Prepared by Inflection Venture Partners · Embedded Growth Capital Advisory
Grants & SR&ED
📋 Recap
The refreshed non-dilutive scan is delivered against the new profile — medical-imaging AI infrastructure with an agentic orchestration layer across cardiology, neurology and pulmonary.
AICE is verified open: Validate up to $300,000 and Market Access at $300,000–$600,000, at up to 75% cost share, with the intake form due November 27 and the full application January 15, 2027.
The scan is explicit that the corporate structuring decision gates eligibility across AICE, PrairiesCan RAII, NRC IRAP, Mitacs and SR&ED. Getting the structure right is worth more than any single application, and that is where the effort belongs right now.
The live board beyond AICE: enhanced SR&ED at 35% refundable on up to $6,000,000, PrairiesCan RAII at $250,000–$5,000,000 on continuous intake, NRC IRAP through an advisor introduction, and Mitacs Accelerate.
Two items are closed out cleanly: the amii Health Innovation Lab call closed September 28, and the NSERC–Alberta Innovates Advance Grants Stream II expression of interest has expired.
The Digital Research Alliance Research Software Maintenance Fund ($500,000, University of Calgary as prime) is still awaiting a decision with no published result.
A structure-dependent US route is on the board: NIH SBIR/STTR is available only with a US subsidiary under US-person majority ownership.
There are no confirmed program deadlines inside the next thirty days — which makes this the right window to settle structure before the November and January intakes.
🔭 Outlook
The corporate structure funding brief is the priority deliverable and we are putting a firm date on it. It tests each eligibility pathway against both the parent-company structure and a founder-owned Canadian R&D entity licensing IP out, as direct input to your international tax advisor.
Alongside it, two tests to confirm under the chosen structure: how the Alberta-based SME test applies, and whether CCPC status holds — both run through the Alberta Innovates relationship.
We need the Labeldeep technology overview from you to complete the US healthcare market scan — that is the one open dependency on your side.
Confirm the incorporation date against the operating-history tests on RAII and IRAP. Manta Health Technologies incorporated February 6, 2026, which sits short of the roughly two-year test, so the structure decision may determine which entity applies.
November 27 — the AICE intake form. We want the file assembled so it is ready regardless of which structure is chosen, with the full application following January 15, 2027.
Prepare the PrairiesCan RAII package — financials, deck and bank statements.
Scope one or two Mitacs internships with a University of Calgary supervisor, and request an Alberta NRC IRAP advisor introduction.
We are re-establishing the regular check-in cadence after the early-October session moved — a standing slot rather than a placeholder.
📝 Notes
Thank you for the Santis Health survey on AI in Canadian healthcare — it is useful corroboration for the thesis and we will fold the relevant findings into the market scan.