eChai Toronto

Dr. Alexander Dobranowski (CEO)

Toronto-based publicly traded (TSX: AIDX) healthcare-AI company focused on early disease detection and clinical data. Aggressive M&A: acquired Pentavere (2025), VeroSource and BioPharma Services (2024), and ...

Jordan Jacobs, Tomi Poutanen, Maks Volkovs

Founded 2016; enterprise ML (deep learning, generative AI, forecasting, recommenders). Acquired by TD Bank Group in 2018 and now TD's AI centre of excellence based at MaRS, serving 27M+ customers; three-time...

Clinical-NLP AI (DARWEN engine) that turns unstructured clinical text into real-world evidence; works with 6 of the top-10 pharma companies and won the Prix Galien USA 2024 (Best Startup, Digital Health). Ac...

Christian Weedbrook

Founded 2016 by ex-U of T physicist Christian Weedbrook. Photonic quantum-computing hardware + open-source PennyLane software for quantum machine learning; opened a C$10M photonic packaging facility in Toron...

Ljubisa Bajic (founder); Jim Keller (CEO)

Founded 2016 in Toronto; AI chip / RISC-V compute company led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller (ex-Apple, AMD, Tesla, Intel). Raised US$700M Series D in Dec 2024 (Samsung Securities, AFW, Bezos Expedit...

Liran Belenzon, Tom Leung, David Q. Chen, Elvis Wianda

Founded 2015 out of the U of T Creative Destruction Lab. AI platform (ASCEND) that uses text + image ML to accelerate preclinical drug discovery; used by 16 of the top-20 pharma companies (Eli Lilly, Moderna...

Willson Cross, Sean Agari

Launched from stealth March 2024 with US$27M seed (Susquehanna, Aglaé Ventures). AI-native Employer-of-Record / global payroll platform; its 'Alberni' AI agent drafts employment contracts, runs payroll and h...

Sara Hooker (founding lead, departed 2025)

Cohere's non-profit open-science research lab, launched 2022. Its multilingual 'Aya' initiative united 3,000+ researchers across 119 countries and shipped early open models for underserved languages (Hindi, ...

Yuanming (Jon) Shu, Jon Kolominsky

Founded 2013. Converts high-resolution imagery into HD vector maps using AI; built HD maps of Toronto for autonomous vehicles (with OVIN/Ontario) and 3D vector maps of Canada's top-100 cities via an C$8M SDT...

Mohammad Norouzi, Chitwan Saharia, William Chan, Jonathan Ho

Founded 2022 by ex-Google Brain researchers; text-to-image generative model known for accurate in-image typography (a Midjourney/DALL-E rival). Raised US$16.5M seed (2023) then US$80M Series A (Feb 2024, a16...

Sam Cooper, Oren Kraus

AI drug-discovery company using machine-learning image analysis and single-cell/phenotypic data to target the tumor stroma in solid cancers. ~US$8.7M raised (investors incl. TIAP, AV8 Ventures, CTI Life Scie...

Patricia Thaine, Pieter Luitjens

Founded 2017 by U of T / Vector-affiliated researchers. Privacy infrastructure that detects, redacts and replaces 50+ types of PII across 47+ languages for AI/LLM pipelines. Raised C$10.7M (led by BDC Capita...

Lucas Siow

AI + computational (incl. quantum) design of peptide and protein therapeutics. Raised US$11M Series A (May 2025, led by Heron Rock Fund with Golden Ventures, Kensington); ~US$16M total. Lead asset PQ203, a f...

Tomi Poutanen, Mara Lederman

Launched 2022 by Layer 6 co-founder Tomi Poutanen and Rotman/CDL's Mara Lederman. Health-AI platform (AIMS) deploying real-time clinical ML in hospitals; first app CHARTWatch predicts patient deterioration. ...

Massimiliano Moruzzi

AI industrial-robotics deeptech building 'synthetic brains' (xCognition / xaCORE) that let industrial robots and cobots self-program tasks like welding, drilling and assembly with zero code. Raised US$2M see...

