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Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) │ Alberta Innovates

December 5, 2026

Value

AICE-Validate: up to $300,000; AICE-Market Access: up to $300,000-600,000

Description

The AICE program supports Alberta health technology ventures to grow and generate the evidence needed along their journey to achieve validation, market access, and start scaling. The objectives are to mitigate the risks faced by innovative Alberta health technology SMEs that require preclinical and clinical evidence to get to market by providing non-dilutive funding and access to advice and partners along the way.

AICE offers two funding streams, Validate, and Market Access, based-upon the proposed project activities and the stage of readiness of the technology, the product-market fit, the business, and regulatory compliance.

Eligible Applicants

The AICE program is open to:

  • Alberta-based for-profit Small-medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) with an Alberta footprint, which is determined by the following:
    • Significant physical and corporate operational presence in Alberta.
    • Appropriate Alberta ownership.
    • Discernable intent that operational benefits will flow primarily within the province of Alberta;

with projects that include:

  • Innovative technologies with potential to directly improve health outcomes and require significant preclinical, safety or clinical efficacy evidence generation to ultimately achieve regulatory approval, reimbursement and/or market adoption

Generally NOT a good fit:

  • business management and operational clinic or hospital backend software, natural health products, and unregulated products, such as digital health information apps, virtual communication platforms, direct to consumer goods, wellness products, etc..

Eligible Expenses

  • labour costs (gross wages or salaries incurred at reasonable market rates) for those individuals who are specifically identified as performing the service which is directly attributable to the Project and thereby quantifiable or measurable, unless the Applicant is being reimbursed for such costs elsewhere. Accordingly, general overhead is not considered an Eligible Expense;
  • costs of materials, made at the lower of cost or fair market value, which can be specifically identified and quantified as having been incurred in the performance of the Project activities, and which are so identified and quantified consistently in the cost accounting practices of the Applicant;
  • acquisitions of property including capital improvements to facility premises and capital equipment (but excluding land and buildings), made at the lower of cost or fair market value, that are critical to the performance of the Project will be considered on a case-by-case basis upon submission to Alberta Innovates by the Applicant. The contribution will be pro-rated to the Project Period based on asset’s expected economic life, if purchased, at industry standard depreciation rates with any residual undepreciated value attributed to the economic life of the asset remaining after the Project Period being an Ineligible Expense;
  • acquisitions of software or information databases, made at the lower of cost or fair market value, that are critical to the performance of the Project will be considered. The cost of such technology will be pro-rated over the Project Period;
  • basic professional services, fees and disbursements, such as ongoing routine accounting, tax and legal business requirements and financing fees, directly related to the Project;
  • cost of Sub-Contractors at fair market rates where the work of the Sub-Contractor(s) is directly related to the Project;
  • if travel is a necessary part of accomplishing the Project and if either: (i) Alberta Innovates has pre-approved such travel; or (ii) such travel is part of the approved Project budget included in Schedule A; then costs relating to travel Including mileage, airfare (only the lowest economy class/excursion or other promotional type of air fare available at the time of booking is eligible) and accommodation and meals at reasonable rates. For clarity: (i) travel is only eligible when it is part of the approved Project budget in Schedule A or has been pre-approved as being required for accomplishing the Project; and (ii) no first class or business class flights, or luxury accommodation or meals, will be eligible unless the Applicant can establish exceptional circumstances to justify such expenditures. Exceptional circumstances could Include the features of such flights, accommodation or meals being required to accommodate the traveller’s physical disability and there being no other reasonable way to accommodate such needs for a lower cost;
  • additional direct operating costs (incurred at reasonable market rates), not falling within the categories of labour and materials, but which can be specifically identified and quantified as having been incurred, or to be incurred, in the performance of the Project activities and which are so identified and quantified consistently by the Applicant’s cost accounting practices;
  • GST, but only where such GST is levied on costs which are themselves Eligible Expenses and solely to the extent such GST is unrecoverable and the Applicant is not otherwise reimbursed for same; and
  • any other cost which Alberta Innovates pre-approves in writing as an Eligible Expense.

Deadline Date

Applicants must submit Intake Forms at least 6 weeks in advance of the posted application deadline to be considered, and must submit their Full Applications by 4:00 pm Mountain time on the following submission dates: July 18, 2025 (Intake deadline: June 6, 2025); October 17, 2025 (Intake deadline September 5, 2025); January 16, 2026 (Intake deadline December 5, 2026)

Contact

Contact Name: Jose Raez │Senior Business Partner, Health Innovation

Phone Number: 780-306-3086

E-mail Address: Jose.Raez@albertainnovates.ca

Website: https://albertainnovates.ca/funding/accelerating-innovations-into-care-aice/

Location:

Alberta

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