Companies

#Movethedial was a Toronto-born global movement to advance the participation and leadership of women in tech, founded by Jodi Kovitz in 2017. It published early national data on the gender gap in Canadian tech and ran community programs and a summit before pausing operations in 2020.

#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.

1Password is a Toronto password manager and identity-security company, incorporated as AgileBits and founded in 2005 by two couples. It bootstrapped for 14 years before raising from Accel in 2019, and now serves more than 165,000 business customers with roughly 1,400 employees.

2150 is a European venture firm backing companies that reshape the physical world — energy, industry, materials and the built environment, a thesis it calls the Urban Stack. It closed a second fund of €210 million in January 2026, taking assets under management to about €500 million.

2x Growth Agency is a Vancouver performance-marketing agency for direct-to-consumer e-commerce and SaaS brands, running paid social and Google Ads, ad creative, landing pages and email and SMS. John Chan founded it in 2016 as a conversion-rate-optimisation consultancy and runs it with partner Jennifer Lo.

500px is a Toronto-based online photography community and image-licensing marketplace where photographers showcase, discover and sell high-quality photos. Founded in 2009, it grew into one of the largest global photo-sharing platforms before being acquired by Chinese visual-content company Visual China Group in February 2018.

5Crowd was a Toronto startup that connected enterprise marketing and sales departments with a curated global network of remote freelancers, delivering on-demand marketing production - design, copy, animation, video - faster and at lower cost than a traditional agency. It launched in February 2014 and was later acquired by marketing-services firm SGS & Co.

6sense sells B2B revenue intelligence: software that identifies which accounts are in-market, who is driving the evaluation and where each buyer sits in its journey, then acts on that across advertising, email and sales outreach. It is based in San Francisco and says its models have been learning B2B deal patterns since 2013.

7shifts is a Saskatoon company building team-management software for restaurants — scheduling, communication and labour tools in one app. Jordan Boesch started it as a side project to fix his dad's Quiznos schedule, then narrowed it to restaurants only. It now serves tens of thousands of restaurants across North America.

A Place for Mom is a New York-based senior care referral service that helps families find assisted living, memory care and home care. Families pay nothing; the communities and agencies it refers to pay. Its marketer Ed Nevraumont brought it to the TechTO stage in May 2015.

A Thinking Ape is a Vancouver mobile games studio built around long-running multiplayer communities rather than hit titles. Kenshi Arasaki co-founded it out of Y Combinator and moved it to Vancouver in 2010. Embracer Group's DECA Games acquired it in 2020 for roughly $105 million USD.

Abacus is a Toronto advertising agency that pairs brand-building with performance marketing. It started in 2016 as a data-driven Facebook ads shop for startups, backed by a sub-$1M seed from Vitality Capital, and now runs campaigns for brands including Starbucks, Campbell's and Pizza Pizza.

Ability Biologics is a Montreal biotech designing antibodies that switch on only inside a target tissue. Its AbiLeap platform pairs generative AI with a large antibody-antigen database to build fully human, logic-gated antibodies, and it has raised US$30 million in seed capital since emerging from stealth in 2023.

Able Innovations builds the ALTA Platform, a robotic device that lets one caregiver transfer a non-ambulatory patient between bed and stretcher without lifting them. Jayiesh Singh and Phil Chang founded it in Toronto in 2018 and have kept it bootstrapped rather than venture-backed.

Acceler8 Labs is a Toronto performance-marketing agency for e-commerce and growth-stage companies, running paid acquisition and retention programs measured on return on ad spend. Niket Shah co-founded it after five years building Facebook's performance-marketing team.

Access 2 Insight is a Chicago data-driven-marketing and CRM consultancy that helps brands, especially in consumer packaged goods, turn first-party and campaign data into targeting, segmentation and measurement. Founded in 2012 by Matt Johnson, David Rasho and Kristy Gibbs, it has worked with clients such as Unilever.

AccessE11 is an Ottawa-built cloud platform small and mid-sized Canadian municipalities use to track and resolve residents' service requests — the 311 workflow, without a 311 call centre. Started in 2014 and owned by Civicentric, it says it is used by well over 100 municipal customers.

AccessNow is a Toronto platform that crowdsources accessibility information about places — restaurants, shops, venues — so people can know before they go. Maayan Ziv launched it in 2015 after being stopped by a step at a bar; it now covers places in over 30 countries.

Accord is a B2B sales execution platform that gives sales, onboarding and customer success teams a shared plan with the buyer rather than an internal-only pipeline. Brothers Ross and Ryan Rich founded it with Wayne Pan in 2020; it has raised about US$17 million and opened a Toronto go-to-market office in 2023.

Acerta is a Kitchener, Ontario company whose machine-learning software predicts and detects quality defects on automotive and manufacturing production lines. Spun out of the University of Waterloo in 2017 by Greta Cutulenco, Jean-Christophe Petkovich and Sebastian Fischmeister, it raised a US$7M Series A led by OMERS Ventures in 2020.

ACL Services was a Vancouver governance, risk and compliance software company whose audit analytics tools grew out of UBC research. It rebranded as Galvanize in 2019 and Diligent acquired it for US$1B in 2021.

Acorn Biolabs is a Toronto regenerative medicine company that plucks about fifty live hair follicles in a clinic, cryopreserves the stem cells inside them, and processes banked cells into personalised skin and hair treatments. Co-founder and CEO Dr. Drew Taylor presented at TechTO's HealthTO in August 2019.

Acronym is an independent search and performance marketing agency founded in 1995 by Anton Konikoff and headquartered on the 65th floor of New York's Empire State Building. It runs paid and organic search, performance media and analytics for enterprise brands across 35 countries, with offices in New York, Toronto, Berlin and Singapore.

ACTO is a Toronto company selling omnichannel education and engagement software to life sciences — training pharmaceutical and medical device field teams and keeping that training compliant. Founded in 2014 by three University of Waterloo roommates, it has raised a US$11.5-million Series A backed by Salesforce Ventures and a $23.5-million CAD Series B.

Actual is a Toronto company that handles the money layer for hospitality: it automates tip division, digital tip payouts, compliant direct-tip payments and payroll for restaurants and hotels. Founded by Afshin Mousavian and rebranded from Atlas, it moved about $164M in tips so far in 2026, up from $100M in 2025.

Acuity Insights is the Toronto company behind Casper, a situational judgement test that programmes use to assess applicants' people skills alongside academic scores. It launched as Altus Assessments in 2014 out of McMaster research, renamed itself in 2022, and its assessments are used by hundreds of programmes worldwide.

Ada is a Toronto company whose AI agents resolve customer service conversations for brands including Square, YETI and Monday.com. Mike Murchison and David Hariri founded it in 2016; Ada says its platform automates up to 83% of customer conversations for 350+ businesses.

Adam Helps was a Toronto app that connected neighbours to hire one another for everyday jobs — dog-walking, cleaning, furniture assembly — with no platform commission and payment made in person. Founded by Adam McLeod, it launched in 2017, raised about C$950K, passed thousands of downloads, and expanded from Toronto to Calgary in 2018.

Adobe is a Nasdaq-listed software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It makes Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud, and reported record revenue of US$23.77B for fiscal 2025, up 11%. Toronto-based Abbas Rizvi spoke for Adobe at TechTO MarketingTO in June 2018.

AdParlor is a social advertising company started in Toronto in 2008 by Hussein Fazal and Kristaps Ronka. Bootstrapped with no outside funding, it grew to over $100 million in revenue buying and optimising Facebook ads at scale before being acquired by Adknowledge in 2011.

Affirm is a US buy-now-pay-later lender that entered Canada by acquiring PayBright for CAD $340 million in a deal announced in December 2020. PayBright's president and CEO, Wayne Pommen, stayed on and is now Affirm's chief revenue officer; he is a recurring voice on Canadian fintech at TechTO.

Agency builds AI agents for customer success teams, reading a company's email, Slack, support tickets and product usage to give one view of each customer. Elias Torres, who co-founded Drift, started it in Boston in 2024 with Luke Van Seters. It raised a US$20M Series A led by Menlo Ventures.

Agent+ is a Toronto mobile billing app that lets Ontario physicians submit OHIP claims from a phone at the point of care instead of carrying paper slips. It was co-founded in 2015 by two North York General Hospital doctors, Jeremy Theal and Joyce Lee, and is now sold by Motive Health.

Agentiiv is a Toronto AI platform that gives mid-market and enterprise teams the agent workflows large companies build in-house — data analysis, documents, presentations and brand controls in one place. It is bootstrapped, a Vector Institute technology partner, and led by founder Karla Congson.

Agile by Design is a consultancy that rebranded to abd.works, keeping twenty years of delivery experience and shifting its focus from agile transformation to building what it calls Human+AI systems of work. Its argument: AI amplifies whatever system already exists, so fix the human system first.

Agreement Express was a Vancouver fintech whose software automated client onboarding for banks, wealth managers, insurers and payment processors — Visa, RBC and National Bank among its clients. Mike Gardner led it as CEO from 2005 and grew it without venture capital until Frontier Capital took majority control in 2018. Its assets were split and sold in December 2022.

Aida Software was a Vancouver AI company that used natural language processing to answer customer support questions, founded and led by Jenny Yang. Vision Critical acquired it in a deal announced in March 2018 and Yang went on to lead data science there — her second AI company sold, after Metafor Software went to Splunk in 2015.

Aille Design (pronounced 'eye') makes clothing and accessories with fully legible braille beaded into them using Swarovski crystal pearls. The beadwork reads as decoration to sighted customers and as text to braille readers, describing colour, fit, fabric and care. Founded by Alexa Jovanovic in 2020.

Airo Health was a Y Combinator-backed company founded in 2016 by Maryam Jahed, building a wearable device that passively tracked and helped manage mental health. Its founder took the TechWaterloo stage in September 2018 to talk about the founder's own mental state rather than the product.

Airzai is a Toronto consumer-hardware company that makes app-controlled home fragrance diffusers and interchangeable scent pods, sold as a waterless alternative to reed diffusers and candles. Brothers Muneeb and Nabeel Mushtaq run it, after building the home-services marketplace AskforTask, and its first device was designed by Fred Bould.

Akinox is a Canadian digital health company that builds virtual care, pandemic response and care-automation platforms for governments and health systems. Founded in 2010 out of a project delivering virtual care to isolated northern communities, it now employs more than a hundred people.

Akira was a Toronto virtual care company founded in 2015 that let patients consult clinicians by video and text through a mobile app, alongside in-person clinics. It was acquired by Right Health in 2017 and by TELUS Health in 2019, and the brand was absorbed into TELUS Health Virtual Care.

Alavida was a Vancouver telehealth company that treated alcohol use disorder without requiring abstinence, pairing non-addictive medication such as naltrexone with cognitive behavioural therapy delivered over six months through a smartphone platform. Founded in 2015 by Elliot Stone and Dr. Diane Rothon, it was acquired by LifeSpeak in 2021 for $12 million.

AlayaCare is a Montreal software company whose cloud platform runs home-based care agencies — intake, care plans, scheduling, billing, and the mobile app caregivers use in the field. Founded in 2014 by Adrian Schauer, it serves providers in Canada, the US and Australia and raised a $225M Series D in 2021.

Alberta Innovates is the province of Alberta's research and innovation agency, funding and supporting entrepreneurs, businesses and researchers from early discovery through testing and commercialization. It runs Inventures, the province's flagship innovation conference, which its former CEO Laura Kilcrease launched.

Alexio Corporation is a Canadian cybersecurity firm founded in 2017 in Markham, Ontario, that protects patient data for dental and medical practices. It offers affordable Cybersecurity-as-a-Service, delivering enterprise-class endpoint protection, risk assessments, backups and privacy-compliance support to smaller healthcare providers.

Allbirds is a San Francisco footwear and apparel brand known for shoes made from renewable materials like merino wool and sugar-cane foam. Co-founded in 2016 by Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger, it went public on the Nasdaq in 2021 under the ticker BIRD.

Allergan is the pharmaceutical company behind Botox and a portfolio spanning medical aesthetics, eye care, central nervous system treatments and gastroenterology. AbbVie completed a US$63 billion acquisition of it in May 2020, nine months after Allergan's digital transformation director spoke at TechTO's MarketingTO.

Allocadia was a Vancouver company whose software let marketing teams plan budgets and measure what that spending returned. Twin sisters Katherine Berry and Kristine Steuart founded it in 2010 and grew it to serve Unilever and Philips; Uptempo acquired it in 2022 and retired the name.

Alma Care delivers in-home postpartum care across Ontario — night nursing, lactation consulting, postnatal massage and doula support. Melissa Gallagher co-founded it after her own first birth, and it grew from a single Toronto retreat to province-wide in-home care within about a year.

ALT TEX is a Toronto biotech turning landfill-bound food waste into a biodegradable alternative to polyester. A fermentation process converts the waste into a bioplastic, then a fibre, then fabric sold to fashion brands. Founded in 2020 by Myra Arshad and Avneet Ghotra; Y Combinator Summer 2022.

Altrio is a Toronto software company for real estate capital markets. Its product Origin manages deal pipelines, owned assets and market data for investors, lenders and brokers. Raj Singh and Jon Simpson founded it in 2020; it raised an $8 million CAD Series A in 2022.

AMGiNE is an AI automation platform for corporate travel. It reads a traveller's request from email, Slack, WhatsApp or a group-air brief, generates policy-compliant itinerary options within minutes, and hands them back to the traveller or an agent — without replacing the travel management company's existing systems.

Amity was a Toronto customer success platform that watched account health signals, recommended the next action and measured whether it worked. Paul Philp and Yanick Dufresne founded it in 2012, early in the formation of customer success as a discipline; its product is now listed as discontinued.

Ample Labs was a Toronto tech non-profit founded in 2018 by CG Chen. Its chatbot Chalmers, built with Ada, helped people experiencing homelessness find free meals, shelter beds, clothing and services in real time. It raised $1M and wound down in 2022.

Ample Organics was the Toronto seed-to-sale software company that ran record-keeping and compliance for most of Canada's licensed cannabis producers. Founded in 2014 by John Prentice, it was acquired by Denver-based Akerna for $46M CAD in 2020 and sold on to Toronto's GrowerIQ in December 2023. It no longer operates as an independent company.

Amplify Capital is a Canadian impact venture fund backing early-stage companies in climate, health and the future of work. It began in 2016 as the MaRS Catalyst Fund, rebranded in 2021, and reports roughly $42 million under management across 22 portfolio companies and five exits.

AMS Healthcare is an Ontario charity, founded in 1937 as Associated Medical Services, that funds work at the join between compassion, technology and the history of medicine. It runs fellowships and grants in AI and compassion, and is the main funder of medical history as a discipline in Canada.

AMY Inspired was a Vancouver furniture-rental service — the name stands for 'amazing, memorable years' — that let people lease a room's worth of furniture month to month instead of buying it. Samantha Simonton founded it after a decade in the furniture industry; a five-piece living room started around $100 a month.

Andreessen Horowitz, known as a16z, is a Silicon Valley venture firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the conviction that software would eat the world. It manages more than $100 billion across multiple funds and invests from seed through growth stage.

AngelList is a San Francisco fintech company that builds the financial infrastructure powering venture capital. Founded in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, it provides SPVs, rolling funds and fund administration to investors and startups, and now supports well over $170 billion in private capital.

Anthemis Group is a venture firm that invests only in financial services technology. Amy Nauiokas and Sean Park founded it in London in 2010, and it has since backed a portfolio of digitally native financial companies from offices in London and New York.

Apera AI is a Vancouver robotics company selling 4D Vision — software that gives industrial robots the ability to see, reason and act on parts that conventional machine vision cannot handle. Sina Afrooze and Armin Khatoonabadi founded it; it closed an oversubscribed Series A in July 2025.

Apical is a Toronto ESG consultancy founded in 2019 by Mika Unterman, working with cannabis and psychedelics companies on impact measurement — the human, social and environmental capital a balance sheet does not carry — and running pilots that turn those measurements into practice.

APOLLO Insurance is a Vancouver digital insurance company founded in 2017 that sells personal and commercial policies online, quoting and issuing in minutes rather than through a broker appointment. It also runs APOLLO Exchange, a platform thousands of Canadian brokers use to place small-business risks.

Appetronix builds fully autonomous restaurants — robotic kitchens that take an order and hand back a cooked meal with no staff on site. Nipun Sharma founded it in London, Ontario in 2020 as SJW Robotics. It has raised over $12 million USD and runs a Donatos pizza location at Columbus airport.

Apply Digital is a Vancouver-founded digital consultancy that builds commerce, content and data platforms for large brands. Gautam Lohia and Chris Coghlan started it in 2016; it now has more than 650 staff across nine offices and is led by Ali Alkhafaji.

ApplyBoard is a Kitchener platform that helps students apply to study abroad, connecting them with institutions and recruitment partners across six countries. Three brothers — Martin, Meti and Massi Basiri — founded it in 2015; it says it has helped more than 1.5 million students.

Aptum Technologies is a Toronto-headquartered managed cloud and infrastructure company, formerly Cogeco Peer 1. Cogeco sold the business to Digital Colony for C$720 million in 2019 and it was renamed Aptum that August. It sold its eight Canadian data centres to eStruxture in 2021 and bought Montreal's CloudOps in 2023.

AquaMobile is a Toronto-founded marketplace that sends swim instructors to clients' home and condo pools for private lessons across Canada, the US and Australia. Diana Goodwin bootstrapped it from zero to seven figures of annual revenue with no outside funding, and in 2019 spun its internal booking platform out as a separate company, MarketBox.

Aquatic Informatics is a Vancouver company whose software manages water data — the readings from streams, wells, treatment plants and regulated dischargers. Founded in 2003, it was acquired by Danaher's water quality platform in July 2020 and now sits inside Veralto.

Arcbright is the search fund Melissa Sariffodeen started after eleven years running Canada Learning Code. It is looking for one Canadian small or medium-sized business to buy and lead — human-centred, service-based, with at least $10M of revenue — and to own for the long term rather than flip.

ARIA — the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency — funds research too risky for conventional grant programmes. Created by an Act of Parliament and formally established in January 2023 with a ten-year statutory mandate, it gives programme directors budgets and unusual freedom to chase breakthroughs. Matt Clifford has chaired it since 2022.

Array Ventures is a San Francisco pre-seed firm founded in 2016 by Shruti Gandhi, an engineer turned investor. It writes first institutional cheques into enterprise software — AI agents, data infrastructure, security and developer tools — and says it has 52 active investments and 10 exits.

Artemis Canada is a boutique executive search firm for Canadian tech companies, founded in Waterloo in 2013 by Kristina McDougall. It places senior leadership and board talent for startups and scale-ups, and works out of five cities: Waterloo, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton.

Arteria AI is a Toronto company that turns financial institutions' documents into structured data at the point of creation, so contracts and notices are reportable in real time. Spun out of Deloitte by Shelby Austin, Abrar Huq and Jonathan Wong, it raised a $46 million CAD Series B in 2023.

Asenion is a Kitchener AI-governance company that audits and monitors enterprise AI systems against the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001. It was formed in June 2025 when Fairly AI, founded in 2020, acquired Sweden's anch.AI.

Asepha is a Toronto company whose AI agents do pharmacy paperwork — prescription data entry, documentation, follow-ups, patient education and phone calls — so pharmacists spend their time on clinical work instead.

AskforTask was a Toronto marketplace for home services — cleaning, handyman work, moving — founded in 2012 by brothers Muneeb and Nabeel Mushtaq while Muneeb was a University of Toronto student. It grew past 100 Canadian cities before shutting down in 2025.

Aspect Biosystems is a Vancouver biotech that bioprints living tissues designed to be implanted in the body and replace function lost to disease. Spun out of a UBC lab in 2013, its lead work targets type 1 diabetes with a glucose-sensing, insulin-releasing implant. It has raised over US$350M.

Assembly is a founder-led software firm that builds, modernises and runs cloud applications for enterprise clients, working out of Toronto and Fort Lauderdale. Founded around 2004 by John Wilk and Chris Smillie, it is a Microsoft partner for digital and app innovation and carries certifications across Sitecore, Contentful, Akamai and Okta.

AssistIQ uses computer vision to record every supply and implant used in an operating or procedural room, so hospitals stop losing the charge and the stock count to paperwork. Founded in Montreal in 2022 and led by Lisa Israelovitch, it raised an $11.5 million Series A led by Battery Ventures in May 2025.

Aste Wellness makes Ayurvedic skincare formulated for hormone health — skin, hair and navel rituals that are third-party tested and designed to avoid the endocrine-disrupting ingredients common in anti-ageing products. It was co-founded by Dr Rhea Mehta, a molecular toxicologist, and Romana Kassam.

Astraea Bio is a Toronto spatial-biology company that turns tissue-imaging data into analysis its pharmaceutical customers can use. It applies computational methods to visualize and measure the spatial relationships between cells, tissues and molecules, and was formerly known as Pathomics.

Astrus builds AI-powered software that automates analog microchip design, generating optimized circuit layouts in seconds instead of through manual engineering. Its first product targets high-speed SERDES circuits used in data-center interconnects.

ATB Ventures is the research and development arm of ATB Financial, the Alberta bank. Launched in 2020, it builds, partners and invests in technology on the bank's behalf, concentrating on digital identity — the Oliu platform and Proof credential wallet — and on removing bias from machine learning.

Atomic Reach was a Toronto-based content-marketing platform that used AI, machine learning, and natural-language processing to help marketers write clearer, more effective content. RAD Intel acquired it in 2021, and its atomicreach.com domain now redirects to RAD Intel.

AtomicJar was the commercial company behind Testcontainers, the open-source framework that spins up throwaway containerized dependencies for integration tests. Founded in 2021 by Sergei Egorov and Eli Aleyner, it raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners and was acquired by Docker in December 2023.

AutoCanada is a multi-location automobile dealership group operating 81 franchised dealerships across 27 brands in eight Canadian provinces plus a group in Illinois. Headquartered in Edmonton and listed on the TSX as ACQ, it generated more than $5.3 billion of revenue in 2024 and sold over 97,000 retail vehicles.

Automat was a Montreal conversational-AI platform that automated online sales conversations to help retailers guide shoppers and sell more. It was acquired by Salesfloor in January 2022.

Autonomic built the Transportation Mobility Cloud, cloud infrastructure that connects vehicles, transit systems, city infrastructure and service providers. Toronto entrepreneurs Sunny Madra and Amar Varma founded it in 2016 after selling Xtreme Labs, and Ford announced its acquisition in January 2018 to run its connected-vehicle services.

AuxMode is a Toronto multi-channel network that manages, protects and monetizes YouTube catalogues for creators, broadcasters and rights holders. Adam Rumanek founded it in 2012; Jessie Behan is president and COO.

Avail was a Toronto well-being platform. It started as a free app that tracked the stress in someone's life against the recovery time they were getting and pointed them at care, then sold the same idea to employers as a weekly mental-health check-up. Its site no longer responds.

Avalere Health is a global health consultancy whose Advisory, Medical and Marketing teams work as one across a drug's life cycle — market access strategy, medical communications and brand marketing for pharmaceutical clients. It runs on a proprietary model it calls Sense Making and states its mission as Every Patient Possible.

AvenueHQ runs the marketing for residential real estate agents — building and maintaining their websites, capturing leads, and handling their social advertising and newsletters. Rebecca and Chris Troelstra founded it in Vancouver in 2013 as Realty Butler and rebranded in 2018; it raised $4.5 million in 2019 to expand into the United States.

Aview International is a Toronto video localization company. It translates, dubs and culturally adapts video for creators and brands, then distributes it across YouTube, TikTok and other platforms, so one piece of content can find an audience in other languages. Founded in 2017 by Akshay Maharaj and Garnet Delsey, both then in high school.

Aviron Interactive is a Toronto company that makes a connected rowing machine built around video-game design and habit-forming psychology rather than instructor-led classes. Founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's W21 batch, it sells directly to consumers, mainly in the United States.

Aviva Canada is one of the country's largest property and casualty insurers, selling home, auto, lifestyle and business cover to 2.5 million customers from Markham, Ontario. It is a subsidiary of the UK's Aviva plc, and it ran the Safe & Connected accelerator with Highline Beta to fund startups working on road safety.

Avocare is a Toronto healthtech company that cuts phone volume at clinic reception desks by moving patient conversations to text, web chat and messenger, with an AI assistant handling routine requests. Vik Luthra founded it; Taylan Pince was CTO and partner.

Awesome People Ventures is an early-stage fund founded by Julia Lipton that started as an angel practice and now invests through a core pre-seed and seed fund plus a syndicate. Its thesis is health and wellness outside conventional medicine, remote work, the creator economy and solo entrepreneurship.

Axonify is a workplace training platform that delivers short, game-based microlearning to frontline and deskless workers.

Babbly is a Toronto company whose app analyzes recordings of a baby's babble to track speech and social development from birth to five, returning a personalized plan for parents. Maryam Nabavi co-founded it after her own son was diagnosed as autistic at two and began speaking within six months of therapy.

Backstage Capital is a US venture capital firm founded by Arlan Hamilton in 2015 to invest in early-stage companies led by underrepresented founders — women, people of colour and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs. It has backed more than 200 companies.

BAI Canada built the Toronto subway's wireless network. It won a 20-year exclusive TTC contract in December 2012, launched the ad-supported TCONNECT Wi-Fi service a year later, and wired stations for cellular as the tunnels opened. Owned by CPPIB through BAI Communications, it was sold to Rogers in April 2023.

Bailly was a Halifax fragrance company founded in 2018 by Ariel Gough and Edwina Govindsamy, selling coconut-oil-based, alcohol-free perfume oils and donating 15% of every sale to a girls' education project in Uganda.

Bain Capital Ventures is the venture arm of Bain Capital, investing from seed to growth in B2B software, fintech, commerce infrastructure, security and healthcare. It led Toronto business-banking startup Relay Financial's early rounds, and partner Keri Gohman took the TechTO stage with Relay's founder in 2021.

Bananatag was a Kelowna software company whose email-tracking side project grew into internal-communications software for large enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies. Co-founded in 2011 by Isaac Oslund and brothers Corey and Chris Wagner, it merged with the German firm Staffbase in 2021.

Barley was a Toronto compensation-management platform that helped companies structure, analyze and manage employee pay. Loopio co-founder Jafar Owainati and Billy Mainguy started it in 2021, raised $5.4 million CAD before launching publicly in 2023, and sold the company to Montreal HR platform Workleap in July 2025.

Baseline is a Toronto software company whose platform handles loan origination, servicing, borrower portals and investor management for real estate private lenders — as of its October 2025 TechTO talk, all of its customers were American. It was spun out in 2022 from Baseline Lending, the private lending firm that first built the software for itself.

Basestation is a Toronto vertical-SaaS platform that gives waste, liquid-waste and recycling haulers one system for scheduling, dispatch, routing, asset tracking and billing.

BDC Capital is the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada, a Crown corporation owned by the federal government. It is the country's largest and most active venture capital investor, backing companies directly from seed to growth equity and investing as a limited partner in Canadian funds.

Beacon is a Toronto fintech building a purpose-built super app for immigrants to Canada, tackling the barriers newcomers hit — no credit history, hard-to-open accounts, costly transfers. Co-founded in 2023 by Stu Szabo and Aditya Mhatre, it raised a $5.25M seed in 2024 and a $20M round in September 2026, and offers pre-arrival credit building, real-time India bill pay and money transfers.

Beck's Broth is a Waterloo, Ontario consumer brand selling powdered bone-broth drinks in flavours such as coffee and hot chocolate, positioned as a convenient daily source of protein, collagen, and minerals. Founded by holistic nutritionist Beckie Prime, it sells across roughly 100 Canadian retailers and direct to consumers.

BeckerLeadership is the executive and team coaching practice Nataliya Becker runs for technology leaders. It sells six-month one-on-one coaching, multi-month team coaching, leadership offsites and workshops on leadership, emotional intelligence, OKRs and delivery process, plus keynotes.

Begin AI is an Ottawa company whose platform lets developers build personalization and machine learning into their products without assembling the infrastructure first. Rima Al Shikh founded it in 2020 after several years consulting on AI for enterprises across North America and Europe; its customers include gaming companies.

Beloved Brands is a boutique Toronto brand-consulting and training firm that helps marketing teams build brands consumers love. It was founded in 2010 by Graham Robertson, a former marketing executive at Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola and General Mills.

BenchSci builds AI that reads biomedical research the way a PhD scientist would, turning millions of papers and experiments into a knowledge graph pharma teams use to pick reagents and design preclinical studies. Founded in Toronto in 2015, its ASCEND platform serves 16 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies (company count, 2026; 14 of 20 at its 2023 TechTO talk).

Benecaid is a Toronto health benefits provider for small and medium-sized businesses, founded in 2000. It built Honeybee, a digital platform letting employees choose their own benefits. APRIL Group acquired it in 2018 and Green Shield Canada bought it in November 2020; it still runs as a GreenShield brand.

Bento is a New York platform that does the business half of being a creator: it finds the right brand contacts, drafts pitches in the creator's own voice and keeps following up until a deal lands. Jaclyn Ling, who co-founded the Toronto fashion app Blynk, is its co-founder and chief executive.

Bereskin & Parr is a Canadian intellectual property law firm founded in Toronto in 1965. It handles patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial design and IP litigation, and is one of the largest IP-only firms in the country with more than 75 lawyers and patent and trademark agents.

Besemer Consulting is a two-person consulting practice run by Kathryn and David Besemer across strategy, leadership, product and technology. She covers strategic planning, marketing communications and coaching; he covers product strategy, product development and engineering management. They pitch it as hard skills and soft skills sold together.

Betterez is a cloud reservation and ticketing platform for bus, coach, tour and attraction operators, handling sales, inventory, pricing and operations in one system. Tal Shalit founded it in Toronto in 2011; Busbud acquired it from Shalit and its investors in November 2022.

Biba Ventures is a Vancouver company that built augmented-reality games for physical playgrounds, giving parents an app to get children off screens and moving. TIME named it one of the Best Inventions of 2019, and it reported 4,500 installed playground locations that year.

Bidmii is a Toronto proptech marketplace where homeowners post renovation projects and licensed contractors bid, with project funds held in trust and released only after the homeowner approves the finished work. Jon Christensen founded it in 2020; it is free for both sides and monetizes contractor subscriptions.

Big Viking Games is a social- and mobile-games studio co-founded in 2011 by serial entrepreneur Albert Lai and game veteran Greg Thomson, with offices in Toronto and London, Ontario. Profitable from day one, it built free-to-play HTML5 games and grew to about 100 employees, having raised over $20 million.

BikeSpace is a volunteer-built web app that maps where Toronto needs better bike parking. Riders report a full rack, a missing one or an abandoned bike; the reports are moderated and published as an open dashboard the City of Toronto and public landowners can act on.

BIMM is a Toronto data-driven creative agency founded in 1980 by Brian Bimm as a direct marketing and analytics shop. It now runs digital marketing and CRM programs for brands from offices in Toronto and New York, and has been part of the kyu Collective since 2018 alongside Sid Lee and IDEO.

Bio Conscious Technologies builds machine-learning software that forecasts blood-glucose levels from continuous glucose monitor data. Its current product is Endobits, a platform for clinics with a companion app for individuals; it began with the Diabits consumer app.

BioConnect is a Toronto company that replaces keycards and PINs with biometric access control — face, fingerprint and mobile authentication for data centres, banks, hospitals and critical infrastructure. Founded in 2010 by Rob Douglas, it has over 2,200 customers and was acquired by Gentex Corporation in November 2025.

Biologica is a San Francisco women's health company selling daily supplements matched to three hormonal life stages — reproductive years, perimenopause and postmenopause. Liz Zwillinger and Allbirds co-founder Joey Zwillinger launched it in December 2025 with $7 million in seed funding led by Addition.

The Biomedical Zone is a health technology incubator embedded inside a working hospital — a partnership between Toronto Metropolitan University and St. Michael's Hospital, founded in 2015. Startups validate devices and software with clinicians on site rather than pitching a hospital from the outside.

BioRender is a Toronto software company and Y Combinator W18 graduate whose tool lets scientists create publication-ready figures from a library of biology icons and templates, instead of drawing them in PowerPoint. Founded in 2017 by Shiz Aoki, Katya Shteyn and Ryan Marien, it has been profitable since 2019, serves 4 million+ researchers, and was valued at $900M in December 2025.

Biossil is a Toronto AI-native drug developer that uses AI to find, acquire and revive promising molecules which failed late-stage clinical trials, aiming to bring them to market while skipping years of earlier-stage work. It exited stealth in 2026 with about US$70M from backers including OpenAI and Founders Fund.

BioSymetrics is a phenomics-driven drug discovery company that integrates clinical and experimental data with machine learning to find and validate targets. Its Elion platform pairs electronic medical record data with zebrafish and computer-vision validation, across cardiometabolic, neurological and rare disease programs.

Bitmaker was a Toronto coding bootcamp that trained people in web development and programming. It was acquired by General Assembly in 2016.

Bitmaker Labs was a Toronto coding bootcamp founded in 2013 by five Ivey graduates, running immersive nine-week web development courses. Under CEO Craig Hunter it grew to seven programs with a 90%+ placement rate, and General Assembly acquired it in August 2016.

BKR Capital is a Toronto venture fund backing Black-led Canadian technology companies at the earliest stages. Co-founder Isaac Olowolafe launched it in 2021 with early support from BDC Capital, and it had raised more than $18 million by 2022 to address a funding gap Black founders in Canada face.

Blackcart is a Toronto e-commerce startup, founded in 2017 by Donny Ouyang, whose software lets online shoppers receive products and try them before paying. Aimed at boosting merchant conversion, it raised roughly $11M and pivoted from an early consumer Chrome extension to a B2B platform.

BlackPines Capital Partners is Darren Huston's Vancouver private investment firm, taking concentrated control and growth positions in a small number of large consumer internet, travel and marketplace businesses including Skyscanner, The Knot Worldwide and Operto.

Blair Health is a Toronto company building midlife healthcare for women, starting with menopause — assessment, personalised treatment plans and access to clinicians. Madge Rumman co-founded it in 2024 after a decade in product and operations at PayBright and Cadre.

Bliinx was a Montreal startup that tried to replace the CRM for go-to-market teams with a lightweight relationship timeline built into inbox, calendar and Teams. Fred Melanson founded it out of McGill, raised a $1M CAD pre-seed with 500 Startups and Panache Ventures, and it wound down by 2022.

Blockthrough helps publishers earn revenue from readers who run ad blockers, serving those readers ads that meet Acceptable Ads standards instead of blocking them or blocking the reader. Marty Kratky-Katz founded it in Toronto in 2016; eyeo, the maker of Adblock Plus, acquired it in November 2022.

Blossom Social is a Vancouver investing social network, founded in 2021, where members connect their brokerage accounts so that every portfolio, trade and post is backed by real holdings rather than claims.