Dave Teare, Sara Teare, Roustem Karimov, Natalia Karimov

Founded 2005 in Toronto by two couples; the password/secrets manager began as a weekend project and became one of Canada's most valuable software firms. Used by 165,000+ businesses (IBM, Slack, Salesforce). ...

Razor Suleman

Founded 2002 in Toronto (as I Love Rewards); employee recognition, rewards and engagement HR-SaaS. ~US$155M revenue; now operates as a subsidiary of Blackhawk Network with co-HQs in Toronto, Australia and Ma...

Cole Pearsall, Allan Mai, Scott Friedmann & Rae Drake

Founded 2019; D2C/CPG food-science brand making living vinegars, vinaigrettes, hot sauces and non-alcoholic 'Proxies' wine (since spun out). Raised a $4.75M Series A and later $6M (InvestEco, BrandProject, S...

Mike Winterfield (founder)

FLAG — HQ in Vancouver, BC. Canada's largest seed-stage climate-tech VC (Certified B Corp, est. 2018), >$100M AUM across three funds, backing early-stage energy, food, water and materials startups nationwide...

Mike Murchison, David Hariri

Founded 2016 in Toronto (U of Toronto roots); AI-native customer-experience automation platform used by Meta, Shopify, Verizon, Telus and Upwork. Raised a US$130M Series C in 2021 at a US$1.2B+ valuation (Sp...

AI-native customer-service automation platform deploying intelligent chatbots/agents that autonomously resolve high volumes of support inquiries. A Toronto AI unicorn and an early Cohere customer; a leading ...

Mark Doble & Brian Chau

Toronto-based legal-AI company serving litigation teams with automated research memos, Advanced Legal Reasoning (ALR) and a self-hosted 'Alexi Enterprise' product. Raised ~$15M CAD; reported being on track f...

evolution of the MaRS Catalyst Fund

Founded 2016 and HQ'd in Toronto, Amplify Capital is an early-stage (seed / Series A) impact VC managing ~$100M across climate and health. Portfolio includes Toronto long-duration storage company Hydrostor; ...

Murray McCaig & Tom Rand (co-founders)

Formerly the MaRS Cleantech Fund, ArcTern is one of the world's largest dedicated climate-tech VC funds, investing Series A/B across renewable energy, low-carbon mobility, circular economy, sustainable food ...

Shaye Wali, Jonathan Keebler, Sergio Santinelli

Toronto fintech offering a loan-management system built for the real-estate private-lending sector. Raised CA$2.2M in 2024 led by N49P.

Stuart Szabo, Aditya Mhatre

Founded 2023 in Toronto. Fintech simplifying financial transitions for newcomers/immigrants to Canada. Raised CA$5.25M seed in 2024 and partnered with Deloitte and BMO. Co-founder Aditya Mhatre is of Indian ...

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...

Benjamin Alarie, Anthony Niblett, Albert Yoon, Brett Janssen

Founded 2015 in Toronto by U of T law professors; generative-AI tax and legal research platform delivering citation-backed answers from authoritative sources (pivoted from a prediction engine to GenAI in 202...

Benjamin Alarie

Founded 2015 as a University of Toronto Faculty of Law spinout. AI platform that predicts tax and legal outcomes and powers a generative-AI tax research chatbot (Ask Blue J). Has raised roughly US$122M / CAD...

Healthcare SaaS platform for aesthetic/elective medical practices; secured ~$20M in funding. Represents the Mississauga enterprise + healthcare-software cluster.

Andrew Graham, Eva Wong

Founded 2014 in Toronto. Free-credit-score pioneer turned diversified lending and credit-building platform (personal loans, Rent Advantage rent-reporting, Credit Builder). Over 4 million members across Canada.

Andrew Black

Founded 2013; Toronto 'studio + fund' hybrid that co-builds digital consumer brands, acting as de-facto co-founders. Portfolio/build list includes Ritual, Chefs Plate, Acid League, Our Place, Daily Harvest, ...

