The people and companies building Canadian tech

Super.com started as SnapTravel, selling discount hotel rooms over text, and grew into a savings super app for everyday Americans — travel deals, a cashback card that builds credit, interest-free cash advances, and a $15/month Super+ membership. Founded in Toronto in 2016; $1B+ in savings delivered and a $1.2B valuation as of 2026.

Clearco funds e-commerce brands with revenue-based capital instead of equity: merchants connect their sales and ad accounts, get an offer in about a day, and repay from revenue — no personal guarantees, no board seats. Started in 2015 as Clearbanc advancing $20 to Uber drivers, it has put over $3 billion into more than 10,000 businesses.

#paid is a Toronto creator-marketing platform that matches brands with social-media creators, then runs, licenses and measures the campaigns. Founded in 2013 by Bryan Gold and Adam Rivietz, it works with McDonald's, Sephora, Samsung and Disney, and won two Adweek Tech Stack Awards in 2025.

Relay is a Toronto fintech building business banking for US small businesses — up to 20 checking accounts, 50 cards, and tools for payables, expenses and invoicing. Founded in 2018 by Yoseph West and Paul Klicnik, it held $1.3B in customer deposits as of May 2026.

Top Hat is a Toronto edtech company replacing print textbooks with interactive digital ones and turning lectures into active classrooms. Founded in 2009 by Mike Silagadze and Mohsen Shahini out of an apartment near the University of Waterloo, it reached 3 million+ students and raised a $130M USD Series E in 2021.

Figure 1 is a Toronto platform where health professionals share and discuss anonymised patient cases — often described as Instagram for doctors. Launched in 2013 by Joshua Landy, Richard Penner and Gregory Levey, it was acquired by Physician's Weekly in February 2024.

Financeit is a Toronto point-of-sale lender that lets contractors, retailers and big-box stores split big purchases — renovations, HVAC, windows, vehicles — into monthly payments. Founded in 2011 by Michael Garrity, Casper Wong and Paul Sehr, it grew out of CommunityLend, a peer-to-peer lender Canadian regulation had stalled, and is now the country's largest home improvement financier.

Hubdoc automated bookkeeping — it fetched bills and bank statements from hundreds of institutions and pushed the data into cloud accounting software. Jamie McDonald and Jamie Shulman started it in Toronto in 2013 as a consumer bill hub, pivoted to accountants and bookkeepers, and sold to Xero in 2018 for up to US$70M. It still operates as part of Xero.

KOHO gives Canadians a no-fee alternative to a checking account: a reloadable card and app that pay interest on balances, round up spare change into savings, and build credit history. Founded in 2014 and now Toronto-based, as of mid-2026 it serves over 2.5 million users and is in the late stages of applying to become a federally licensed Schedule 1 bank.

Maple is a Toronto virtual care company that connects Canadians to a doctor by phone, video or text, usually in under ten minutes. Founded in 2015 by emergency physician Brett Belchetz with Roxana Zaman and Stuart Starr, it is paid for directly by patients, through employer benefit plans, and under provincial government contracts.

Sensibill was a Toronto fintech that pulled itemized receipt data into banking apps, so a customer could click a transaction and see line-item detail instead of a merchant name and a total. Founded in 2013 by Corey Gross and Jamie Alexander, it was acquired by Q2 Holdings in October 2022.

Shopify is a commerce platform that lets anyone set up an online store and sell across the web, social media, and in person. Founded and headquartered in Ottawa, it now powers millions of merchants in more than 175 countries, who sold $378 billion of goods through the platform in 2025.