2025 COHORT

Building and providing containerized micro-processing units, traceability, innovation, and connectivity for remote, rural, and coastal Indigenous community members.

Empowering people and businesses to build in the best possible way: healthy, resilient, sustainable, fast, circular, and affordable.

Building enabling technology for woodcraft cooperatives, with Coast Woodcraft as the pilot project.

Making in-vessel, aerobic composting bioreactors for institutional, commercial and municipal markets.

Developing reusable plastic packaging systems for the logistics industry.

Revolutionizing post-hair removal care by transforming common skin challenges into an empowering, elevated self-care ritual.

Supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by simplifying the decarbonization process and helping them turn circular business practices into a competitive advantage.

Providing home and garden materials such as gardening pots, towels, and soap dishes made of 100% difficult-to-recycle plastics.

A members-only platform that facilitates the sharing of outdoor gear using a lend-to-borrow model.

Providing sustainable, seaweed-based wound care solutions that promote faster healing of wounds and burns, while also reducing plastic waste for a cleaner, greener future.

Building zomes—modular structures made from local organic waste, recycled or upcycled materials—that can be used as greenhouses, saunas, or shelters.

A digital platform providing convenient, secure, and reliable e-commerce infrastructure for the second-hand economy, real-time waste reduction reports for government stakeholders, and downstream scope-3 emission reports for consumer retailers.

Providing manufacturing and upcycling services to designers and brands who want to embrace sustainability and work with zero-carbon textiles.

Providing shipping container expansion kits to businesses that modify and repurpose used sea-cans into habitable, portable structures.

Transforming marine biomass into high-performance building insulation that sequesters carbon, helping architects and developers meet stricter embodied carbon regulations while creating a positive impact on marine ecosystems.

An AI-powered online platform designed to empower individual investors to engage in sustainable investing by providing personalized strategies, real-time ESG analysis, and educational resources.

A sustainable fashion brand upcycling retired watersports and outdoor equipment and giving them a second life as practical products for adventurers and their furry companions, handmade on Vancouver Island.