Agtech startup that secured ~$4M USD in seed funding (reported early 2026) — representative of the emerging Ontario/GTA agtech and controlled-environment-agriculture niche. (Verify precise HQ municipality be...

Tom Heintzman & Greg Kiessling (co-founders)

Toronto-based green-energy retailer (founded 2005) that matches customers' electricity and natural gas use with renewable generation sourced exclusively from wind, solar and low-impact hydro. A pioneering Ca...

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...

David Keith (founder)

FLAG — HQ in Squamish, British Columbia (founded in Calgary). Direct air capture (DAC) pioneer whose technology underpins 1PointFive's Texas mega-DAC plant. Acquired by Occidental Petroleum for US$1.1B (2023...

Robert Niven (founder)

FLAG — HQ in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Injects captured CO2 into fresh concrete where it mineralizes permanently, reducing embodied carbon. Co-winner of the US$7.5M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE (2021); backed by Brea...

spun out of University of Toronto (Ted Sargent lab)

A former NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE finalist, CERT Systems developed electrochemical CO2 conversion (CO2 electrolysis) that uses clean electricity and water to turn captured CO2 into ethylene, ethanol and other...

Zak Lefevre (co-founder & CEO)

Founded 2016, ChargeLab builds the OCPP-based operating system ('Android for EV charging') that runs 15,000+ EV chargers across North America with dynamic power management and 99.9% uptime. Raised a US$15M S...

Patrick Meyer & Jamie Shea

Founded 2014 from a Toronto apartment kitchen; meal-kit delivery scaled to $50M+ annualized revenue. Acquired by Germany's HelloFresh SE (closed Oct 31 2018), reportedly $50M–$100M; still operates as an inde...

Uchi Uchibeke

Founded 2020 in Toronto. Payment infrastructure originally for cross-border/mass payouts; pivoted in late 2025 toward a payments-and-identity 'passport' layer for AI agents and humans. Founder is of Nigerian...

Michele Romanow & Andrew D'Souza

Founded 2015 as Clearbanc; rebranded Clearco in 2021. Revenue-based, non-dilutive capital for e-commerce brands — has deployed $5B+ to 10,000+ online brands. Peaked at a ~$2B valuation (2021) and raised $775...

Enterprise LLM / NLP infrastructure company founded by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst (U of T / "Attention Is All You Need" lineage). Has raised ~$1.64B total; secured up to $240M CAD from the Gove...

Elijah Moore, Peter Demangos & Steven Hanna

Founded 2016, Toronto. Marketed as Canada's first all-digital HR, payroll and group-benefits platform, automating onboarding, compliance and benefits administration for SMBs. Raised $5M seed (Diagram Venture...

David Ossip

Dayforce cloud HCM was founded 2008/2009 in Toronto by David Ossip; acquired by Ceridian in 2012, after which Ossip became CEO and rebranded the whole company to Dayforce in 2024. Global cloud HCM/payroll/wo...

Brandon Truaxe & Nicola Kilner

Founded 2013; 'The Abnormal Beauty Company', parent of viral D2C skincare brand The Ordinary. Estée Lauder took a stake in 2017, went controlling in 2021, and completed a full buyout on May 31 2024 (~$860M f...

Brendan Frey

** Founded 2014 as a U of T spinout by ML pioneer Brendan Frey, Deep Genomics uses an AI "Workbench" (~40 AI tools) to discover and develop RNA-targeted genetic medicines. Raised a $180M Series C led by Soft...

Candice Faktor & Chris Sukornyk

Founded 2020 by Candice Faktor (who scaled Wattpad to 80M users) and Chris Sukornyk; an AI-powered social/cohort-based learning platform for creators and communities. Raised a US$4.75M seed (2021, GSV/Golden...

Claudio Erba

Founded 2005 by Claudio Erba (originally in Italy); AI-powered learning management system (Docebo Learn). Corporate HQ is now Toronto. IPO'd on the TSX in Oct 2019 and dual-listed on Nasdaq (DCBO) in Dec 202...

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.