Blue J turns tax research from hours of digging into a conversation. Founded by three University of Toronto law professors, its generative AI platform answers US, Canadian, and UK tax questions in seconds with citations to primary sources — after betting the business on generative AI in 2023, it grew 360% in 2024 and raised a US$122M Series D.

BlueCat is a Toronto network infrastructure company that runs DNS, DHCP and IP address management for large enterprises and governments. Founded in 2002 by brothers Michael and Richard Hyatt, it sold to Madison Dearborn Partners for $400M in 2017 and again to Audax Private Equity for $700M-plus in 2022.

Blume is a Vancouver-founded skincare brand for sensitive and acne-prone skin, started by sisters Bunny and Taran Ghatrora. It began with organic-cotton period products and now sells cleansers, acne treatments and lip balms.

Blynk was a Toronto fashion app that learned your style from Tinder-like swipes and sent back outfit recommendations you could shop. Founded in 2013 by Jaclyn Ling and Shums Kassam out of The Next 36, it later pivoted to white-label recommendation algorithms for retailers and was acquired by Kik in December 2015.

BMO Financial Group is one of Canada's largest banks, established in 1817 and the eighth largest in North America by assets. Its payments team came to TechTO's FintechTO in 2019 to explain why so much product innovation was landing in payments rather than elsewhere in banking.

Boardy is an AI superconnector you talk to like a person — over a phone call, LinkedIn, email or WhatsApp — that learns what you're building and who you need, then makes double-opt-in warm intros. Founded in Toronto in 2024 by Clearco co-founder Andrew D'Souza, it raised its Creandum-led seed through its own introductions.

Boast.AI automates R&D tax credit and government innovation funding claims, a process it describes as manual and slow for the businesses entitled to the money. Founded in Vancouver by Alex Popa and Lloyed Lobo, it bootstrapped to eight-figure revenue before raising from Radian Capital.

Boldyn Networks is the London-headquartered neutral-host operator that builds and runs shared wireless infrastructure for transit systems, venues, cities and enterprises. It was formed in 2023 when BAI Communications merged six businesses — including BAI Canada, which wired the TTC subway — under one brand.

Bolster is a Calgary construction software company, founded as CostCertified by Mike Bignold after he ran his own contracting business. Its quoting engine pre-configures pricing rules so a homeowner can upgrade a countertop or a floor and watch the price change in real time, then pay through the same platform.

Bond Brand Loyalty, now trading as Bond, is a Canadian loyalty and customer-experience firm that designs and runs programmes for large consumer brands and publishes the annual Loyalty Report. Its clients have included Home Depot, Ford, Cineplex and SCENE.

Bonfire was a Waterloo-region SaaS platform that digitized strategic sourcing, RFPs and procurement for government and enterprise buyers. It was acquired by GTY Technology Holdings in 2019; GTY is now Euna Solutions.

BookJane is a Toronto workforce-management platform for healthcare and senior living, founded in 2016 by Curtis Khan. Its J360 product fills open shifts across care facilities, and by 2019 it was used by 700+ facilities in North America.

Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) is a Canadian full-service law firm with offices in Calgary, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. Its intellectual property group works with technology companies on patents, trademarks and IP strategy, and brought that practice to the TechTO stage in January 2022.

Borderless AI is a Toronto employer-of-record and global payroll platform that lets a company pay staff in more than 170 countries from its domestic bank account, generating local contracts and tax paperwork with an AI agent. Willson Cross and Sean Aggarwal co-founded it; it left stealth in March 2024.

BorderPass is a Toronto immigration law firm built as an AI-native software company. Founded in 2020 by immigration lawyer Josh Green and Sally Daub, it handles visa applications and compliance for employers, universities and newcomers using its own in-house lawyers rather than selling software to other firms. It is profitable and self-funded.

Borrowell gives Canadians free weekly credit scores and reports — the first company in the country to do it — then helps them act on the numbers with Molly, an AI credit coach, credit-building tools, and matched financial product recommendations. Founded in Toronto in 2014, it passed four million members in June 2026.

Boss Insights is a Toronto fintech whose API connects a business borrower's accounting, banking, payroll and commerce accounts, so lenders can underwrite, onboard and monitor SMB customers from live data instead of emailed statements. Co-founder and CEO Keren Moynihan is a former RBC commercial banker.

Bowhead Health is a Toronto company that began as an encrypted health-data wallet letting patients own and monetise their own records, and has since pivoted to AI precision medicine with a clinical-trial-matching platform. Co-founder Dr. Rhea Mehta presented its original thesis at TechTO's HealthTO in November 2017.

Braavo Capital funds mobile apps and games without taking equity. It advances against App Store earnings and future subscription revenue, and lends structured credit lines to mature app businesses. Founded in New York in 2015, it says more than 8,000 apps have connected to the platform and over $1B has been deployed.

Brand Momentum is a Mississauga-based sales, marketing and retail agency that describes itself as Canada's largest independent one. It runs experiential campaigns, in-store sales and merchandising, shopper marketing and digital work for brands nationwide, with a stated team of more than 2,000 people and over thirty years in business.

Brave Coaching & Consulting is Dr. Cornell Verdeja-Woodson's mindset-coaching practice for high-performing men, built on a structured method he calls the BRAVE Framework. He started it after leading culture and talent work at Google, Headspace, Zillow and Pixar.

Braze Mobility is a Toronto company making blind spot sensor systems for wheelchairs. Its sensors mount on any wheelchair, detect obstacles and alert the driver through audio, visual and vibration feedback. Dr. Pooja Viswanathan founded it in 2016 out of more than a decade of assistive robotics research.

Breather was a Montreal company that rented private workspace by the hour or the day — meeting rooms and offices booked from an app, often called an Uber for private workspace. Founded in November 2012 by Julien Smith and Caterina Rizzi, it scaled across North America and the UK before exiting its leases in 2020.

Brex is a San Francisco fintech founded in 2017 by Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, selling corporate cards and spend-management software to startups and growing companies. Capital One agreed to buy it for US$5.15 billion in January 2026 and completed the acquisition on 7 April 2026.

BridesMade was a Waterloo-region startup that rented bridesmaid dresses online rather than selling them, on the argument that most are worn exactly once. Mallory McKewen and Kaleah Baker co-founded it out of Communitech's Fierce Founders programme. It no longer trades and its website has gone dark.

Bridgit is a Kitchener-Waterloo company whose Bench software plans construction workforces — which people are on which projects, and what changes when a schedule moves. Co-founders Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake serve more than 300 general contractors from a team of about 70.

Brighter Signals turns fabric into a tactile sensor — a way for machines and objects to sense and measure touch, aimed at automotive, healthcare and robotics. The Amsterdam company was co-founded in 2025 by Edward Shim, who invented the fabric sensor behind Studio 1 Labs' vital-signs bedsheet.

Brillion is a utility-software company formed in 2024 by merging four energy-focused firms — Apogee Interactive, AIQUEOUS, energyOrbit and Ontario's EnergyX Solutions. Backed by M33 Growth, it sells North American utilities an AI-driven suite for running energy-efficiency, demand-side management and electrification programs.

Brim Financial is a Toronto fintech that sells credit-card issuing and management infrastructure to banks, retailers and fintechs, and also runs its own consumer card. Founded in 2015 by Rasha Katabi, it closed an US$85-million Series C led by Export Development Canada in 2024 to fund a US expansion.

Brizi was a Toronto company that put crowd-controlled cameras in stadiums, letting fans point a lens at themselves and take the shot. Co-founded by Anna Hu in 2014, it worked with sports properties across a dozen countries, spun zoolife out in 2022, and renamed itself AMPLIFi in September 2024.

Broken Heart Love Affair is a Toronto advertising agency five industry veterans started in March 2020 — its first week in business coincided with the first week of pandemic lockdown. Jay Chaney is partner and chief strategy officer.

BrokerPlus is a Toronto AI mortgage-origination system for Canadian residential brokers: it reads the client's documents, verifies the facts, resolves gaps and assembles the lender package. Founded by Surf co-founder Swish Goswami, it says it gets a broker to submission 70% faster.

Bucketlist is a Vancouver company selling employee rewards and recognition software — a peer-to-peer recognition feed, a global rewards catalogue and automated service awards — aimed at frontline industries like healthcare, manufacturing and construction.

Buckzy is a Toronto fintech that moves money across borders in real time — a payment network plus banking-as-a-service that financial institutions, marketplaces and other fintechs build on rather than a consumer app of its own.

Buckzy Payments is a Toronto fintech founded in 2018 by Abdul Naushad. It runs real-time cross-border payments and banking-as-a-service infrastructure, moving money between bank accounts and wallets in near real time around the clock for remittances, bill payments and business transfers.

Buddybuild was a Vancouver service that built, tested and shipped mobile apps on every git push, and collected user feedback on the results. Dennis Pilarinos and Christopher Stott founded it in 2015; Apple bought it in January 2018 and folded the team into its Xcode engineering group.

BuildDirect is a Vancouver company selling flooring and heavyweight home-improvement materials, founded in 1999 by Jeff Booth and Rob Banks. It grew to about $120M in revenue as an online marketplace, filed for creditor protection in 2017, restructured, and now trades on the TSXV as an omnichannel flooring retailer built around Pro Centers.

Buildpal is construction management software for residential general contractors, founded in 2024 by Naysawn Naji after he left Wrapbook. It schedules jobs, texts subcontractors to confirm their start dates and sends the builder one aggregated daily update.

BuildScience was a Toronto startup building Strata, an operating system for commercial buildings that pulled sensors and controls from every subsystem into one API and interface. Founded by Ritesh Patel, it went through Y Combinator in 2015 with RBC as an early customer.

Bunz is a Toronto barter and trading community that started as a Facebook group and grew into a mobile app where people swap goods without cash. Under CEO Sascha Mojtahedi it launched BTZ, its own digital currency, in 2018. The crypto pivot faltered in 2019. Firat Eren, its first investor, has been sole owner since 2020 and rebuilt the app, which had fewer than 200 daily active users in 2026.

Butter was a Toronto app that pulled all of a household's subscriptions — streaming, meal kits, gyms, memberships — into one place so you could see what you had and what it cost, and paid members 1% cash back on their subscription spending. It demoed at TechTO in April 2018.

Butterly is Canadian software that lets consumer brands run their own communities: product trials, ratings and reviews, ambassador programs, and surveys, with the first-party data and user-generated content owned by the brand. It launched in March 2020 out of ChickAdvisor, the product review site Ali and Alex de Bold founded in 2006.

Buyatab is a Vancouver company, founded in 2008 by Matias Marquez, that builds digital gift card infrastructure for medium and large consumer brands — the purchase, delivery and mobile-wallet plumbing behind a retailer's own gift cards. Stored Value Solutions acquired it in February 2019.

BuyProperly is an online platform for fractional investing in real estate and other private assets. Khushboo Jha founded it in Toronto in 2019 so people could buy a share of an income-producing property instead of a whole one.

BuzzBuzzHome is a listings site for new-construction homes and condos, showing pricing, floor plans, renderings and builder details for developments across Canada and the United States. Matthew Slutsky and Cliff Peskin founded it in Toronto in 2009 and sold it to the US housing-data firm Zonda in April 2021.

BuzzFeed is a New York digital media company founded in 2006, known for viral content, quizzes and HuffPost. Its Pulitzer-winning newsroom, BuzzFeed News, closed in 2023. In May 2026 Byron Allen's family office bought about 51% of the company and Allen became chairman and CEO.

Cabot develops and operates destination golf resorts, founded in 2004 by Ben Cowan-Dewar after he visited a remote stretch of Inverness, Nova Scotia coastline. Headquartered in Toronto, it now owns six destinations — Cape Breton, Citrus Farms, Highlands, Bordeaux, Saint Lucia and Revelstoke — and manages four more.

Cache is a Toronto resale app that turns an influencer's closet into a storefront. Devyn Olin, a lawyer with an MBA who worked at ELLE.com and Moda Operandi, founded it in 2024 to take the tedious part out of reselling clothing and luxury pieces, and launched it publicly during Toronto Tech Week.

Cadre is a New York platform that opened institutional-grade commercial real estate deals — the kind that used to move through closed broker and private-fund networks — to a wider set of investors. Ryan Williams founded it in 2014; it sold to Yieldstreet in 2024.

CAE is the Montreal company that trains the world's pilots — flight simulators, aviation training and defence simulation, sold in more than 40 countries. Founded in 1947 as Canadian Aviation Electronics, it employs roughly 13,000 people and trades on the NYSE and TSX as CAE.

CalendarHero was a Toronto meeting-scheduling assistant, launched in 2016 as Zoom.ai by Roy Pereira. It began as a broad enterprise AI assistant that searched documents and ran errands over chat, narrowed to scheduling, renamed itself CalendarHero, and was acquired by Saskatoon's Vendasta in October 2021.

Caliber, formerly pclub.io, sells sales skill training to revenue teams — role-based paths for account executives, SDRs and sales leaders, plus enterprise revenue academies. Chris Orlob, who led sales at Gong through its run from $200K to $200M in revenue, founded it with CTO Britton Broderick.

Calix builds the software platforms, systems and services broadband providers use to deliver internet — the cloud and network gear behind home and business connections, Wi-Fi, and managed services such as parental controls and network security. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Jose, California, it is listed on the NYSE.

Cameron Stephens is a Toronto commercial real estate investment manager and lender, founded in 2004 by Scott Cameron and George Frankfort. It underwrites and manages commercial mortgage and equity investments for developers, and reports just under $3.6 billion in assets under administration and $12 billion of committed loans since inception.

Canada Learning Code is a national charity running technology learning experiences across the country. It started in Toronto in 2011 as Ladies Learning Code, co-founded by Melissa Sariffodeen, and merged with the digital-literacy charity Ampere in September 2025.

Canadian Tire Corporation is the Toronto retailer the Billes brothers started as a tire and garage business in 1922. It now runs more than 1,600 stores under banners including Canadian Tire Retail, SportChek, Mark's, Atmosphere and Party City, plus a financial services arm and CT REIT.

Canalyst was a Vancouver financial-data and equity-research platform. Founded in 2015 by James Rife and Damir Hot, it built and maintained detailed financial models on thousands of public companies so portfolio managers could analyze them faster. Chicago-based Tegus acquired Canalyst in 2022 in a deal reported above $400 million.

Canaray is a Mississauga oral radiology practice founded in 2010 by Dr. Milan Madhavji. Dentists send it cone-beam CT scans and it returns annotated 3D reports that the patient orders and pays for directly, at a flat $86. It runs eleven imaging locations, ten in Ontario and one in Calgary.

Cannvas MedTech was a Toronto digital cannabis education and analytics company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange. Its free platform Cannvas.Me offered physician-backed courses and interactive tools rather than selling cannabis. It changed its name to EuroLife Brands in August 2019 and the shell later became Plant & Co. Brands and then Happy Belly Food Group.

Canopy Labs was a Toronto predictive-analytics company, founded in 2012 by Wojciech Gryc and backed by Y Combinator, that built customer profiles and behaviour forecasts for retailers and travel brands. The rewards app Drop acquired it in November 2018.

Capital Canada is a Toronto mid-market investment bank that advises entrepreneurs on business sales, growth financing, mergers and acquisitions, valuations and special situations. Formally Capital Canada Limited, it works from 150 King Street West and points to a 49-year record, listing transactions that include BarBurrito, Golf Town, the Toronto Raptors and SkyDome.

Capsule (capsule.video) is an AI video studio for enterprise marketing and content teams, founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett with Russell Armand and Joseph Jorgensen. It started as a tool that collected community video answers and auto-edited them into branded clips, and raised a $2-million pre-seed led by Array Ventures.

Captivate is a free monthly newsletter and training practice run by Ben Wise and Darren Chiu, two Google Canada sales leaders, turning behavioural science into one usable tip at a time on persuasion, negotiation and storytelling. They also speak at conferences and run corporate training on the same material.

Carbide is a Cape Breton security and privacy company whose platform helps fast-growing businesses build, run and prove a security program against frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and Canada's PIPEDA. Founded in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 2016 as Securicy, it renamed to Carbide in 2022.

Carbon6 was a Toronto company that rolled up the fragmented market of software tools for Amazon and marketplace sellers. Launched in April 2021 by Justin Cobb, Kazi Ahmed and Naseem Saloojee, it acquired 16 companies and was bought by SPS Commerce for $301 million CAD in 2025.

CarboNet is a Vancouver cleantech company that treats industrial wastewater with nanotechnology-engineered flocculants and coagulants, spun out of University of British Columbia drug-delivery research. It has raised roughly $26 million, sells into oilfield, municipal, food and automotive water treatment, and distributes through Brenntag Specialties.

CarDoor is an Ontario online used-car retailer that carries no inventory of its own: it sells partner dealers' vehicles to buyers who would rather transact online, and buys cars back from consumers to restock those same dealers.

CareGuide is a Toronto company that matches families with non-medical caregivers — nannies, housekeepers, pet sitters and elder care — through a portfolio of exact-match domains including Sitter.com, Housekeeper.com and PetSitter.com. Founded in 2012 by John Philip Green, it crossed $5M in annual recurring revenue in 2017.

Careteam Technologies is a Vancouver digital health company whose platform coordinates complex and chronic care across hospital, clinic, community and home, with shared care plans and secure patient and family communication. Founded in 2016, it was co-founded and is led by physician Dr. Alexandra Greenhill.

Carrot Rewards was a Canadian health app, built by Toronto B-Corp Carrot Insights, that paid users loyalty points — Scene, Aeroplan, Petro-Points — for walking, health quizzes and healthy actions. Founded in 2015, it reached 750,000+ users across three provinces before running out of funding and shutting down in June 2019.

Casalova was a Toronto rental and real estate marketplace founded in 2014 by Ray Taeeb and Curtis Layne. It let renters search, book and pay for a home online, later added brokerage and property management, and took a $2.5 million investment from Aviva Ventures in 2017. The site no longer operates.

Categorynauts is Mark Organ's coaching practice for chief executives trying to create a market category, built on the playbook he ran twice himself at Eloqua and Influitive. It sells CEO coaching, strategy work and leadership-team alignment to growth-stage companies, and says its clients average 55 employees.

CDR.fyi tracks the durable carbon-removal market — who has bought removal, from which supplier, at what volume, and how much has actually been delivered. It began in 2022 as an open-source project and incorporated as a Delaware public benefit corporation in January 2024, run by a remote team across five continents.

The Centre for Compassionate Care is a community-based mental health and addictions clinic on York Boulevard in Hamilton, Ontario, founded and directed by psychologist Dr. Joseph A. De Leo. It runs an integrative ketamine-enhanced psychotherapy program alongside general psychotherapy and complex assessments.

Cerebral Selling is a Toronto sales-training firm founded by David Priemer, a former Salesforce commercial-sales VP turned author. It teaches science- and empathy-based selling to reps and leaders, built around Priemer's books 'Sell the Way You Buy' and 'The Sales Leader They Need'.

CertClean is a Toronto certification for safer beauty and personal care products. Certified products have had their labels screened against more than 1,400 potentially harmful chemicals, giving shoppers a mark they can recognize on the shelf. Chemical engineer Jenise Lee founded it and is CEO.

Certn is a Victoria-based background-screening company co-founded in 2016 by Andrew McLeod, Owen Madrick, and Evan Dalton. It provides real-time criminal record checks, identity verification, and ongoing risk monitoring for employers, property managers, and staffing firms, framing the product as 'human risk intelligence,' and expanded internationally through acquisitions in Australia and Europe.

ChaiTech is a Toronto accelerator and community for Jewish-led and co-led startups. Its core program is an eight-week in-person accelerator run with the Prosserman JCC and York University's Schulich School of Business; Daniel Warner, who co-founded the virtual-care company MediSeen, founded it and is its executive director.

Chalk was a Waterloo edtech company building lesson-planning and curriculum software for K-12 teachers, best known for Planboard. Founded in 2012 by William Zhou, Ryan McKay-Fleming and Suraj Srinivas, it was acquired by PowerSchool in 2022 for US$13.5 million.

ChangeUP was a Vancouver budgeting app for freelancers, contract workers and people juggling several incomes. It calculated tax owed across income sources in real time, showed a budget in hours worked rather than dollars spent, and helped users work out what raise to ask for. The app and its website are both gone.

Charge Forward is a Toronto advisory firm that helps software companies understand and build embedded finance — payments, lending and financial products inside their own product. Jane Podbelskaya founded it after a decade investing in software at Georgian, and it publishes research, benchmarks and a vendor directory alongside advisory work.

ChargeLab is a Toronto company that makes the software layer for electric-vehicle chargers — a management platform and driver app that run on other manufacturers' hardware. Zak Lefevre and Ehsan Mokhtari founded it in 2015; Lefevre calls it the Android of EV charging.

ChargeSpot builds wireless charging into desks, boardroom tables and hotel nightstands, with the transmitter hidden beneath the surface. Mark Goh founded the Toronto company in 2013 with Pat Laureano and ran it as CEO until 2018; its customers have included Apple's and Google's offices, WeWork and Marriott.

Charitable Impact is a Vancouver giving platform, originally named Chimp, that gives donors free giving accounts working like personal foundations — hold funds, then grant to any registered Canadian charity on your own terms. Founded by John Bromley in 2011, it has moved more than $220 million to charities.

Charli AI sells a control layer for enterprise AI: it profiles AI agents, traces what they access and enforces data rules, producing an audit trail for banks, insurers and government. Kevin Collins founded it in Vancouver in 2018.

Chatter Research was a Toronto customer-feedback company whose software surveyed shoppers by text message and turned the replies into store-level data for large retailers and banks. Simon Foster founded it in 2016; Montreal's Stingray Group acquired it in January 2020.

Checkout 51 pays shoppers cash back on groceries: buy a listed product, photograph the receipt, get money back at $20. Founded in Canada in 2012, it passed four million members before News America Marketing acquired it in July 2015 — two months after co-founder Noah Godfrey presented it at TechTO. It still operates under Neptune Retail Solutions.

Chexy is a Toronto fintech that lets Canadians put rent — and other bills that don't normally take cards, like property taxes and utilities — on their credit cards, earning points and building credit along the way. Founded in 2022, it serves 200,000+ users and — per founder Liza Akhvledziani on stage in June 2026 — has just crossed $2 billion in annualized payment volume.

Chisel AI was a Toronto company that used natural-language processing to read unstructured commercial insurance documents hundreds of times faster than a human. Founded in 2015 by Ron Glozman, it counted Zurich among its customers and filed an assignment in bankruptcy in April 2022.

Circle is the community platform creators and brands use to run memberships, courses, events and discussion under their own brand. Founded in January 2020 by Sid Yadav, Andy Guttormsen and Rudy Santino, three ex-Teachable operators, it is headquartered in New York and reached $68M ARR by May 2026.

Citi is the American global bank operating in more than 180 countries and jurisdictions, serving roughly 19,000 institutional clients including 85% of the Fortune 500. Its Canadian operations and technology teams are led by Ian Ng, who spoke at TechTO Talent in June 2024.

The City of Kitchener is the largest municipality in Waterloo Region and one of the few Canadian city governments that treats tech as an economic development file. Mayor Berry Vrbanovic took the TechWaterloo stage in September 2018 to trace how a manufacturing town became a tech town, and to lay out the Digital Kitchener strategy.

Civic Tech Toronto is a volunteer community that builds technology for civic problems in Toronto. It has run weekly hacknights since July 2015 and its projects include BikeSpace, a free web app built with the City of Toronto and Code for Canada that lets cyclists report bike-parking problems, and Civic Dashboard.

ClassPass is a subscription marketplace for fitness and wellness classes, founded in New York in 2013 by Payal Kadakia. Mindbody acquired it in October 2021 in an all-stock deal valuing it near $1B, and it now operates as a brand of Playlist alongside Mindbody and Booker.

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.

Clearpath Robotics builds self-driving industrial vehicles and research robots from Kitchener, Ontario. Four University of Waterloo mechatronics graduates founded it in 2009 to automate dull, dirty and dangerous work; its OTTO Motors division moves materials inside factories and warehouses. Rockwell Automation acquired the company in 2023.

Clearspace is a Toronto firm that designs and builds office interiors end to end, from concept through construction to move-in, for landlords, startups and large employers. Mark Goh founded it in 2019 after running the wireless-charging company ChargeSpot, and it works out of its own 11,000-square-foot King East headquarters.

Clio makes the cloud software that runs law firms — case management, client intake, billing, payments, and now AI drafting and research. Founded in Burnaby in 2007 on the bet that lawyers would trust the cloud, it passed US$500M ARR in May 2026, raised a record US$900M Series F, and acquired vLex for US$1B.

Cloud DX is a Kitchener remote patient monitoring company whose Connected Health Kit lets hospitals and clinics track patients' vital signs at home. Founded in 2014 by Robert Kaul, Anthony Kaul and Dr. Sonny Kohli, it was the only Canadian finalist in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE.

Cloudflare is a San Francisco network and security company that sits in front of a large share of the web, absorbing attacks and speeding up sites. Founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway, it went public in 2019 and its Canadian co-founder is now its president.

Clover Labs is a Toronto software studio that builds and runs a portfolio of AI growth products it calls leafs — Echos for short-form video distribution, RedRover for search and AI-assistant ranking, 1Price for pricing experiments. Matt Espinoza and Ryan Kaufman started it in January 2025 and run it as managing partners.

ClozeLoop is a San Francisco sales strategy, training and enablement firm that builds playbooks, coaching frameworks and messaging for B2B revenue teams. Cory Bray and Hilmon Sorey founded it in 2016 and have written a series of sales books, including The Sales Enablement Playbook and Triangle Selling.

Clutch is Canada's largest online used-car retailer. Shoppers browse thousands of inspected, certified vehicles at clutch.ca, buy or finance entirely online, and get the car delivered to their driveway with a 10-day money-back guarantee. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Clutch turned profitable in 2024, passed $400 million in annualized revenue by early 2025, and crossed $1 billion in cumulative vehicle purchases in mid-2025.

CMNGD, styled from "common good", was a Calgary commercial linen and laundry business run as a social enterprise: it rented napkins, tablecloths and uniforms to restaurants while offering transitional employment to people leaving the shelter system. Dave and Hannah Cree founded it in 2016 in partnership with the Calgary Drop-In Centre.

co-being design is a Toronto studio that mentors teams in public health-care organisations to run design work themselves. Nadine Hare and Tieni Meninato specialise in co-design and collaboration, so a client finishes an actual project and learns the methods and tools along the way rather than buying a report.

Coconut Software sells appointment scheduling, lobby management and branch workforce software to banks and credit unions. Founded in Saskatoon in 2007 by Katherine Regnier and known as Coconut Calendar until it rebranded, it bootstrapped to enterprise deals before raising a $28M Series B in 2021. Customers include RBC, Vancity and Arvest Bank.

Coegi is a digital media and marketing agency for national and regional brands, built around programmatic buying, audience research and measurement. It launched in 2014, early in programmatic advertising's growth, is headquartered in St. Louis, and runs offices in Kansas City, Columbia, Minneapolis and Toronto.

Cognition LLP was the Toronto law firm Rubsun Ho and Joe Milstone founded in 2005 to sell corporate legal work without a traditional firm's overhead. It reached roughly 50 lawyers and 60 large corporate clients before Axiom bought its general counsel business in January 2016 and the rest became Caravel Law.

CoHealth was a Toronto patient-communication app that put hospital discharge instructions, medical notes and community care links on a patient's phone. Founded as Dash MD by Zack Fisch Rothbart and Cory Blumenfeld, it renamed in September 2018 and was acquired by ACTO in October 2020.

Cohere is a Toronto company that builds large language models for businesses, offered through an API. Founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst, it reported US$240M ARR for 2025 and announced a pending combination with Germany's Aleph Alpha in April 2026 that would value it at about US$20B.

Coinbase is a US cryptocurrency exchange, listed on Nasdaq, that opened a Canadian arm in 2023. In April 2024 it became the first international crypto exchange to register as a Restricted Dealer with Canadian securities regulators, a process its Canadian chief said took roughly three years.

Coinsquare is a Toronto crypto exchange founded in 2014 by Virgile Rostand, and the first in Canada registered as an investment dealer and marketplace member. It merged into WonderFi in 2023 alongside CoinSmart, and passed to Robinhood when Robinhood bought WonderFi in 2026.

Collage is Toronto HR software combining people management, payroll and group benefits for Canadian businesses. Elijah Moore, Peter Demangos and Steven Hanna founded it in 2016; People Corporation acquired it in 2019 and still owns it.

Collibra sells the software large enterprises use to catalogue, govern and trace their data — and now the AI built on top of it. Founded in Belgium in 2008, it keeps a global head office in Brussels and a North American one in New York, and doubled its valuation to $5.25 billion in November 2021.

commonsku is a Toronto software platform for the promotional products industry — CRM, quoting, order management, production and financial reporting for distributors and suppliers, with a community layer of profiles, a news feed, content and live events. Co-founders Catherine and Mark Graham spun it out of their own distributor in 2011.

Communitech is the Waterloo Region tech hub, founded in 1997 and run as a membership organisation for the companies building there. Sheldon McCormick, previously of Properly and Uber Canada, became its chief executive in April 2025.

Comscore is a Nasdaq-listed media measurement company in Reston, Virginia, founded in 1999 by Magid Abraham and Gian Fulgoni. It measures audiences across TV, digital and cross-platform, and reported US$357.5M of revenue in 2025. Its Canadian lead Bryan Segal took the TechTO stage on gaming audiences in 2019.

ConnectWise is a Tampa software company that sells the operating stack managed service providers run their businesses on — ticketing and professional services automation, remote monitoring, remote access and security. Brothers Arnie and David Bellini founded it in 1982; Thoma Bravo bought it in 2019. It acquired Toronto's zofiQ in January 2026.

Conscia is a Toronto company whose orchestration engine sits between a brand's back-end systems — CMS, CRM, commerce, product data — and whatever front end or AI agent is asking, returning one composed response. Founded in 2016 by Sana and Dwayne Remekie, it lets enterprises go composable without replatforming.

ConsenSys is the Ethereum software company Joseph Lubin founded in November 2014. It builds the wallet, node infrastructure and developer tooling most of the network runs on — MetaMask, Infura, Truffle and the Linea layer-2 — and describes itself as over 700 people.

Constant Contact is an online marketing platform for small businesses — email campaigns, contact lists and the rest of the outbound stack. It was founded in 1995 by Randy Parker, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, and runs a Canadian office in Waterloo among sites in the US, Australia and the UK.

Convictional was a Toronto B2B trade platform that let retailers and marketplaces onboard suppliers in minutes instead of months, moving product data, inventory, orders and invoices between trading partners automatically.

Cookin is a Toronto marketplace for homemade food: independent cooks and chefs sell meals through it, and it provides the storefront, ordering and delivery around them. Morley Ivers and Michael Baruch founded it in 2022; CookUnity acquired it in November 2024.

Copper is a CRM built to live inside Google Workspace, tracking relationships from Gmail, Calendar and Drive rather than a separate system to update. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, it works with more than 30,000 companies in over 100 countries and has raised $102M.

Coral is a women's health platform co-founded by Anna Chif that supports women through perimenopause and their prime years with a tech-first, integrated care approach. Built with Montreal venture studio Diagram Ventures, it was publicly announced in early 2025 and is backed by a seed round.

Coralus, launched in 2015 as SheEO, is a Toronto-founded funding community where members pool contributions and vote on which women- and non-binary-led ventures receive 0% interest loans. It reports nearly $19 million distributed to more than 190 ventures at a 95% repayment rate.

Core is a Bitcoin-aligned, EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain that lets Bitcoin holders earn yield without giving up custody. Its Satoshi Plus consensus elects validators through three delegations — CORE token holders, Bitcoin miners directing hash power, and Bitcoin holders timelocking coins. Mainnet launched in January 2023.

Corl was a Toronto fintech that financed early-stage companies against a share of their revenue instead of equity, repaid until an agreed cap. Co-founded by Sam Kawtharani, it launched a revenue-sharing security token in 2018 and was later acquired by Napkin.

Corporate Knights is a Toronto media and research company that ranks companies on sustainability. Founded in 2002 by Toby Heaps, Paul Fengler and Peter Diplaros, it publishes the Global 100 — the world's most sustainable corporations — first released in 2005.

Cossette is Canada's best-known homegrown advertising agency, founded in Quebec City in 1972 and now part of Plus Company. Its then-CEO Daniel Shearer took the MarketingTO stage in October 2017 to argue that agencies and tech companies should collaborate rather than collide — and that ideas, not platforms, are what consumers connect with.

Courage is a Toronto creative agency that launched in May 2022, started by Dhaval Bhatt and Joel Holtby after they left Rethink, with Niki Sahni as president and partner. It is owner-operated and sits inside the No Fixed Address collective, and picked up CIBC as an early client.

Coursera is an online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford computer scientists Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. It merged with Udemy in 2026, and the combined company now counts more than 300 million registered learners and over 12,000 enterprise customers, with 2026 revenue guided to $1.22–1.245 billion.

Courtyard AI builds a living knowledge base of a small business so AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity can answer questions about it and send it customers. Sam Pajot-Phipps is chief executive; Wave co-founder Kirk Simpson co-founded it, and it grew out of his earlier venture GoConfirm.

Cover was a mobile-first insurance startup: photograph the thing you wanted insured and it would find you a policy. Founded in 2016 by four Stylekick alumni and built through Y Combinator's W16 batch, it raised $27.1 million and sold car and home policies across the US. It wound down in 2022.

Creative Destruction Lab is a non-profit program, founded in 2012 at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, that puts science-based startups through nine months of objectives-based mentoring — and cuts most of them along the way.

Creatology Corporation was an early-stage Toronto medtech startup developing OvuGuard, a tampon-style device to track ovulation for family planning and contraception. Its website has not been updated since 2019 and the company appears dormant.

Credit Karma is a US consumer finance platform that gives people free credit scores and reports and makes money recommending credit cards and loans against them. Kenneth Lin, Ryan Graciano and Nichole Mustard founded it in 2007; Intuit acquired it in December 2020.

Crescendo was a Canadian platform that delivered diversity and inclusion training inside Slack and Microsoft Teams in short, story-led lessons. Co-founded in 2018 by Sage Franch and Daniel Tuba D'Souza out of Next 36 and Techstars Montreal AI, it raised roughly $640K and has since shut down.

Crowdiate is a Toronto creative crowdsourcing platform that sources big advertising and innovation ideas for global brands through structured, brief-based competitions. Founded by Aaron Nemoy, it pairs a worldwide community of creative professionals with strategic planning, creative direction and production management, and has worked with brands including Nestle, Pepsi, KFC, Hershey's and Campbell's.

Crowdmark is a Toronto platform for grading online and paper-based assessments. It digitizes exams and assignments so instructors and teaching teams can mark them collaboratively in a browser and return feedback in hours. It grew out of a University of Toronto mathematics department drowning in hand-marked exams.

