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Larus Technologies
Larus Technologies is a defence and security AI company based in Ottawa, Ontario. It had raised C$2.3M as of November 2026, most recently a C$800K grant in October 2026 from Government of Canada (NRC IRAP).
Defence AI ($8.3M IDEaS contract).
larus.com- Founded
- 1995
- Category
- Defence/
Security AI - Status
- Active
- Disclosed raised
- C$2.3M
Funding history
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | Oct 14, 2026 | C$800K | Government of Canada (NRC IRAP) (lead). NRC IRAP advisory services and up to C$800K toward a C$1.7M R&D project to advance ScenarioGPT, an LLM assistant that turns plain-language requests into executable military scenarios for command and control, simulation and training. |
| Grant | Jun 24, 2024 | C$1.5M | FedDev Ontario (lead). FedDev Ontario repayable contribution to develop and commercialize its AI and ML planning, price-forecasting and consumer-research SaaS for retailers; announced Jun 24 2024 in the Ottawa batch of six (Ranovus, ThinkRF, AMC, TryCycle and TutorOcean excluded, not AI-core or adoption) |
Founders
- George DiNardo, Founder/President.
In the newsletter
- CanadianAI: Anthropic signs on for a $10B data centre in Cape Breton, and Tenstorrent raises US$1.5BOct 20, 2026
- Canadian AI: Defence AI has a moment, and 93% of companies are using AI but only 2% can prove it's working.Apr 7, 2026
- Canadian AI: Cohere's opensource voice model tops the leaderboard, and governments open the chequebookMar 31, 2026
Sources
Data as of November 10, 2026.