What ILTA Grain does

ILTA Grain is a privately held Canadian for-profit company headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia, founded in 2011. Per its firmographic description, the company functions as an originator, processor, and exporter of pulse crops — the legume category that includes lentils, peas, chickpeas, and beans — operating within Canada's major pulse-producing corridor in western Canada.

The company operates with a very small team of 1–10 employees, consistent with a lean trading-and-processor profile rather than a large vertically integrated agribusiness. No specific product lines, processing facilities, capacity figures, technology stack, certifications, or proprietary processes are disclosed in the available data. The company's website (iltagrain.com) currently returns only a loader/verification placeholder with no substantive content extractable.

ILTA Grain's business model is commodity-trading-based: it originates pulses from Canadian growers, processes them, and exports them to international buyers. No pricing model, customer segmentation, offtake agreements, distribution channels, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed in the input data. The company's investor history includes a single recorded funding event dated 2017-06-30, led by Equity Group Investments, with the disclosed round amount recorded as $0 in the dataset. No management team, partnerships, regulatory actions, M&A activity, or subsequent capital-raise events are documented. Overall, the data footprint is thin, limiting detailed financial or strategic characterization.

Name

ILTA Grain

Website

https://iltagrain.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ILTA Grain is a privately held Canadian company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Surrey, BC, that originates, processes, and exports pulse crops (lentils, peas, chickpeas, beans) to international buyers, operating with a lean team of 1–10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pulse Crop Processing and Export

NAICS

Dry Pea and Bean Farming (111130)

SIC

Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150)

akta.pro primary industry

Pulses & Legumes Trading/Wholesale (AFAIAKAG)

Keywords

• Pulse crops
• Grain origination
• Pulse processing
• Agricultural exports
• Commodity trading

Headquarters

HQ city

Surrey

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

ILTA Grain is an originator, processor, and exporter of pulse crops based in Surrey, Canada. The company sources pulse crops from Canadian growers, processes them to export specification, and ships them to international food and feed markets. It operates as a vertically integrated participant in the Canadian pulse crop value chain.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pulse crop origination Sourcing pulse crops from Canadian growers as the first stage of the value chain, performed by ILTA Grain for its downstream processing and export operations. B2B activity serving the company's own supply pipeline and (where capacity permits) other buyers. customer is the company's own processing arm; marketed to growers.
• Pulse crop processing Processing of pulse crops (cleaning, grading, and preparation to export specification) as the middle stage of ILTA Grain's vertically integrated operation. No sub-products, certifications, or specific grades are disclosed.
• Pulse crop export Export of processed Canadian-origin pulse crops to international food and feed markets. This is the company's stated export business and the revenue-generating endpoint of its vertical integration. Specific destinations, volumes, and customers are not disclosed.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• ADM: Global agribusiness with origination, processing, and trading of pulses and plant-protein ingredients; relevant competitor in destination markets and in plant-protein supply chains.
• Bunge: Global agribusiness following its combination with Viterra; competes with ILTA in origination and export of pulses and other Canadian special crops to global destinations.
• Louis Dreyfus Company: Global merchandiser of agricultural commodities including pulses and special crops; competes with ILTA in destination markets and increasingly in plant-protein ingredient supply.
• Richardson International: Large Canadian agribusiness with origination, processing, and export capabilities across grains and pulses; broader portfolio but competes for the same Canadian grower pulse supply and export channels.
• Viterra: Major Canadian grain and special crops (including pulses) originator and exporter; competes with ILTA for grower origination and international pulse export demand.
• Cargill: Global agricultural commodities merchandiser with significant pulse and special crop origination and trading capabilities that compete for export volumes and large food-manufacturer contracts.

Direct peers

• AGT Food and Ingredients: One of the largest Canadian-based pulse crop processors and exporters (lentils, peas, chickpeas, beans). Directly comparable to ILTA across origination, processing, and global export activities.
• Export Trading Group (ETG): Global pulse and special crops processor and trader with strong origination networks in Africa and Asia; competes with ILTA for international pulse buyers and food-manufacturer supply contracts.
• BroadGrain Commodities: Canadian-origin processor and exporter of pulses and other specialty crops, with a similar origination-to-export model targeting Asia, the Middle East, and other pulse-importing regions.

Regional players

• Simpson Seeds: Western Canadian processor and exporter of pulses and special crops, closely comparable to ILTA in product mix and Western Canadian origination footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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