Calgary, We're Talking AgTech This Thursday! 🌾

Hedging tools for farmers, a $32M AgTech fund, and AI cattle collars. Join us October 22.

Oct 21, 2026

Canada feeds a lot of the world. Tomorrow, we’re talking about who’s building the tech behind it.

Join us Thursday, October 22nd, for our AgTech episode of Tech Thursday Live! We’ve got a founder helping thousands of farmers manage price risk, an investor who closed a $32M fund for early-stage AgTech, and a student founder who wants to replace fence posts with GPS collars.

Our interview guests:

Mark Hlady, CEO & Founder, SimpleHedge
Wilson Acton, Managing Partner, Tall Grass Ventures
Haden Harrison, Co-Founder, Agrivanna

Mark Le Dain, Chief Revenue Officer at Fuelled, and I will run through what's been going on in Canadian tech, then sit down with our guests to go deep on what they're building and where Canadian agriculture goes next. All in front of a live audience!

See you there!

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Tech Thursday Live! is presented by Ramp:

Ramp is now in Canada, and has recently opened an office in Toronto. Ramp helps replace fragmented card, expense, payment, and accounting workflows with one AI-powered platform for greater visibility, control, and efficiency.

News to Catch Up Before This Thursday 🧐

Want to walk in with the full picture? Here's what our guests have been up to, plus the AgTech stories shaping the conversation.

SimpleHedge has facilitated more than US$350M in transactions for nearly 3,000 farmers, helping them manage commodity price risk without trading futures or options themselves. That traction backed its $4M seed round last December.
Tall Grass Ventures backed Lilac Agriculture’s oversubscribed $2.3M seed round in September, and is bringing AgTech leaders to Calgary for OneAg this week, wrapping with the OneAg Summit on October 21st.
Agrivanna built voice-powered records to the ranch, so ranchers can log herd notes without cell signal, and was named a Top 10 early-stage startup for Platform Calgary’s Launch Party on November 5th.
Farm Credit Canada launched a $1B Agri-food Project Finance Fund in September, and committed $150M to Arlene Dickinson’s Velocity Agri-Capital Partners.
Carrot Ventures and XPRIZE Canada Hub opened an AgTech challenge with a $150,000 prize and up to $1.5M in possible follow-on investment. Applications close December 31st.

Also Coming Up

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💻 November 14th: Tech Thursday x Garmin Hackathon.

What can you build in 8 hours? Join a cross-functional team to build a working app on Garmin’s Connect IQ platform, using Garmin’s programming language, Monkey C, with a Garmin mentor on hand all day. No hardware or coding experience required, lunch and snacks are included, and the winning team takes home Garmin smartwatches. With support from our partners Helcim, Motiv and Platform Calgary.

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💰November 18th: The FinTech Opportunity in Canada.

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