Crowdmatrix is a Toronto online marketplace that puts private-market and alternative investment deals in front of accredited investors, and lets funds raise from them. Rubsun Ho founded it in 2015 after co-founding the law firm Cognition LLP, and it is registered as an exempt market dealer in four provinces.

CrowdRiff is a Toronto company whose visual content platform is used by 900+ travel destinations to plan, source and publish photos and short-form video. Co-founded by Dan Holowack and Abhinav Ajgaonkar, it sells mainly to destination marketing organizations — the marketers responsible for selling a city, province or country to travellers.

Cryptiv was a Toronto enterprise crypto wallet company, founded in 2014 by Mat Cybula and Geoffrey Byers. It built private-key and employee-access management so financial institutions could hold and move digital assets, and was acquired by Coinsquare in 2019.

CryptoChicks is a Toronto-founded non-profit that teaches blockchain and AI to women and youth through workshops, hackathons and an academy. Elena Sinelnikova and Natalia Ameline started it as a Toronto meetup in 2017; it now runs programs and chapters in dozens of countries.

CryptoNumerics was a Toronto data-privacy startup whose CN-Protect software used AI and differential privacy to let enterprises analyse sensitive datasets while quantifying and controlling re-identification risk for GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA compliance.

CTO.ai is a Vancouver developer-tools company that automates engineering workflows from the command line and Slack, so teams can ship without hand-rolling DevOps. Founded by Kyle Campbell as Hack Capital, it raised a $750,000 seed and has taken about $7.75M across two rounds.

Ctrl V is a virtual reality arcade franchise founded in Waterloo, Ontario in 2016 — a bricks-and-mortar room you pay to play VR in, used for birthday parties, escape rooms, school groups and drop-in play. Robert Bruski co-founded it with Ryan Brooks and James Elligson and it franchised across Canada and into the United States.

Culinary Adventure Co. is a Toronto food-tour and culinary-experience operator, founded in 2010 and owned since 2013 by Kevin Durkee. It describes itself as one of Canada's largest culinary tourism operators.

Cyclica was a Toronto AI drug-discovery company. Founded in 2013 by Jason Mitakidis and Naheed Kurji, it screened molecules against the whole proteome instead of one target at a time, raised a $23M Series B in 2020, and was acquired by Recursion Pharmaceuticals for US$40M in May 2023. It no longer operates independently.

Cymax Group is a Vancouver-area e-commerce company founded by Arash Fasihi in 2004. It grew from an online furniture retailer into Channel Gate, a digital supply-chain and multichannel platform that helps furniture retailers and manufacturers list, price, ship and sell across Amazon, Walmart, Google and other channels.

D-Wave is a Burnaby, BC quantum computing company founded in 1999 and the first to sell quantum computers commercially. It builds quantum annealing systems for optimisation problems, now sold as the Advantage2 line, and has traded publicly as D-Wave Quantum Inc. (QBTS) since 2022.

Daily Delivery is a Vancouver hyper-local logistics company founded in 2011 by brothers Fez and Salar Rismani, running a crowdsourced network of neighbourhood couriers for same-hour delivery. It pitched on Dragons' Den and partnered with Just Eat; Fez Rismani told the TechVancouver stage in 2018 there is no perfect time to start.

Danby Appliances is a Guelph, Ontario maker of compact appliances — bar fridges, wine coolers, freezers, microwaves, dehumidifiers and air conditioners. Founded in 1947 and family-owned for decades, it is now owned and run by Jim Estill, who joined its board, stepped in as interim CEO in 2015 when the previous CEO resigned, and then bought the company.

Dapper Labs is a Vancouver-based blockchain company behind CryptoKitties, the 2017 Ethereum game that popularized NFTs. It went on to build the Flow blockchain and NBA Top Shot, bringing digital collectibles to mainstream audiences.

DataStealth is a Mississauga data-security company whose software sits in the network path and tokenizes, encrypts or masks sensitive data before it lands in an application. Founded in 2014, it was bought into by Michael and Richard Hyatt in October 2023.

Datum Telegraphic was a Vancouver designer of semiconductors for cellular base stations, co-founded and led by Laurie Wallace. PMC-Sierra acquired it in 2000 for more than $200 million — one of the largest returns a BC angel-backed company has produced.

DAVIDsTEA is a Montreal tea retailer founded in 2008 by David Segal and his cousin Herschel Segal, listed on Nasdaq since 2015. It filed for CCAA protection in July 2020, closed 82 Canadian stores and exited the US, and rebuilt around e-commerce and wholesale.

Dayboard was a Vancouver productivity app: a browser new-tab extension that showed users their five most important tasks for the day every time they opened a tab. Founded in 2014 by John Chan and Jennifer T.K. Lo, it reached roughly 19,000 users before it was discontinued in 2021.

Dayforce sells cloud payroll, HR and workforce management to large employers. David Ossip founded it in Toronto in 2009, sold it to Ceridian in 2012, then ran Ceridian and renamed the whole company Dayforce in 2024. Thoma Bravo took it private for US$12.3 billion in February 2026.

DB8 Labs is a Kitchener venture studio that builds and operates its own AI products, founded in May 2023 by Marc Lafleur after he sold the meat-subscription company truLOCAL.

DCVC is a Palo Alto deep tech venture firm founded in 2011 by Matt Ocko and Zachary Bogue, backing companies that apply computation — AI, advanced computing, scientific tooling — to hard industries like climate, energy, biology, defence and manufacturing. It manages roughly $4 billion across 13 funds.

De.Fi is a crypto portfolio tracker paired with a wallet antivirus that scans smart-contract approvals before a user signs them. Co-founded by Michael Rosmer in 2020 and based in Dubai, it says its antivirus has protected more than $1.2B of user funds and that it tracks around $25B across 5 million users.

DealMaker builds software that runs online capital raises end to end — subscription paperwork, investor eligibility, payments and investor records. Rebecca Kacaba and Mat Goldstein founded it in Toronto in 2016 after careers as capital-markets lawyers.

deben is a New York media planning software company founded in 2023 by Marc Parillo and Prasad Joglekar, built to replace the manual work of assembling cross-channel media plans. Parillo brought its founder story to the TechTO stage in March 2024; Locality acquired the company in March 2026.

Debow Musical Instruments is the wooden-instrument venture Dan Debow started after leaving Shopify in early 2025. It is pre-launch: the site carries a tagline — "Real wood. Real vibration. For first notes and fresh starts." — and a note that a new instrument is being crafted.

DeepPoole Advisory is the consultancy Michele Poole runs for fintechs, payment service providers and financial institutions, covering Canadian market entry, real-time payments, where AI is actually worth applying, and the execution afterwards. She brings more than twenty years in banking, payments and fintech, including a stint as principal advisor to Payments Canada.

DeepSubconscious.ai is a Waterloo-region wellness-technology company founded by John Tukums. Its content-based software platform, sold to employers for their staff, aims to surface and clear people's deeper stress patterns and build sustained focus and higher performance. Tukums also founded the World Happiness Foundation.

Delfy was an iOS app for making friends rather than dates: you listed your interests and it surfaced nearby people who shared them, using a message-request flow and a mutual-swipe match. Co-founder Nino Melikidze demoed it at TechVancouver days after its December 2018 North American launch. It later shut down for lack of funding.

Deliverect is a Ghent, Belgium company whose software connects restaurants' point-of-sale systems to delivery platforms so online orders land in the kitchen automatically. Founded in 2018 by Zhong Xu, Jan Hollez, Jelte Vrijhoef and Jerome Laredo, it became a unicorn in January 2022 and has processed more than a billion orders.

Delphia is a Toronto investment company founded in 2018 by Andrew Peek and Cliff van der Linden. It started as a collective that pooled members' personal data to drive an investing algorithm, raised a US$60M Series A in 2022, then shut down its robo-advisor and data reward token in 2024 to focus on professional investors.

Delta Edge is the stock-signals newsletter Derrick Fung writes on Substack after a decade building Toronto fintech companies. It publishes market commentary, proprietary stock signals and earnings playbooks for retail investors, and had over 3,000 subscribers when this page was written. Fung earlier founded Tunezy and the rewards app Drop.

Dentons is a global law firm formed in 2013 by the merger of SNR Denton, Fraser Milner Casgrain and Salans. It calls itself the world's largest global law firm and works in more than 80 countries. Eric Foster, who led its Canadian cannabis practice, hosted TechTO's HealthTO medical cannabis panel in May 2018.

DesignedUX is a Toronto strategy and design firm founded by Michelle Caers in 2013. It works with startups and larger organisations on user experience, product and go-to-market — its founder's line is that startups build sophisticated marketing machinery and forget to describe who the customer actually is.

DevCycle is a Toronto feature-flag and feature-management platform, spun out of Taplytics in 2022 and built OpenFeature-native. Co-founded by Aaron Glazer, Cobi Druxerman, Jonathan Norris and Andrew Norris, it was acquired by Dynatrace in January 2026.

Diagram is a Montreal venture builder that co-founds and incubates fintech, insurance and health-tech startups rather than investing passively. Founded in 2016 by Francois Lafortune and backed by Portag3 Ventures, it is part of the Sagard platform and its companies include the mortgage fintech Nesto.

Dialogue is a Montreal virtual healthcare company founded in 2016. It sells employers a per-employee subscription: members chat with a nurse in the app, then consult a doctor and get a prescription. It also runs EAP, mental health, and wellness programs, and says over 8 million Canadians have access. Sun Life acquired it in October 2023.

Digital Health Canada is a member-supported not-for-profit professional association for people working in digital health and health informatics across Canada. Founded in 1975 as COACH, it took its current name in 2017 and reported 7,765 individual and 212 organizational members in 2024.

Diligen reviews contracts with machine learning — finding provisions, summarising them and managing the review workflow for legal teams. Laura van Wyngaarden and Konrad Pola founded it in Toronto in 2015.

Dimensional is a Toronto company applying personality science to self-knowledge, turning validated psychometric assessments into a game-like mobile experience where users unlock insights about themselves. Saeid Fard founded it after years at a career-testing startup and pitched it live on the TechTO stage in 2020.

DiMinno Rizzi is a boutique law firm in downtown Toronto working with founders, small businesses and real-estate investors. It covers business law, real estate, tech and intellectual property, wills and estates, and disputes, and prices work as flat fees or a subscription rather than by the hour.

Diply is a viral content publisher founded in 2013 in London, Ontario by Taylor Ablitt, Dean Elkholy and Gary Manning, under the parent company GoViral. Built on packaging and distributing curated content through social feeds, it reached the top 100 websites worldwide at its peak.

Disco is a Toronto learning platform for training businesses, accelerators and internal teams: cohort programs, community and now AI features that turn an organisation's material into courses and answer questions from it. Candice Faktor and Chris Sukornyk founded it in 2020.

Distill is the company Russ Heddleston founded after selling DocSend to Dropbox, with Tim Su as co-founder and CTO. It writes personalised outreach for founders and executives — messages meant to read as though a person wrote them rather than a language model.

Diversio is a Toronto company that measures workplace inclusion with people data and machine learning, then tells employers and investors what to change. Laura McGee and Anya Klimbovskaia founded it in 2018 because leaders wanted inclusive workplaces but had no data on what was actually happening.

Docebo is a Toronto-headquartered learning platform used by companies to train employees, customers and partners. Claudio Erba started it in Italy in 2005; it listed on the TSX in 2019, added a Nasdaq listing, and reported US$242.7 million of revenue for 2025.

Docker is the Palo Alto company behind the container tooling developers use to build, share and run software. It began as the Paris PaaS startup dotCloud and took the Docker name in 2013. Its own company page claims more than 20 million developers, and in December 2023 it bought AtomicJar, maker of Testcontainers.

DocSend is document-sharing software built for the moment a document is a deal: send a link instead of a file, see who opened it and how far they read. Founded in 2013 by Russ Heddleston and team, it was acquired by Dropbox in 2021 for $165M.

Dooly was a Vancouver sales-software company, founded in 2016, that let salespeople take notes in one place and pushed the results into Salesforce automatically. Mediafly acquired it in August 2024.

Dose was a Slack app built in Toronto by Ray Newal to get distributed teams talking live instead of drowning in asynchronous messages. Typing /d in any channel found a time everyone was free, opened a short side discussion away from the channel, and produced a recap for the people who missed it.

DOUBL is a Kelowna company that turns a clothed smartphone scan into a 3D body model, then uses it to fit clothing. Jessica Bosman and Bryn Davis Williams founded it in 2020, sold made-to-measure bras first, and in 2026 rebuilt the business around licensing the fit engine behind them.

Douro Labs is a Porto, Portugal software company and one of the initial contributors to the Pyth Network, the decentralised oracle that publishes real-time market prices onto blockchains. It builds oracle tooling and web3 data infrastructure rather than a product of its own.

DOZR is an online marketplace for renting heavy construction and agricultural equipment, founded in Kitchener in 2015 by Kevin Forestell, Erin Stephenson and Tim Forestell. It was placed in receivership in 2025 and its assets were sold that October.

Dragon Fruit Consulting is the Canadian practice Kim Logan runs to close what she calls the AI adoption gap. It gives technology companies, nonprofits and associations the content, tools and method to adopt AI with confidence, and advises on AI policy and public affairs.

Dresst was a Toronto clothing-rental service Kelly Pigeon and Laura Bryce launched in March 2019: $99 a month for three designer pieces, swapped monthly. It raised $525,000 from angels the same year and later became loopt, software letting brands run rental subscriptions of their own.

Drift was a Boston conversational marketing company founded around 2015 by David Cancel and Elias Torres, using chat and chatbots to remove friction from B2B buying. Vista Equity Partners took a majority stake in 2021 at a valuation above $1B, and Salesloft acquired the company in February 2024.

DriveHER is a Greater Toronto Area ride-hailing service where women drive women, founded by Aisha Addo. It was built as both a safety product for riders and a route into paid driving work in an industry where drivers are overwhelmingly men.

DroneDeploy is a San Francisco company whose software turns drone and robot flights over job sites into maps and reports. Founded in 2013, it works in construction, energy and agriculture and had raised US$142M by its 2021 Series E. Its CFO spoke at TechTO Together in August 2020.

Drop was a Toronto rewards app that let people link their debit and credit cards and earn points on everyday spending, with merchants funding the offers. Founded in 2015 by Derrick Fung, Darren Fung and Cameron Dearsley, it raised $94.5M CAD by 2019 and entered receivership in December 2025.

Drop Mobility launched in 2017 as Dropbike, Canada's first dockless bike share, with a 100-bike pilot at the University of Toronto and a city-wide launch in Kingston. Founded by Qiming Weng, it now supplies bike and scooter share systems to North American municipalities, campuses and operators.

Dryrun is an Edmonton company whose software forecasts cash flow and models financial scenarios for CFOs and accounting firms — weekly insight panels, action lists and risk analysis rather than a spreadsheet. Blaine Bertsch and Tariq Bacchus founded it in 2016 and launched it that year.

Dumouchel Meat & Deli is an Ottawa butcher shop founded in 1948, cutting to order by hand for walk-in and online customers. Ian Slipacoff bought it after leaving his family's wholesale meat business in 2021, having built one of Canada's first direct-to-consumer meat stores on Shopify in 2014.

Dwello is a Toronto platform that automates monthly rent payments between landlords, property managers and tenants, replacing paper cheques and manual e-transfers with scheduled bank payments and online reporting.

East Side Games is a Vancouver mobile game studio known for idle games built on licensed entertainment brands. Jason Bailey, Josh Nilson and Galan Akin founded it in 2011. It is the operating studio inside East Side Games Group, listed on the TSX as EAGR, with Bailey back as CEO since April 2022.

Easy Aging helps older adults stay in their own homes. It assesses a house for fall and fire risk, recommends modifications and simple technology, and guides families through care options and community supports. Founded by former Baycrest executive Ran Manor, it serves the GTA, Guelph, Kitchener and Waterloo.

ecobee is the Toronto company that built the first Wi-Fi smart thermostat, founded in 2007 by Stuart Lombard to cut household energy waste. Generac acquired it in 2021 in a deal worth up to US$770 million; it now spans thermostats, cameras and home monitoring.

Eddy Travels was an AI travel assistant that answered flight and hotel questions inside messaging apps. Edmundas Balčikonis co-founded it and ran it through Techstars Toronto in 2019. The global travel marketplace TripAdd acquired it in September 2022.

Ego Death Capital is a venture fund that invests only in companies building on Bitcoin. It leads and joins rounds from pre-seed to Series A, and closed a US$100 million second fund in July 2025 aimed at Series A cheques of three to eight million dollars.

Eirene is a Toronto company that arranges cremations and aquamations online, at about half what a traditional funeral home charges. Families arrange from home, hospital or anywhere else; Eirene delivers the remains back. Co-founded in 2019 by Mallory Greene and Faisal Abid.

Elastic Care is a Markham, Ontario healthtech company building a medical-grade, AI-driven mobile ECG and multi-sensor platform for the remote monitoring of cardiac and chronic-disease patients. Founded around 2015, it demoed its wearable 12-lead ECG system, later branded LifePath-C, at HealthTO in 2019.

Elastic Path is a Vancouver company, founded in 2000, that sells headless commerce software to large brands and retailers — APIs for catalogue, cart and checkout that a company assembles into its own storefront rather than buying a packaged store. It has raised roughly $153 million.

Elekta is a Swedish cancer-care company, founded in Stockholm in 1972 by neurosurgeon Lars Leksell and his son Laurent, that makes radiotherapy and radiosurgery systems including the Leksell Gamma Knife. In 2018 it acquired Acumyn, a Toronto quality-assurance software spin-off of University Health Network.

Elevate Wellness is a British Columbia contract manufacturer for cannabis, natural health supplement and psychedelic brands — a Health Canada-licensed facility that formulates, tests and produces other companies' products.

Elite Spa Group is a Niagara-region spa business founded by aesthetician Lindsay Moore, running two Ontario locations — Sugar & Spice Elite Spa in St. Catharines and AfterGlow Elite Spa in Vineland — built on facials, massage and skincare for locals rather than the resort tourists Moore started out serving.

Ellis is an AI-native operations platform for private credit. It reconciles portfolio, fund and investor data across the systems a manager already uses into one source-verifiable book, then runs purpose-built agents across close, reporting and portfolio monitoring. It launched out of stealth on 30 July 2026 with more than $10M in seed funding.

eMark Consulting is Eric Riz's Microsoft practice: a certified Microsoft Solutions Partner working on Copilot AI, SharePoint modernisation, Microsoft 365 optimisation, Azure services and enterprise cloud governance. The firm's own site places it in Miami, Florida, serving organisations across North America.

Embark is a Canadian education savings and planning company that makes it easier for families to open and manage RESPs. It rebranded from Knowledge First Financial in 2023 and is owned by a not-for-profit foundation.

EMERGE Commerce (TSXV: ECOM) is a Toronto acquirer and operator of profitable e-commerce brands. Founded in 2016 by Ghassan Halazon, it runs truLOCAL meat subscriptions, a golf portfolio of UnderPar, JustGolfStuff and Tee 2 Green, and referral platform Viral Loops. Revenue reached $27.7M in 2025, up 43%.

Emerging Trajectories is a forecasting product from Phase AI. It uses large language models to monitor and anticipate political, economic and social events, and shows the sources behind each forecast — event-powered feeds, newsletters and risk maps a company can build around the topics that actually affect it.

Emma is a Montreal insurtech that underwrites and sells its own life insurance online — term, permanent and a child rider — through a mobile application that takes about twenty minutes and gives an instant decision. Félix Deschatelets, Jacomo Deschatelets and Guillaume Plante founded it in 2017.

Employment Hero is an Australian employment platform — HR, payroll, benefits and hiring in one system — that bought the Toronto HR company Humi in January 2025 to enter Canada. Humi co-founder Kevin Kliman now runs its Canadian business. It passed A$300M in annual recurring revenue in October 2025.

Empower Health, which took the TechTO stage as iamsick.ca, is a Toronto digital health company that helps Canadians find nearby open clinics and pharmacies and book appointments online. Founded by Ryan Doherty during his PhD, it added flu-shot booking across Ontario, Nova Scotia and Alberta.

Empty Cubicle was a Toronto recruiting platform founded in October 2014 by Eric Riz, built on verified data: it checked what candidates claimed on a resume against evidence in real time and matched them to corporate job openings, rather than taking the resume at its word.

Endor Health is a Canadian digital health company that puts diabetes supplies and prescriptions in one app — continuous glucose monitors, pump supplies, insulin and GLP-1s, delivered free and billed directly to insurance through partner pharmacies.

Endy is the Toronto mattress-in-a-box company Mike Gettis and Rajen Ruparell started in 2015, shipping a foam mattress compressed into a box the size of a hockey bag. Sleep Country Canada bought it in November 2018 in a deal worth up to $89 million.

EnergyX Solutions built enterprise software licensed to utilities and energy-efficiency providers, giving their customers audit-grade insight into retrofits that cut energy bills. Nishaant Sangaavi and Alex Corneglio founded it in Toronto with a Halifax office; Brillion acquired it in 2024.

Engagement Agents helps retail chains use the shopping-centre marketing they are already paying for. Every mall tenant funds its centre's digital and physical media networks through lease charges; the platform is built so a retailer with dozens of locations can actually deploy campaigns across all of them.

Engyne is a Toronto company that builds tools to help founders and professionals tell their story online. Its product, Carousel Studio, is a Canva app that generates social-media carousels. Sukhpal Saini and Edgar Brown founded it in 2023; Saini runs it as CEO.

Enso Connect is a Toronto guest-experience platform for short-term rentals and boutique hotels, digitizing messaging, upsells and check-in. Founded in 2019 by Francois Gouelo and Peter Sorbo, it raised $2M CAD in 2021 and covered 12,000+ listings across 18 countries at the time.

Enthusiast Gaming is a Toronto gaming media and esports company founded by Menashe Kestenbaum, who began with a Nintendo blog and bought his way into a network of gaming sites. It listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in October 2018, merged with Luminosity Gaming in 2019 and moved to the TSX in January 2020.

Entrepreneur First is a talent investor: it pays technical people a stipend to find a co-founder from scratch, then invests pre-seed in what they build. Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck started it in London in 2011, and it ran Toronto cohorts from 2019, the North American launch Rachel Zimmer led.

entrepreneurship@UBC was the University of British Columbia's venture-creation programme, turning research and student ideas into companies through accelerator programming, mentorship and seed funding. Since a September 2025 restructuring it runs as the entrepreneurship and ventures arm of Innovation UBC, where its HATCH venture builder still operates.

Epiphany is a Toronto sexual-wellness brand founded by Kelly Pigeon around a single product: a clitoral arousal serum, not a lubricant, that heightens sensitivity. Pigeon found the category while marketing consumer products at Johnson & Johnson and spent about a year and 25 formulations getting it right.

EQ Works — legally EQ Inc., trading as TSXV: EQ — is a Toronto company that turns location and movement data into advertising and analytics products through its LOCUS platform. It acquired Toronto mobile marketing firm Tapped Mobile in 2018, bringing in co-founder Jed Schneiderman.

Equibit Group was a Toronto blockchain company building a peer-to-peer securities registration and transfer system — equity and debt, primary and secondary markets — plugged into Bitcoin. It is no longer operating.

erthos is a Toronto biomaterials company working to cut the world's dependence on plastics. Founded at the University of Toronto in 2019, it began by manufacturing plant-based resins and has since moved to an AI-assisted design platform that helps consumer-goods and chemical companies develop their own biomaterials — a pivot its head of growth walked through publicly on the TechTO stage.

eSentire is a Waterloo-founded cybersecurity company that pioneered managed detection and response: a 24/7 security operations team that hunts, investigates, and shuts down threats on customers' behalf. Founded in 2001, it protects more than 2,000 organizations across 80-plus countries (company-stated as of 2026) and passed a US$1 billion valuation in 2022.

eSight builds electronic glasses that let people who are legally blind or have low vision see — a headset camera feeding magnified, enhanced video to a screen in front of each eye. Founded in Toronto in 2006 by Conrad Lewis, its assets were acquired by Gentex Corporation in January 2024.

Esplanade Ventures is a Canadian digital-health venture firm with offices in Montréal and Toronto. It writes seed to Series A cheques into AI-enabled healthcare software — no biotech, no invasive devices — and closed an oversubscribed first fund of more than C$21 million in June 2021.

Esri Canada is the Canadian distributor and solutions arm for Esri's ArcGIS mapping software, founded in Toronto in 1984 by Alex Miller and Mary-Charlotte Miller. It serves more than 14,000 organisations from 15 offices across the country, and acquired Toronto urban-analytics startup Ratio.City in September 2023.

eSSENTIAL Accessibility was a Toronto company that helped brands make websites and apps usable by people with disabilities, combining assistive technology with audits against the WCAG standard. Simon Dermer and Spiro Papathanasakis founded it around 2008; it merged with Level Access in 2022.

ether.fi is a non-custodial Ethereum staking and restaking protocol founded in 2022 by Top Hat co-founder Mike Silagadze and Rok Kopp. Stakers keep control of their keys while node operators run the validators, and receive eETH, a token that stays liquid and earns restaking rewards.

Ethọ́s Lab is a Black-led non-profit innovation academy in Vancouver where youth reach STEM through culture — after-school workshops, creative projects and access to emerging technology. Anthonia Ogundele founded it and is its executive director.

eTrove was a Vancouver patient engagement company founded in 2016. It gave dental, physio, optometry and other clinics a branded mobile app for reminders, rewards and referrals, closing the loop between a practice and its patients. Jeanette Jackson ran it as CEO.

Eve Medical makes HerSwab, a self-sampling device that lets women collect their own samples for cervical cancer and STI screening rather than undergoing a clinician-performed exam. Jessica Ching and Evan Moses founded it in Toronto in 2010.

Eve Tab was a Toronto nightlife payments app: buy a bar tab of $50 or more on your phone, skip the line at a partner club, get in free, and redeem the full tab value at the bar. Founded in 2014 by Kyle Collier and Brian Troy, it raised $150,000 and has since shut down.

Evenset is a Toronto software studio that builds mobile, web and machine-learning products, with a long specialisation in healthcare and medical clients including the Public Health Agency of Canada. Co-founded in 2015 by Mahshid Yassaei and Hesam Dadafarin, it is the company where Tali AI began as a client project.

EventMobi is a Toronto company that sells event planners one platform for websites, registration, check-in, badge printing, event apps and attendee engagement. Brothers Bob and Bijan Vaez started it in 2009 and grew it without venture capital; it acquired the virtual-events startup Run The World in 2023 and still operates today.

EvenUp builds AI that drafts demand packages and case documents for US personal injury firms, helping injury victims capture full settlement value. Its three co-founders are Canadian expats — Saam Mashhad, a former Norton Rose Fulbright litigator, told the story on the TechTO stage in Toronto — and the company passed a $2B valuation in 2025.

EverMe is a longevity-intelligence app that reads your blood work, wearable data and a 30-second face scan, then answers health questions from vetted expert research rather than marketing copy. Gary LeBlanc is president and co-founder; Globalive founder Anthony Lacavera is the other co-founder. The company says more than 150,000 people use it.

Every was a Toronto fintech that built a business bank account for online companies. Jeremy Black and Matthew Collum founded it in 2017 and raised seed funding in January 2019; Wave later acquired it and the product has been wound down.

Evolo builds client-facing AI for regulated industries — interactive short-form video that explains complex products like mortgages and life insurance, qualifies the buyer and hands the lead on. Founded in Toronto in 2024 by Vahid Mirjalili and Afsaneh Fazly, it raised US$3M led by Portage.

ExaCare AI automates admissions for skilled nursing and home care: it pulls referrals from hospital portals, faxes and referral platforms into one inbox and reads the clinical packet in minutes. Laird Russell co-founded it in 2022 and it raised a $30 million Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025.

Exact Media was a Toronto advertising company founded in 2013 by Ray Cao and Daniel Rodic. It put product samples and offers inside e-commerce parcels that were already being shipped, paying retailers for the space and charging brands for the placement. Its Connections marketplace was sold in late 2019.

Examine.com is a Toronto-based independent encyclopedia of nutrition and supplement research. Founded in 2011 by Sol Orwell, Kamal Patel and Kurtis Frank, it summarises the published evidence behind health claims and is funded by readers rather than advertising or supplement companies.

Export Development Canada is the federal Crown corporation that finances and insures Canadian exporters. Created in 1944 as the Export Credit Insurance Corporation and renamed EDC in 1969, it provides financing, trade credit insurance, guarantees and equity to companies selling abroad. In 2024 it facilitated $123.4 billion in business for more than 27,800 Canadian companies.

EyeXpo Technology is a Vancouver immersive-technology company building a platform for creating, publishing and sharing AR and VR content, aimed at how people experience cities, retail and travel destinations. Vivian Chan, its chief operating officer, spoke at TechVancouver in November 2018.

EZee Assist is a Toronto company whose AI answers operational questions for franchise businesses over SMS, WhatsApp and email, drawing on their own ops manuals and training material. Raphael Rajan, Shray Mehra, Gabe Cadamuro and Jason Kealey founded it in 2023.

EZRA is an enterprise coaching platform that delivers one-to-one professional coaching through an app, at a scale companies previously reserved for executives. It sells against four business problems — high-performance culture, change and transformation, leadership, and talent acceleration — and counts Kraft Heinz, McDonald's and Nestlé among named customers.

F-Prime Capital is the venture arm of Fidelity, investing in healthcare and technology from Cambridge, San Francisco and London. It led the US$22-million Series B into Toronto's BenchSci in 2020 and its operating partner Shervin Ghaemmaghami told that story on TechTO's podcast.

Fable is a Toronto accessibility research platform that connects enterprise product teams with a vetted, paid community of people with disabilities, so companies like Microsoft, Walmart, and Slack can research, test, and improve digital products with real assistive technology users. Founded in 2018 out of OCAD University's inclusive design program, it had raised over $50 million CAD as of early 2025, with the October 2024 Series B its most recent round as of July 2026.

Fable Home is a Canadian direct-to-consumer tableware brand — ceramics, glassware and cutlery made in Portugal, Japan and Europe, sold on sustainability as much as design. Three people from the tech industry founded it in 2019; it is a certified B Corp.

Fabric Folk is a Toronto consultancy that helps agencies and brands put AI to work in their operations, not just their creative. Tessa Ohlendorf founded it in May 2024 after two decades running media and ad-tech businesses in New York and Toronto.

Faire is a wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers with more than 100,000 brands from over 120 countries. Founded in 2017 out of Y Combinator, it is headquartered in San Francisco and runs its Canadian engineering hub — 300+ engineers — from Kitchener-Waterloo.

Faktory Ventures was a Toronto seed fund Candice Faktor launched in 2017 after leaving Wattpad, backing early-stage founders with an explicit ethics-in-tech thesis. Flipd, a phone-locking app, was among its investments. The fund later folded into her Gamechanger community, and Faktor went on to co-found the learning platform Disco.

FCB/SIX is a Toronto creative CRM agency inside the FCB network, part of Interpublic Group. It took its current name in 2016 when the agency then called Rivet rebranded and opened a Montreal office. Co-founder Andrea Cook, its president at the time, spoke at TechTO MarketingTO in February 2019.

Feedback was a Toronto app that cut restaurant food waste by applying dynamic pricing: restaurants offered surplus prepared meals at time- and quantity-limited discounts during slow periods, and diners bought them at roughly 30% off. Co-founded in 2017 by Ben Walters and his cousin Josh Walters, its technology later became Gravy.

Felix is a Toronto digital healthcare company that lets Canadians handle everyday health online — from birth control and ED to weight loss, mental health, and menopause. Patients complete a questionnaire, a licensed clinician reviews it and prescribes where appropriate, and medication ships to their door with follow-up chat included. Over one million patients served since 2019.

Feroot Security is a Toronto company whose software watches the code running inside a website visitor's browser — third-party scripts, trackers, payment forms — and flags data leaks and compliance gaps against PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR and 50+ other rules. Ivan Tsarynny and Vitaliy Lim founded it in 2017 and took it through Y Combinator's W21 batch.

ff Venture Capital is a New York seed and early-stage firm founded in 2008 by John Frankel. It has funded over 150 companies, concentrating on AI, manufacturing, energy, robotics and security, and leads rounds and takes board seats rather than writing passive cheques.

FHMatch, or Fitness Health Match, was a Toronto marketplace where consumers could find, compare and book fitness, health and wellness professionals, and practitioners got a search-optimised profile with messaging, scheduling and payments. Founded in 2014 by David Quenneville, it launched in 2015 and is no longer operating.

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.

Fiix was a Toronto on-demand car-repair service that sent a mechanic to the customer's driveway instead of the customer to a shop. Founded in 2015 by Zain Manji, Khallil Mangalji and Arif Bhanji, it went through Y Combinator in winter 2017 and was acquired by US company Wrench in 2019.

Fiix Software is a Toronto maintenance-management (CMMS) company founded in 2008 that helps teams schedule and track equipment repairs. Rockwell Automation acquired it in December 2020; it still runs as a Rockwell company. Co-founder Marc Castel raised US$52M in the year before the deal and ran it as a B Corp.

Finaeo was a Toronto insurtech building a digital platform, CRM and AI assistant to modernize life-insurance distribution for independent advisors.

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.

Finn AI was a Vancouver fintech that built white-label virtual banking assistants for banks and credit unions. Founded in 2014 by Jake Tyler, Natalie Cartwright and Guru Atlu, it raised about $17.5M, worked with banks on four continents, and was acquired by Glia in June 2022.

Finta is a Y Combinator-backed accounting platform for startups, handling bookkeeping, taxes and financial reporting in one product. Canadian founder Andy Wang started it in 2022 and moved to San Francisco for YC's winter 2023 batch, raising a seed round on the way.

Firebelly Tea is a direct-to-consumer loose-leaf tea and accessories brand launched in 2021 by DAVIDsTEA co-founder David Segal and Shopify president Harley Finkelstein. It sells blends, brewing gear and bundles online in Canada and the United States, with a design-led take on a category Segal argues North America still under-drinks.

Firework is a video commerce platform that lets retailers and brands run shoppable video, livestream shopping and one-to-one video chat on their own sites. Founded in 2017 and based in San Mateo, it has raised over $250M. Drew Cashmore, then its head of global marketing, spoke at TechTO: Retail in September 2023.

Firmex is a Toronto virtual data room company. Founded in 2006, it sells secure, project-based document sharing for diligence, fundraising, litigation and compliance, largely to lower-middle-market dealmakers, and has been part of Datasite since 2021.

Fiserv is a payments and banking technology company headquartered in downtown Milwaukee, founded in 1984 and listed on the NYSE. It bought First Data in 2019 in a roughly US$22B all-stock deal and reported US$21.19B of revenue in 2025. Its marketing lead spoke at a TechTO positioning event in 2019.

FISPAN is a Vancouver fintech that embeds business banking into the ERP and accounting software commercial clients already run, so payments and reconciliation happen without leaving the system of record. Lisa Shields founded it in 2016 after selling Hyperwallet.

