Gaming startups in Toronto

Albert Lai & Greg Thomson

Founded 2011 by serial entrepreneur Albert Lai (ex-Kontagent) and Greg Thomson. Builds free-to-play social/mobile games (YoWorld, Fish World) using HTML5, grown profitably to 100+ staff across Toronto and Lo...

Nathan Vella (co-founder)

Founded 2003 out of Toronto's IGDA community; one of Canada's most acclaimed indie studios. Known for Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (2011), Super Time Force (2014) and Below (2018). A flagship of Toront...

Chris Harvey, Ryan MacLean & Graham Smith

Founded April 2008 by three ex-Pseudo Interactive programmers. Best known for the Guacamelee! series and Nobody Saves the World (2022). A long-standing pillar of Toronto's console/indie development cluster.

Collaborative indie studio/co-op

Toronto indie game developer, publisher and community space in West Queen West. Formerly a coworking/events hub, it restructured into a not-for-profit distributed member co-op supporting the city's independe...

Web3 gaming technology and analytics platform serving game studios with data, growth, and security tooling. One of Toronto's most visible web3-gaming infrastructure startups.

industry association

25+ year non-profit trade association uniting Ontario's video game and interactive digital media community; advocates on tax credits (OIDMTC), showcases studios globally and connects the ecosystem. Core comm...

Rohan Mahimker & Alex Peters

Founded 2011 (Waterloo mechatronics grads); makes Prodigy Math and Prodigy English, curriculum-aligned game-based learning for grades 1–8 with ~100M+ registered users. Raised C$159M Series B (2021) from U.S....

Ryan Cash (founder)

Founded 2012; independent developer/publisher that started with productivity apps before making games. Creator of the Alto's series (Alto's Adventure 2015, Alto's Odyssey) and publisher of Where Cards Fall a...

Free, annual 3-day game-making event running since May 2006, held at George Brown College each spring. Non-competitive gathering of hobbyists, students and pros — one of North America's largest game jams and...

Steve Piggott (founder)

Founded 2010 (Toronto office 2013) from the Age of Chivalry modding team. Broke out with a Kickstarter-funded Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (2012, Indie of the Year) and the sequel Chivalry 2 (2021), published ...

Chris Ye & Mark Lampert

Founded 2009, independent cross-platform social and mobile game studio building live-ops trivia and casual titles. Partnered with Sony to launch Jeopardy! World Tour (2017) and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire ...