Enes Kaan Öztürk didn’t dream up Agriprix in a co–working space. He spotted it from the back door of a restaurant, where he was working as a server after moving from Turkey to Canada. Farmers and suppliers would line up at the door, hoping to sell produce directly to the chef or manager. Öztürk’s observations revealed limited market access for growers, margin loss from intermediaries and time-consuming sales processes that often led to waste.
Next, he spoke with more than a dozen farmers across Metro Vancouver and launched a Facebook group to connect growers directly with buyers. The scrappy pilot eventually evolved into Agriprix, an AI-powered marketplace linking farmers with restaurants, grocers and wholesalers while cutting out costly intermediaries.
Backed by partnerships like the B.C. Centre for AgritechInnovation at SFU and a nine-person team spanning AI, product and agronomy, the startup now holds a $7-million (USD) valuation after raising $75,000 in pre-seed funding and closing a $1.5-million seed round, including at least $500,000 already secured in 2025.
Öztürk is focused on scaling Agriprix beyond its early traction in B.C., with plans to expand across Canada, the U.S. West Coast and, longer term, into Europe—where he sees similar inefficiencies in how agricultural products are bought and sold. Over time, Öztürk wants Agriprix to become “the AI operating system for food commerce”—digitizing one of the world’s least tech-enabled industries while helping farmers keep more of what they earn.
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