An innovator in global energy transition

Avatar Innovations is building a new energy future through leadership, entrepreneurship, collaboration and capital.

 
 

Working together for industry change.

Avatar fills a critical gap in the energy innovation ecosystem by working with large oil and gas firms to champion solutions from within by engaging their staff. It creates a safe “third space” for energy companies and academia to collaborate and unlock new business opportunities. 

It’s a multi-faceted approach to solving the energy sector’s most challenging problems.

The Avatar model brings together three important components into an integrated program: 

  • Avatar Ignite

    Avatar Ignite brings emerging professionals together to work in cross-functional teams to generate new business ideas to industry challenges.

  • Avatar Accelerator

    Avatar Accelerator takes early-stage solutions and partners them with customers, capital and expertise to create investor-ready business opportunities.

  • Avatar Ventures

    Avatar Ventures provides access to capital to launch and scale CarbonTech start-ups.

 

Avatar works with industry to create and implement groundbreaking energy innovations, placing them at the forefront of energy transition.

Through local expertise and deep relationships in the energy sector, Avatar Innovations serves as a mechanism to empower the energy industry as major innovators and contributors to global energy transition.

Our values

 
 

Teamwork

We go further together

Performance

We work with people and projects that excel

Diversity

Our strength comes from our inclusion of everyone

Courage

We step into the unknown to create a better future

Creativity

Our genius comes from looking at things in new ways

Avatar indigenous inclusion

Avatar Innovations recognizes the importance of pursuing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and believes that reconciliation plays an important role in creating energy transformation that responds to the environmental, social and economic needs of all Canadians and Indigenous communities.