FJ Labs is a New York venture firm and startup studio focused on marketplaces and network-effect businesses, formalised in 2016 by Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin. It has invested in more than 1,000 companies, over 30 of which became unicorns.

Fjord Wellness was a Toronto corporate-wellness company started by chiropractor Dr. Jonas Eyford. It sent teams of practitioners into offices to run on-site 'recharge stations' — massage, chiropractic, yoga and meditation — as a low-cost way to keep staff healthy. The work now runs under Eyford's Recharge Wellness / Recharge EAP.

FlashBox is a Toronto same-day delivery company for merchants, founded in 2021 by Mehdi Nayebi and Mehrshad Pezeshk. Parcels uploaded before 1pm are delivered by 9pm the same day, and the company runs its own driver network rather than handing jobs to third-party carriers.

Flashfood is a Toronto app that sells grocery stores' near-expiry food at a steep discount instead of sending it to landfill. Founded in 2016 by Josh Domingues, it operates in grocery chains across Canada and the United States and raised a $12.3 million Series A in 2022.

FlashStock was a Toronto platform that produced custom marketing content at scale for enterprise brands. Founded in 2014 by Grant Munro and grown to a roughly US$50M acquisition by Shutterstock in 2017, it was rebranded as Shutterstock Custom.

Flexday is a Toronto company that turns underused commercial space into bookable workspace. It began by taking dinner-only restaurants and opening them as daytime work spaces with enterprise wi-fi and unlimited coffee, and now books private team suites and meeting rooms by the day or month.

Flexpa is a patient-data API company that lets digital-health and fintech apps connect to patient-access and claims-history data. Founded in 2021 as Automate Medical by Andrew Arruda, Joshua Kelly and Thomas Hamilton, it began building developer tools to make launching in digital health easier and later rebranded to Flexpa.

Flipcash is a payments app that tries to make digital money behave like physical cash: you hand it over by having someone scan a code, with no phone numbers, accounts or fees. It is built on Solana by Code Inc., the company Kik founder Ted Livingston started in 2021.

Flipd is a Toronto digital wellness app that nudges people off their phones, built mainly for students who want to focus. Co-founders Alanna Harvey and Cristian Villamarin started it after watching a younger sibling change once he got his first smartphone. It grew on angel money and non-dilutive financing rather than large venture rounds.

Flipp is a Toronto retail-tech company whose app turns store flyers and coupons into a searchable digital shopping tool. Founded in 2007 as Wishabi by Wehuns Tan with co-founders including David Meyers and David Au-Yeung, it works with large North American retailers and grocers and was acquired by Truelink Capital in 2023.

Float is a Toronto business finance platform for Canadian companies: corporate cards, business bank accounts, FX, bill pay and reimbursements in one place. Waterloo students Ruslan Nikolaev and Griffin Keglevich started it in 2019; Rob Khazzam joined as co-founder and CEO in 2021. It raised a $70-million CAD Series B in 2025.

Flok designs and runs corporate retreats for distributed teams. Two MIT graduates founded it in 2020 as retreat-planning software and went through Y Combinator; Meraj Delavari and his business partner bought it and turned it into a service-led business.

Flow Beverage Corp sold naturally alkaline spring water in a mostly plant-based carton. Nicholas Reichenbach founded it in Ontario in 2013 and it listed on the TSX, but the company went into receivership in September 2025 and Cizzle Brands bought Flow Water in January 2026.

The Flow Foundation is the non-profit that stewards Flow, the layer-one blockchain built by the CryptoKitties team. It was separated from Dapper Labs in 2024 to hold the network's long-term direction independently of the company that launched it, and now steers Flow's roadmap toward consumer finance.

Fluence Technologies builds financial consolidation, close and reporting software for finance teams that have outgrown spreadsheets but do not want enterprise implementation projects. Don Mal, John Power and Herve Capo founded it in Toronto in October 2019, and Anaplan agreed to acquire it in 2024.

Flybits is a Toronto enterprise-software company whose 'context-as-a-service' platform lets large organizations, especially banks and financial institutions, unify scattered data sources and turn them into highly personalized, real-time customer experiences across digital channels like mobile apps.

Fonolo was a Toronto company whose call-back technology let contact-centre callers hang up and keep their place in the queue, removing hold time. Co-founded by Shai Berger, it was acquired by Verint and folded into Verint's contact-centre platform.

Foodee is a Vancouver corporate catering marketplace that sources office meals from local independent restaurants and handles the logistics the restaurants cannot staff for themselves. It launched in 2012, expanded into Toronto and several US cities, and was acquired by the global food services company Sodexo in July 2021.

FoodMesh is a Vancouver company running a business-to-business platform that redirects surplus food from grocers, manufacturers and distributors to charities, farms and other users instead of landfill. It began as Mesh Food Exchange after its founders saw rejected produce being composted, and reports 45 million kilograms of food diverted.

Footwork is a San Francisco seed and Series A firm that Nikhil Basu Trivedi and former Stitch Fix president Mike Smith launched in April 2021. It backs consumer technology and the consumerisation of enterprise software, writing $1M to $15M first cheques, and has raised two funds totalling $400M.

Forma.ai is a Toronto software company that turns sales compensation into a science, using AI to individualize and automate how large enterprises pay their sales reps. Founded in 2016 by Nabeil Alazzam, it replaced the spreadsheets most companies still use for their second-largest cost centre, and serves enterprises like Autodesk, OpenTable and Trustpilot.

Fortay is a Toronto HR-tech company that assesses culture add rather than culture fit — values-based candidate assessment, employee experience surveys and inclusive leadership reviews. Co-founded in 2015 by Marlina Kinnersley, Bohdan Zabawskyj and Nathan Wong, it bootstrapped its early growth with no marketing spend and is still operating.

Forum Ventures is a pre-seed fund, accelerator and AI venture studio for business-software founders. Running since 2014, it says it has funded 430 companies, built a community of 1,300 founders, and seen its portfolio raise about a billion dollars in follow-on capital.

FounderFuel is a Canadian accelerator, launched by Real Ventures in Montréal in 2011, that has graduated more than 100 companies across 13 cohorts — including BenchSci, Paper, Sonder and Unsplash — and relaunched nationally in 2023.

Foundry Group was the Boulder venture firm Brad Feld and Seth Levine co-founded in 2006, which invested in more than 200 early-stage companies and other venture funds and managed close to $3.5B. In January 2024 it said its 2022 fund would be its last and that it would wind down rather than raise again.

Four Cities Capital is a seed-stage venture firm whose own one-line description is "experienced operators/investors backing the founders of tomorrow." Benjamin Hutchinson, who co-founded the student-loan refinancer Earnest and the crypto platform Rocketplace, is a general partner, and leads its seed rounds.

Fresh City is a Toronto organic food business combining a commercial city farm, online grocery delivery and retail stores across southern Ontario. Ran Goel founded it in 2011 after leaving a Wall Street law practice, and has grown it through six acquisitions including Mama Earth Organics, Mabel's Bakery and The Healthy Butcher.

Fresh Prep is a Vancouver-founded meal-kit company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to customers' doors. Started in a Chinatown basement in 2015 by Dhruv Sood and Hussein Rahemtulla, it grew into a sustainability-focused national brand serving four Canadian provinces.

Fresh Squeezed Ideas is a research and strategy consultancy with a Toronto office, working since 2006 on market research, marketing strategy and branding for consumer products and healthcare clients. It applies social science and behavioural research to questions about why people actually behave the way they do.

FreshBooks makes invoicing and accounting software for small, service-based businesses — the plumbers, designers, and agencies spreadsheets forgot. Mike McDerment started it in his parents' basement in 2003, bootstrapped it for ten years, then raised two big rounds once the model was proven. Tens of millions of people have used it since.

FTSY — pronounced footsie — was a Vancouver company that scanned a shopper's feet with a phone camera, built a 3D model of them and recommended footwear that would actually fit, in store and online.

FundThrough is a Toronto fintech that gets small businesses paid on their outstanding invoices in as little as 24 hours, instead of the usual 30 to 90 days. Co-founded in 2014 by Steven Uster, Deepak Ramachandran and Graham McBride, it serves customers across North America and acquired Ampla in April 2025.

FunnelCake was a Kitchener revenue operations product that sat on the Salesforce ecosystem and showed B2B teams how their pipeline actually converted — replacing sales folklore with historical data. Marko Savic founded it in 2015, won Salesforce's Dreampitch and its US$100,000 prize in 2018, and sold it to Varicent in October 2020.

Furnishr furnishes a home or apartment in one transaction: pick a design package and the company sources, delivers and sets up the furniture, decor, art and lighting in a single day. Michael Van and Karen Lau founded it in Toronto in January 2016; it also serves New York.

Fuse, branded FUSE, is a Seattle early-stage venture firm that spun out of Ignition Partners in 2020 and backs B2B and vertical software, developer tools, marketplaces and small-business software. It invests globally but is built around the Pacific Northwest, and has led rounds into Canadian companies from Calgary and Vancouver.

Future Fertility is a Toronto medical AI company that grades egg quality from microscope images so patients and clinics can predict egg-freezing and IVF outcomes. Dr. Dan Nayot founded it in 2017; Christy Prada has been CEO since May 2022, and its tools are called VIOLET and MAGENTA.

Future Primitive is the on-chain product studio behind ERC-6551, the token-bound-account standard that gives every NFT its own Ethereum account. Benny Giang, a founding team member on CryptoKitties, and Steve Jang are among its authors; its consumer product is the Checkpoint photo booth.

Fuud was a Vancouver meal-kit delivery service founded by Thomas Buchan that sourced produce and organic meat from Fraser Valley farms and shipped ready-to-cook boxes with recipes from local chefs across British Columbia. It pitched on CBC's Dragons' Den in 2018.

Gainsight makes customer success software — tools for tracking account health, renewals and churn risk — and spent a decade arguing that customer success deserved to be its own software category. Vista Equity Partners took a majority stake in November 2020 at a US$1.1-billion valuation.

GainX is an AI-driven enterprise software platform founded in 2012 that helps large organizations plan, manage and measure the return on their innovation, strategy and transformation investments, blending organizational design, behavioural and social-network analysis, and machine learning to give C-suite leaders predictive insight.

GALE is a marketing agency that calls itself a business agency, bringing business strategy to brand storytelling across advisory, creative, CRM and loyalty, media, and data and technology. Brad Simms founded it in Canada in 2014 as a seven-person CRM and data shop; Andrew Noel is now global chief executive.

Game On is a free three-week immersion in San Francisco for early-stage Canadian founders, run by investor Chris Neumann. Its January 2026 cohort took 35 founders down for mentorship, speakers and deliberately uncomfortable goal-setting — an attempt, in Neumann's words, to change founder metabolism rather than to fund anyone.

Gameloft is a mobile games publisher founded in 1999 by Michel Guillemot, one of Ubisoft's five founding brothers. It has been owned by Vivendi since a hostile takeover completed in 2016, and today reports 2,900-plus staff across ten studios, 61 games in its portfolio and distribution in more than 120 countries.

Garage Capital is a Waterloo-region pre-seed and seed fund started in 2013 by BufferBox's Mike McCauley and Vidyard's Michael Litt and Devon Galloway. It invests across Canada and the US in two buckets it calls enterprise software and moonshots.

General Assembly is a New York-based tech skills school founded in 2011 that trains people in software engineering, data, design and digital marketing. The Adecco Group bought it in 2018 for US$412.5M and it now sits inside Adecco's LHH division. Its marketing lead spoke at TechTO in 2018.

General Magic is a Toronto company running insurance servicing over text — quotes, renewals, policy questions and claims intake — with AI agents that sit on top of a brokerage's existing systems. Founded in 2024 as OpenSesame, it raised US$7.2M in February 2026.

Generation R was a Vancouver consultancy on the ethical and social risks companies take on when they deploy automated systems — predictive decision-making tools and robotics. Shalaleh Rismani was its chief innovation officer; she took the TechVancouver stage in November 2017, seven months in and one client deep.

GeoComply is a Vancouver company that verifies where a user actually is. Its geolocation and anti-fraud software underpins regulated online gambling in North America and now runs in banking and media; the company says it checks about two billion transactions a month.

Georgette Packaging designs and supplies custom branded packaging — cups, bags and boxes — to food businesses across North America. Sarah Landstreet founded it in Kitchener in 2013 and took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2016 batch. It made all of its packaging carbon neutral, and is now owned and run by Jennifer Appleby Vines.

Geotab is an Oakville, Ontario telematics company founded in 2000 that connects commercial vehicles and equipment to a fleet-management platform. It was bootstrapped with no outside investors, is owned entirely by people who work there, and now reports roughly six million connected vehicles and assets across more than 100,000 customers.

Gigi is a Toronto adtech company that helps brands and agencies buy and measure streaming TV advertising, built around Amazon's demand-side platform and its Marketing Cloud.

GIMME360 is a Toronto augmented-reality company founded in 2016. It began as a charity apparel brand whose hoodies unlocked 360-degree video of the water projects they funded, then pivoted to ARC, a drag-and-drop platform for building AR product experiences. Four Dragons invested $125,000 on Dragons' Den in 2018.

Glia is a digital customer service platform for banks and credit unions, combining messaging, voice, video and AI assistants in one interaction. It acquired Vancouver's Finn AI in June 2022 and kept the Canadian office as a conversational AI centre of excellence.

Globalive Capital is a Toronto-based investment platform and build studio that backs and operates technology companies, led by founder-chairman Anthony Lacavera with Brice Scheschuk as managing partner.

Go Downtown was a Vancouver app that mapped a city in real time: live events plus a foot-traffic heatmap built from its own users' locations. Yaron Bazaz co-founded it and opened a public Metro Vancouver pilot in December 2016. He later ran Downtown.AI, a movement-analytics company whose domain is now for sale.

Gobble is a San Francisco meal-kit company founded in 2010 by Ooshma Garg, built around dinners that cook in one pan in about 15 minutes. It went through Y Combinator's W14 batch and reached profitability in 2019. Intelligent Foods acquired it in December 2022 and now runs it alongside Sun Basket.

GoBolt is a Toronto logistics company that runs warehousing and last-mile delivery for retailers on its own technology and an increasingly electric fleet. Mark Ang and Heindrik Bernabe started it in 2017 as Second Closet, a pickup-and-delivery storage service, and rebuilt it as a logistics provider after third-party couriers kept failing them.

Golden Ventures is a Toronto seed fund founded by Matt Golden in 2011. It has backed more than 100 North American software companies — ApplyBoard, Faire, Float, Neo Financial, Shakepay, Waabi, Xanadu — and closed nearly $140 million CAD for its fifth fund in 2024.

Goldmoney is a Toronto precious-metals savings and payments company listed on the TSX as XAU. It began as BitGold, founded in 2014 by Roy Sebag and Josh Crumb, which went public in 2015, acquired the original Goldmoney business that year and took its name in 2016.

Good Future is the Toronto family office Arati Sharma and Satish Kanwar run after a decade each at Shopify. It holds a micro venture fund, a philanthropic foundation and majority-owned businesses — among them BetaKit, the Canadian tech publication it took control of in 2023.

Gordie turns one recorded conversation into publishable content. An AI interviewer asks a short set of questions, human editors cut the answer into video clips, a podcast episode and an article, and the transcript is published so search engines and AI assistants can find and cite the speaker. Plans start at $19 a month.

Gotcare is a Toronto home-care provider that matches Canadians with personal support workers and nurses through its own matching platform, then puts those workers on payroll at a living wage — $23 an hour and up (2022 rate), plus benefits — betting that better-paid caregivers are the fix for Canada's home-care shortage.

GovAI builds government-specific generative AI for Canadian businesses. Its aim is to replace the Google-and-word-of-mouth search for permits, regulatory requirements and funding programs with one authoritative place to ask — for the small and medium businesses that have no compliance department.

Greenspace Health builds the software that puts measurement-based care into behavioural health practice, tracking patient-reported outcomes so clinicians can see whether treatment is working. Jeremy Weisz co-founded it in Toronto in 2015; ABS Capital led a Series B in March 2025.

Ground News is a Kitchener news-comparison platform that shows how the same story is covered across the political spectrum, rating each outlet for bias, factuality and ownership. Siblings Harleen Kaur and Sukh Singh founded it in 2017; it processes nearly 60,000 articles a day from more than 50,000 sources.

Groupdesk is a Toronto company selling white-label software for group travel — the registrations, payments and communications behind a tour, a corporate trip or a wedding block, which most operators still ran on spreadsheets and email.

Grow was a Vancouver fintech that started in 2014 as the online lender Grouplend and became a white-label digital account-opening and lending platform for banks and credit unions. Founded by Kevin Sandhu and Daniel Cowx, it was acquired by Alberta's ATB Financial in 2019.

GrowWise Health was a Canadian medical cannabis clinic and patient education service, run by nurses who built individual treatment plans for patients using cannabis. It became a subsidiary of Emblem Corp, and passed to Aleafia Health when Aleafia acquired Emblem in an all-share deal valued at $173.2 million announced in December 2018.

GTM Partners is the go-to-market analyst and advisory firm Sangram Vajre co-founded and runs after building Terminus. It sells the GTM Operating System, an eight-pillar framework for aligning an executive team on go-to-market, through training, assessments and a network of certified partners.

Guideline is a media intelligence and planning platform: advertising spend data, pricing benchmarks and media plan management for the buyers, sellers and investors in the global media market. Vince Mifsud, a Toronto software executive, became chief executive in December 2024, succeeding co-founder Scott Knoll.

Guiker is a Montreal-founded real estate platform that began by housing international students and now runs a cross-border rental network alongside fractional property investing. Nan Hao founded it in 2015 after leaving Sonder, bootstrapped it for roughly four years, and has since acquired Willow.ca and SplitSpot.

GuruLink is a Toronto technology recruiting firm co-founded and led by Drew Lindsay. It places engineers, product and go-to-market people with startups and larger brands, and now describes itself as an AI-assisted recruiter — "The Agentic People Company" — rather than a conventional search agency.

H+ Technology is a Vancouver company behind Holus, a tabletop holographic display that turns a device screen into a shared 3D projection. Founded in 2012 by Dhruv Adhia, Vincent Yang and Yamin Li, it drew attention with a Kickstarter campaign that hit its goal in minutes.

HALO Telemonitoring is a Toronto healthtech company whose human-attended live observation system lets hospital staff watch at-risk patients remotely instead of stationing a sitter in the room. Invented by UHN nurse practitioner Marijana Zubrinic in 2015, it now runs in 31 healthcare facilities across three Canadian provinces.

Halp is a Toronto company founded in 2019 by Matthew McLellan, Marc Fielding and Justin Mills. It coached international students through study-abroad admissions and raised a $5.5M CAD seed in October 2022. It has since pivoted: halp.co now sells an AI report-drafting assistant for building engineers.

Handy was an on-demand home services marketplace — book a vetted cleaner, plumber or handyman at a fixed price — founded in 2012 in the Boston area by two Harvard Business School dropouts. ANGI Homeservices acquired it in October 2018 for about US$165.5M, and it now operates within Angi.

Happy Belly Food Group is a Toronto consolidator of emerging Canadian food brands, listed as CSE:HBFG. It acquires quick-service restaurant and packaged-goods brands and grows them by franchising, reaching 87 operating restaurants and $19.3M of system-wide QSR sales in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.

Happy Pops is a Toronto frozen-treat brand making all-natural ice pops from real fruit in small batches. Leila Keshavjee founded it in 2016 out of university and bootstrapped it from a single farmers-market stall to more than 2,000 Canadian grocery stores.

Hardpops is an alcoholic ice-pop brand — boozy freezies with minimal ingredients — co-founded in Vancouver by Sheereen Price and Gabrielle Mustapich under their company Pilothouse Brands. British Columbia's liquor rules made the product unsellable at home, so they raised a pre-seed round and moved the business to the United States.

Harvest is a Toronto accounts-receivable platform for Canadian small and mid-sized businesses. It plugs into QuickBooks Online and Xero, chases overdue invoices on a set cadence with AI-drafted follow-ups a human approves, and escalates to demand letters when a customer goes quiet.

Hatebase was a Toronto-built repository of multilingual hate speech, used by NGOs and platforms to spot early warning signs of violence. Launched in 2013 with the Sentinel Project, it was retired in 2022 and succeeded by The Weaponized Word.

Havas Canada is the Canadian arm of Havas, the French communications group founded in 1835. It runs an integrated Village in Toronto putting creative, media, digital, health and customer experience under one roof and one P&L. Fil Lourenco, then its VP of digital, spoke at TechTO MarketingTO in April 2019.

Haventree Bank is a Toronto Schedule I bank that lends to borrowers the big banks turn down — self-employed, newcomers and people with bruised credit — and funds itself with GICs. It took its banking licence in 2018 and launched direct-to-consumer chequing and savings in July 2026.

Heali Medical is a Greater-Toronto wellness company that makes the first kinesiology tape infused with natural menthol and magnesium, combining athletic support taping with built-in pain relief and recovery in a single product sold through retail and e-commerce.

Healthcare Human Factors is a design and human-factors consultancy embedded inside University Health Network at Toronto General Hospital. It researches, designs and usability-tests health products and services, including regulatory work for medical device makers, and runs simulation labs a couple of floors above the emergency department.

HealthCasa is a Toronto company that books registered practitioners into a patient's home, office or hospital room instead of a clinic, covering massage therapy, physiotherapy, chiropody, occupational therapy and more across Ontario. Co-founder and CEO Dr. Karen Klein spoke about building it at TechTO in April 2024.

Healthkind is a Toronto health-tech company founded in 2023 by Katie Herbert and Matt Zukowski. Its AI platform consolidates the messages clinics and care teams send patients, automating the administrative half and personalising the rest. BDC Capital's Thrive Lab led its C$1.26M seed.

Healthy Pets was a Toronto veterinary telemedicine service, described as Canada's first app of its kind, connecting pet owners to licensed vets by video. Emma Harris founded it in 2016 and raised $500,000 from Arlene Dickinson's District Ventures Capital after pitching on Dragons' Den.

Healy Consulting & Advisory is Mark Healy's strategy practice, working alongside CEOs, boards and senior leadership teams on the choices that drive revenue growth, market position and profitability. It sells long-term partnership rather than episodic consulting, and works mostly with Canadian-headquartered industrial multinationals in the $100M to $1B revenue range.

Heartbeat Ai is a Toronto company whose software reads unstructured text — open-ended survey answers, product reviews, customer and employee feedback — and sorts the emotions in it into more than 70 clusters. Lana Novikova founded it in 2015 and runs it as CEO.

Helcim is a Calgary payments company that processes card payments for small and medium businesses in Canada and the US on its own technology stack. Nicolas Beique bootstrapped it from 2008 as a reseller of merchant services, then spent three years building the processor itself before raising outside capital.

HelloFresh Canada is the Canadian operation of the Berlin meal-kit company HelloFresh, delivering pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to households. Founded in 2016 by Ian Brooks, who still leads it, it runs a just-in-time supply chain aimed at cutting food waste.

HelloGbye was a Toronto travel-booking app that let you type or speak a whole trip — several travellers, cities and hotels — and returned complete itinerary options in seconds instead of forms. It launched on iOS in March 2017 as a brand of Amgine Technologies and stopped operating around 2020.

Hepzibah is a Canadian chip-design startup building at-memory AI compute. Rather than making chips, it licenses IP and core designs that chipmakers drop into their own systems-on-chip — the architecture four Untether AI veterans, including co-founder and board chair Raymond Chik, carried forward after that company wound down.

HeroTask was a Canadian task-management platform for healthcare and retail teams, built to be HIPAA and PIPEDA compliant and co-founded by Spencer Turbitt alongside his pharmacy software company iApotheca Healthcare. Its site no longer resolves and the product appears to have closed.

HeyBryan Media was a Vancouver company behind HeyBryan, an app that matched homeowners with screened home-service experts, backed by HGTV's Bryan Baeumler. Lance Montgomery started it in 2017; it launched in November 2018, listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange in October 2019, and was renamed Fasttask Technologies in December 2020.

Heyday was a Montreal conversational-AI company founded in 2017. It built chat assistants that retailers ran on their websites, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp to answer questions and sell. Hootsuite acquired it in August 2021 for about $60 million, when it had roughly 70 employees.

HighFi builds capital-markets software for lenders and credit funds. Its platform monitors borrowing bases, concentration limits, delinquencies and covenant triggers in real time, and generates the reporting a lender owes its capital partners — the warehouse-debt back office that fintech lending largely still runs on spreadsheets.

Highline Beta is a Toronto venture studio that co-creates startups with large corporations: it finds the opportunity, recruits founders, puts in pre-seed capital, and spins the company out. Marcus Daniels and Ben Yoskovitz founded it in 2016. It also runs corporate accelerators, including Aviva Canada's Safe & Connected.

Hired was a San Francisco marketplace, founded in 2012, where technology candidates received salary-transparent offers from employers instead of applying to job posts. Vettery, owned by the Adecco Group, acquired it in November 2020; the two brands merged under the Hired name and hired.com now redirects to Adecco's LHH.

Hive Waterloo Region is an independent Waterloo-region not-for-profit that teaches digital literacy and works to widen who gets into tech. It grew out of volunteer work starting in 2012, incorporated in 2016 after the Year of Code campaign, and runs Learn to Code sessions and the HackerGrrlz program in schools.

Hive.co is a Kitchener marketing-automation company that provides email, SMS and CRM tools for concert promoters, festivals, venues and musicians. Founded in 2014 by Ian Roberts and Patrick Hannigan, it went through Y Combinator and began as a ticketing product before pivoting to fan marketing.

HomeStars is Canada's oldest and largest marketplace for home service reviews, connecting homeowners with contractors. Nancy Peterson founded it in Toronto in 2006 after a renovation left her with no way to check a contractor's reputation; HomeAdvisor bought a 90% stake in 2017.

Homewise is a Toronto online mortgage brokerage. A buyer fills in one application and Homewise shops it across more than 30 banks and lenders, showing the lender, the rate and the terms rather than a rate alone. Jesse Abrams and Carlos Medeiros founded it in late 2018; it is free to the borrower.

HONK is the Toronto company behind the app and platform for finding and paying for parking, and the software municipalities, universities and private operators use to run their lots. Founded in 2013 by Michael Back, it ranked 253rd on Deloitte's 2025 Technology Fast 500 for North America.

Hootsuite is a Vancouver social media management platform that lets teams schedule, publish and monitor posts across networks from one dashboard. Ryan Holmes founded it in 2008 out of a digital agency's internal tool; it grew to roughly 2,000 staff and now employs about 1,000 people globally.

Hop In Tech is a Markham company whose software turns existing bus, coach and rideshare fleets into scheduled employee shuttles, connecting manufacturing and distribution employers with workers public transit does not reach. Erich Ko, Boyd Reid and Erwin Komguem founded it in 2018.

Hopper is a Montreal travel app that predicts when flight and hotel prices will move and sells fintech add-ons — price freeze, cancel for any reason — alongside the booking. Founded in 2007 by two former Expedia executives, it now also licenses its booking and fintech stack to partners through its HTS division.

Hoppier sends employees virtual gift cards with rules attached — a lunch allowance that only works at restaurants, a learning budget, a charity donation. It started in Ottawa in late 2016 as Desk Nibbles, a workplace snack delivery service, and rebuilt itself for remote teams when offices emptied in 2020.

Horizn was a Toronto fintech whose digital-adoption platform used interactive product demos and in-app guidance to help banks' employees and customers learn new digital features. Founder Janice Diner ran it as a bootstrapped, profitable business that took no venture capital, until Inbenta acquired it in 2023.

Hostaway is a Toronto company whose software runs short-term and vacation rental operations — listing distribution, guest messaging, pricing and payments in one system. Marcus Räder co-founded it in 2015 and bootstrapped it for years; it has since raised $175 million and then $365 million USD.

Houndr was a Toronto app that let dog owners find walkers and sitters among their own neighbours rather than through a professional service. Amy Bath and Mike Onorati founded it after struggling to arrange care for their own dog; it demoed at TechTO in April 2019.

Hubba was a Toronto B2B marketplace that connected independent retailers with emerging brands. Founded in 2011 by Ben Zifkin, it raised over $60 million from investors including Goldman Sachs and was for years one of Toronto's best-known startups. It ran out of money and shut down on February 1, 2021.

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.

Huge is a digital experience agency founded in 1999 in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighbourhood. It builds digital products and experiences for clients including Google, McDonald's and Nike. Interpublic Group sold it to private equity firm AEA Investors in December 2024, which combined it with Hero Digital.

Humi put HR, payroll and benefits in one platform for Canadian small and mid-sized businesses. Kevin Kliman and Matt Loszak started it in Toronto in 2016, went through Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch, and sold to Australia's Employment Hero in January 2025 for a reported $155M CAD. The product now runs as Employment Hero Canada.

hungerhub is a Toronto corporate catering platform that connects offices to local restaurants for daily meal programs. Sari Abdo and Faisal Kanji founded it in 2018; it serves more than 500 offices in over ten Canadian cities and was acquired by the US workplace-food company HUNGRY in February 2026.

Huobi was a cryptocurrency exchange founded in China in 2013 by Leon Li. It opened a Toronto office in 2018 under general manager Ross Zhang, withdrew services from Canadian users through December 2021, and rebranded to HTX in September 2023 after a change of ownership linked to Tron founder Justin Sun.

Hustle Fund is a California pre-seed venture firm founded in 2017 by Elizabeth Yin, Eric Bahn and Shiyan Koh. It writes small first cheques, aims to decide after one or two meetings, and invests in the US, Canada and Southeast Asia.

Hyfer Technologies is an Ontario web and mobile development shop founded in 2016 by Heshan Modaragamage and Mohit Kishore. Alongside client work it shipped its own apps, including Asscky, a location-based message board for university campuses that the two founders demoed on the TechTO stage in October 2017.

Hyper built voice AI that screens non-emergency 911 calls so dispatchers can stay on the urgent ones. Started in Whitehorse by Benjamin Sanders and Damian McCabe, it came out of stealth in July 2025 with US$6.3M led by Eniac Ventures, and Motorola Solutions acquired it in April 2026.

Hyperbound is a San Francisco company whose AI roleplay software lets sales reps practise calls against realistic AI buyers, and which analyses real recorded calls to find the behaviour that closes deals. It launched in January 2024 and went through Y Combinator.

Hypercare is a Toronto healthcare communication and coordination platform, described by its founder as 'Slack and PagerDuty for healthcare,' that replaces pagers, fax and consumer texting with secure real-time messaging, on-call scheduling and clinical task hand-offs. Co-founded by Albert Tai, it runs in 60+ healthcare organizations, including SickKids.

Hyperwallet was a Vancouver payments company founded in 2000 by Lisa Shields. Its platform let marketplaces, e-commerce businesses and on-demand platforms pay out to recipients almost anywhere in the world. PayPal acquired it for approximately $400 million USD, completing the deal in November 2018 — one of the largest Canadian tech exits of that year.

iApotheca Healthcare is a Peterborough, Ontario software company for pharmacies. Founded in 2014 by Spencer Turbitt, Rachelle Smerhy and David Hallin, it builds narcotics reconciliation and courier-delivery software used by more than a thousand pharmacies across Canada and the United States.

IcebergIQ runs win, loss and churn interviews for B2B software companies — talking to a customer's buyers and ex-customers directly, then feeding back why deals were won, lost or not renewed. Natasha Narayan, Julie Payne and Kristine Culp founded it, building on the research practice Eigenworks ran from 2008 to 2019.

iComply Investor Services is a Vancouver company that sells compliance infrastructure for digital finance — identity verification, know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering checks that platforms plug in rather than build. Founder and CEO Matthew Unger positions it as base-layer tooling, not an end-to-end platform.

ICON Talent Partners is a Canadian non-profit that prepares high-potential Black, Indigenous and racialized talent for careers in consulting, investment banking, asset management, corporate law and tech, then introduces them to employers hiring in those fields. It was founded by Derrick and Marilyn Raphael and is based in the Greater Toronto Area.

Ideal was a Toronto talent intelligence company whose AI screened and matched candidates inside existing HR systems and surfaced diversity and inclusion data. Somen Mondal and Shaun Ricci founded it and sold it to Ceridian — now Dayforce — in 2021, their second exit together.

Ideogram is a Toronto-founded generative AI company whose text-to-image models are known for rendering readable typography inside generated images. Four researchers who worked on Google's Imagen model started it in 2022. It raised a US$16.5-million seed in 2023 and an US$80-million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in early 2024.

iHeart, built by Canadian company VitalSines International, is a fingertip clip and app that derives aortic pulse-wave velocity from the pulse wave and reports it as an "internal age." Co-founder Dr. Jess Goodman presented the science behind it at TechTO's HealthTO in January 2017.

Ikkuma is a Toronto wellness company founded by Gary LeBlanc, taking its name from the Inuit word for fire. It has run in two directions — IkkumaLife, a cloud workplace-wellness platform built on gamification and cognitive behavioural science, and a line of functional beverages including the cannabis-free wellness drink Zero dB.

illumin, formerly AcuityAds, is a Toronto advertising technology company whose platform lets marketers plan and buy a customer journey across channels rather than isolated ad placements. It is publicly listed and renamed itself after its flagship product.

ImagineCreate AI is a generative-AI platform for e-commerce product and fashion photography and virtual try-on, letting brands create studio-quality imagery without a physical shoot. It was founded in 2023 by Fatima Yusuf and launched its product in 2024.

Impression Ventures is a Toronto venture capital firm that leads seed rounds in fintech across North America. Christian Lassonde launched it in 2013 and its first investment was Wealthsimple's seed round. It typically writes $2 million into rounds of $3 million or more, takes a board seat, and says yes to two or three companies a year.

Index Exchange is a Toronto-founded advertising exchange where publishers and media owners sell ad impressions programmatically in real time. Founded in 2003 as Casale Media and renamed in 2015, it helped pioneer header bidding. Drew Bradstock, its SVP of product, spoke at TechTO's MarketingTO in October 2018.

Indiegogo is one of the first crowdfunding platforms, launched in 2008 by Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell. It began with filmmakers, became the main venue for hardware pre-orders, and has channelled more than US$2 billion to over 800,000 campaigns worldwide.

Indigo Books & Music is Canada's largest book retailer, founded in Toronto in 1996 by Heather Reisman. It runs Indigo, Chapters and Coles stores alongside indigo.ca, and over the 2010s pushed a digital transformation and a move into home, wellness and lifestyle goods alongside books.

Indochino is a Vancouver made-to-measure menswear company founded in 2007 by Kyle Vucko and Heikal Gani. It started online-only, selling custom suits at a fraction of tailoring prices with no inventory, then added showrooms where customers are measured in person.

Inference Labs builds infrastructure for verifying AI on a blockchain — a proof-of-inference protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to check an AI model's output really came from the model it claims. Colin Gagich and Ron Chan founded it in Hamilton, Ontario in 2023.

