{"id":516563,"date":"2026-03-05T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516563\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:29:09","slug":"ottawa-providing-ai-funding-to-local-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516563\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Providing AI Funding to Local Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/federal-government-parliament-of-canada-ottawa-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Ottawa Providing AI Funding to Local Companies\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Five companies in this province have received federal funding to help them with the use of AI. <\/p>\n<p>Federal AI minister Evan Soloman announced $8.5-million for 40 projects throughout Atlantic Canada while in Halifax on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Over $1.2-million will be going to companies in this province for various AI-related projects. <\/p>\n<p>Aucure Inc. <br \/>St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland and Labrador<br \/>Undertake market development activities to increase market awareness and accelerate growth<br \/>Investment: $75,000 (repayable)<\/p>\n<p>trophi.ai <br \/>St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland and Labrador<br \/>Undertake marketing and product development activities to accelerate revenue growth<br \/>Investment: $950,000 (repayable)<\/p>\n<p>qualiTEAS Inc. <br \/>St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland and Labrador<br \/>Undertake commercialization activities to accelerate revenue growth<br \/>Investment: $60,000 (conditionally repayable)<\/p>\n<p>Expertise Hub Co-operative <br \/>St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland and Labrador<br \/>Implement phase I of a multi-phase immigration retention and mentorship initiative<br \/>Investment: $131,250 (non-repayable)<\/p>\n<p>Quidi Vidi Brewing Company Ltd. <br \/>St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland and Labrador<br \/>Enhance Artificial Intelligence capabilities to boost productivity and growth<br \/>Investment: $50,000 (non-repayable) )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Five companies in this province have received federal funding to help them with the use of AI.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-516563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}