Derrick Fung

Founded 2015; consumer rewards/loyalty app that gives cash-back points across 300+ merchant partners; signed up 3M+ users. Raised ~US$70M total including a US$44M ($58M CAD) NEA/HOF-led Series B (2019) with ...

Toronto founding team

Founded 2018 and based in Toronto, Dunya Habitats makes modular tinyFARM hydroponic growing systems aimed at empowering small and local growers with accessible, distributed indoor farming hardware.

public (TSX: DND)

Toronto-headquartered legal/property workflow, data and payments company; its Unity platform is a leading Canadian legal practice-management and conveyancing product, and subsidiary APIC supplies property-re...

Gregory Zhang (founder, 2013); James Larsen (CEO)

Founded 2013 as a University of Toronto / MaRS spin-out, e-Zinc builds zinc-metal long-duration energy storage that discharges over multiple days at low cost. Secured US$31M Series A2 (June 2024) led by Evok...

Stuart Lombard

Founded 2007 in Toronto; launched the first smart Wi-Fi thermostat (2008) and built a connected-home platform of devices plus cloud services/energy software. Acquired by Generac in 2021; remains Toronto-HQ'd...

Sankar Das Gupta (co-founder & CEO)

Incorporated 1996 and HQ'd in Mississauga, Electrovaya designs and manufactures lithium-ion battery systems (Infinity ceramic-separator tech) for industrial EVs, material-handling and stationary energy stora...

Travis Kanellos & Bryan Jenkins (co-founders)

Founded 2018 in Toronto, Elevate Farms builds high-density indoor vertical farms with a deep focus on photobiology (how light drives plant growth) to grow leafy greens at commercial scale with low labour and...

Mike Gettis & Rajen Ruparell

Founded 2015; Canada's leading bed-in-a-box D2C mattress brand. Acquired by Sleep Country Canada in a landmark ~$89M deal (announced Nov 2018) — $63.7M cash at close plus up to $25M in earn-outs. Founders st...

Menashe Kestenbaum (founder)

Founded 2014; a Toronto-HQ'd gaming media, content and esports company across three pillars (media, entertainment, esports). Owns the Luminosity Gaming esports org and ran the EGLX expo; formerly owned Destr...

Som Seif (interim CEO)

Toronto-based, publicly listed (Cboe Canada: ETHC) technology company providing capital-markets access to Ethereum, focused on staking yield generation and institutional-grade crypto infrastructure. Leadersh...

Max Rhodes, Marcelo Cortes, Daniele Perito & Jeffrey Kolovson

Founded 2017; B2B wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers with makers/brands. ~$13B+ valuation. FLAG: HQ is San Francisco, NOT the GTA — exclude from GTA core set despite heavy Ontario footprint.

Lorien Gabel, Andrew Cronk, Matthew Roszak

Founded 2018 in Toronto. Institutional-grade blockchain staking and node infrastructure — the access point for VC funds, custodians and exchanges earning staking yield. ~US$165M raised and valued at ~US$1.4B...

Michael Garrity, Casper Wong, Paul Sehr

Founded 2011 in Toronto. Point-of-sale financing platform for merchants in home improvement, retail and recreational-vehicle sectors. Co-founder Casper Wong became CEO in 2023; has expanded beyond home-impro...

Bryce Jones, Cameron Jones & Angelique Ahlström (co-founders)

Founded 2019 with ties to University of Toronto Mississauga, Flash Forest uses drones, aerial seed pods and AI to automate post-wildfire reforestation, planting up to ~10x faster than manual methods. Complet...

Wehuns Tan

Founded 2007 as Wishabi; rebranded Flipp in 2015. Digital-flyer, coupon and shopping-list app that digitizes retailer circulars — reached 50M+ weekly users. Raised $61M from General Atlantic (2016) with Insi...

Corporate spend-management / business-finance platform (cards, expense, bill pay) for Canadian companies — one of the fastest-scaling Toronto fintechs of the 2023–2025 cohort.

Rob Khazzam, Griffin Keglevich, Ruslan Nikolaev

Founded 2019 by University of Waterloo grads; HQ in Toronto. 'Brex of Canada' — corporate cards plus AI-driven expense and spend-management software for Canadian SMBs. Raised a US$48.5M (CA$70M) Goldman Sach...