Influitive is a Toronto software company that created the advocate-marketing category: tools for B2B companies to mobilize their happiest customers into references, reviews and referrals. Mark Organ founded it in 2010 after being the founding CEO of Eloqua, and is now its chairman.

Information Venture Partners is a Toronto venture firm backing B2B fintech and enterprise software companies across North America. Spun out of Royal Bank of Canada in 2014 by Robert Antoniades and David Unsworth, it backed Verafin, eSentire and BigID, and since 2024 has invested deal by deal rather than from a new fund.

Ingle International is a Toronto travel and health insurance business serving visitors to Canada, students, snowbirds and expatriates. The Ingle family started it in Guelph in 1946 as John Ingle Insurance; Robin Ingle, the founders' son, rebuilt it under the Ingle International name in 2003 after the family sold its earlier business.

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture firm founded in 2012 by Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian and Harjeet Taggar, known for writing first cheques into Coinbase, Patreon and Instacart. Partner Andrew Lee brought Toronto's Taplytics to the TechTO stage in April 2021.

Inkblot Therapy is a Canadian online counselling service that matches clients to therapists by need and preference and delivers sessions by video. Luke Vigeant and Arash Zohoor founded it in 2015; GreenShield acquired it in 2021 and it now operates inside GreenShield Health.

inkbox makes semi-permanent tattoos that last one to two weeks using a plant-based ink. Brothers Tyler and Braden Handley founded it in Toronto in 2015; BIC acquired it for $65M upfront in January 2022, then moved to wind the brand down in 2025.

Innovobot Resonance Ventures is the seed-stage deep-tech fund inside Innovobot, a Montreal innovation platform founded in 2018. Relaunched under managing partner Neha Khera, it backs companies whose science addresses social, industrial and environmental problems, and plans 25 to 30 investments over three years.

Inovia Capital is a Canadian venture firm co-founded in Montreal in 2007 by Chris Arsenault. It runs multiple strategies rather than a single fund — pre-seed, a fund-of-funds backing emerging managers, a venture fund and a growth fund — and has backed Lightspeed, AppDirect, Super.com and Poka.

InputHealth was a Vancouver company that built the first Canadian cloud-based Collaborative Health Record — an electronic medical record designed around the patient contributing to it, not just the clinic. Damon Ramsey and Shawn Jung founded it in 2011; TELUS Health acquired it in 2020.

Insight Medbotics is a Hamilton, Ontario medical device company building robots that work inside an MRI scanner. Its IGAR system is the first FDA-cleared MRI-compatible robot, clinically demonstrated in breast biopsies, and the company is extending the same approach to prostate cancer care.

Instacart is a US grocery delivery and pickup marketplace, legally Maplebear Inc. Apoorva Mehta, Max Mullen and Brandon Leonardo founded it in San Francisco in 2012 and went through Y Combinator; it listed on Nasdaq under CART in September 2023.

Instructure is the Salt Lake City company behind Canvas, the learning management system used by more than 200 million learners in over 100 countries. Founded in 2008 by two BYU graduate students, it has been taken private twice — by Thoma Bravo in 2020 and by KKR and Dragoneer in 2024 at a $4.8 billion enterprise value.

integrate.ai is a Toronto company whose platform runs machine learning and analytics across data that cannot be pooled — for privacy, confidentiality or plain technical reasons — using federated learning and differential privacy. Steve Irvine founded it in 2017 after running global partnerships at Facebook.

Intelex is a Toronto company that builds environment, health, safety and quality management software for large industrial employers. Founded in 1992, it was bootstrapped to roughly $100 million in revenue under Mark Jaine and sold to Industrial Scientific in 2019 for US$570 million.

Intent HQ is a London customer-analytics company whose AI builds behavioural profiles from a company's own data, without needing third-party tracking. It says it manages more than 300 million customer profiles and holds 49 patents. Its VP of sales spoke at TechTO in July 2024.

Interac is the Canadian payments network behind Interac Debit and Interac e-Transfer. Five banks founded it as a shared cash-machine network in 1984; today it connects more than 300 financial institutions and says 18.6 million transactions run on its products every day. It is headquartered in Toronto.

InteraXon is a Toronto neurotechnology company that makes Muse, a brain-sensing EEG headband. Muse reads the wearer's brainwaves in real time and translates them into audio feedback, guiding meditation, focus and sleep by signalling when the mind is calm or distracted.

Intercap is a Toronto merchant bank that describes itself as an innovative merchant bank helping build companies for the long term. It invests across five units — equity, income, real estate, financial and impact — with the equity book split between Canada, the United States and international, technology and consumer.

Intrepid Travel is the world's largest adventure travel company, running small-group trips on all seven continents. Founded in Melbourne in 1989 by Darrell Wade and Geoff Manchester, it carries 250,000+ travellers a year across 900+ trips and has been a certified B Corporation since 2018.

Invisibly is the St. Louis company Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square, started in 2016 to let people earn from their own data instead of handing it over for free. It now presents itself as a full-service media team — paid search, social and programmatic, plus AI creative and research — running more than $25M of media a year.

Isobar was a global digital agency network formed in 2003 and owned by Dentsu. In June 2022 Dentsu retired the brand, folding Isobar, 360i and DentsuMB into a single creative network called Dentsu Creative. Its brand experience lead spoke at TechTO's marketing event in February 2020.

IT Glue is a Vancouver company whose software documents the passwords, configurations and processes that managed service providers need on hand. Chris Day founded it in 2013; Kaseya acquired it in December 2018 and runs it as a standalone unit still headquartered in Vancouver.

Ivey Executive Education, formerly The Ivey Academy, is the non-degree executive development arm of the Ivey Business School at Western University. It runs open-enrolment and custom corporate programs from London, Toronto and Hong Kong, and says it has ranked first in Canada in eighteen of the past twenty Financial Times rankings.

ivvi is a Toronto influencer-strategy firm founded by Taylor Klick, also operating as Influence For Impact. The name stands for Influencer & Viral Video Insights. It plans and measures creator campaigns for brands including Samsung, Adidas and Universal Pictures.

JAM CRM is a Toronto relationship-marketing agency that makes brands' existing CRM platforms actually work — journey mapping, platform builds and proprietary tools across Salesforce, Adobe and Braze. It has 165 staff across Canada and the US, rebranded from JAM Direct in 2026, and hired Andrea Cook as North American CEO.

Jane Software makes Jane, the practice-management and booking software used by allied-health clinics — physiotherapy, chiropractic, massage, counselling. Alison Taylor and Trevor Johnston founded it in North Vancouver and bootstrapped it past $100M in annual recurring revenue.

JAUNTIN' is a Toronto insurtech that gives insurance companies a white-label platform for on-demand and micro-insurance. Its software lets an insurer sell travel cover by the hour or the day, switched on and off from a phone, and embed that cover inside other companies' apps.

Jeeves is a global corporate spend and expense-management fintech, founded in 2020 by Dileep Thazhmon and Sherwin Gandhi through Y Combinator (S20). It offers corporate cards, cross-border payments and expense software for companies operating across multiple countries, and grew into a unicorn.

Jet Cooper was a Toronto design and user-experience agency founded in May 2009 by Satish Kanwar and colleagues. Shopify acquired it on 1 August 2013, and its team of more than 25 designers and developers became the core of Shopify's Toronto office.

JF Dupuis Transformation Partners is Francis Dupuis's Vancouver practice for turning underperforming software organisations into ones that ship. It works with established mid-size tech firms of 25 to 500 people, and its stated thesis is that AI is the new leverage but the bottleneck is the old operating model.

Ji was an emoji-based social-scheduling app for planning dates and managing a busy social calendar. Users blocked out slots tagged with emoji, shared proposed dates with several people and confirmed the best match — a calendar-first alternative to swipe-based dating apps.

Jiffy is a Toronto app that books pre-vetted trades — plumbers, electricians, appliance techs, handymen — for small same-day home jobs at a price set up front, with no quotes to chase. Founded in April 2015 by Paul Arlin, Ryan Shupak and Jaimie Grossman, it was acquired by Intact Financial in November 2024.

JLABS @ Toronto is Johnson & Johnson Innovation's life-sciences and healthcare incubator, opened in 2016 on the 13th floor of the MaRS West Tower in Toronto — J&J's first JLABS site outside the United States. It offers lab and office space, equipment, programming and investor access on a no-strings-attached basis.

Johnson & Johnson is a New York-listed healthcare company founded in 1886 and headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It runs two businesses, Innovative Medicine and MedTech, and reported worldwide sales of US$94.2B for 2025, up 6.0%. Its retail innovation manager Geeta Chopra spoke at TechTO RetailTO in April 2019.

JointCraft is a licensed cannabis contract manufacturer in Vaughan, Ontario that makes pre-rolls, infused pre-rolls, vapes, gummies and packaged flower for other brands. Founded in 2021 as PINNRZ by Ample Organics founder John Prentice, it runs the former CannTrust site and says it hand-crafts 3–5 million joints a month.

Joist is estimating, invoicing and payment software for trade contractors, letting them create estimates and invoices and get paid from the field. Founded in Winnipeg and built out in Toronto, it grew to over 100,000 active contractor businesses and was acquired by EverCommerce in 2020.

Jordan Tourism Board North America was the North American office of Jordan's national tourism board, marketing the country to travellers and the travel trade in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Malia Asfour directed it for about three decades until it closed on 30 November 2025. She joined a TechTO conversation in May 2020.

Jouleia builds quoting and financing tools for home electrification. Its free heat-pump quote tool puts energy savings, rebates and financing estimates into the number a contractor hands a homeowner — on the argument that affordability, not conviction, is what stops most low-carbon home upgrades.

JUICE Mobile was a Toronto mobile-advertising technology company running programmatic and direct ad buying for national brands, with US offices in Chicago and Los Angeles. Yellow Pages bought it for C$35M in 2016 and folded it into Mediative; after Yellow Pages liquidated Mediative in 2018, JUICE's assets were sold to Curate Mobile, effective January 2019.

Jump Point builds AI teammates for insurance brokers and agencies — an agentic layer that reads the email, documents and legacy systems a brokerage already runs, fronted by an assistant it calls Ellie. Jerry Chien co-founded the Ontario company, which raised a $250,000 pre-seed in March 2024 and won InsurTech NY's 2025 startup competition.

June Health is a Toronto virtual clinic sold as an employee benefit, built for perimenopause and midlife women's health and since widened to fertility, mental health, weight management, PCOS and endometriosis. Lori Casselman founded it in 2025 and raised a $2.4 million pre-seed led by Securian Canada.

Kabuni was a Vancouver interior-design marketplace that let designers place 3D furniture holographically in a room before anyone bought it. In June 2016 it opened a West Pender Street studio built around a 480-square-foot virtual-reality 'Dream Room'. Founder Neil Patel took the TechVancouver stage that November; the business did not survive 2017.

Kafene is a New York fintech, founded in 2019 by Neal Desai, that lets retailers offer lease-to-own financing at the point of sale to customers who don't qualify for prime credit. It works with more than 1,000 US retailers in furniture, appliances, electronics and tires, and raised an $18-million Series B led by Third Prime.

Kahoots was a Toronto skills-matching and team-building platform that connected non-technical founders and students with the developers and designers they needed.

Kartera is a payments company that moves money directly between US bank accounts in real time, charging merchants 1% instead of card-network rates. Founded by Nabi Awada in Vancouver, it rewards debit users to pull them off cards and started life as a banking-as-a-service product before pivoting.

Keela built donor management and fundraising software for nonprofits from Vancouver. Founded in 2013 by Nejeed Kassam and Hussain Karbalai, it served more than 1,000 nonprofits and is credited with over $2B CAD raised for causes before Aplos acquired it in June 2024.

Kenvue is the world's largest pure-play consumer health company by revenue, home to Tylenol, Neutrogena, Listerine, Aveeno, Band-Aid and Johnson's. Headquartered in Summit, New Jersey and listed as KVUE, it says its brands reach more than a billion people and rest on 140 years of heritage.

Kepler Communications is a Toronto satellite company, founded in 2015, building an in-space data relay network — optical links between satellites so a spacecraft can send data down without waiting for a ground pass. It raised a US$92 million Series C in April 2023.

Kero is the infrastructure behind live, in-game micro-betting: continuous pricing, automated trading and risk management that generate curated micro-bets every 15 to 45 seconds. Founded in Miami in 2020 by Tomash Devenishek, it powers more than 180 sportsbooks, teams and broadcasters, and raised $3M led by SIG Sports in 2025.

Keyhole was a Toronto social listening and analytics platform, tracking brand mentions, hashtags, keywords and influencers across Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook. Saif Ajani co-founded it in 2009, raised one seed round of about $365,000, bought those investors out and ran on customer revenue until Muck Rack acquired it in 2024.

KFC Canada is the Canadian arm of the fried-chicken chain, known as PFK in Quebec and owned by Yum! Brands. Its first Canadian restaurant opened on 8th Street in Saskatoon in 1955, with Colonel Sanders present. Its then-CTO, Nastaran Bisheban, spoke at TechTO in March 2024.

Kids Help Phone is a Canadian charity founded on 16 May 1989, offering free, confidential counselling and crisis support to young people across the country. It started as a national phone line and now runs text, live chat, peer forums and a service directory alongside it.

Kids Wireless made KidsWifi, a plug-in box that gave children a filtered Wi-Fi network at home without configuring anything. Founded by Waterloo's Kris Braun, it sold through retail and internationally before the shareholders wound the company down on 1 December 2020.

KidsWifi was a plug-in appliance that gave families filtered, reliable internet access for their children — set up in about two minutes, no configuration. Founder Kris Braun built it in Waterloo by buying 5,000 existing routers and flashing his own software onto them rather than making hardware.

Kiite was a Waterloo sales-enablement startup founded in 2017 by Joseph Fung. Its software surfaced the right sales content and answers to reps inside their workflow, tackling the time they lost hunting for information. In 2020 Kiite pivoted and rebranded as Uvaro, a tech-sales career accelerator.

Kik is a messaging app started by University of Waterloo students in 2009 under Ted Livingston. Kik Interactive raised close to US$100M selling its Kin cryptocurrency in 2017, fought the SEC over it, and sold the messenger to MediaLab in October 2019.

Kindred was a Vancouver robotics company that used deep reinforcement learning to teach robots to pick individual items in warehouses. Founded in 2014 by Suzanne Gildert, who recruited D-Wave's Geordie Rose as CEO, it sold its SORT system to retailers including Gap and American Eagle before Ocado acquired it in 2020 for US$262M.

Kinzoo is a Vancouver kid-tech company making a messenger app for children under 13, built so kids can talk to family and friends without ads, strangers or data harvesting. Founded in 2018 by Sean Herman, it also makes Kinzoo Together, a video-call app for playing and reading with young children.

KitchenMate is a Toronto workplace-food company founded by Yang Yu that delivers sealed, refrigerated meal-pods to offices and heats them in a connected smart cooker, so staff can make a fresh meal without a kitchen or a caterer.

Klasses.co was a Vancouver marketplace for booking in-person classes — an Airbnb for classes, in its founder's words — where anyone could post a class and anyone could search, register and pay for it, with every class held offline.

Klue is a Vancouver company that builds competitive enablement software. It gathers competitor intel from news and competitor web page changes, plus input from internal teams via Slack, Salesforce, and Highspot, then distributes it to sales and marketing. Founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker, it has raised over US$81 million.

Knix is a Toronto women's intimates brand making leakproof underwear and bras, founded in 2013 by Joanna Griffiths and sold direct-to-consumer. Sweden's Essity bought 80% of it for US$320M in 2022 and acquired the founder's remaining stake in 2026, making Knix a wholly owned Essity brand.

Kognitiv Spark is a Fredericton company whose RemoteSpark software puts a remote expert, documents and 3D models inside a mixed-reality headset, so an industrial or defence technician can be talked through a repair hands-free over low bandwidth.

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.

Koru is a Toronto venture studio funded by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Rather than invest in startups, it builds new businesses with Teachers' portfolio companies — identifying and validating concepts in-house, then standing them up as ventures such as FYLD and Fig Financial.

Kotn is a Toronto-based ethical apparel and home brand making Egyptian-cotton basics. It works directly with cotton farmers in Egypt's Nile Delta, operates as a Certified B Corporation, and directs proceeds toward building schools in its farming communities. It sells online and through its own retail stores across Canada.

KPMG in Canada is the Canadian member firm of the KPMG network, providing audit, tax and advisory services. It says it has more than 10,000 people in over 40 locations across the country and has been Canadian owned and operated for over 150 years. Partner Lydia Lee spoke at TechTO HealthTO in April 2019.

Krista Norris Collection is a Canadian accessories label built around scarves, made in Canada from locally sourced deadstock fabric and jacquards woven in Lyon, France. Krista Norris started it around 2012 and sells wholesale and direct.

Labour, styled LABOUR, is a Toronto creative and PR agency founded in 2012 as CO-OP Advertising. It built its reputation on a small core team drawing on a deep freelance network, took that model to a Growth 500 ranking, and rebranded in October 2021 after hiring in-house and expanding into Quebec.

Lane was a Toronto workplace-experience platform that gave office tenants one app for building services, amenities and community. Co-founded in 2014 by Clinton Robinson and Kofi Gyekye, it reached 300M+ square feet before VTS acquired it in October 2021 for a reported US$200 million.

Later is a social-media scheduling and marketing platform, best known for Instagram, that began as a Vancouver hackathon project called Latergramme and rebranded in 2016. It reached about US$40M in annual revenue on roughly US$1.5M raised before Mavrck acquired it in 2022.

LAUFT is a Toronto company that rents professional workspace by the hour through an app instead of by the lease — desks, offices, work rooms and boardrooms, contract-free, unlocked from a phone. Graham Wong founded it in 2017 and opened the first site at Upper Canada Mall in Newmarket in December 2018.

Launch Academy is a Vancouver startup incubator and community hub for early-stage technology founders, offering mentorship, workspace and programming. Hussein Hallak served as its general manager, and it has supported hundreds of founders across British Columbia.

LawZero is a Montréal non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to build safe-by-design AI. Launched on 3 June 2025 with about US$30 million in philanthropic funding, its first line of work is Scientist AI — a non-agentic model meant to watch over agentic ones.

Lazer Technologies is a Toronto product studio that builds software for other companies — AI systems, commerce and crypto products — staffed by engineers and designers from Instagram, Shopify, Uber and Coinbase. It says it has worked with more than 400 companies.

LeadSimple is a CRM and workflow platform built only for residential property managers. It started in 2013 as a lead-generation company, found that property managers were slow to follow up on leads, and turned that into software for the follow-up, phone, inbox and day-to-day operations of a management firm.

League is a Toronto health platform that replaces the traditional employer benefits plan with a digital account employees spend on the health services they choose. Founded in 2014 by Mike Serbinis after he sold Kobo, it says it supports 63 million-plus members and has raised $285 million.

Learners is the community behind UXRConf and Research Week, running free events and content for user researchers worldwide. It started in 2017 as a Toronto meetup called the UXR Collective, co-founded by Alec Levin and Maggi Mitchell, and says it has drawn 35,000 attendees across 30-plus events in ten cities.

Left was a Maple Ridge, British Columbia technology company that ran a network of consumer travel brands and built RightMesh, a peer-to-peer mobile mesh network. Founded around 2010 by John Lyotier and Chris Jensen, it was a certified B Corp. Left wound down in 2020; Lyotier now runs TravelAI.

Lendful was a Canadian online consumer-lending platform offering on-demand unsecured personal loans and credit, acquired by Peoples Group in 2018.

Lessonly was an Indianapolis company selling employee training and enablement software — onboarding, support and sales coaching. Founded in 2012, it was acquired by Seismic in August 2021 and folded into that platform.

LETT was a Vancouver relocation platform for mid-term accommodation, letting people search, list and rent homes filtered by neighbourhood and lifestyle rather than by listing alone. Founded in 2015 by Vicki Li, who ran it as chief executive and spoke at TechVancouver in 2016.

Level Access is a digital accessibility company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, founded and led by Tim Springer. In 2022 it merged with Toronto's eSSENTIAL Accessibility, combining Level Access's audit and consulting practice with eSSENTIAL's accessibility-as-a-service platform.

level0 turns a written prompt into a playable video game, previewing it as you build. Yakshith Kommineni built it as a summer project and demoed it on the TechTO stage in September 2025, at 16.

LevelJump was a Toronto sales enablement software company, built natively on the Salesforce platform, that tied sales onboarding and training to revenue outcomes. Founder and CEO David Bloom started it in 2014; Salesforce acquired it in 2021 for a reported C$14.3M and folded its enablement and coaching into Sales Cloud.

Levels is a fully remote US metabolic health company founded in 2019 that pairs continuous glucose monitors with its own app, so people without diabetes can see in real time how what they eat affects their blood sugar. It raised a $38-million Series A in 2022 with a16z among its backers.

Leven Systems is an Oakville, Ontario healthtech company founded in 2018 by John Leombruno. It built software to digitize Canada's prescription-approval paperwork — real-time drug-coverage checks and electronic prior-authorization forms — and today also does CRM design and optimization for pharmaceutical and medical-device manufacturers.

Life Lapse is a Vancouver stop-motion app. It gives phone users ghosted frame overlays, timing controls and export presets to shoot product and social videos that would otherwise need a studio. Sarah Boland founded it in 2017.

Lift & Co. was a Toronto cannabis data, media and events company. Tyler Sookochoff started it as a medical-cannabis blog in 2014; it added strain reviews, then Canada's first professional cannabis expo, listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in September 2018 and filed for bankruptcy in 2020.

Lighthouse Labs was Canada's largest coding bootcamp, training web developers, data analysts and cybersecurity workers in 12-week programs. Jeremy Shaki, Khurram Virani and Josh Borts founded it in 2013. Uvaro acquired it in early 2025 and both filed for bankruptcy that August.

Lightspeed Commerce is a Montreal company selling point-of-sale and commerce software to retailers and restaurants worldwide. Dax Dasilva founded it in 2005, stepped down as CEO in 2022 and returned in 2024. Revenue reached $1.23 billion in the fiscal year ended March 2026.

Likely Story is a classroom game for grades 7-9 in which teens answer awkward scenarios about love and sex in anonymous groups. Its content is built on how traffickers use romantic relationships to coerce girls, and it is funded by Public Safety Canada, Women and Gender Equality Canada and Telus.

Lilia was a Y Combinator-backed egg-freezing concierge. It helped women compare clinics, understand insurance and costs, and book retrievals at roughly $9,500 rather than the $15,000 typical of a clinic, and it sold an at-home fertility hormone test. Lilia is no longer operating; Y Combinator lists it as inactive.

Lillio, formerly HiMama, is Toronto software for childcare and early-learning programs: daily updates to parents, centre admin and billing, plus curriculum and training for educators. Ron Spreeuwenberg and Alana Frome founded it in 2013 and it raised a C$70M Series B led by Bain Capital Double Impact in 2021. It took the Lillio name in November 2023.

Limelight Platform is a Toronto experiential-marketing software company. It gives brands one system to run live events and activations — capturing leads, personalizing the on-site experience, and measuring ROI. Jonah Midanik founded it out of an advertising agency and built it into a product company.

Limitless is the San Francisco company behind the $99 Pendant, a wearable that records and transcribes the wearer's conversations into a searchable personal memory. Founded in 2022 by Dan Siroker as Rewind AI, it renamed in 2024 and was acquired by Meta in December 2025.

LipDub AI localizes video into other languages and re-syncs the speaker's lips to the new audio, so dubbed footage no longer looks dubbed. It came out of the Toronto visual-effects studio MARZ, was unveiled in August 2023, and now says it has localized more than 10,000 hours of video.

Lipsi was a Vancouver anonymous-messaging app: users posted a personal link on Instagram and got unsigned replies back, or searched a nearby person by first name and opened a chat without revealing who they were. Founded by Matthew Segal, it reached roughly seven million users in Canada, the US and the UK.

Little Robot Friends makes palm-sized robots with touch, light and sound sensors that children name, give a personality to, and program through a drag-and-drop app. Mark Argo and Ann Poochareon created them at their Toronto studio Aesthetec and funded them on Kickstarter in 2013, incorporating separately in 2016.

LiveCA is a Canadian accounting firm that operates without offices: CPAs Josh Zweig and Chad Davis started it in February 2013 to combine tax work with cloud software, and its remote team serves incorporated and unincorporated businesses across the country on bookkeeping, payroll and tax.

Loblaw Digital is the Toronto team that builds and runs e-commerce for Loblaw — online grocery and PC Express, Shoppers Drug Mart, Joe Fresh, beauty, pharmacy and the PC Optimum loyalty programme. It operates as a separate product organisation inside Canada's largest retailer.

Local Line is a Waterloo-region e-commerce platform for farms, food hubs and farmers' markets, giving them ordering, CRM, inventory and logistics tooling to sell direct to buyers. Cole Jones started it as a student project at Wilfrid Laurier University and is still CEO.

LoginRadius is a customer identity and access management platform — sign-up, login and identity data for consumer-facing brands. Rakesh Soni and Deepak Gupta founded it in 2012, moved the headquarters from Edmonton to Vancouver after a US$17 million round led by Microsoft's M12, and say the platform now handles over a billion identities.

Lokafy pairs travellers with locals — Lokafyers — for private walking tours built around the visitor's interests rather than a fixed route. Kiran Samra founded it in Toronto in 2013.

Long Story Short is a brand and creative agency with offices in Toronto and New York, working either as a client's fractional marketing team or on project work. Founded in 2018 by Alex Gould, it specializes in making complex science, academic, and technology offerings clear — positioning, messaging, branding, video, and web.

Longan Vision is a Hamilton, Ontario company that builds augmented-reality vision systems for first responders. Its Fusion Vision System is a helmet-mounted thermal imaging visor that lets firefighters see through smoke, find victims and locate the seat of a fire. It came out of research at McMaster University and was founded in 2018.

Looka is a Toronto design platform that generates logos and full brand kits from a few answers about a business, using machine learning rather than a designer's hours. Dawson Whitfield launched it as Logojoy in November 2016, raised a $6 million Series A in 2018, and renamed it Looka in April 2019.

Loop Financial is a Toronto fintech giving Canadian businesses cross-border banking: multi-currency accounts in CAD, USD, EUR and GBP, corporate cards without FX fees, international payments and working capital. It launched in 2014 as Lending Loop, Canada's first regulated peer-to-peer small business lender, and pivoted after COVID.

Loopio is a Toronto software company whose platform automates RFP responses, security questionnaires and due-diligence questionnaires for sales teams, centralizing content so they can build proposals faster. Founded in 2014 by Zak Hemraj, Matt York and Jafar Owainati, it serves more than 1,700 companies worldwide, including IBM, FedEx and AT&T.

LoungeBuddy was a San Francisco travel app, founded in 2012, that told travellers which airport lounges they could already get into and let them buy access to the rest. American Express acquired it in 2019 and retired the service in January 2025.

LoungePair sells one-off airport lounge access — walk-up or on-demand, no membership, status or advance booking. The Auckland company's network covers more than 1,400 lounges worldwide, and it also supplies the platform airlines and loyalty programmes use to resell lounge access.

Loverboy is a New York drinks company founded in 2018 by Kyle Cooke, selling zero-sugar sparkling hard teas and canned cocktails. It grew largely on the back of Cooke's visibility on Bravo's Summer House, reaching about US$16M of sales in 2022 and roughly US$38M cumulative by 2023.

Lovevery is a Boise child-development company founded in 2015 by Jessica Rolph and Roderick Morris. It sells stage-based Play Kits — toys and parent guidance built around what a baby's brain is ready to learn — by subscription, and raised a $100-million Series C led by TCG in October 2021.

LowestRates.ca is the Toronto site that compares car insurance, mortgages, credit cards and loans across Canadian providers, free for the consumer and paid for by the lenders it sends leads to. Co-founder Justin Thouin bootstrapped it with $150,000 in 2012 and never raised venture capital. RATESDOTCA acquired it in September 2021.

Lumen5 is Vancouver software that turns written content — blog posts, articles, scripts — into short videos, automating the storyboarding and editing a video team would otherwise do. Michael Cheng, Christopher Bowal and Nigel Gutzmann founded it in 2015.

LumiQ turns interviews with business leaders into accredited continuing professional education for accountants — CPE you listen to like a podcast, with credits tracked automatically. The Toronto company says 150,000+ finance professionals use it across 1,000+ episodes.

Lumo makes smart irrigation valves and control software for farms — a valve that meters and reports exactly how much water reaches each block, plus pump automation and an operations dashboard. Devon Wright co-founded it after over-irrigating his own Northern California orchard and running the well dry.

Lydia AI is a Toronto company founded as Knowtions Research by Christina Cai and Anthony Lee. It built AI health-risk scoring for insurers across Taiwan, Japan and Korea, and now sells ORCA, an operational-intelligence product for legal discovery, logistics and retail.

Lyteflo is a Toronto company selling EV merchandising software to car dealerships — fuel-savings and incentives calculators, EV insights on vehicle listings, and battery health reports its founder calls a Carfax for EV batteries. Ryan Osten and Dominick Rivard founded it in 2024 with Montreal venture studio Diagram.

MadLipz is a Toronto-built mobile app for dubbing your own voice over a movie or TV clip and sharing the result as a short comedy video. Amir Alikhanzadeh, Amirali Afshar and Shahed Doroudi launched it in 2016 after meeting at the University of Toronto.

Magnestar is a Toronto space-tech startup building radio-frequency spectrum-management software for the satellite industry. Its platform helps operators, regulators and defence groups coordinate spectrum and predict signal interference as tens of thousands of satellites compete for finite communication bands.

Magnite is the sell-side advertising platform formed when Rubicon Project and Telaria merged in April 2020 and rebranded that June. It trades on Nasdaq as MGNI, employs 900-plus people across 19 offices, and says it handles 4.7 billion ad impressions a day across connected TV, display and mobile.

Maluuba was a Waterloo Region deep learning company working on natural language understanding — teaching machines to read, reason and answer. Microsoft acquired it in January 2017, with Yoshua Bengio taking an advisory role. It took the TechWaterloo stage a few months before the deal.

Maman Biomedical is a Toronto medtech company building microneedle drug delivery for hormone therapy. Founder and CEO Latchmi Raghunanan started it after her own IVF cycle, and its patches and single-use ports are designed to replace the 20-plus injections a cycle can require.

Maneva is a Toronto AI company that turns the cameras already hanging in a factory into a live read on production, flagging defects, safety hazards and slowdowns as they happen. Rae Jeong, a former Alberta welder who became an engineer, founded it in 2021; it raised a US$27-million Series A in June 2026.

Manifest Climate is a Toronto climate-tech company, founded in 2015 as Mantle314 by Laura Zizzo and Jeremy Greven. Its AI platform helps companies and investors assess, benchmark and communicate climate-related risk and disclosure, replacing manual consulting work. It raised a CAD $30M Series A in 2022 and is now led by CEO Jim MacDonald.

Mantle is a Toronto company building AI-powered equity management software — cap tables, 409A valuations and equity planning — for founders, law firms and limited partners. Founded in 2022 as Ten Key Labs by Amar Varma and former colleagues from Xtreme Labs and Autonomic, it raised $10.5M USD in seed funding and launched publicly in October 2023.

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.

Maple Leaf Angels is a Toronto angel group founded in 2007 that connects accredited investors with early-stage Canadian technology companies. Its MLA48 funds, first launched in 2014, promise an investment decision within 48 hours of a formal pitch.

Maple VC is a San Francisco seed fund that backs Canadian founders wherever they are based. Andre Charoo started it in 2016 with $1.2 million from the founders of Hired, where he worked, and closed a $16.5 million second fund in 2021. Portfolio companies include Clay, Neo Financial and AutoLeap.

Mappedin is a Waterloo-based indoor-mapping and spatial-data platform that lets businesses digitize the inside of buildings and deliver navigation, wayfinding and location analytics for venues like shopping malls, airports, stadiums and offices — bringing outdoor-map ease to complex indoor spaces at scale.

Marble is a Toronto company whose API retrieves a person's medical records from hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and labs once they consent, and hands them back as structured FHIR data. James Bateman and Derrick Chow founded it at the University of Toronto as Medchart and renamed it Marble in 2022; Medchart continues as its records-retrieval brand.

Marine Learning Systems builds training and competency software for the maritime industry — cruise lines, ferry operators, coast guards and navies. Murray Goldberg founded it in Vancouver in 2010 with BC Ferries as its first customer, and sold it to Bleecker Street Group in 2023.

MarketBox is scheduling and route-optimization software for businesses with mobile and field workers. Diana Goodwin built it in 2019 out of the systems she wrote for her at-home swim-lesson marketplace AquaMobile, and now sells it to franchises, enterprises and vertical software platforms.

Marketing Spark is Mark Evans's Toronto fractional-CMO practice. It rebuilds positioning, messaging, website and content strategy for founder-led B2B companies — the ones between roughly $5M and $20M whose referrals have run out and whose story no longer matches the business.

Marvenn is an AI outbound platform with a human in the approval loop. Its agents research prospects, write the message and queue it; a person approves each one with a click. Dan Theirl, a Rubikloud co-founder, started it in late 2025 as an alternative to both automated spray and hiring an SDR.

MARZ — Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies — is a Toronto visual effects studio that delivers feature-film quality VFX on television timelines, and the company behind the AI tools Vanity AI and LipDub AI. It was founded in 2018 and worked on Marvel and Netflix series before turning its own tooling into products.

Mash is a Toronto startup building AI knowledge agents for technical B2B revenue teams. Its product works inside Slack, surfacing answers from a company's scattered internal documents so sales and go-to-market teams can respond to technical questions faster.

Mashape ran what became the world's largest API marketplace before pivoting to the infrastructure underneath it. Founded in Milan in 2009 by Augusto Marietti and Marco Palladino, it open-sourced an API gateway called Kong in 2015, sold the marketplace in 2017, and renamed itself Kong Inc.

Mave is a Toronto company whose AI produces listing marketing for real estate agents and brokerages — campaigns that took a support team days are generated in about a minute. Raz Zohar founded it, around 8,500 Realtors in southern Ontario use it, and it raised a $5 million seed round in January 2026.

Maven was General Motors' car-sharing service, launched in 2016 and run as GM's own answer to Zipcar: members rented GM vehicles, and later other owners' GM cars, by the hour or day. It reached Toronto in 2018 and GM shut the whole service down in April 2020.

Maverix Private Equity is a Toronto firm John Ruffolo founded in 2020 to write large cheques into later-stage Canadian companies using technology to disrupt traditional industries — the gap he argued sat between venture capital and buyout private equity.

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm with offices in Seattle and San Francisco, co-founded in 1998 by Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz and banker Dan Levitan. It invests early in technology-enabled consumer products and services, and had about US$1.3 billion under management as of 2020.

Mazu is a Kelowna, BC family social platform positioned as a safer, moderated alternative to mainstream social media, giving kids and parents a space to connect around sports teams and shared interests.

McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm founded in Chicago in 1926 by James O. McKinsey, now working from more than 130 offices worldwide. Erez Eizenman, managing partner of its Toronto office at the time, spoke at TechTO: Together in June 2024 on the Canadian market for tech talent.

Medcan is a Toronto preventive-health clinic founded in 1987 by Dr. Robert Francis, built around an Annual Health Assessment that maps a client's current health and future risks. It works with more than 1,200 corporate partners and 50,000 clients, and Shaun Francis has been CEO since 2003.

MedConnect was a Vancouver health software startup led by co-founder and CEO Jeremy Becker, building tools to streamline doctor and patient interactions in primary care clinics. Becker presented it at TechVancouver in November 2018. Its site was still advertising a launch as of late 2019, and the medconnectapp.ca domain no longer resolves.

MedEssist is Toronto software that turns community pharmacies into pharmacist-led health clinics, covering roughly 16 conditions from contraception to diabetes supplies. Co-founders Joella Almeida and Michael Do launched it at a single independent Toronto pharmacy; 650+ pharmacies now use it.

Medexa was a Montreal cloud platform for rehabilitation and paramedical clinics, handling scheduling, charting, billing and reporting for more than 30 types of practitioners. Co-founded in 2012 by Ian Beaubien, it was acquired by Harris Computer through its MediSolution subsidiary in January 2024.

Mediafly is a Chicago company selling revenue enablement software to enterprise B2B sales teams, with customers including Databricks, Nvidia, Intuit and Nestlé. It acquired the Vancouver deal-workspace startup Dooly on 1 August 2024 for undisclosed terms; Dooly founder Kris Hartvigsen became Mediafly's chief growth officer.

Median.co turns an existing website into native iOS and Android apps using a webview wrapper, so a team can ship mobile apps without building them twice. It launched in 2014 as GoNative, founded by John Snyder and Weiyin He, and has taken no outside venture funding.

MediaValet sells cloud digital asset management software from Vancouver — a secure, searchable library where marketing and creative teams organize and share images, video and brand assets. Built on Microsoft Azure and founded in 2010, it was TSX-listed until STG Partners took it private in April 2024.

MediSeen was a Toronto health technology company founded in 2017 by Daniel Warner to bring back the house call. Its platform let doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors, social workers and other providers run mobile practices — managing their profile, schedule, charting and billing — and let patients book them to come to their home.

MedStack is a compliance platform for digital health applications: it hosts your app in the cloud wrapped in the security controls and policy paperwork HIPAA, PIPEDA, GDPR and SOC 2 demand. Founded in Toronto in 2015 by Balaji Gopalan and Simon Woodside, it was acquired by Launchit Solutions in November 2024.

MeetVibe was a scheduling app that shared a person's real availability across calendars so two people could stop trading messages to find a time, with a location-aware layer for meeting others nearby. Mircea Baldean founded it in 2015 after fifteen years in Toronto's financial sector. It is no longer operating.

MemberNova is membership software for associations, professional bodies and multi-chapter organisations, covering member records, dues, events, email and websites in one platform. It is the sister product to ClubRunner, built by the Oakville family firm the Asterbadis founded in 2001.

MEMOTEXT is a Toronto digital health company that builds personalised patient engagement programs — text, voice calls, chatbots and smart assistants — to help people stick to medication, coordinate care and understand their condition. Founded by Amos Adler, it has run since 2012.

Mentimeter is a Stockholm company whose presentation software turns a slide deck into a two-way session — live polls, word clouds and quizzes the audience answers from their phones. Founded in 2014, it opened a Toronto sales office in 2021 that became its North American base.

Mercata builds research infrastructure for fundamental investment firms — an AI layer that turns a fund's own notes and documents, plus filings, news and releases, into a queryable research environment with source-linked answers.

Mercatus Technologies is a Toronto company, founded in 2004, that builds digital storefronts and order fulfilment for grocers — online shopping, pickup and delivery, loyalty and personalisation. It merged with Tel Aviv's Stor.ai in 2023 and now operates as a subsidiary of the American retail software firm Relationshop.

Merchkit is an AI product-catalogue platform for retailers, marketplaces and brands, founded by EventMobi co-founder Bijan Vaez in 2022. It cleans, enriches and standardises listing data so products can be found on marketplaces, in search and by AI shopping agents. It raised $2 million CAD in 2024.

Merrco is a Toronto payments company built for the cannabis sector, providing compliance-first e-commerce and point-of-sale processing in Canada and the US. Founded in 2016, it acquired Payfirma in 2018 and claims more than 50% national coverage of the Canadian cannabis payments market.

Meta is the American company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, renamed from Facebook in October 2021. Its Canadian business has been run since 2018 by Garrick Tiplady, who spoke at TechTO in August 2020. In June 2023 Meta said it would end news availability in Canada over the Online News Act.

Metaspectral is a Vancouver company that reads hyperspectral imagery in real time to identify what materials are — used to sort plastics on moving recycling lines and to analyse satellite data. It began in 2018 as PixelDrive, the machine-learning photo compressor co-founders Migel Tissera and Francis Doumet demoed at TechVancouver.

Micromart is a Toronto company that makes autonomous smart-store cabinets — a locked, refrigerated unit a customer opens with their phone, takes what they want from, and closes to be billed automatically. Built by the team behind KitchenMate, it says about 2,000 units are deployed across North America.

Microsoft is the Redmond, Washington software and cloud company founded in 1975, now built around Windows, Office, Azure and its AI products. It reported US$281.7 billion in revenue for its 2025 fiscal year. TechTO ran a Microsoft AI special edition in June 2018.

Mid-Day Squares is a Montreal maker of functional chocolate snack bars, high in protein and fibre, built largely through raw, founder-led social-media storytelling. Its two-texture bar pairs a hard chocolate top with a brownie-like base; the products are plant-based, gluten-free and non-GMO.

Midday is a menopause app built by Lisa Health in collaboration with Mayo Clinic. It pairs wearable data with digital therapeutics to track symptoms like hot flashes and sleep disruption and return personalised guidance. Lisa Health spun out of SRI International in 2020 and raised a $2.5M seed led by Radical Ventures.

Milo is an AI assistant for the logistics of running a family — the school notices, schedules and reminders a parent carries in their head, turned into calendar entries and alerts. Avni Patel Thompson built it in Seattle after her childcare marketplace Poppy wound down. Y Combinator and OpenAI have backed it.

MindBridge is an Ottawa company whose AI reads entire general ledgers to surface anomalies, errors and possible fraud for auditors and finance teams. Solon Angel founded it in 2015; it raised US$60 million from PSG Equity in July 2023 and sells into audit firms worldwide.

Minerva is a Toronto regtech whose AI screens client risk and runs anti-money-laundering investigations for banks, fintechs and crypto exchanges. Jennifer Arnold, Victor Tay and Damian Tran founded it in 2018; it has raised about CA$14.6 million.

Mino Care is a Toronto nonprofit providing culturally safe perinatal care to Black and racialized families, founded by Elsie Amoako in 2017 as Mommy Monitor. It runs a clinic at North York General alongside doulas, counselling and navigation services.

MintList is a Vancouver marketplace that reverses used-car selling: a consumer lists a vehicle and dealers bid on it. Founded in 2020 by Mike Wood and Mehrsa Raeiszadeh, it won the 2021 New Ventures BC competition and reached a quarter of BC's new-car dealers.

Miovision is a Kitchener company that turns road intersections into connected systems — cameras, traffic-signal hardware and the data platform behind them — so cities can see how their roads actually behave. Founded in 2005 by Kurtis McBride, it now works in more than 60 countries.

Mirage VR was a Kitchener, Ontario company that built free-roam, multiplayer virtual reality — players carried a lightweight computer and moved through a physical space with hand and foot tracking. It came out of the University of Waterloo's Velocity incubator and opened what it billed as Canada's first free-roam VR experience centre.

Missive is a Quebec City company whose shared inbox puts email, live chat, task management and rules-based automation in one place for teams. Bootstrapped since 2015 with no outside funding, it serves more than 4,000 businesses and has passed US$8 million in annual recurring revenue.

MNRK Music Group is an independent label group with offices in Toronto, New York, Nashville and the UK. Its imprints include Last Gang, Dualtone and Prosthetic Records. It was previously eOne Music, owned by Hasbro and then sold to Blackstone.

MobileSyrup is a Canadian technology news publication covering phones, carriers, gaming and consumer tech. Launched in 2007, it was bought by Blue Ant Media in October 2020 with a reported two million monthly readers, and sold on to Toronto's ZoomerMedia in June 2024 in a deal valued at $950,000.

Modaxo is Constellation Software's people-transportation division, launched in October 2020 to gather the group's transit, paratransit, rail and parking software businesses under one name. It runs more than two dozen companies from offices in 21 countries.

Modem is a Toronto startup building an AI product-management platform that plugs into software teams' existing tools. It aims to handle product workflow automatically, flagging bugs, curating support tickets, and following up with customers after releases. Founded in 2025 by Ben Vinegar and co-founders, it raised a US$4.4-million pre-seed round.

Modern Niagara is a Canadian building-services contractor — mechanical, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, building automation and energy work — for institutional, commercial and industrial projects. Its Ottawa business has served that city since 1959, and it now operates from Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, southwestern Ontario, Toronto and Ottawa.

MomsTO is a Toronto community for millennial mothers built on in-person events rather than online groups — daytime socials, festivals and meetups designed to be attended with a baby. Alana Kayfetz started it in 2017 after a post looking for other mothers drew nineteen strangers to a first gathering.

Moneta Health delivers cognitive rehabilitation therapy for people with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia over the phone — licensed therapists supported by voice AI, so the program reaches patients who have no neurologist within reach.

MonetizeMore runs ad optimisation for digital publishers — header bidding, demand partnerships and yield management on inventory that would otherwise underperform. Kean Graham bootstrapped it in 2010 and built it fully distributed from the start, with no head office and staff spread across dozens of countries.

Monogram is a Kitchener, Ontario hardware company making modular consoles of physical buttons, dials and sliders for editing software like Photoshop and Premiere. Co-founded by Calvin Chu out of a University of Waterloo capstone project, it launched on Kickstarter in 2013 as Palette Gear and rebranded to Monogram in 2019.

Monzo is a UK digital bank built app-first, with more than 16 million personal and business customers. It sells current accounts, savings and ISAs, investments and pensions, credit cards, loans and insurance, and makes a point of building the product openly with a community that tests and suggests features.

Mortgage Sandbox is a Vancouver platform that matches home buyers with pre-screened, values-aligned mortgage brokers and realtors, alongside real-estate and interest-rate forecasts. Founder David Stroud pivoted it from an affordability calculator to the match-finder after finding that was the piece users actually wanted.

Motion is a Toronto creative analytics company whose software lets performance marketers research ad trends, measure creative performance and turn that data into new ad concepts. Founded in 2021, its customers analyze more than $6B in annual media spend and it has raised $42M USD.

Motoinsight builds digital-retail software that lets people shop, buy and finance cars online, used by automakers and dealerships across North America.

Motra is a Toronto fitness-tech company, founded in 2021 and known until 2025 as Train Fitness, whose Apple Watch app detects strength exercises and counts reps from wrist motion alone. It raised a US$2.5M seed led by Relay Ventures in 2023 and lists 470-plus tracked exercises.

Moz is a Seattle SEO software company founded in 2004 by Rand Fishkin and Gillian Muessig. It acquired Vancouver's STAT Search Analytics in October 2018, keeping all fifty employees and opening a Canadian office, and was itself bought by Ziff Davis for $67 million in June 2021.

Mucker Capital is a Los Angeles seed fund investing in software companies deliberately outside the Bay Area. Co-founded in 2011 by Will Hsu and Erik Rannala, it runs the MuckerLab pre-seed accelerator and has backed Honey, ServiceTitan and AuditBoard, with offices including Toronto.

MuseFind was a SaaS platform that helped brands and agencies plan and manage influencer-marketing campaigns and connect with social-media influencers.

Myant is a Toronto textile-computing company that knits biometric sensors into everyday garments. Its Skiin line captures continuous health data such as heart rate and ECG from clothing.

myHealthSphere was a Toronto workplace wellness startup co-founded in 2013 by Jane Wang. Its app delivered short health and productivity prompts — 30 seconds to two minutes each — built from behavioural research. In 2016 its intellectual property moved into a new company, Optimity, aimed at employers and insurers instead of consumers.

Myodetox is a manual therapy and physiotherapy chain founded in Toronto in 2014 by Scott Marcaccio and physiotherapist Vinh Pham. It treats movement problems before they become injuries and now runs clinics across Toronto, Vancouver and Los Angeles.

N49P is a Toronto pre-seed venture firm backing founders with Canadian ties, betting on speed and execution over credentials. It is now investing Fund IV, which held a US$25M first close in May 2026 against a US$70M target, with Northleaf Capital Partners among its limited partners.

Nano-Lit Technologies is a Vancouver company that retrofits existing LED fixtures with quantum-dot film, so office and care-home lighting can shift colour temperature across the day the way daylight does rather than holding one flat setting.

Nanoleaf is a Toronto smart-home company that makes modular, app-controlled LED light panels and bulbs sold worldwide. Founded in 2012 by Gimmy Chu, Tom Rodinger and Christian Yan out of a University of Toronto solar-car project, it agreed in May 2026 to a roughly US$40.5M acquisition by Hong Kong-listed OneRobotics.

NationGraph builds an intelligence layer over US state, local and education government, indexing roughly 110,000 agencies so companies can find and win public-sector deals. Kimia Hamidi and Eden Ding founded it in 2024; about half its team is in Toronto.

Neo Financial is a Calgary-based financial technology company offering credit cards, savings, investing and rewards as a digital challenger to Canada's big banks. Founded in 2019 by SkipTheDishes alumni, it has grown to serve more than a million customers and reached a valuation above one billion dollars.

Nest Wealth launched in 2013 as Canada's first digital wealth advisor, founded by Randy Cass. It pivoted from a direct-to-consumer robo-advisor into a B2B platform powering digital wealth for half of Canada's largest six banks, and Objectway acquired it in January 2024. The brand still operates as an Objectway subsidiary.

nesto is a Montreal digital mortgage company that began as an online broker in 2018 and became a direct lender by 2022. It administers more than $80 billion in mortgages and raised a $302-million Series E in June 2026 at a $1.47-billion valuation.

Neuranet is the Toronto company behind Flexitive, responsive HTML5 design software that produces digital creative at every size, resolution and format from a single build. Paul Vincent founded it in 2013 after eight years at Microsoft and launched Flexitive in 2015.

Newtopia is a Toronto habit-change company that pairs genetic and behavioural assessment with one-to-one human coaching to prevent chronic disease progression. Jeff Ruby founded it in 2008 after cancer took his father's life. It trades on the TSX Venture Exchange as NEWU and on the OTCQB in the US.

Nexonia is an expense and time-tracking product for mid-market finance teams, built in Toronto by Neil Wainwright and now sold as Emburse Nexonia. It launched in the mid-2000s, merged with Tallie, was rolled into Certify in 2017 with $125 million from K1 Investment Management, and became part of Emburse in 2019.

Next Decentrum is a Vancouver studio that builds products, brands and technology for art and culture. Founded by Hussein Hallak with Rama Ibrahim, Shawn Mayzes and Tristram Waye, it started in museum-backed NFT collections and now centres on Momentable, which streams roughly 120,000 museum artworks onto screens.

Nezasa is a Zurich travel technology company founded in 2013. Its TripBuilder software lets tour operators and travel agents plan, price and book multi-stop trips in one transaction, and keep changing the itinerary while the traveller is still on it.

NiaHealth is a Canadian preventive health company. It pairs advanced blood diagnostics with a clinician-reviewed plan so people can act on cardiovascular, metabolic and hormonal risk years before it becomes disease, alongside — not instead of — the public system.

NielsenIQ — now branded NIQ — is the market-research firm that measures what consumers actually buy, running retail measurement and consumer panels in more than 100 countries. It was spun out of Nielsen Holdings in March 2021, is headquartered in Chicago, employs roughly 30,000 people, and bought Germany's GfK in 2023.

Nitrogen is the wealth-management software formerly called Riskalyze, best known for the Risk Number that scores an investor's risk tolerance. Aaron Klein co-founded it in Auburn, California in 2011; it rebranded to Nitrogen in May 2023, and Dan Zitting is chief executive.

No Fixed Address Health is a Toronto healthcare and pharmaceutical marketing agency founded in January 2019 by Dorothy Czylyski in partnership with the founders of No Fixed Address Inc. It covers research, strategy, creative, digital, media and regulatory-compliant promotional work.

Nodalli is a Toronto platform that automates networking for students and job seekers: it finds relevant recruiters, alumni and insiders at target companies, then drafts and follows up on the outreach. Toronto Metropolitan University graduates Jason Ramsay and Joshua Daniel founded it.

NorthOne is a small-business banking platform for the American market, founded in Toronto in 2016 by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler. It bundles a business chequing account with cash-flow tooling, on the thesis that most small businesses fail on financial administration rather than on their product. As of August 2026 northone.com redirects to Relay Business Banking.

Norway Health Tech is a non-profit health cluster founded in Oslo in 2009 by Kathrine Myhre as Oslo Medtech. It connects Norwegian health companies, hospitals and researchers, runs the Aleap incubator, and renamed itself in 2017 to cover the whole country and a wider field than medical devices.

Nourished Babe was a Vancouver prenatal nutrition app built by Natalie Bisset and Erin O'Neill after their own pregnancies. It let expecting mothers log meals, see which nutrients they were short on, and find recipes to fill the gaps. It reached the New Ventures BC top 25 in 2016 and is no longer operating.

Nova Credit is a cross-border credit bureau. Its Credit Passport translates a newcomer's credit history from their home country into something a US lender can underwrite, so someone who moves is not treated as having no financial history. It started as a Stanford research project in 2016.

Novel is a Burlington, Ontario veterinary clinic built around a team-based model intended to bring the price of pet care down. Emma Harris, who earlier founded the telemedicine app Healthy Pets, co-founded it with veterinarian Dr. Brendon Laing, and runs it on a membership rather than a per-visit basis.

Novo Nordisk Canada is the Mississauga-based affiliate of the Danish pharmaceutical company, which traces to a 1923 Copenhagen insulin lab. It brought Saxenda to Canada in 2015 as the first once-daily GLP-1 approved here for chronic weight management. Its communications lead spoke at TechTO in 2019.

NS/TX Industries is the Toronto company behind New School Foods, whose plant-based salmon flakes and cooks like the real thing. Founded in 2021 by Unata founder Chris Bryson, it uses directional freezing at scale to build whole-cut meat alternatives, and has raised over US$19 million.

Nuco was a Toronto blockchain software company founded in 2016 by Matthew Spoke and colleagues from the blockchain team he had built inside Deloitte. It created Aion, a network for connecting independent blockchains, and handed that work to the non-profit Aion Foundation in 2018; the foundation rebranded as The Open Application Network in 2019.

nud fud makes organic raw crackers, bites and granola in its own Toronto facility — everything vegan, grain-free, tree-nut-free and sugar-free. Julia Kirouac, a holistic nutritionist and former ballet dancer, started it in 2010 and formalised the company in 2012, and has manufactured in-house rather than outsourcing.

Nudge Rewards was a Toronto platform that helped large enterprises reach and engage frontline, deskless employees through a mobile app, working with retailers and food-service chains. Co-founded by CEO Lindsey Goodchild and CTO Dessy Daskalov, it was renamed Nudge and acquired by Axonify in June 2022.

Nudge.ai was a Toronto relationship intelligence platform for sales teams, founded in 2014 by former Eloqua executives Paul Teshima and Steve Woods. It shut down in January 2020 after failing to raise, and Affinity acquired its technology and most of its team that March.

Nue is a San Francisco quote-to-revenue platform that unifies configure-price-quote, billing, customer lifecycle and revenue intelligence in one system, built to replace legacy CPQ for fast-moving software and AI companies. It raised a $20-million Series A led by Inovia Capital in January 2025 and counts OpenAI among its customers.

Nulogy makes software for contract packagers, manufacturers and logistics providers — scheduling, quality and shop-floor data shared across supplier networks. Four Waterloo engineering graduates founded it in Toronto in 2002.

Numeris measures what Canadians watch and listen to. A not-for-profit joint industry committee owned by its members, it runs the panels and meters behind the country's television and radio audience currency, and is rebuilding that measurement for streaming and cross-platform viewing.

Nxt Level You was a Vancouver software company Michelle Martin built to help people and teams keep improving together. She closed it after a health crisis, and that experience pushed her later work toward personal health data. Her earlier startup, ArtsAlly, was acquired by Kabuni Technologies in 2015.

nymble health delivers behavioural support to patients on GLP-1 obesity medications through plain text messaging and WhatsApp instead of an app. Family physician Puneet Seth and obesity specialist Megha Poddar founded it in Vancouver in June 2024; it reports more than 100,000 patient interactions across Canada, Ireland, Germany and the United States.

OANDA is one of Toronto's original fintech companies. Michael Stumm and Richard Olsen founded it in 1995 and put free currency exchange rates on the open web in 1996; it grew into a large retail foreign exchange platform and is now owned by FTMO.

ODAIA is a Toronto AI company that helps pharmaceutical and life-science commercial teams work smarter. Its platform ingests industry data — claims, prescribing and medical records — and uses machine learning to predict customer activity and prioritize which doctors reps should see.

OkRx is an Oakville, Ontario healthtech company whose cloud software connects the parties in a specialty-medication prescription — patients, prescribers, pharmacists, program providers, manufacturers and payers — through digital enrolment forms, patient-support workflow and coverage data. It says it has helped with more than 260,000 prior authorisations.

Olauto is the car-fragrance brand the inkbox brothers started after selling their temporary-tattoo company to BIC. Launched in September 2025 by Tyler and Braden Handley with cousins Dylan Bisignano and Victor Chimenti, it sells $33 fresheners built to release scent gradually over three months.

Old Navy is Gap Inc.'s value apparel brand, selling clothing for the whole family at low prices. It opened its first store in Colma, California on 19 March 1994, became the fastest retailer to reach $1 billion in sales within four years, and has grown to more than 1,200 stores.

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital arm of OMERS, the Ontario municipal employees' pension fund. John Ruffolo founded it in Toronto in 2011 and ran it as CEO, backing Shopify, Wattpad, Hootsuite, Hopper and DuckDuckGo. It has since pulled back from Europe and the US to focus on early-stage Canada.

OmniSci (formerly MapD) was a San Francisco GPU-accelerated analytics and database company founded in 2013 by Todd Mostak out of his Harvard research. Its platform used graphics processors to query and visualize massive datasets in real time. The company rebranded from MapD to OmniSci in 2018 and again to HEAVY.AI in 2022.

OMX, short for Offset Market Exchange, is a Toronto procurement platform that matches large aerospace and defence prime contractors with Canadian suppliers so they can meet the industrial-benefit obligations attached to government contracts. Nicole Verkindt launched it in 2012 and later extended it to oil and gas supply chains.

OnCall Health was a Toronto virtual-care company whose software let clinics, insurers and health systems run their own branded video appointments, secure messaging and digital intake. Nicholas Chepesiuk founded it in 2016; Qualifacts acquired it in November 2022.

OnDeck is an online small business lender founded in New York in 2006 by Mitch Jacobs. It listed on the NYSE in 2014, merged its Canadian arm with Montréal's Evolocity Financial Group in 2019, and was acquired by Enova International in October 2020. Its Canadian lead spoke at FintechTO in 2017.

The Ontario Brain Institute is a Toronto research and commercialisation body working to make Ontario a world leader in neuroscience. It funds brain-disease research across epilepsy, cerebral palsy, depression and neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, and runs an entrepreneurs program for neurotechnology founders.

OntarioMD is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ontario Medical Association that helps community-based physicians, nurse practitioners and clinic staff choose and use digital health tools. Formed in 2004 and funded by the province, it certifies electronic medical record systems and runs services such as Health Report Manager, eConsult and eReferral.

Onyen Corporation is a Toronto software company that automates sustainability and risk reporting, helping public and private companies capture, benchmark and disclose ESG data for investors and regulators. Laurie Clark, a serial fintech founder, launched it in March 2021, a year into the pandemic.

Ooka Island is a children's learn-to-read program built on Dr. Kay MacPhee's phonics method, delivered as a game that gives every child a personalized path to reading. Founded in 2008 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, by MacPhee and author Jim Barber, it was acquired by Scholastic in 2017.

Oomira is Katherine Homuth's Ontario software company, launched in 2025 after she left SRTX. It keeps a sourced, dated record of a person or company that AI agents read on request, so an agent answers from what the subject says is true rather than from whatever it can find on the web.

Open Screenplay is a Toronto platform for screenwriters: guided tools for structuring a script, co-writing with collaborators anywhere, and contests that put unrepresented writers in front of producers. Khaled Al Sabawi founded it in 2019.

Opencare is a dental marketplace with offices in Toronto and San Francisco that vets dentists across North America and books patients into them. It also sells practices a patient-acquisition service, and has been building software to run the operational side of a dental office.

Opendoor buys homes directly from sellers and resells them, replacing the listing process with an instant cash offer. Founded in San Francisco in March 2014 by Keith Rabois, Eric Wu, Ian Wong and JD Ross, it trades on Nasdaq as OPEN. Ian Wong was CTO for eight years and spoke at TechTO in 2020.

Opener puts an AI sales rep on every wholesale account a consumer-packaged-goods brand sells into. It unifies point-of-sale and inventory data from channels like Faire and Shopify, works the whole account book daily rather than only the big names, and reactivates dormant stores. More than 250 CPG brands use it.

OpenGravity is a Toronto marketing and technology consultancy founded in 2019 that calls itself the un-agency: business and marketing strategy, data audits and audience analysis, brand work, SEO and SEM, video, and staff augmentation for large Canadian brands, public-sector bodies and purpose-led organisations.

OPENLANE is the digital wholesale used-vehicle marketplace formerly known as KAR Auction Services, renamed in May 2023 after it sold its US physical auction business to Carvana. Its first OPENLANE-branded marketplace launched in Canada, merging the ADESA and TradeRev platforms.

Optimity is a Toronto-built health and wellness rewards platform that pays people for everyday healthy habits — walking, micro-learning quizzes, mental-health check-ins — all carrot, no stick. It syncs with 100+ wearables, works with insurers and reinsurers to keep policyholders engaged, and serves over seven million members (7.3M as of early 2026) after buying and relaunching Carrot Rewards.

OPTT — the Online PsychoTherapy Tool — is a Kingston, Ontario platform that healthcare organizations use to deliver therapist-guided cognitive behavioural therapy through pre-built modules, so clinicians can treat more patients. Dr. Nazanin Alavi and Dr. Mohsen Omrani developed it at Queen's University in 2018.

OrbCare was a Toronto health-tech company that built a single cloud platform for clinics — scheduling, documentation, billing and patient communication in one system rather than several. Founded in 2013 by Manny Abraham, it raised a $2M seed led by iGan Partners in 2018 and filed for bankruptcy in November 2019.

Orbit is a Toronto company building treasury risk software for multi-entity, multi-currency finance teams, starting with FX. It connects read-only to a company's ERP, treasury system and spreadsheets, traces how currency moves changed results, then sizes the fixes. Ujwal Arkalgud, Mingze Deng and Maciek Pawlowski co-founded it; Diagram and Sagard back it.

Orbits is a Toronto AI household assistant that runs the calendar, tasks, groceries and home maintenance a family would otherwise carry themselves. Nomaan Ahmed and Erik Tillberg founded it after leaving super.com, arriving at the idea when personal-finance interviews kept surfacing a bigger problem.

OTI Lumionics makes cathode-patterning materials for OLED displays, letting device makers hide cameras and sensors under the screen instead of cutting a notch. Michael Helander co-founded it in 2011 out of a University of Toronto PhD; it is based in Mississauga.

Otis AI is a New York platform that runs paid advertising for small businesses off the first-party data already sitting in their point-of-sale and e-commerce systems, targeting across Facebook, Instagram, Google and connected TV. Miguel Guerrero founded it in 2019 and demoed it on the TechTO stage in 2021.

Outreach is a Seattle sales engagement platform that sequences and tracks the outbound work of sales teams and feeds the resulting activity into forecasting. Founded in 2014, it raised a US$200-million Series G in 2021 at a US$4.4-billion valuation, bringing total funding to US$489 million.

Overbond is a Toronto fintech that sells AI pricing and analytics for corporate bond trading — software that tells a trader where a bond should price and which dealer quotes are worth answering. Vuk Magdelinic and Han Ryoo founded it in 2015.

Owl is a Canadian company whose AI-enabled, end-to-end encrypted platform lets banks and insurers collect customer data and monitor claims. Founded in 2018 by Sean Merat, Sohrab Merat and Vahid Mirjalili, it raised $2.6M CAD in 2019 and a US$30M Series B led by Cota Capital in November 2021.

Owner.com sells independent restaurants the software a chain would build in-house — website, online ordering, marketing and, since 2025, AI agents that run those jobs. Adam Guild and Dean Bloembergen started it in 2018. It passed $100M in annual recurring revenue and raised $240M at a $2.3B valuation in August 2026.

Ownr is a Toronto platform, built inside RBC Ventures and launched in 2017, that lets Canadians register a sole proprietorship or incorporate a company online and then keep the resulting legal paperwork current — filings, agreements, minute book and equity records — without a law firm.

Pace Pricing is Bill Wilson's B2B SaaS pricing consultancy. It rebuilds a software company's pricing around what buyers actually value, tested with real buyers before launch — work that grew out of the questions prospects kept asking him on SalesRight demo calls.

Paid builds billing infrastructure for AI agents, letting agent makers charge for outcomes — points of margin saved for a customer — instead of per seat or per call. Founded by Outreach founder Manny Medina and based in London, it came out of stealth in March 2025 and had raised $33.3 million by that September.

Panache Ventures is a Canadian pre-seed and seed fund founded in 2018, with offices in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. It writes first cheques of up to $1.5M and says its 100-plus portfolio companies have collectively raised over $3.3B. Founding partner Patrick Lor sat on TechVancouver's VC-founder panel in October 2019.

PandaMatch is a B2B data-intelligence platform, founded in 2024, that crawls the open web rather than relying on LinkedIn to map a company's total addressable market. It indexes over 500 million domains to surface companies and decision-makers that competitors miss, helping sales teams reach prospects who aren't already saturated with outreach.

Paperstack is a Toronto private-credit platform that lends working capital to direct-to-consumer and retail brands. Assel Beglinova and Vadim Lidich founded it in 2021, first as bookkeeping and cash-flow software for e-commerce sellers, then pivoting into lending after raising about $9 million in equity and debt.

Parable is a New York company that maps how work actually gets done inside a large organisation, then measures what AI changes. Adam Schwartz, Clinton Robinson, Steve Tam and Alex Terrien founded it in 2024; it raised a US$16.5 million seed led by HOF Capital, announced in November 2025.

Parallel Studios is the Toronto game studio behind Parallel, a science-fiction trading card game built on NFTs and the Echelon Prime ecosystem. Sascha Darius Mojtahedi, formerly chief executive of the Toronto barter app Bunz, co-founded it with chief technology officer Perry Haldenby and runs it.

Parallelz builds technology that turns an existing native mobile app into a web app that runs from a URL, with no rewrite, no SDK and no app store. Serial founder Albert Lai started it in Toronto in 2021, spun out of Big Viking Games, and raised US$3 million in pre-seed funding in June 2022.

Paramount Commerce is a Toronto payments company that moves money straight from a customer's bank account — Interac e-Transfer and EFT rather than cards. Founded in 2003, it launched INSTADEBIT in its first year and says it has processed more than $100 billion in volume since.

Parsel was a Toronto social-commerce startup that gave YouTube and Instagram creators a page to sell the products they talked about, and matched them with brands paying for sponsored videos. Josh Brandley and Hamid Abbas founded it in 2014; by early 2016 it had raised about $1.2 million and had ten staff.

PartnerBuild Advisory is James Moncarz's Toronto practice helping B2B SaaS companies grow revenue through partnerships. He founded it after about 25 years running partnerships and channel sales at Ceridian, Docebo, Emburse and 7shifts, and took the argument to the TechTO Sales stage in 2025.

PartnerStack is a Toronto-based SaaS platform for partner-led growth, giving B2B software companies one system to recruit, manage and pay affiliates, resellers and referral partners. Its partner network has driven more than $3 billion in revenue for clients. Founded in 2015 as GrowSumo, it was acquired by AppDirect in 2026.

Pass The Table was a Toronto marketplace for booking one-off dining experiences — supper clubs, chef's tables and off-menu seats you could not otherwise reserve. Jason Finestone founded it and demonstrated it on the TechTO stage in June 2016. It is no longer operating.

Passage is a Toronto talent platform for international students: it matches them to Canadian programs tied to real labour shortages, finances up to C$65,000 of tuition and first-year living costs, and supports them through to a job. Martin Basiri founded it in 2023 after leaving ApplyBoard.

PathFactory is a Toronto B2B content-intelligence company that tracks how buyers actually consume marketing content and strings the next piece in front of them. Founded in 2012 as LookBookHQ and renamed in 2018, it agreed in March 2026 to be acquired by Kaltura for about $22 million.

PatientNow is a Denver company selling practice management software to medical aesthetics and wellness clinics — charting, operations, patient engagement, marketing, imaging and payments in one platform. It serves more than 5,000 locations worldwide, and Keri Gohman became chief executive in March 2025.

Pattern Pulse AI, which styles itself PatternPulse.ai, is Jen Evans's Toronto research and consulting practice. It writes internal AI policy for governments, enterprises and non-profits, and publishes its own research on how and why large language models fail.

PayByPhone is a Vancouver mobile parking-payments company whose app is used by drivers across North America, Europe and Australia. Volkswagen Financial Services bought it in December 2016 when it had 12.5 million registered users in about 300 cities, and sold it to FLEETCOR, now Corpay, in December 2023.

Payfirma was a Vancouver payments company founded in 2011 by Michael Gokturk, selling card processing and a single merchant dashboard across in-store, online and mobile. It raised a $13 million Series A, went through a public boardroom fight in 2017 and was acquired by Merrco in 2018.

Payments Canada is the Ottawa organization that owns and runs the clearing and settlement systems Canadian financial institutions use to move money between each other. Created by federal statute in 1980 as the Canadian Payments Association, it took its current name in 2016 and is rebuilding the country's core payment rails.

Paytm Labs is the Toronto research-and-development arm of Paytm, India's payments giant. It builds the machine-learning, big-data and fraud/risk systems behind Paytm's consumer and merchant payments platform, which serves hundreds of millions of users across India.

PayTrie is a Calgary-based fintech that acts as a stablecoin on- and off-ramp for Canadians, letting users convert Canadian dollars to and from stablecoins like USDC and CADC over Interac e-Transfer across several blockchains. It runs as a regulated money-services business.

