GrantTrail

Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario · Contribution program

Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative (RAII)

Help bring new AI technologies to market and speed up AI adoption in sectors across the country.

Total value
$51.3M
Agreements
44
Dec 2024 to Apr 2025
Median agreement
$1M
Typical range
$581K–$1.6M
the middle half of agreements

Federal grants and contributions, agreements starting Jan 2006 to Oct 2026, each counted once at its latest amended value. Source: Treasury Board proactive disclosure, published October 11, 2026.

See every record for this program on the government’s search. How to apply: look up the program on Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario’s website.

Who got it

Organizations with the most funding under this program.

Plus 3 agreements ($4.7M) to individuals, sole proprietors and recipients this site does not name. They count in every total above. Why

By year

Agreements by the year they started.

YearAgreementsTotal
202413$12.5M
202531$38.8M

By province

Province or territoryAgreementsTotal
Ontario44$51.3M

By type of recipient

As the department classified the recipient.

Recipient typeAgreementsTotal
For-profit organizations39$38.5M
Not-for-profit organizations and charities3$8.4M
Government1$2.7M
Academia1$1.7M

Industries funded

Where the department recorded an industry code (NAICS). Most agreements have none.

Latest agreements

StartRecipientValue
Apr 2025Visfuture Inc.$200,000
Apr 2025Vector Institute / Institut Vector$4,000,000
Apr 2025TULONG Technologies Inc.$557,500
Apr 2025Toronto Region Board of Trade$2,400,000
Apr 2025Spoonity Inc.$996,930
Apr 2025SigmaRPA Inc.$350,000
Apr 2025Ontario Brain Institute$2,000,000
Apr 2025The Corporation of The City of Brampton$2,700,000
Apr 2025Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc.$1,040,000
Apr 202511207393 Canada Inc.$600,000
Feb 2025Naryant Inc.$536,403
Jan 2025DMD Building Systems Corporation$1,700,000
Jan 2025SR AI Inc.$1,200,000
Jan 2025Fairly AI Inc.$300,000
Jan 2025Spatial Industries Group Inc.$815,733
Jan 2025Zighra Inc.$1,000,000
Jan 2025Trax.GD Corp.$394,000
Jan 2025Solink Corporation$1,000,000
Jan 2025Private AI Inc.$2,000,000
Jan 2025Private AI Inc.$2,000,000
Jan 2025Leni Inc.$994,375
Jan 2025Jatom Systems Inc.$1,000,000
Jan 2025Future Fertility Inc.$555,239
Jan 2025B3 Systems Inc.$1,500,000
Jan 2025Armilla AI Inc.$1,600,000