RBC Disruptors - Keeping Canadian Agri-Food Startups Scaling at Home

February 13, 2026 | Brian Moore


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Canada can be an agriculture superpower—if we stop exporting the companies that will build it.

RBC Disruptors Series podcast

Recorded in Ottawa during Feeding Innovation: Building Canada’s agriculture super power, this Disruptors special translates Lisa Ashton’s report Seeding Scale into a clear playbook for action. John Stackhouse and Lisa unpack why agri-food is “different money,” why companies hit a growth-stage financing wall, and what it takes—capital, commercialization pathways, and sector fluency—to scale agri-food innovation in Canada.

 

Click here for the full podcast; RBC Disruptors Series.