Pearl's Choice was a bootstrapped double-sided marketplace that helped Canadians find and compare senior-living options, particularly retirement homes. It focused on building a community-driven brand rather than raising large venture rounds. The company is no longer operating.

Peekapak is a Toronto edtech whose social-emotional-learning platform teaches K-12 students self-regulation and empathy through stories, lessons and games.

Peggy is a Toronto social marketplace app for buying and selling contemporary art, founded in 2020 by Craig Follett and Adam Meghji. It authenticates work with a patent-pending AI digital fingerprint and pays artists royalties on resale, and raised a C$10.8 million seed in 2023.

Pelmorex Corp is the Oakville, Ontario company behind The Weather Network and MeteoMedia. Founded in 1989 as a television weather broadcaster, it has expanded into digital apps and a data business that sells weather-, location-, and behaviour-based insights to automotive, retail, financial, and healthcare clients across North America.

Penseum is an AI study platform: a student uploads their own course notes and it produces study guides, multiple-choice quizzes and flashcards, with a chatbot for follow-up questions. It was built by University of Calgary alumni Samit Khalsa and Kamyar Hosseini.

Penta Medical was a Waterloo-region maker of PentaVO, a wearable cold-laser therapy device aimed at faster recovery from chronic and acute injuries.

Pentavere is a Toronto health-AI company whose DARWEN engine extracts evidence from unstructured clinical notes — progress notes, dictation, scanned forms — and turns it into coded, structured data used to find patients who are eligible for a treatment but not receiving it. Founded 2016; now owned by HEALWELL AI.

Peoples Group is a Vancouver financial services company that runs three businesses at once: deposits and mortgages for individuals, commercial real-estate lending, and the regulated banking rails other companies build fintech products on — money movement, card issuing, merchant acquiring and trust account services.

PepsiCo Beverages Canada is the Canadian drinks arm of PepsiCo, making and bottling Pepsi, 7UP, Gatorade and bubly at six plants across the country. It is one of two PepsiCo Canada business units alongside the foods side, which together employ about 11,000 people in Canada.

Perkopolis is a Toronto employee-perks marketplace founded in 1999 by Morgan Marlowe. It works with more than 5,000 organizations to give over two million Canadian members discounts, tickets, travel and insurance through its merchant network. PerkSpot, backed by Susquehanna Growth Equity, acquired it in 2025.

Perpetua is an e-commerce advertising software company that automates ad performance and retail-media buying for brands and sellers on Amazon, Walmart and other marketplaces. Started with a Toronto R&D office and originally named Draper AI, it grew past 100 people and was acquired by Ascential in 2022.

Phenomic AI is a Toronto biotech applying machine learning to microscopy and single-cell data to find drug targets in the tumour stroma — the dense tissue around solid tumours that blocks treatment. Founded in 2017 by Oren Kraus and Sam Cooper, it signed a Boehringer Ingelheim partnership worth more than US$500 million in 2023.

PhenoTips builds software for deep clinical phenotyping and pedigree drawing, used by hospitals and research institutions worldwide for rare disease and genetic diagnosis. It grew out of a SickKids and University of Toronto research project in 2014 and trades corporately as Gene42.

Philer is a Toronto company that handles real estate closings in Ontario and Alberta for a flat fee. Buyers, sellers and refinancers upload documents once, track the file online and book a licensed lawyer through its platform. Ankita Sharma founded it in 2022, first as intake software sold to real estate law firms.

Picatic was a Vancouver event ticketing and registration platform, known early on for letting organizers crowdfund ticket sales before committing to a booking. Jayesh Parmar co-founded it and was CEO. Eventbrite acquired it in August 2018; the Vancouver office wound down in April 2020.

PiinPoint is a Waterloo location-intelligence company whose software tells retailers and other multi-location businesses exactly where to open their next site. Jim Robeson and Adam Saunders founded it in 2013 and took it through Y Combinator in 2014; it has grown to roughly US$3.2M in revenue and 100+ customers by running lean.

Pillcheck is GeneYouIn's Toronto pharmacogenetic service: a one-time DNA test that reports how a patient metabolises prescribed drugs, so clinicians can match medication to genetics rather than to trial and error. It is offered through employer benefit plans and insurers.

Pine is a Toronto digital mortgage company that is both broker and lender, founded in 2021 by Justin Herlick and Jonathan Shih. It has passed $1 billion in mortgages under administration and now bundles real-estate search and advice into the same platform.

Pioneer Fund invests exclusively in Y Combinator companies, pooling capital and expertise from more than 225 YC alumni. Jason Gray, himself a YC 2015 founder, started it and is managing general partner. It is not formally affiliated with Y Combinator.

Pipeline Signals is a Toronto sales-intelligence company founded in 2021 by Jamie Shanks and Amar Sheth. It watches LinkedIn for movement inside a client's target and existing accounts — people joining, leaving or changing roles — and runs it as a managed service. It raised $507,000 CAD pre-seed in January 2022.

Pippen AI builds AI tools that take administrative paperwork off Canadian family doctors — an AI scribe and assistant designed to sit inside clinical workflow rather than beside it. Founded by clinic owners Mary Aglipay and Amjed Kadhim-Saleh, it reached 1,200 family-doctor offices across Canada within 18 months of launch.

Pitstop reads a vehicle's own sensor data to predict component failures before they happen and turn them into booked service, first through car dealerships and later for commercial fleets. Fullbay acquired the company in March 2026.

Pivot Design Group is a Toronto agency practising user-centred design and design research, mainly in healthcare, since 1998. Founded by Ian Chalmers, its projects have included a post-stroke therapy tool with Toronto Rehab and work involving Cloud DX.

Pivotal Life Sciences is a healthcare investment platform backing companies whose therapies could be near-curative rather than incremental. It invests through three arms — venture in North America and Europe, venture in China, and public equities — from offices in San Francisco, Boston, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Pixieset is a Vancouver vertical SaaS company for professional photographers — client galleries, websites, online stores and CRM in one platform, with more than a million registered users. Simon Wong and Phoebe Jiang founded it in 2013 and bootstrapped it for roughly eight years.

Pizza Hut Canada is the Canadian business of the pizza chain owned by Yum! Brands, with about 400 restaurants across eight provinces. It launched its first loyalty programme, Hut Rewards, in March 2018, by which point most of its orders were already placed online. Brand director Jason Cassidy spoke at TechTO MarketingTO in June 2018.

Plaid builds the infrastructure that connects fintech applications to consumers' bank accounts — the plumbing under a large share of consumer money apps. Zach Perret and William Hockey founded it in San Francisco in 2013; it raised US$575 million at a US$6.1 billion valuation in April 2025.

Planned is a Montreal platform that corporate teams use to source venues, book travel and manage event spend inside company policy. Marc-Antoine Bonin and Emeric Noël founded it in 2017 under the name Entr, and it has raised roughly $65 million across three rounds.

Planswell is a Toronto fintech that generates free financial plans online — investments, insurance and mortgage in one questionnaire — and monetises by routing users to advisers. Eric Arnold founded it in 2015. It entered receivership in late April 2026 after defaulting on its lenders.

Plantiga is a Vancouver company whose sensor pod fits into a shoe, orthotic or insole and measures how a person walks and runs. Quin Sandler founded it in 2017 with his father Norman McKay; roughly 90 customers include pro teams, clinicians and the Canadian Armed Forces.

Playlist is the company behind ClassPass, Mindbody and Booker — booking and management software for fitness studios, gyms and spas, plus the consumer membership that fills their classes. In March 2026 it agreed to merge with the German equipment maker EGYM at a $7.5 billion valuation, with $785 million of new equity.

Plenty of Fish is a Vancouver dating service that Markus Frind started in 2003 and ran free of charge and free of outside investment, growing it into one of the largest dating platforms in the world. Match Group bought it in an all-cash deal worth $575 million USD in July 2015.

Plooto is a Toronto fintech that automates accounts payable and receivable for small and mid-sized businesses, replacing cheques and wires with bank-connected payments. Founded in 2015 by Hamed Abbasi and Serguei Kloubkov after their game studio's back-office pain, it raised a $27M CAD Series B in 2022.

Plot is a set of small, single-purpose work tools from Waterloo founder Kris Braun: Traction, a daily planner run from your priorities; Dispatch, one inbox for email, chat and apps; Curiosity, a library that turns what you save into what you know; and Pulse, voice surveys.

Plum is a Kitchener, Ontario HR-tech company whose psychometric assessments predict how a candidate will perform in a role instead of scoring their resume. Caitlin and Neil MacGregor founded it in 2012; it raised $19 million CAD and was acquired by Philadelphia-based Phenom in April 2026, with its team joining Phenom.

Plusgrade is a Montreal travel-technology company whose platform powers upgrade and ancillary-revenue offers for airlines, hotels, cruise lines and rail operators. Founded in 2009 by Ken Harris, it is backed by CDPQ, Novacap and General Atlantic and acquired loyalty firm Points for US$385M.

PMC-Sierra was a Burnaby, BC semiconductor company that made chips and software for storage, optical and mobile networks. It took its name in 1997 after overtaking its parent Sierra Semiconductor, and Microsemi acquired it for US$2.5 billion in January 2016.

PNI Digital Media was a Vancouver company running the white-label e-commerce platform behind photo products and business printing for retailers including Staples, Costco, Tesco and Walmart Canada. Started in Vancouver in 2001, it was acquired by Staples in 2014 for about $74 million and operates today as PNI Media.

PocketHealth is a Toronto patient-controlled medical imaging platform. Founded in 2016 by brothers Rishi and Harsh Nayyar, it lets patients access, store and share their imaging and reports, and uses AI to translate results into plain language. By 2024 it served 1.5 million+ patients across 800+ hospitals and imaging centres in the US and Canada.

PointClickCare is a Mississauga healthtech company whose cloud software runs long-term and post-acute care — nursing homes, assisted living and home health. Founded in 1995 by brothers Mike and Dave Wessinger and bootstrapped for years, it is Canada's largest privately held software company, and about 70% of North American long-term care facilities ran on it by 2020.

Points was the Toronto loyalty-commerce platform behind points and miles transactions for airline, hotel and financial-services programs. Founded in 2000 by Rob MacLean and Christopher Barnard, it traded publicly as PCOM and was acquired by Plusgrade for US$385 million in 2022.

Polar is a Toronto advertising technology company Kunal Gupta founded in 2007 as Polar Mobile, first building apps for publishers and later selling native and social display ad software. It spun its programmatic buy-side product out as a separate business, Nova, and then took the Nova name company-wide.

PolicyMe is a Toronto insurtech that sells term life insurance direct to Canadians online and underwrites it with carrier partners. Founded in 2018 by Andrew Ostro and Laura McKay, it has raised roughly $37M CAD and is extending from life insurance into home and auto.

PolicyMedical built policy and compliance management software for hospitals, reaching more than 3,000 US hospitals and health systems. Saud Juman started it in his mother's basement in Toronto and ran it for seventeen years before RLDatix acquired it.

Pool Global Partners is a Toronto venture capital firm founded by Sally Daub that invests at the seed and early stage in hard technology — quantum computing, AI and deep learning, and healthcare. Daub, who previously founded and ran semiconductor company ViXS Systems, runs Pool from Toronto with operations in San Francisco, Beijing and Vancouver.

Poparide is a Vancouver carpooling marketplace where drivers sell empty seats on city-to-city trips. Flo Devellennes and Luke Burden launched it in December 2014 as HitchPlanet, after a ride-sharing site for Whistler skiers, and took the Poparide name in 2016. It passed one million members in April 2024.

Poppy was a Seattle-based, Y Combinator-backed on-demand childcare marketplace that matched parents with vetted, qualified caregivers for flexible bookings. Founded by Avni Patel Thompson, it handled caregiver vetting, background checks, scheduling and payments before winding down in December 2018.

Portage is a global fintech and financial services investment platform inside Sagard, backing companies from early stage through growth. Adam Felesky and Paul Desmarais III launched it in 2016 as Portag3 Ventures; it now reports US$7.0 billion under management and more than 130 portfolio companies across 15 countries.

PortfolioHiWay is a Canadian fully-digital investment dealer offering an online portfolio-management suite aimed largely at family offices. A member of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF), it positions itself as a regulated digital-first way to manage investment portfolios.

PostBeyond is a Toronto employee advocacy and social selling platform founded in 2013. It gives a company's staff and partners a library of approved content to share on their own social accounts. Influitive, also of Toronto, acquired it in December 2021 and still runs the product.

Power to Girls Foundation is the Toronto non-profit Aisha Addo founded to give Black and marginalised girls the mentors and role models she did not have growing up. It runs free school-based mentoring, community sessions and recreational programming in the Greater Toronto Area, and a project in Ghana.

POWERSHiFTER is a Vancouver studio, with a Toronto presence, that designs and builds digital products and services for large companies. Led by founder JP Holecka, its clients have included Fitbit, and it has more recently positioned itself as an AI-focused agency.

Practice Better is a Toronto company selling practice-management software to health and wellness professionals — scheduling, charting, client portals, protocols and billing in one place. Nathalie Garcia and Graeme Downes founded it in 2014 after Garcia hit the admin wall in her own nutrition practice.

Prana Labs is a Vancouver wellness-technology company founded by Deepali Raiththa and Dhruv Adhia. Its app Vayu uses Apple Watch sensors and haptic feedback to guide breathing sessions that adapt to the wearer, aiming to lower stress and raise heart-rate variability. It raised $150,000 in growth funding in November 2025.

Predictable Revenue is a Vancouver B2B outbound sales consultancy and outsourced SDR firm built on the methodology in Aaron Ross's 2011 book. Collin Stewart's company Carburetor merged into it in 2014 and he has been CEO since; it reports 500+ clients and 10,000+ booked meetings.

Prelude is the cybersecurity company Spencer Thompson co-founded in 2020 after building the career-assessment platform Sokanu. It runs safe simulated attacks against a company's own systems to answer one question — are we vulnerable to this? It now trades as Origin, an endpoint observability platform.

PressReader is a Richmond, BC company that licenses newspapers and magazines from publishers worldwide and delivers them through libraries, hotels, airlines, telecoms and its own apps. It started in 1999 printing full newspaper copies in hotels and now runs a personalised digital feed.

Preview Careers was a Vancouver startup helping university students work out what to do with their degrees after graduation. It ran career services for students and, from January 2019, interview simulations where students practised with real hiring managers. Co-founder Jennifer Chan built it out of her own experience as an unfocused undergraduate.

Probably Worth Sharing is the food newsletter and recipe video project Marko Savic writes after leaving tech in 2023. He founded FunnelCake, the B2B revenue-operations product Varicent acquired in 2020, and won Salesforce's Dreampitch in 2018. The newsletter publishes recipes and stories about food alongside a YouTube cooking show.

Proceve is an enterprise project and delivery platform built to remove the root causes of large software project failure. Paul Michaud, formerly IBM's global CTO for financial markets, founded it in 2021 with chief scientist Daniel Cornejo after four decades building complex systems.

Prodigy Education makes a free role-playing game that covers the grade 1-8 math curriculum in Canada and the United States, with a reporting layer for teachers and parents. Rohan Mahimker and Alex Peters founded it at the University of Waterloo in 2011; it is based in Burlington, Ontario and they still run it as co-CEOs.

Product Hunt is the daily list where people post and upvote new software, games and books. Ryan Hoover started it as an email list in 2013; it became the place a launch goes to find its first users, and AngelList acquired it in 2016.

Proforo is Andrew Mawer's Toronto conversion-marketing company, started in 2020 after he sold the coding bootcamp Bitmaker to General Assembly. Its stated purpose is demand generation that gives prospective customers something worth having before it asks them for anything.

ProMed AI is a Canadian preventive-health company that pulls bloodwork, genetics, wearable data and medical records into one AI-driven picture of a member's health, with at-home clinical-grade testing. Co-founder and chief medical officer Dr. Ivan Cacic presented its case for predictive over reactive care at TechTO Health in March 2026.

Pronti AI is a Kitchener app that digitises your wardrobe and generates outfits from clothes you already own, plus shoppable products. Founder and CEO Mila Banerjee describes the business to investors as using closet data to predict shopping purchases. Its Velocity profile lists more than a million app downloads.

Proof was a govtech company that digitized government approval and form workflows to help Canadian public-sector teams go paperless and decide faster.

Propel is a marketplace that connects new swimmers, experienced instructors and under-used pools to make private swim lessons more affordable and accessible.

Properly was a Toronto proptech brokerage that let homeowners unlock their existing home equity to make an unconditional offer on their next home before selling the current one, backing the move with a Sale Assurance contract that guaranteed to buy any home that did not sell within an agreed window.

PROtect is a Vancouver personal-safety platform for realtors and other people who work alone, built by Merideth Schutter after two men locked her inside an open house in 2013. Users alert a chosen circle of contacts, or set a timer before entering a situation they are wary of.

ProteinQure is a Toronto biotech designing protein-based therapeutics — peptides and antibodies — with machine learning and molecular simulation. Founded in 2017, it raised an $11-million Series A in May 2025 and put its lead candidate into clinical trials that year.

Proxxi is a Vancouver industrial-safety company whose Voltage wristband senses electric fields and vibrates when a worker gets close to live equipment. Founded by Campbell Macdonald and Richard Sim after BC Hydro funded the prototype, it sells to utilities and electrical field-service firms including Schneider Electric and ABB.

Public Inc is a Toronto social impact agency founded in 2008 by Phillip Haid and Paul Estey. It works with brands, non-profits and government on community impact strategy, sustainability communications and partnerships, and is a certified B Corporation. It also keeps an office in New York.

Publicus is a Toronto AI platform that helps small businesses find and win Canadian government contracts, and helps public buyers surface, evaluate and purchase from local vendors. Founded in 2024 by Joe Noss and Akash Shetty, it monitors procurement opportunities across dozens of government websites so vendors don't have to.

Pulsecode is Ritesh Patel's Toronto product and software consultancy. It builds software for other companies end to end — product development from the idea stage, engineering, product design and DevOps — for clients it describes as ranging from Fortune 100s to early startups.

PumpUp was a fitness app built at the University of Waterloo's Velocity program and later run from Toronto. Garrett Gottlieb and Phil Jacobson founded it in 2012 as a social network for people working out, raised a $2.4M seed round led by General Catalyst in 2014, and it has since shut down.

Purpose Investments is a Toronto asset manager founded by Som Seif in 2012, best known for rules-based ETFs and for launching the world's first bitcoin and ether ETFs. It sits inside Purpose Unlimited, which also owns the small-business lender Thinking Capital and an open banking platform.

Purpose Unlimited is the Toronto financial services group Som Seif built after selling Claymore Investments to BlackRock. Its founding business, Purpose Investments, launched in 2013 and now anchors a group covering ETFs and funds, advisor services, small-business lending, digital assets and retirement income.

PwC Canada is the Canadian member firm of the PwC network, with more than 6,500 partners and staff coast to coast working in audit and assurance, tax, deals and consulting. It hosted one of TechTO's earliest events at PwC Tower in January 2015, before the community had a stage of its own.

Q2 is an Austin, Texas company that sells digital banking and lending software to banks, credit unions, alternative lenders and fintechs. It bought Toronto's Sensibill in October 2022, and Sensibill co-founder Corey Gross stayed on — he now heads data and AI there, and told TechTO what life after an acquisition is actually like.

Q4 Inc. is a Toronto company whose software runs investor relations for public companies — IR websites, earnings events, investor targeting and analytics. Darrell Heaps founded it in 2006. It listed on the TSX as QFOR in October 2021 and was taken private by Sumeru Equity Partners in a C$257M deal in February 2024. It now serves 2,600+ public companies.

QoC Health was a Toronto digital-health company whose platform connected patients at home to their care teams — monitoring, secure messaging, decision aids and integration with hospital records. Founded in 2011 by a team including Raymond Shih, it sold most of Ontario's large hospitals before Logibec acquired it in March 2021.

Qoints was a Toronto marketing analytics company, founded in 2013 by Cory Rosenfield and Harris Maxwell. It aggregated digital campaign data so brands and agencies could benchmark their own results against industry peers rather than against their own last campaign.

Qualifacts is a Nashville company selling electronic health record software to behavioural health and human services providers, serving more than 2,500 agencies across the United States. It acquired Toronto's OnCall Health in November 2022; OnCall founder Nicholas Chepesiuk stayed on to lead virtual care and innovation.

Quandl was a Toronto data marketplace that pioneered alternative data for finance, selling investors datasets that gave them a trading edge. Founded in 2012 by Tammer Kamel and Abraham Thomas, it reached 30,000+ monthly users across roughly 350 sources before Nasdaq acquired it in December 2018 and retired the brand into Nasdaq Data Link.

Quandri builds AI 'digital workers' that automate renewal servicing for insurance brokerages and agencies across North America. Brothers Jackson and Jamieson Fregeau founded it in Vancouver in 2020 — Jackson as CEO, Jamieson as president. It has raised roughly US$20 million and opened a US office in Boston.

Qudos was a Vancouver B2B marketplace for hiring professional-services firms — a place to post a need, a plan and a budget, and have firms respond against it. Founded by Ali Davar, who earlier co-founded Zite, it presented on the TechVancouver stage in November 2017. The company has since closed.

Qui Identity was the Toronto decentralised-identity company Kirk Simpson and Peter Carrescia started after Wave, raising $6.5-million CAD in 2022 to let people store and share their own identity credentials rather than leave them with every service that asks. It shipped a first product, Confirm, in December 2023.

QuickTapSurvey was a Toronto company whose mobile app collected survey and lead data offline, at events and in the field. Bootstrapped from 2011 by Tishan Mills and Ravin Shah, it was acquired by Formstack in December 2018.

Quietly is a Vancouver content marketing agency that pairs strategy and creative services with its own analytics software, Quietly Insights, which turns content performance data into recommendations for what to publish next.

Quill is a Toronto agency that creates, produces and grows branded podcasts for companies including Microsoft, PwC and RBC. Fatima Zaidi founded it in 2019 and it later built CoHost, a podcast analytics and audience-insights platform.

Quo is the business phone and customer-communication platform founded as OpenPhone in 2018 by Mahyar Raissi and Daryna Kulya. It renamed itself Quo on 23 September 2025 alongside US$105 million in growth financing, and now leads with Sona, an AI agent that answers calls and messages for small businesses.

Quupe was a Vancouver peer-to-peer rental marketplace — rent almost anything from people nearby. Founded in 2016 by four Centre for Digital Media students, it found real traction renting film and photography gear before winding down in 2022 for want of a scalable monetisation model.

QV Studio is a non-profit venture studio in Sherbrooke, Québec that creates and de-risks quantum-technology startups out of university research. Launched in November 2023 with Quantonation, Quantacet and the Québec government, it gives founders pre-seed money, lab space inside DistriQ and quantum operators to build with.

RAD Intel is a Los Angeles AI company whose models read audience language to decide which creative and which influencers will actually perform, then point spend at them. It bought the Toronto content-AI firm Atomic Reach in 2021, runs several brands off one intelligence layer, and says it has raised $88M.

Radian Capital is a New York growth-equity firm that backs bootstrapped, capital-efficient B2B software companies. It runs a deliberately small portfolio — 10 to 12 companies per fund, fewer companies than it has employees — and staffs roughly half its team with full-time operators rather than investors.

Radiant Health is a Vancouver company that has built far-infrared saunas since 1997, when a firefighter started it after using infrared heat for his own recovery. New owners took it over in 2024 and put it online for the first time; Peter Lukomskyj is CEO.

Radical Ventures is a Toronto venture firm that invests only in artificial intelligence. Jordan Jacobs and Tomi Poutanen started it after selling Layer 6 AI to TD, launched a $350 million USD first institutional fund in 2019, and closed a $650 million USD early-stage fund — its sixth overall — in October 2025.

Railz was a Toronto fintech that gave lenders and banks a single API into the accounting software small businesses already use — QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, FreshBooks — so underwriting could read live ledger data instead of uploaded PDFs. Founded in June 2020 by Sohaib Zahid, it was acquired by FIS and now ships as FIS Accounting Data as a Service.

Rakuten Kobo is a Toronto e-reading company — e-readers, an ebook and audiobook store, and a subscription service. It began in 2009 as Shortcovers inside Indigo Books and Music, was spun out as Kobo, and Rakuten bought it for US$315 million in 2012.

Rakuten.ca is the Canadian cash-back shopping site, formerly Ebates.ca. Members shop through it to partner retailers and earn a share of the commission back as cash, paid out quarterly. It is the Canadian arm of Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce and fintech group, and is run out of Toronto by General Manager Jennifer LaForge.

Ramsay & Co is the boutique storytelling-led marketing consultancy Chantaie Allick runs in Toronto. It builds brand narratives and the strategy to express them — branding, content and marketing plans — and teaches the same craft to founders and non-profit leaders through custom workshops and its Storytelling University program.

Rapid Novor is a Kitchener, Ontario biotech that commercialized de novo antibody protein sequencing — reading an antibody's sequence directly from the protein rather than from DNA. It runs contract sequencing for pharmaceutical and research clients and develops its own mass-spectrometry-based products.

Ratehub.ca is a Canadian personal-finance comparison platform for mortgages, credit cards, insurance and savings, plus the CanWise mortgage brokerage.

Ratio.City is a Toronto urban analytics platform that tells developers, planners and architects what can actually be built on a site. Co-founded by Monika Jaroszonek in 2017, it was acquired by Esri Canada in 2023 and now runs as a division focused on housing approvals.

Rawcology is a Toronto food company making certified-organic, grain-free granola and snacks free of the common allergens. Tara Tomulka founded it in 2017 with her sister and sister-in-law; the products are now sold in more than 1,500 retail locations in Canada, the United States and beyond, and are made at the company's west-end Toronto facility.

RBC is Canada's largest bank, tracing itself to a merchants' bank incorporated in Halifax in 1869 and now serving 17 million clients across Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Two of its leaders have taken the TechTO stage — a marketing chief on brand-building, and a technology recruiter on what a career inside a large enterprise actually looks like.

RBC Capital Markets is the investment banking and markets arm of Royal Bank of Canada. It says it has over 7,600 professionals in 55 offices across 16 countries, covering advisory, equity and debt capital markets, corporate banking and trading. Its fintech banker Jason Gurandiano spoke at TechTO's FintechTO in January 2019.

RBC Ventures was Royal Bank of Canada's beyond-banking division, unveiled in June 2018 to build, buy and back businesses that reached customers before they needed a bank — Ownr and Arrive among them. It merged into RBCx in September 2022 and no longer operates under its own name.

RBCx is Royal Bank of Canada's platform for technology companies, launched in June 2021. It combines the bank's innovation banking group with its venture arm to offer startup banking, venture debt and growth capital, plus a partner marketplace — one of the larger domestic alternatives to US venture lenders.

Re is an onchain reinsurer founded by Karn Saroya in 2022 after he wound down Cover. It routes stablecoin-denominated capital into conventional reinsurance programs through Cover Re SPC, a Cayman-domiciled, fully collateralized carrier, and had written $409 million of premiums since inception as of May 2026.

Reach Social was a Vancouver communication platform for postsecondary students working on group projects — a syncable calendar, messaging and shared files organised into temporary groups that expired when the project did.

Real Ventures is a Montreal early-stage venture firm that began in 2007 as the $5 million Montreal Startup fund and took its current name in 2010. It grew from a Quebec-only investor into a pan-Canadian seed fund, ran the FounderFuel accelerator, and backs companies including BenchSci, Xanadu and Transit.

REBEL is a returns recommerce marketplace that resells open-box and overstock goods retailers would otherwise send to landfill. Emily Hosie founded it in 2020 as Rebelstork, starting in baby gear and expanding into home goods in 2025.

Reckitt is the UK consumer health and hygiene group behind Dettol, Lysol, Finish, Durex and Nurofen. It was formed in 1999 by the merger of Reckitt & Colman and Benckiser NV, dropped Benckiser from its name in 2021, and employs over 35,000 people. Timo Oluschinsky spoke for it at TechTO MarketingTO in April 2019, when it went by RB.

Recursion is a Salt Lake City biotechnology company that industrialises drug discovery by running vast numbers of cell experiments and mapping the results with machine learning. It bought two Canadian AI drug discovery startups in 2023 — Toronto's Cyclica for $40 million and Valence for $47.5 million — and merged with Exscientia in 2024.

Redbrick is a Victoria, BC holding company that buys and builds internet businesses — Leadpages, Shift, Animoto, Delivra, Paved and Duplex — and runs finance, people and creative as shared services. Tobyn Sowden founded it in 2011; it is bootstrapped and a certified B Corp.

Reflect is a San Francisco mental-health company that makes finding the right therapist easier. Its data-driven matching pairs people with therapists by need and preference. Founder Jonathan TranPham started it in 2018 after his own six-month search for a therapist, and built it into California's largest therapy network.

Reframe Health Lab is a Toronto studio that pairs clinicians with filmmakers, illustrators and designers to make health information people will actually watch. Founded by Dr. Mike Evans in 2011, it operates under Mercury Films and is best known for the 23½ Hours whiteboard video.

Reitium is a Vancouver platform for fractional real estate investment: buy a portion of an income-generating property from as little as $100, collect rental income monthly, and sell that portion back on a secondary market. Co-founder Michael Moll demoed it at TechVancouver in November 2018.

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.

Relay Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm in Toronto, founded in 2008 by Kevin Talbot and John Albright out of the Royal Bank of Canada's venture arm. It writes first institutional cheques of roughly $1 million to $3 million and has backed ecobee, theScore, TouchBistro, 7shifts, and Greenlight.

Remitian, formerly TaxPay, is remittance infrastructure for tax payments: it connects to accounting firms and businesses by API so taxes owed across many jurisdictions get collected, paid and reconciled without cheques and couriers.

rennie is a Vancouver real estate services company built around market intelligence — brokerage, developer marketing and advisory, with its own chief economist. Founded by Bob Rennie, it has more than 400 people and has marketed most of Vancouver's landmark towers.

RenoRun was a Montreal company that delivered construction materials to job sites on demand, pitched as an Instacart for contractors. Founded in 2016 by Eamonn O'Rourke and bootstrapped out of two branded vans, it raised US$142M led by Tiger Global in 2022 and filed for creditor protection in March 2023.

Rent Frock Repeat was a Toronto designer-dress rental service founded by Lisa Delorme and Kristy Wieber. It started in Delorme's basement in May 2011, reached more than 54,000 members across Canada, pitched on Dragons' Den, and closed in 2020 after ten years.

RentMoola was a Vancouver fintech founded in 2013 that let tenants pay rent by credit card, debit, or bank transfer while earning rewards, and gave landlords and property managers an online collection platform. Andrew McLeod served as chief strategy officer. The company later rebranded as letus.

Repable was a Toronto and New Brunswick startup building attention and viewership analytics for the esports and live game-streaming industry, helping broadcasters, teams and brands measure the financial and social impact of their streaming presence.

ReserveOne is a digital-asset treasury firm set up in 2025 to hold a diversified reserve — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and others — for institutions and public-market investors. Jaime Leverton, formerly chief executive of the Bitcoin miner Hut 8, leads it; it announced a US$1B listing through a SPAC merger.

ResponseTek was a Vancouver enterprise customer-experience software company founded in 1999. Its Listening Platform collected customer feedback in real time and routed complaints to the people who could fix them, selling mainly into telecom, financial services and insurance. ESW Capital acquired it in May 2018.

RESPONSIBLE is a Belfast circular-fashion company founded in 2021 by Mark Dowds. It builds buy-back technology that shows shoppers what a garment will be worth second-hand and takes it back for credit, and it runs the resale and refurbishment behind it. It raised $6.6M in seed funding in 2022 and bought the re-commerce firm HARU in 2023.

Responsive AI is a Vancouver company that automates the back office for Canadian independent portfolio managers — onboarding, paperwork and compliance. Founded in 2015 by Davyde Wachell, it reported $10B CAD in client assets under management as early as 2019 and says it now runs more than 900 custodian integrations.

Retail Zipline replaces the email-and-binder way head office tells stores what to do, giving store teams one prioritized task list and head office visibility into what was actually done. Melissa Wong and Jeremy Baker founded it in San Francisco in 2014.

RETHINK Retail is a global media and community business for retail executives — podcasts, research, summits and invitation-style networks such as Top Retail Experts and Media in Retail. Sampler founder Marie Chevrier Schwartz is its chief executive; Julia Raymond co-founded it and is editor-in-chief.

ReturnBear is a Toronto company that handles e-commerce returns close to the shopper — drop-off points and regional processing instead of shipping every item back — recovering value for brands and cutting freight. Sylvia Ng founded it in October 2021; returns platform Redo has since acquired it.

RewardOps is a Toronto-based SaaS platform, founded in 2013, that helps companies build and run rewards and incentive programs. It gives businesses a single system to source, distribute and track rewards for loyalty and engagement programs. The company was later acquired and now operates under Jonas Software.

RewardStream was a Vancouver referral-marketing company whose refer-a-friend software ran programs for telecoms, banks and e-commerce brands. Founded in 1999 as a custom loyalty shop, it listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and was acquired by UK referral firm Buyapowa in 2018.

Rewind is an Ottawa company that backs up and restores the data businesses keep in SaaS and cloud apps — Shopify, BigCommerce, GitHub, Jira, QuickBooks Online and Trello. Mike Potter and James Ciesielski founded it in June 2015; H.I.G. Growth Partners took a majority stake in July 2026.

RightMatch AI is a hiring platform that screens resumes, runs AI-led video interviews and ranks candidates against an employer's own rubric, plugging into applicant tracking systems and assistants like ChatGPT and Claude. Sterling Smith founded it in 2024 after being rejected by automated screening himself.

Riipen is a Vancouver platform that embeds real employer projects into college and university courses, so students get work experience for credit. Founded in 2013 by Dana Stephenson and Dave Savory out of a University of Victoria capstone, it has delivered 318,000+ learner experiences.

Rink Ventures is Alexander Rink's advisory practice for founder CEOs: peer groups for founders running $1-million to $25-million revenue companies, one-to-one advice on strategy, go-to-market, fundraising and exits, and angel cheques into B2B SaaS, data, AI and climate companies.

Ripple Ventures is a Toronto early-stage venture firm founded in 2018 by Matt Cohen, an institutional trader turned operator turned investor. It writes $250,000 to $1 million USD cheques into inception-stage companies — often pre-product or pre-traction — across B2B SaaS, developer tools, climate software and AI.

Rise People is a Vancouver-area payroll, benefits and HR platform for small and mid-sized Canadian employers. Founded in 2011 as Paysavvy by Faiz, Wisam and Tim Abdulla, it rebranded as Rise in February 2016 to cover people and culture rather than payroll alone.

Ritual is a Toronto order-ahead app that lets people skip the line for coffee and lunch at nearby restaurants. Ray Reddy founded it in 2014 after selling PushLife to Google, growing it to 40+ cities and 2,000+ Toronto restaurants before he and the founding team left for Shopify in January 2025.

