You are eligible to apply if your organization meets all of the following requirements:
You are a Canadian small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Your company has fewer than 499 full-time equivalent employees
Your company generates less than $50 million in annual revenue
Your business has been incorporated for at least one year at the time of application
Your organization owns the core intellectual property (IP) behind the technology
Your project focuses on food processing or food distribution
Your technology starts at TRL 4–5 and targets TRL 8 by project completion
Pre-revenue companies may apply if they meet the incorporation and IP ownership requirements.
You are not eligible if:
Your project focuses on farm-level agriculture or primary production
Your company licenses the core IP from another company or foreign entity
You are applying as a technology adopter instead of the technology developer
You are currently the lead applicant on an active CFIN project
You are a government department, Crown corporation, or publicly funded not-for-profit organization