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Margaret Coons is founder of Nuts for Cheese, a vegan cheese maker located in London, Ont. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
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A federal development agency is giving 20 tech and agri-food companies $30,000 each from its i.d.e.a. Fund to help them develop or improve environmentally friendly products and practices to fight climate change.
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“Business owners in southern Ontario are making incredible strides to promote green products and build a clean economy,” Filomena Tassi, minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), said in a release.
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“The i.d.e.a. Fund offers financial and advisory support to entrepreneurs . . . creating made-in-Canada solutions to our everyday problems.”
The funding, funneled through TechAlliance, London’s tech business support agency, must go to create “made-in-Canada climate change solutions,” the agency said.
The recipients are: Adviice; brüst beverage co.; CanGreen Industries; In the ClearZone; DifferentMatters; Ecodemy Education; Food Security Structures Canada; GoParity Canada; NLPatent; Nuts For Cheese; Prometrix Business Solutions Inc.; Proof Line Farm; Pulp & Press; Seed to Surf; Sponge Microgrids; Step Sciences; Tournkey; Upgreen Inc.; Vessl Prosthetics Inc.; and Wheel Easy.
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