Record-breaking SCALE AI funding of $128.5M

TORONTO — SCALE AI, Canada’s artificial intelligence (AI) cluster, announced a total of $128.5 million in investments to support 44 new applied AI projects across Canada. This brings total commitments over the past six months to more than $226 million, reflecting the rapid acceleration of homegrown AI deployment across Canadian industries and organizations.

This is SCALE AI’s largest funding round to date, a clear signal of the accelerating momentum behind Canada’s AI — from growing public-sector commitment to rapidly expanding adoption across sectors nationwide. The announcement also highlights a growing trend: a rising number of projects now involve partners from multiple provinces, reflecting an increasingly interprovincial AI ecosystem and a strengthening culture of collaboration across Canada.

“Artificial intelligence is opening new opportunities for Canadians, helping us work more efficiently, tackle real-world challenges and improve our living standards. Applied AI is where that impact is felt most clearly: on factory floors, in supply chains, in hospitals and across the companies building the next wave of innovation,” said Evan Solomon (pictured), minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation and minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.

Projects involving healthcare:

Healthcare Optimization – Agentic AI
Partners: League, IVADO Labs
Prescribing Operational Adjustments for Resilient Cancer Care
Partners: The Ottawa Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, CancerCare Manitoba, Jewish General Hospital, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Gray Oncology Solutions, CIUSSS de l’Estrie – Sherbrooke, Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de Laval (CISSS), Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont

Predicting Alternative Level of Care (ALC) Patient Length of Stay & Service Need
Partners: Deloitte Inc., Humber River Health, Niagara Health, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Seafair, Saint Elizabeth Health Care

C4 FLOW: Predictive Intelligence for Better Patient Care
Partners: CIUSSS West Central Montreal, OROT, AlayaCare, IVADO Labs, Desautels Faculty of Management – McGill University

AI-Driven Data Abstraction for Efficient Gastrointestinal Surgical Research
Partners: Hamilton Health Sciences, FluidAI Medical

Echocardiogram requests prioritization
Partners: McGill University Health Centre, IVADO Labs

AI-SCOUT
Partners: UHN, Zamplo, AMII

AI-Driven Knowledge Retrieval & Compliance Solution
Partners: Deloitte Inc., Aqila Systems, Markitech, North York General Hospital (NYGH), Lakeridge Health (LH), Halton Healthcare (HH), Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH)

The newly announced projects highlight the diverse and transformative applications of AI across a growing range of private and public organizations crucial to the Canadian economy—from using advanced AI agents to reinvent how people navigate and access their healthcare benefits, to helping healthcare teams better plan and coordinate care for patients after they complete radiation therapy, to automating municipal infrastructure management, to accelerating oil and gas pipeline inspections, helping electric utilities respond more effectively to power outages, and even deploying generative AI solutions to support local news coverage across the country.

The projects also showcase a wide range of applied AI capabilities now being deployed across Canada’s economy, including machine learning for prediction and optimization, computer vision for image and video analysis, generative AI for conversational interfaces, and retrieval-augmented generation for navigating complex institutional knowledge. From automating document-heavy workflows to enabling real-time forecasting, risk detection, and decision support, these solutions show how AI is accelerating operational efficiency, reducing bottlenecks, and strengthening productivity and competitiveness across fields such as healthcare, energy, insurance, retail, manufacturing, transportation, professional services, and public infrastructure.

The announcement comes at the end of a year marked by remarkable momentum for Canada’s AI ecosystem, and at a time when the Government of Canada is developing a renewed AI strategy to drive economic growth through broader adoption of the technology and greater public trust in its capabilities. It highlights the critical role that AI commercialization and deployment will play in advancing Canada’s global AI leadership and reinforcing the country’s digital sovereignty.

The 2:1 private-to-public investment ratio for the projects announced today reflects the industry’s firm commitment to adopting made-in-Canada AI and the collaboration between industry and government to accelerate innovation.

The announcement was held at League’s headquarters in Toronto, home to a leading AI-powered healthcare consumer experience platform that serves more than 63 million people worldwide. The event brought together Canadian AI leaders and project partners alongside Evan Solomon, minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation, and minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, Maggie Chi, parliamentary secretary to the minister of health, and Chi Nguyen, member of parliament for Spadina-Harbourfront.

The details of the supported projects are available here. The supported projects in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec will be highlighted during announcements scheduled for December 17, 2025.

“We are at a pivotal moment for AI and Canada’s global leadership in this field. Now is the time to reap the benefits of our early investments in AI. Today’s announcement underscores the need for Canada to double down on the commercialization and the rapid, yet responsible, adoption of enterprise AI. The projects announced this week will help build more competitive companies and, ultimately, a stronger and more resilient economy,” said Julien Billot, CEO of SCALE AI.