Alberta is busy promoting its “responsible energy” sector across North America and even overseas. For example, Minister of Environment and Protected Areas Grant Hunter is in New York City this week to showcase how Alberta is reducing emissions while growing its economy through producing energy responsibly. At Climate Week NYC, Hunter will taker advantage of […]
Calgary’s Tagsight Builds Momentum with Google for Startups Cloud Membership
Calgary startup Tagsight has joined the Google for Startups Cloud Program as it builds software to help engineers turn complex drawings into usable data. Founded earlier this year, Tagsight reads piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and other engineering drawings, extracting information that project teams would otherwise compile by hand. “We built Tagsight because the instrument […]
Kanin Energy Secures Major Financing Round to Fund Progress of Project Portfolio
Calgary’s Kanin Energy this month raised a major round of financing. The Alberta-based cleantech upstart was founded in 2020 by chief executive officer Janice Tran alongside Dan Fipke and Jake Bainbridge with a focus on capturing waste heat for power generation, district heating, and other industrial efficiency projects. North America’s industrial sector generates waste heat […]
CURA Raises Capital to Fuel Next Phase of Low-Carbon Cement Revolution
In 2025, Calgary-based CURA secured pre-seed capital from Zacua Ventures and Amplify Capital. This month, the decidedly Albertan cleantech company announced a much bigger round of financing. CURA has secured US$10 million to accelerate commercialization, according to a statement, with both Zacua Ventures and Amplify Capital returning, as well as new investors Sandpiper Ventures and […]
Two Calgary-Based Health-Tech Innovators Earn Top 40 Under 40 Honour
The cofounders of local startup-to-watch NanoTess were this week named honourees at Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Awards. Megan Leslie and Julian Mulia were recognized for the impact of their Alberta upstart’s flagship medical device, NanoSALV Catalytic. The award spotlights the positive effect NanoSALV Catalytic has had on Canadians living with wounds, burns, and severe […]
E3 Lithium Confirms ‘Critical Commercial Milestone’ as Clearwater Project Advances
Calgary-based cleantech innovator E3 Lithium announced this month that it is working with a global manufacturer of Lithium Iron Phosphate-based Cathode Active Materials. E3 says it has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Germany’s Epsilon Cathode Active Materials. The MOU, effective immediately, outlines a framework for long-term supply of battery-grade lithium carbonate from […]
Calgary Companies Draw Federal Support for Next-Gen Agricultural Cleantech Project
This month, the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food visited Alberta to support innovation and technological adoption within the region’s farming and food industry. Building on the recently announced $3.2-billion National Food Security Strategy, minister Heath MacDonald unveiled $900,000 in funding for Calgary’s SmartGRO Bioengineering under the Agricultural Clean Technology Program’s Research and Innovation Stream. […]
Clean Energy Project in Alberta to Help Industrial Sector Produce More ‘Responsible Oil and Gas’
Calgary’s Enhance Energy has started building Canada’s largest carbon capture and storage project. The Origins CCS Hub in Clive will store up to 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year with the ability to grow to expand in the future. The Alberta facility is expected to be operational by early 2027. Alberta “is a global […]
Ethox Joins Aerospace Innovation Hub with Cleantech Targeting Aviation Sector
As Canada pushes for Net Zero, the concept of capturing carbon dioxide and sequestering it has risen rapidly in popularity. Founded in 2023, Ethox Energy is determined to put that captured CO2 to use. The flagship technology being developed by Ethox utilizes captured CO2 as a feedstock in order to create products for fuel production, […]
Alberta Companies Back Federal Framework for Responsible Data Centre Development
In March, experts outlined why Alberta is a contender in the race to build AI infrastructure. Months later, Meta unveiled official plans for a $13 billion data centre northeast of Edmonton. The artificial intelligence economy is expected to contribute up to US$16 trillion to the global economy in the 2030s. Alberta’s data centre strategy has […]