Hossein Rahnama

Founded 2013 in Toronto (Ryerson/TMU spinout); context-as-a-service / data personalization platform that unifies disparate data sources to power personalized customer experiences, primarily for financial ins...

US firm Forum Ventures established an AI venture studio in Toronto (from 2023), securing ~$21.5M USD (~$30.2M CAD) across two funds to build AI-native B2B SaaS companies — a signal of Toronto's pull as a pla...

Mark Morissette & Imran Khan

Founded 2016, Toronto. Insurtech MGA enabling embedded small/micro-business insurance via proprietary products, dynamic underwriting and data analytics across North America. Raised ~US$12M Series B (led by I...

Ethan Song & Hicham Ratnani

Founded 2012 in Montreal's Mile End; sustainable D2C apparel + subscription, B Corp. FLAG: Montreal HQ, NOT GTA. Filed for bankruptcy Dec 2024; IP sold to Lamour Group / Thread Collective. Exclude.

Mike McDerment, Levi Cooperman, Joe Sawada

Founded 2004 in Toronto (started in McDerment's parents' basement); cloud accounting and invoicing SaaS for small and medium businesses. Grew to ~US$55M+ ARR and a ~US$1B valuation; operates across North Ame...

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...

Luna Yu (founder & CEO)

Spun out of a University of Toronto Scarborough lab, Genecis uses engineered bacteria to convert food/organic waste into PHA biodegradable plastics for fibres, packaging and consumer goods. Became the first ...

Justin LaFayette, Simon Chong, John Berton

Founded 2008; Canada's largest independent VC (~US$5.7B AUM), a growth-equity firm investing in data/AI-driven software (Series B–D, ~US$20–75M checks). Runs an in-house 20+ person AI/ML lab supporting portf...

Mark Ang & Heindrik Bernabe

Founded 2017 (originally Second Closet), Toronto. Sustainable third-party logistics (3PL) provider offering warehousing, fulfillment, shipping, last-mile delivery and returns with a growing EV fleet across C...

Mark Ang & Heindrik Bernabe

Founded 2017 (as Second Closet, a student valet-storage service); pivoted to sustainable 3PL — warehousing, fulfillment, last-mile delivery and returns for e-commerce brands, using an EV fleet (IKEA Canada p...

Matt Golden (founder & managing partner)

Toronto seed-stage VC founded 2011; the definitive local backer of the content/media/edtech cluster. An early investor in Wattpad (its stake returned more than the entire first fund on Naver's ~US$660M buyou...

Matt Golden

Founded 2011; leading Toronto seed-stage fund active across marketplace, e-commerce, food, logistics and consumer, plus SaaS/fintech. 220+ investments; consumer/commerce bets include Ritual, Properly, Rebels...

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.

All-in-one HR, payroll, and benefits platform for Canadian SMBs (4,000+ businesses), founded by Kevin Kliman and Matt Loszak. Raised a $15M Series A and later a $31M CAD Series B led by Kensington Capital Pa...

Curtis VanWalleghem & Cameron Lewis (co-founders)

Founded 2010, Hydrostor commercializes Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) for utility-scale, long-duration grid storage. In Feb 2025 it raised US$200M from Canada Growth Fund, Goldman Sachs Alte...

Tal Hayek (co-founder/CEO)

Toronto-HQ'd advertising-technology company (formerly AcuityAds) offering the illumin journey-advertising and programmatic platform. Publicly traded (TSX/Nasdaq), a veteran of Canada's adtech/media-tech scene.

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...

Benjamin Britton (co-founder)

FLAG — HQ in Vancouver, BC. Founded 2017, develops PFAS-free ion-exchange membranes/polymers for green-hydrogen production, fuel cells and green-energy storage. Named to the 2025 Global Cleantech 100; facili...

Spacetech company building a LEO nanosatellite network for space-to-space optical connectivity ("the internet for space"), designing and operating shoebox-sized satellites. A rare Toronto-HQ'd spacetech scal...

