2025 COHORT

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

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

Providing hands-on recycling services at community events by actively sorting waste on-site to eliminate contamination, targeting event organizers who are committed to sustainable waste management.

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

Offering sustainable office decommissioning services through resale, donation, and recycling.

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

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

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.

Developing reusable plastic packaging systems for the logistics industry.

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.

A digital marketplace for waste reuse, promoting circular resource use and demonstrating that waste is not an endpoint, but a valuable economic asset.

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.

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