Rival Technologies is a Vancouver market-research company whose software runs studies as mobile chat conversations rather than forms, mixing text, voice and video. Andrew Reid, who earlier founded Vision Critical (now Alida), started it in 2017; it is part of Rival Group alongside Reach3 Insights and Angus Reid Group.

RL Solutions was a Toronto company whose software let hospitals report and analyse patient-safety incidents, feedback and risk — the record of what went wrong and why. Founded by Sanjay Malaviya, it merged with the UK's Datix in 2018 to form RLDatix.

Roadmunk was a Toronto SaaS company that built product roadmaps teams could actually share — visual roadmapping with prioritisation and feedback built in. Founded in 2012 by Latif Nanji, Tomas Benda and Jalil Asaria, it reached 3,000+ customers before Tempo Software acquired it in November 2021.

Roar Ventures was a Toronto early-stage venture firm set up in July 2018 by Peggy Van de Plassche to back data and AI startups selling into financial services, with banks and insurers as the intended strategic backers. Van de Plassche took the TechTO stage in January 2019 to talk about pivoting, from both sides of the table.

Robot Playtime was a Toronto edtech startup founded in 2015 by Alex Hong and Onome Igharoro. Its app, Pixel, turned a smartphone or tablet into a programmable robot that kids gave a face, a voice and behaviour with drag-and-drop blocks, and could extend with Lego Mindstorms, Arduino or Raspberry Pi.

Rocketplace was a US crypto trading platform offering commission-free buying and selling of cryptocurrency for retail investors. It shut down in 2024.

RockitShip is warehouse software for e-commerce businesses shipping at volume — picking, packing, shipping, tracking and inventory automated in one system rather than run on spreadsheets and habit.

Rootly is an AI-native on-call and incident management platform that lets engineering teams detect, respond to, and learn from outages without leaving Slack or Microsoft Teams. Founded in 2020 by Instacart alumni JJ Tang and Quentin Rousseau, the YC-backed, Toronto-headquartered company counts LinkedIn, NVIDIA, Figma, Dropbox, and Wealthsimple among its customers.

Rose Rocket is a Toronto company building transportation management software for trucking carriers and third-party logistics providers. Founded in 2015 by Justin Sky, Justin Bailie and Alexander Luksidadi, it went through Y Combinator and raised a $38 million Series B in 2023.

Rover Labs was a Toronto proximity-marketing platform founded in 2014 by John Coombs and Sean Rucker. It used iBeacon and GPS to deliver location-based content inside retailer and sports-team mobile apps, including NHL and NBA arenas. Its website is now parked and the company appears to have wound down.

Rubikloud was a Toronto retail AI company, founded in 2013, building machine-learning software for demand planning and promotional decisioning. It raised US$45M, including a US$37M Series B led by Intel Capital, and Kinaxis acquired it for US$60M in 2020.

Rule Breaker is Jessica Weisz's practice for working parents. It argues the standards are the problem, not the parent, and sells a playbook, a newsletter and speaking on blending career, caregiving and self-care without treating any of them as a failure of effort.

Online video platform founded in Toronto in 2013 by Chris Pavlovski. Rumble hosts creator uploads and livestreams and has expanded into cloud infrastructure and advertising services. Built without outside funding in its early years, the company went public on Nasdaq under the ticker RUM in September 2022, reported 56 million average monthly active users in the first quarter of 2026, and completed its acquisition of AI-infrastructure company Northern Data in June 2026.

RxFood is a Toronto med-tech company whose app reads photographs of meals with AI image recognition and turns them into clinical nutrition data, so clinicians can run dietary therapy for chronic conditions. It was founded as Inner Analytics and launched its first product with SickKids in 2015.

SafelyYou is a San Francisco company whose AI camera system detects falls in dementia care in real time and helps prevent the next one. Founded by George Netscher out of UC Berkeley research in 2015, it raised a $43 million Series C led by Touring Capital.

Sales for Life was a Toronto sales-training company that taught B2B teams to prospect on LinkedIn and Twitter when social selling was still a contested idea. Its co-founders, Jamie Shanks and Amar Sheth, went on to build the signal-intelligence company Pipeline Signals in 2021.

Salesforce is the San Francisco company that sells customer relationship management software as a web subscription. Founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez, it trades on the NYSE as CRM and reported US$41.5 billion of revenue for the fiscal year ended 31 January 2026. It demoed at TechTO MarketingTO in April 2019.

SalesHood is a San Francisco revenue-enablement platform for sales training, coaching, content management and buyer engagement, now built around agentic AI. Elay Cohen and Arthur Do founded it in 2013 after Cohen ran sales productivity at Salesforce.

Salesloft is an Atlanta-based sales-engagement software platform, founded in 2011 by Kyle Porter, that helps B2B sales teams run outreach cadences across phone, email and social. It grew into one of the fastest-growing US software companies and was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2022.

SalesRight was a Halifax SaaS startup (2018–2020) that made interactive pricing-quote and proposal software to help SaaS sales teams present pricing and accelerate deals. Founded by Bill Wilson, Taylor Bond and Greg Toner, it was acquired by FastSpring in November 2020.

Sam was a Toronto app that paired strangers for anonymous one-on-one conversations over SMS, later adding an iPhone client. Jonathan Keebler and Matt McCausland launched it in 2015 and sold it to New York's Hugging Face in September 2017.

SAMARA is a leather-free bag and accessories label Salima Visram started in December 2017 with $500 and a run of ten bags, named for her younger sister Samara, who runs it with her. It makes totes, backpacks and laptop sleeves from apple leather, castor seed, bamboo and recycled ocean plastic.

SAMETRICA is a Toronto-based SaaS company whose Impact & ESG reporting platform helps asset managers, governments, foundations and corporations map, measure and report their social and environmental impact, using its ESGenius AI engine to map data to standard frameworks like IRIS+, GRI and the UN SDGs.

Sampler was a Toronto platform that let consumer packaged goods brands send targeted product samples to consumers' homes and measure what happened next. Founded in 2013 by Marie Chevrier Schwartz, it reached 59 million+ consumers for over 1,000 brands in 23 countries. It filed for bankruptcy on June 27, 2024.

SapientRazorfish was a digital agency created in 2016 when Publicis Groupe merged SapientNitro and Razorfish. The brand lasted about three years: in 2019 Publicis folded it, together with Sapient Consulting, into a single agency called Publicis Sapient. Andrew Kirby spoke for it at TechTO MarketingTO in January 2018.

Sayda.ai builds AI voice agents that answer inbound calls, book appointments and run outbound campaigns around the clock. It is the current company of Arash Fasihi, the Vancouver founder who started Cymax Group in 2004 and grew it into the Channel Gate supply-chain platform.

Scalar Decisions was a Canadian IT solutions and cybersecurity firm founded in Toronto in 2004. It served more than 900 customers from offices across the country and published an annual Canadian security study. CDW acquired it in a deal reported at $188 million, completing the purchase in February 2019.

Scale Venture Partners is a Foster City venture firm investing in AI and B2B software, leading most of its cheques at Series A and B. It began in 2000 as BA Venture Partners, the venture arm of Bank of America, spun out under its own name in 2007, and is investing from a $900M eighth fund.

ScalePad is a Vancouver software company that sells the back-office layer managed service providers use to prove their work to clients — asset lifecycle reporting, quarterly business reviews, compliance and quoting. Founded in 2015 and led by CEO Dan Wensley, it says it serves more than 12,000 MSP partners.

ScaleUP Ventures is a Toronto early-stage venture firm founded in 2016, investing seed and Series A cheques in Canadian B2B software companies and pairing capital with a leadership council of Canadian operators. Its portfolio includes Rewind, Dooly, Nylas and Coconut Software.

Schedule1 automates the recurring compliance work of investment funds — reviewing subscription documents, watching restricted names for news, and prepping 13D/13G and 45-106 filings — for compliance and investor-relations teams in the capital markets. Saif Ajani, who earlier sold Keyhole, co-founded it.

Scheltr was a Waterloo platform for student off-campus housing, built to simplify renting for University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier students. Co-founded by Wil Schmor, a UX designer from the region's first Global Business and Digital Arts cohort, it launched to those two campuses and took the TechWaterloo stage in April 2017.

Schema App is a Guelph, Ontario company that helps enterprise brands build and manage schema.org structured data, so search engines and AI systems understand what their content is about. Martha and Mark van Berkel started it in 2013 and reached the product after two pivots away from selling SEO services.

ScribbleLive was a Toronto content-marketing platform used by brands, sports and media companies to plan, produce, distribute and measure content. Brazil's Rock Content acquired it in December 2019 and folded its Toronto and US offices into Rock Content North America.

ScribbleVet is an AI scribe for veterinarians: it listens to an appointment and writes the medical record, filtering out small talk and pushing the note into the clinic's practice management system. Founded by Rohan Relan and used by thousands of vets, it was acquired by Instinct Science in January 2026. Luke Galea is its CTO.

SE Health, formerly Saint Elizabeth Health Care, is a national not-for-profit social enterprise delivering home care, seniors' living and family caregiving across Canada. Four visiting nurses founded it in Toronto in 1908; it now employs around 9,000 people and reports roughly 20,000 care exchanges a day from its Markham base.

SeamlessMD is a Toronto health tech company whose digital care journey platform guides and remotely monitors patients through surgery, cancer and chronic care on their own phones. Founded in 2012 by Joshua Liu, Philip Chen and Willie Kwok, it sells to hospitals and health systems across Canada and the US.

SecureKey Technologies was a Toronto digital identity company founded in 2007 by Greg Wolfond. It built Verified.Me, a blockchain-based network that let Canadians prove who they are by having their bank vouch for them. Interac took over its Canadian business in 2021 and Avast acquired the rest in 2022.

Self Care Catalysts is a Toronto digital-health company that captures patient-reported data through its Health Storylines app and turns it into real-world evidence for healthcare and life-sciences. It was founded in 2010 by Grace Castillo-Soyao.

SELLIT9 builds trade-in infrastructure for retailers: a shopper hands over an old device or item at checkout and gets instant credit toward the new purchase. Josh Guttman and Oswaldo Alvarez founded it in Toronto in 2024, and it raised $4.1 million in 2026 led by BDC's Seed Venture Fund.

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.

Senso.ai is a Toronto company that builds AI for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders, predicting what a member needs before they ask. Founded in 2017 by Saroop Bharwani, it raised a $4 million CAD seed extension in 2020 to expand into the United States.

Sequence is a Toronto web3 infrastructure company founded in 2018 as Horizon Blockchain Games. It built wallets, payments and developer tooling for its own trading-card game Skyweaver, then made that infrastructure the business — and, eventually, the company name.

ServiceNow sells an enterprise AI platform that connects AI, data and workflows across HR, IT, finance and customer operations. Headquartered in Santa Clara and listed on the NYSE, it reported $3.99 billion of revenue in the quarter ended 30 June 2026 and says more than 100 billion workflows run on it each year.

Set Scouter is a Toronto marketplace that connects film, TV and commercial producers with bookable, film-friendly locations and handles payments, deposits and insurance.

Settled pairs agentic AI with human judgment to resolve disputes that are currently not worth the effort of pursuing. Its first product, TripFix, chases compensation for disrupted air passengers. Chris Houston, who founded the consumer VPN SurfEasy, co-founded it.

ShareShed was a Vancouver peer-to-peer marketplace for renting outdoor adventure gear from locals, described by its founder as Airbnb for outdoor gear. Leavetown acquired it, alongside Guiides.com, in May 2017.

Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture firm founded in 2004 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, managing about $1.3 billion. It led Series A rounds in consumer and enterprise technology — including The Farmer's Dog — and now describes its focus as software, AI and deep technology.

Sheertex knits tights from ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene, a ballistic-grade polymer stronger than steel by weight, so a pair lasts 20-50 wears instead of 3-4. Founder Katherine Homuth raised about $250M and built a 300-person vertically integrated Montreal plant before SRTX hit insolvency in 2026; Québec hosiery maker AYK International owns the brand as of mid-2026.

Sherpa is a Toronto company that tells travellers which documents they need to cross a border and lets them apply for the visa in the same place. It began as a consumer app demonstrated at TechTO in 2016 and now sells travel-documentation and eVisa infrastructure to airlines, online travel agencies and travel management companies.

Shoelace is a Toronto marketing company that launched in 2015 as a self-serve retargeting app for e-commerce and now operates as an omni-channel growth-marketing agency for DTC brands. Its original founders, Reza Khadjavi, Alexander Sloan and David Berglas, left after a 2019 growth plateau to start Motion in 2021.

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.

Shred Capital is a Vancouver firm that finances and advises scaling Canadian companies without taking equity where it can avoid it. It launched in November 2020 and sells three things: credit, consulting, and "capacity" work for governments and universities building startup ecosystems.

Shutterstock licenses stock images, video, music and data, and sells generative-AI creative tools. Listed in New York as SSTK, it holds a library of more than 450 million images from over a million contributors, owns GIPHY, and reported $221.8 million of revenue in the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

SickKids — The Hospital for Sick Children — is Canada's largest paediatric academic health sciences centre, on University Avenue in Toronto. A group of Toronto women led by Elizabeth McMaster founded it in an eleven-room house in 1875, making it Canada's first children's hospital. Its research institute employs over 2,000 researchers, trainees and staff.

Sid Lee is a creative agency founded in Montreal in 1993 as Diesel by Jean-François Bouchard and Philippe Meunier. It renamed to Sid Lee — an anagram of the original — in 2006, and works across branding, advertising, digital and retail design.

Side Door Ventures is an early-stage venture firm run by a distributed team of former founders, biotech and space engineers and growth operators, with people in Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Boulder. Daniel Dubois is one of its partners.

Sidebuy was a Vancouver marketplace connecting fashion, lifestyle and e-commerce brands with bloggers and influencers. Co-founded and led by Mona Akhavi from 2014, it signed clients including Holt Renfrew and New York Fashion Week before winding down around 2017.

Sigma HealthTech is an Oakville, Ontario company that makes SigMail, an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform Canadian healthcare providers use to communicate with patients and each other without falling back on unsecured email or fax.

Signl.fm was a Vancouver podcast platform started in 2015 by a small team out of the games industry, co-founded and led by Kim Hansen, and built around transcript-enabled listening — search, monetization, live streaming and IBM Watson transcription. Hansen took the TechVancouver stage in 2016 to talk about renaming it.

SigOne Capital was a Toronto over-the-counter, institutional-grade crypto trading desk that provided liquidity to funds and investors. Co-founded in 2018 by Genia Mikhalchenko out of TMX's Shorcan Digital Currency Network, it partnered with DV Chain in 2019 and is no longer independently active.

Silofit was a Montreal company that turned small office spaces into private micro-gyms rentable by the hour through an app, used mostly by personal trainers running their own businesses. Co-founded by Wilfred Valenta, it raised a $10M USD Series A in 2021 and shut down in August 2023.

Simple Ventures is a Toronto venture studio that finds products and services missing from the Canadian market and builds them with proven operators. Co-founded by Rachel Zimmer, who is chief executive, and Wealthsimple's Mike Katchen as chair, it aims to build 25 Canadian-headquartered businesses by 2030.

Singspiel was a Toronto music-education company whose app listened through a tablet or phone microphone and gave beginner musicians real-time feedback on what they had just played, in standard notation, across piano, violin, guitar and voice. Arian Rahbari and Ivan Cheung built it out of a Waterloo design project and raised $350,000.

Sixième Son is a sonic branding agency founded in Paris in 1995 by Michaël Boumendil. It builds audio identities — the 30-to-45-second "audio DNA" a brand adapts across its touchpoints — for more than 450 brands including AXA, SNCF, Interac and TD, and works from offices in Paris, New York, Chicago, London, Barcelona, Toronto and Singapore.

Skift is a New York business media and research company covering the travel industry — news, research reports and conferences aimed at airline, hotel and tourism executives. Rafat Ali, who earlier founded and sold paidContent, started it with Jason Clampet in 2012; the name is Nordic for "shift".

SkillGrader is the skills-assessment company Murray Goldberg spun out of Marine Learning Systems in 2023. It replaces paper evaluation forms with structured digital assessment on a phone or tablet, producing instant debrief reports and workforce analytics for organisations where hands-on skill has to be signed off.

Skinopathy is a Toronto medical-technology company using AI to screen, triage and track skin conditions, aimed at Canada's shortage of dermatologists. Co-founded in 2020 by Keith Loo and plastic surgeon Dr. Colin Hong, it runs the free GetSkinHelp assessment app.

SkipTheDishes is Canada's largest home-grown food-delivery marketplace, started in Saskatoon in 2012 by Josh Simair and his brothers and headquartered in Winnipeg. Just Eat bought it for about $110 million in 2016; it is now part of Just Eat Takeaway.com. Paul Burns has been CEO since December 2023.

Skrumble is a Toronto business-communications platform that combines phone, video conferencing, team messaging and file sharing in one app, pitched to small and mid-size businesses as a more productive alternative to Slack. Founded in 2014 by David and Eric Lifson, it later launched a blockchain arm, Skrumble Network.

Skylight was a Toronto home-renovation platform that paired homeowners with architects, designers and general contractors through a Digital Renovation Hub. Founded in 2016 by Fiona Lake Waslander and Jasper Malcolmson, its team was acquired by Opendoor in September 2021 and the platform was shut down.

SkyPrep is a Toronto software company selling a cloud learning management system that organisations use to run and track employee, customer and partner training. Founded by three brothers, it launched in January 2013 and has since added a knowledge-sharing product, BoostHQ, plus content authoring and collaborative-learning tools.

Skyrocket Digital is a Vancouver brand and digital agency founded by Mo Dhaliwal, who runs its strategy practice. Its pitch is that a brand is what an organisation actually believes rather than a set of optimised calls to action — Dhaliwal calls branding a spiritual exercise for a corporate self.

Slack is a workplace messaging platform that grew out of a failed game studio and became one of the fastest-adopted business tools of the 2010s. It opened a Toronto sales team in its scaling years, went public by direct listing in 2019, and was bought by Salesforce for US$27.7 billion in 2021.

Slate is a Vancouver company building embedded-lending infrastructure: the underwriting, risk and compliance layer that lets a software platform in Canada or the US offer credit to its small-business customers without becoming a lender itself.

SlimCut Media was a Toronto and Paris adtech company selling outstream video advertising to premium publishers, letting them run video ads on article pages that had no video. Telaria acquired it in June 2018 and it was later absorbed into Magnite.

Smart Nora was a Toronto sleep-technology company that made a contact-free anti-snoring device. A bedside unit detected snoring and signalled an insert under the pillow to gently move it, prompting the sleeper to resume quiet breathing without waking. Founded in 2015 by brothers Behrouz and Behzad Hariri, it operated until 2025.

Smile.io is a Kitchener company whose points, referral and VIP software runs loyalty programs for e-commerce merchants. Co-founder and CEO Mike Rossi told TechWaterloo in 2017 it was already powering about 20,000 reward programs. It launched under the name Sweet Tooth.

Snack is a Vancouver video-first dating app built for Gen Z, where people match off short videos rather than photo profiles. Kim Kaplan, an early Plenty of Fish executive, founded it in 2021 and raised a US$3.5 million pre-seed co-led by Kindred Ventures and Coelius Capital.

Snacko is a Toronto delivery-only convenience store. It sells chips, chocolate, drinks, ice cream and other snacks entirely through third-party delivery apps, run out of an eight-by-ten-foot shipping container rather than a storefront, and was started by former Uber Eats account manager Connor McPhail.

Snowdrop Quantum Applications is Geordie Rose's fourth company and deliberately his smallest: a software effort to show that a quantum computer available today can beat every conventional machine at one real problem. He started it in 2024 and has said he intends to remain its only employee.

SoapBox was a Toronto-founded workplace software startup that helped organizations surface frontline employee ideas and run better one-on-one and team meetings with shared agendas, goals and feedback loops. It rebranded to Hypercontext in 2021, reached over 100,000 managers, and was acquired by meeting-assistant company Spinach around 2023.

Social Design is the practice Karen Schulman Dupuis runs in southwestern Ontario. She works as a business designer — redesigning the internal systems, decision structures and leadership practices that decide whether an organisation adapts to disruption or resists it.

Social Nature is a Vancouver platform that gets natural and organic groceries into the hands of shoppers who will actually review them. Founded by Annalea Krebs in 2015, it has 1.2 million+ community members across North America and works with 600+ better-for-you brands on trial, reviews and shopper insights.

SocialHP is a Toronto company whose platform schedules social posts for a whole team and lets employees share company content without learning a marketing tool. Founded in 2011, it says more than 32,000 employees have shared 1.8 million pieces of content through it.

Societ builds case management and fundraising software for nonprofits and charities. Formerly Silent Partner Software, it rebranded in January 2024 and has served the nonprofit sector for more than 30 years, with clients in 40+ countries and offices in Quebec and New York State. HiMama co-founder Ron Spreeuwenberg became CEO in January 2025.

Socket is a San Francisco software supply chain security company that inspects open-source packages for backdoors, typo-squatting and other malicious behaviour before they reach a codebase. Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh, it raised a $40M Series B in October 2024 and says it protects over 7,500 organisations. Toronto's Ahmad Nassri is its CTO.

Soft Bar + Cafe is the alcohol-free bar and cafe Carl Radke opened at 200 Banker Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on 17 September 2025. It runs from 7am, serving coffee, tea and matcha by day and what Radke calls soft cocktails — non-alcoholic drinks built with functional ingredients — at night.

Sokanu was a Vancouver company that built CareerExplorer, a career-assessment platform developed with PhD career psychologists and used by more than ten million people a year. Spencer Thompson founded it in 2012 at nineteen; Penn Foster acquired it in March 2021.

SokJok is a Canadian athletic-sock brand founded by Angella Goran that ties sock sales to funding for youth programs across community, arts, sports and academics. Made with bamboo, its 'socks for a purpose' model lets buyers support causes; Goran later extended the mission into the sports-loyalty and insurance ventures Athletica Rewards and Athletica Protect.

Solink is an Ottawa company, founded in 2009, that connects the security cameras a business already has to the cloud and pairs the video with transaction data, so restaurants, retailers and banks can find the moment behind a refund, a discount or an incident.

Sonnet is a Canadian home and auto insurer sold entirely online, launched in 2016 by Economical Insurance — now Definity — as a direct writer that underwrites its own policies instead of selling through brokers.

Sonnet Insurance is a Canadian direct-to-consumer home and auto insurer that sells online without a broker, launched in 2016 by the 145-year-old Economical Insurance. Since 2021 it has sat inside Definity Financial, alongside the Economical brand.

SortSpoke is a Toronto AI company whose software turns unstructured documents — insurance submissions, loan files, PDFs — into structured data. Business users train it on fewer than 100 documents, with human-in-the-loop review. Founder Jasper Li is CEO; it raised US$4.5 million in 2022.

Soular was a social enterprise that made solar-powered backpacks so children in East Africa could study after dark instead of by kerosene lamp. Founded by Salima Visram, who grew up beside the Kenyan village it served, it distributed backpacks across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Soundmouse automates music cue sheets — the reports that list every piece of music in a film, TV show, advert or game, and which drive performance royalties. Headquartered in London with operations across five more countries, it was bought by BMI from Orfium in June 2026 and runs as an independent company.

Southwind Labs is a Toronto consulting and AI studio that advises, builds and invests. It sells fundraising advisory, fractional CTO and CFO cover and startup launch work, and keeps a portfolio that includes Leni, Phantom Photonics, Tab Commerce, Qoherent, Jointcare, Nanaja and Standard Contract.

SparcPay is a Toronto company that digitises business-to-business accounts payable: it captures a supplier bill, routes it for approval from any device and pays it digitally, integrating with accounting and property-management systems. Wally Vogel co-founded it in 2018; it presented at TechTO in 2021 under its earlier name, Sparcblock.

Sparkroom was a Toronto software company that measured and routed sales leads for direct-response marketers. Jamie McDonald ran it as chief executive; when its mortgage customers stopped paying in the 2008 crisis the team sold the same software to the education sector instead. CUnet, a Nelnet company, acquired it in early 2010.

Sparrow BioAcoustics is a St. John's, Newfoundland company whose software turns an ordinary smartphone into a stethoscope. Its product, Stethophone, records medical-grade heart and lung sound using only the phone's own microphone and is regulated as a medical device in the United States, Canada and Ukraine.

Speakeasy was a Toronto tool for publishing Amazon Alexa Flash Briefings without writing code. Developer Dan Comand built it so anyone could type what Alexa should say, or upload an MP3, and have it live as a daily briefing skill within minutes. It launched in January 2018 and no longer operates.

Specsy was a Toronto company that sold optical retailers a way to make custom 3D-printed eyeglass frames. A store app took a roughly 30-second 3D scan of the customer's face, designed the frames on a live image of it, and Specsy printed them in-house. It shut down in 2022.

Spectrum Equity is a growth equity firm founded in 1994, investing in software, artificial intelligence and data businesses from offices in Boston, San Francisco and London. It has backed more than 180 companies, raised $11 billion of institutional capital, and writes cheques between $25 million and $250 million.

Speer is a Toronto software and AI engineering firm that builds custom products for founders and corporate innovation teams, and files patents on what it builds. Mathew Mozaffari founded it in 2019 at 22. The Globe and Mail ranked it 42nd on Canada's Top Growing Companies in 2024 on 1,005 percent three-year revenue growth.

Spellbook puts AI contract drafting and review inside Microsoft Word, where lawyers already work. Born in St. John's after five years as legal-tech startup Rally, it shipped one of the first generative-AI contract tools in 2022 and now serves 4,500+ legal teams in 80+ countries, with a US$50M Series B led by Khosla Ventures.

Spocket is a Vancouver dropshipping marketplace connecting online retailers to suppliers in North America and Europe, so a store can list and sell products without holding inventory or paying upfront. Saba Mohebpour founded it in 2017; the platform says it now serves more than 300,000 stores across 190-plus countries.

Sprint.ly is an agile issue-tracking and project management product founded in Portland, Oregon in 2011 by Joe Stump and Graham Blache. It is best known to Canadian audiences as the company April Dunford was marketing when she gave two of her earliest TechTO talks on positioning.

Sprout Family is a Toronto company that provides fertility, surrogacy and adoption benefits to employees, combining a digital health platform with financial coverage sold through employers and insurance brokers. Founded in 2023 by Jackie Hanson and Suzanne Mason, it raised a C$1.7M pre-seed round.

Sprout Social is the Chicago company behind the social media management platform of the same name — publishing, engagement, listening and analytics for brands. Founded in 2010, it went public on Nasdaq in 2019 and now has more than 1,400 employees and customers in over 100 countries.

Square is the payments business Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey started in 2009 after McKelvey lost a glass sale he could not take a credit card for. The parent company renamed itself Block in December 2021; Square remains its seller-facing brand. McKelvey spoke at TechTO Fintech in 2020.

SqueezeCMM was a Toronto content-marketing analytics platform that measured which content actually drove business results. Jen Evans co-founded it in 2013; its own customer, Digital Journal Group, acquired it in September 2015.

SS Collective is the Toronto advisory practice Shawna Stewart runs, building the people and operating systems behind high-performing companies through advisory, coaching, facilitation and speaking. She spent 12+ years leading people and operations inside growing tech companies, including PostBeyond and Railz, both of which were acquired while she was there.

SST Wireless is a Richmond, British Columbia company that builds industrial wireless sensors and gateways — tyre pressure monitoring for trucks, buses and heavy machinery, high-temperature sensors rated to 200°C, and vibration sensors for predictive maintenance. Its own site records that its assets were acquired by Tire Monitor Systems in January 2026.

StackAdapt is a Toronto programmatic advertising platform. Ildar Shar, Vitaly Pecherskiy and Yang Han launched it in 2014 to let marketers and agencies plan, buy and measure native, display, video, connected-TV and audio campaigns from one interface. It now reports more than 1,200 employees worldwide.

Stadium Live Studios builds a mobile digital world for Gen Z sports fans — custom avatars, collectible items, chat and sports-themed games rather than scores and betting. Kevin Kim and Paul Xu started it in Toronto after a Twitter DM turned into their first venture round.

Staircase Ventures is a Toronto seed fund that leads $1-2.5 million rounds into Canadian B2B software companies and pays for its founders' coaches, financial advisers and childcare. Janet Bannister, who launched Kijiji, founded it in 2023; its second fund closed at $50 million in 2026.

StandUp Ventures is a Toronto seed fund that invests in Canadian technology companies with at least one woman in a C-level role and meaningful ownership. Michelle McBane launched it in 2017 out of MaRS Discovery District, raising $21.5 million for Fund I and more than $30 million for Fund II.

Stanley Park Ventures is a Vancouver startup studio that builds companies in-house rather than writing cheques into them, working hands-on with founders — often ones who have already tried and failed once. KOHO, the Canadian banking app, was the first company to come out of its foundry.

STAT Search Analytics was a Vancouver company that tracked, at daily scale, where websites appeared in Google's results. Rob Bucci founded it in 2009 and bootstrapped it to profitability without outside capital. Seattle's Moz acquired it in October 2018 and kept all 50 Vancouver staff.

Statflo is a Toronto company whose software lets retail and wireless sales staff message customers one to one, at scale, without turning it into spam. Founder Kevin Gervais ran it as CEO until Peter Macnee took the role in 2019; Gervais stayed on as chief strategy officer and board member.

Stathletes is a Niagara-region company that turns hockey tracking data into decisions for professional teams and broadcasters across more than 20 leagues. Meghan Chayka and Neil Lane co-founded it in 2010, starting out of a basement in St. Catharines.

Station Cold Brew Coffee Company launched in Toronto in 2014 as Canada's first dedicated coffee brewery, bottling nitro and cold brew coffee for national grocery chains from a Junction Triangle bottle shop. Founder Steve Ballantyne grew it to roughly 2,000 retail doors and sold the business to Pure Spirits in 2023.

SteadfastBeta was a Toronto user-research company Alec Levin co-founded in the mid-2010s to help startups find out what their customers actually wanted — recruiting users, running the interviews, and turning what came back into product decisions. Levin now runs Learners, the online school for researchers and designers.

Storesight is a retail intelligence company that tells consumer-goods brands what is actually on the shelf. Formed in 2024 by combining Field Agent's nationwide shopper workforce with Shelfgram's AI image platform, it measures share of shelf, stock availability, pricing and display execution from store photos.

Storycraft is a Montreal studio building an AI storytelling game in which players craft and play their own worlds together. Andy Mauro, who earlier founded the conversational-commerce company Automat, co-founded it. It raised a US$3M seed led by Khosla Ventures, after a US$2M pre-seed led by SignalFire.

StoryTap is a Vancouver video platform that prompts a brand's real customers and employees through recording short stories on camera, captures their permission to use the footage, and stitches the answers into publishable video.

Strainprint is a Toronto medical-cannabis data company. Its free app lets patients journal each cannabis session and symptom, and it rolls that anonymized data up into analytics and reports for researchers, clinicians and licensed producers. Founded in 2016 by Stephanie Karasick, it still operates in 2026.

Stratum AI is a Toronto company applying deep learning to drill-core and production data so mining companies can model where minerals sit between drill holes. Founded in 2020 by Farzi Yusufali and Daniel Mogilny, its SAIGE platform is deployed across 18 mines in 10 countries.

Strike Communications is a boutique capital markets, investor relations and corporate communications firm led by Julia Becker. It works with public and private companies across technology, media, consumer goods, mining and healthcare, handling investor outreach, messaging and quarterly reporting, and making introductions to institutional investors, retail brokerages and analysts across North America.

Studio 1 Labs was a Markham healthtech company founded in 2015 that built an intelligent bedsheet — fabric sensors reading breathing, heart rate and movement with no wires or cameras. Co-founder Edward Shim now runs Brighter Signals in Amsterdam.

Substack is a publishing platform that lets writers run a newsletter and charge readers directly for it, handling the web publishing, email delivery and subscription billing. Founded in 2017 by Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie and Jairaj Sethi, it passed 5 million paid subscriptions in March 2025.

Succession AI is a Toronto-based M&A platform for founder-led businesses. It values a business, prepares it for sale and matches owners with strategic and financial buyers for a success fee. Avril Sun co-founded it after her family's 28-year restaurant business wound down for $0, and its valuation tool is free to Ontario owners through Succession Ontario.

Sulon Technologies was a Markham, Ontario mixed-reality startup, founded in 2012 by Dhan Balachand, that aimed to build headsets blending augmented and virtual reality. It developed the Cortex headset and, with AMD, the Sulon Q — pitched as an early tether-free all-in-one AR/VR device — before winding down.

Summation is a Bellevue, Washington company building a decision-grade AI platform that reads an enterprise's internal data and answers business questions — reconciliations, variance analysis, forecasts and management reporting. Opendoor co-founder and former CTO Ian Wong started it with Ramachandran Ramarathinam in January 2024.

Summit Commercial Solutions is a Kelowna-based commercial insurance brokerage founded in 2022 that places business insurance for Canadian companies — liability, property, cyber, directors and officers, and employee benefits — pairing human advisors with its own technology rather than replacing the broker with software.

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.

Superbar is a Toronto e-commerce software startup (Y Combinator S22). Its current product, Superbar 2.0, adds a full-screen, vertical product feed to online stores that uses behavioural AI to rank products for each shopper. Founded in 2021 by Alan Nowogrodski, it started as lead-qualification tool Caddie, then built an AI sales assistant that answers shopper questions on websites.

Supermoon Capital is a San Francisco venture firm that invests only in sleep and circadian health, writing pre-seed and seed cheques worldwide. Mike Masterson, Pat Connolly and Grayson Judge launched it in August 2021 with a US$36 million first fund backed by ResMed. Its portfolio page lists 24 companies, among them Endel and Big Health.

Surge Distributed Protocols was a Markham, Ontario web3 company behind CryptoMibs, an arcade-style gaming platform whose NFT marbles run on Ethereum and Polygon. Co-founder Tanya Lindsay described it on the TechTO stage in March 2023. Corporations Canada records it as incorporated in December 2018 and dissolved by the corporation in April 2025.

Surge ERP Consulting is a Markham, Ontario firm that manages ERP system selection and implementation for Canadian companies. Its two managing partners, Dino Nosella and co-founder Tanya Lindsay, take on project rescues, vendor selection, project management, project reviews, change management and system implementations across SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and best-of-breed HR, payroll and scheduling tools.

Swift Medical turns a smartphone camera into a clinical wound measurement tool. Its Swift Skin and Wound software gives nurses touchless 3D measurement and imaging at the bedside, replacing paper rulers and guesswork across hospitals, long-term care and home care.

Swiss Business Hub Canada is the Swiss government's trade and investment promotion office for Canada. Based at the Consulate General of Switzerland in Montreal, it represents Switzerland Global Enterprise, helping Swiss and Liechtenstein companies enter the Canadian market and advising Canadian companies weighing Switzerland as a European base. Its senior investment advisor spoke at TechTO in July 2023.