Noah Waisberg, Alexander Hudek

Founded 2011 in Toronto; machine-learning contract-review and analysis software (legal AI / data extraction), an early legal-AI pioneer. Acquired by Litera in 2021-22; spun off Zuva to serve corporate custom...

Adam Armeland & Oren Borovitch

Founded 2018 (opened 2020); called itself Canada's first virtual food hall — a ghost-kitchen / delivery-tech operator hosting many restaurant brands under one roof for delivery apps. Co-founder Oren Borovitc...

Toronto robotics/AI team

Toronto-based robotics and AI startup building autonomous (robotic) EV charging. In 2024–25 it launched a $1.7M autonomous EV-charging pilot backed by the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) — a $500K ...

Elliot Ngai & Wister Ng

Founded 2015, Toronto. Bootstrapped (self-funded) payroll, HR and benefits SaaS built specifically for Canadian small businesses. A lean operation (~16 staff) profitably serving ~1,000 small-business customers.

Joanna Griffiths

Founded 2013 via crowdfunding; D2C leakproof underwear and intimates brand. In 2022 Swedish hygiene giant Essity acquired 80% for US$320M, valuing Knix at ~US$400M — the largest publicly disclosed sale of a ...

Travis Ratnam (co-founder/CEO)

Founded 2014; a Toronto-HQ'd math instructional-guidance platform that surfaces student misconceptions for K-12 teachers. Raised a C$20M Series A in 2020 amid pandemic edtech demand (backers include John Doe...

Daniel Eberhard, Mike Benna

Founded 2014 (Vancouver-founded, now Toronto-HQ). Neobank offering spend-and-save accounts, credit-building and now pursuing a Schedule 1 banking licence. Reached unicorn status in 2026 with a CA$130M Series...

Rami Helali, Mackenzie Yeates & Benjamin Sehl

Founded 2015; ethical D2C apparel built on a traceable Egyptian-cotton supply chain (7,000+ smallholder farms). Certified B Corp with an ABCs education initiative funding 23+ schools in rural Egypt. Flagship...

Michael Serbinis, Todd Humphrey

Founded 2014 in Toronto by serial founder Mike Serbinis (previously sold Kobo and DocSpace); SaaS platform powering digital health/benefits experiences for benefits providers, governments and large payers. R...

Adam Reeds, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo

Founded 2018 in Toronto; issued Canada's first bitcoin-backed loan. Now one of the world's largest crypto-backed consumer lenders, originating ~US$1.4B in loans in 2025 with ~US$100M ARR and an estimated 30%...

Ajay Kochhar & Tim Johnston (co-founders)

Founded 2016 by U of T engineering alumni, Li-Cycle recycles lithium-ion batteries via proprietary 'Spoke & Hub' technology to create a closed-loop battery supply chain. Went public on NYSE (2021) and cumula...

Zak Hemraj, Matt York, Jafar Owainati

Founded 2014 in Toronto (bootstrapped for years); AI-powered RFP/RFI/DDQ and security-questionnaire response software serving 1,700+ global companies. Raised ~US$200M+. Note: co-founders Zak Hemraj and Jafar...

Ross Andrew Paquette

Founded ~2010/2011 in Toronto and bootstrapped (no outside investment for years); marketing automation, email and unified customer-engagement / commerce platform for B2C brands and retailers. Deloitte Techno...

Cleantech / Climate practice

North America's largest urban innovation hub and anchor of Toronto's climate ecosystem, MaRS supports 1,200+ ventures and runs cleantech programs including the First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Lab for scaling first co...

Canada's flagship space-technology company (Canadarm heritage), with global HQ and its space-robotics Centre of Excellence in Brampton — labs, manufacturing, R&D, assembly, and test. Anchors the GTA's spacet...

Noura Sakkijha & Majed Masad

Founded 2015; D2C fine-jewellery brand marketed to women buying for themselves. Third-generation Jordanian jeweller Noura Sakkijha raised a $23M NEA-led Series B (2019, joined by Felix Capital, Net-a-Porter)...

