Optimization Using Smart Fleets$2.3Mvalue2025start2026end

Headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, Visual Defence is a market leader in the implementation of AI and smart cameras for optimizing municipal operations. Developed in partnership with more than 150 cities, Visual Defence’s ROVER AI in-vehicle cameras help cities operate in a sustainable manner, allowing cities to share resources, extend the life of infrastructure, provide public services effectively, keep the roads well maintained and traffic moving, and accomplish more with existing staff levels. Under this project, with the support of SDTC, Visual Defence will work together with

CIIP Brazil Project IMPRESS: Intelligent measurement of Performance for Recommendations to Enhance sales and services$304Kvalue2020start2022end

CIIP Brazil Project IMPRESS: Intelligent measurement of Performance for Recommendations to Enhance sales and services with Brazilian partner TecSinapse to develop a novel and innovative solution for car dealerships design to improve their sales and optimize their operations through generation of Key Performance Indicators.

City Rover Future Transit$173Kvalue2024start2025end

In this project, Visual Defence expand the CityROVER technology to cover additional innovative use cases in transit.

Agreement$150Kvalue2014start–end
Agreement$150Kvalue2015start–end
ROVER GIS Improvements$110Kvalue2021start2022end

In this project, Visual Defence will implement a variety of GIS enhancements to the ROVER AI technology.

Expanding Visual Defence’s AI Capabilities$75.0Kvalue2025start2025end

Visual Defence is currently managing dozens of internal AI projects related to performing various research and business functions which use different machine learning frameworks, environments, data pipelines, architectures and datasets. Under this AI assist project, Visual Defence will review, plan and implement processes and technologies to streamline the management of its AI computing infrastructure and project portfolio, which will allow the company to accelerate and scale its AI capacity.

Visual Defence Road mapping Technology - PH2- Female Youth$60.0Kvalue2022start2023end

Visual Defence is continuously developing and improving its computer vision AI and machine learning algorithms. The transformation of real-world data into a usable form which the computer understands is key to Visual Defence’s business. A trainee will learn data transformation, annotation, and quality techniques to support the development and improvement of AI models and algorithms.

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Extended data analysis and modeling$60.0Kvalue2021start2022end

Visual Defence will train youth to implement data annotation and quality processes that transform raw data and turn it into machine usable data to allow a supervised learning algorithm. Youth will learn about different types of data, data balancing, data quality, and data metrics related to AI.

Investigation of Machine Learning Inference Workflows$49.5Kvalue2019start2020end

Exploration of machine learning workflows for image analysis. Combining different types of artificial intelligence models (for example, object detection and image classification) to improve inference quality and performance.

Visual Defence Inc.-2021-2022-969798$40.5Kvalue2021start2022end

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.

Machine Learning Framework Analysis$39.0Kvalue2018start2018end

Exploration of machine learning artificial intelligence for video analysis and the available AI vision frameworks and architectures as well as understanding of hardware requirements. Extensive understanding of the various AI vision frameworks and their constraints will allow us to minimize the risks and variables in developing a threat classification technology.

Data analysis and modeling$30.0Kvalue2021start2022end

Visual Defence will train youth to implement data annotation and quality processes that transform raw data and turn it into machine usable data to allow a supervised learning algorithm. Youth will learn about different types of data, data balancing, data quality, and data metrics related to AI.

Data Annotation and Analysis$30.0Kvalue2023start2024end

Visual Defence will train youth to implement data annotation and quality processes that transform raw data and turn it into machine usable data to allow a supervised learning algorithm. Youth will learn about different types of data, data balancing, data quality, and data metrics related to AI.

Inhouse GenAI Interface (Part 1)$30.0Kvalue2025start2026end

The project focuses on the development and testing of generative AI interfaces to be used as part of Visual Defence’s AI product portfolio.

Inhouse GenAI Interface (Part 2)$30.0Kvalue2025start2026end

The project focuses on the development and testing of generative AI interfaces to be used as part of Visual Defence’s AI product portfolio.

In-house AI Gen -Part 3$30.0Kvalue2025start2026end

The project focuses on the development and testing of generative AI interfaces to be used as part of Visual Defence’s AI product portfolio.

Visual Defence Inc.-2022-2023-994184$21.0Kvalue2022start2026end

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.

Ukraine Business Development$20.9Kvalue2019start2020end

Agronomix Software plans to undertake the project of expanding sales into three central European countries. This will be done by attending events in Europe to make connections, build relationships, and demonstrate our software.

IP Assist: Intellectual Property Strategy Engagement$20.0Kvalue2024start2024end

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

VDI seeks to expand its business opportunities in Ukraine covering various sections such as transportation, critical infrastructure, government and homeland security, utilizing VDI's state of the art technologies.$16.0Kvalue2018start2018end

VDI seeks to expand its business opportunities in Ukraine covering various sections such as transportation, critical infrastructure, government and homeland security, utilizing VDI's state of the art technologies.

IP Assist: Intellectual Property Strategy Engagement$12.0Kvalue2022start2022end

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

Departments

National Research Council Canada22agreements$3.7Mvalue7programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Clean Technology
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Canadian International Innovation Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
  • CanExport SMEs
  • CanExport

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20255agreements$2.4Mvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Clean Technology
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20242agreements$193Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20231agreements$30.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20223agreements$93.0Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
  • CanExport Innovation
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20214agreements$240Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport SMEs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20201agreements$304Kvalue1programs
  • Canadian International Innovation Program
20192agreements$70.4Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport
20182agreements$55.0Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport
20151agreements$150Kvalue0programs
    20141agreements$150Kvalue0programs

      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.