Proptech startup providing AI tenant screening and credit-building tools for landlords; raised a $9.9M CAD (~$7.5M USD) seed round. Part of Toronto's active proptech cohort.

Govtech / AI startup bringing AI to the "black box" of government contracting. Raised an $18M USD (~$24.6M CAD) Series A led by Menlo Ventures, closing Q4 2025 — one of the more notable govtech rounds in the...

Canada's largest educational publisher

Toronto-HQ'd, Canada's largest K-12 and higher-ed educational publisher, increasingly a digital-learning and courseware provider. An established anchor and channel partner in the local edtech ecosystem (e.g....

Dustin Walper

Founded 2018 in Toronto. CIRO-registered retail crypto trading platform tailored to Canadians, offering 70+ digital assets, instant buy/sell and staking. User base exceeding 800,000 Canadians.

Regan McGee

Founded 2017, Toronto. AI/data-driven marketplace that connects home buyers and sellers with real-estate agents who compete on services and fees. Reached a reported ~US$260M pre-money valuation; note: founde...

Jason Tham, K. Donald Tham, Sean Kirby, Kevin Wong, Jason Yuen

Founded ~2002 in Toronto; cloud supply-chain platform for contract manufacturing, co-packing and external supply networks in CPG. Partners with OMP for life-sciences/chemical supply chains. Deep-domain enter...

Raghavender Sahdev & Bao Xin Chen

Founded 2019, Toronto. Autonomous middle-mile trucking: a retrofit system (controls, sensors, compute, NVIDIA DRIVE) that converts existing Class 8 trucks to drive autonomously on fixed short-haul routes bet...

Han Xiao

Founded 2020 in Toronto. Financial-wellness app offering an interest-free line of credit (up to ~CA$150) and credit-building to help consumers cover unexpected expenses and avoid overdraft.

Amar Ahluwalia, Jakob Pizzera, Nathan Di Lucca (DUAL-HQ Calgary/Toronto)

Wealthtech providing a no-code, configurable wealth-management platform (used by firms like Neo Financial) with a Toronto office; note the company is dual-HQ'd with Calgary. Closed a US$20M (CA$29M) Series B...

Chris Overholt (CEO) & Adam Adamou

Toronto-HQ'd esports and entertainment company operating the Toronto Ultra (Call of Duty League), Toronto Defiant (Overwatch League) and MAD Lions franchises, with operations in Madrid and Berlin. Opened a 1...

Bryn Jones, Neil Chudleigh, Jonathan Mendes, Luke Swanek

Founded 2015 in Toronto; partner-ecosystem / partnerships and channel (PRM) SaaS with a marketplace network of 450,000+ partners. YC-backed. In April 2026 became part of AppDirect. Toronto partner-tech leader.

Yanal Dhailieh

Founded 2014; Toronto-pride and mission-driven D2C apparel/accessories brand that donates a portion of every purchase (mental-health and social causes). Bootstrapped digitally-native brand with a strong loca...

Derek Lim Soo (co-founder & CEO)

Founded 2015, Peak Power is a clean-energy software company whose Peak Synergy platform optimizes battery storage, grid-interactive buildings and EVs, aggregating distributed energy resources into virtual po...

Alex Leduc

Founded 2018, Toronto (MaRS / Communitech). Free homeownership analytics platform plus in-house mortgage advisory that helps Canadians model buying, refinancing and wealth-building through real estate. Selec...

Justin Herlick & Jonathan Shih

Founded 2021, Toronto. Digital mortgage lender pitched as a 'Wealthsimple for home buying'; surpassed $1B CAD in mortgages under administration by 2025 and launched an AI real-estate search suite (Pine Homes...

Hamed Abbasi, Serguei Kloubkov

Founded 2015 in Toronto. Payment-automation platform for accounts payable/receivable and cross-border payments, serving 10,000+ North American SMBs with flat-fee international transfers. ~CA$26M raised from ...

Long-term / senior-care cloud software leader, one of the GTA's largest healthtech companies; has raised ~CA$297M. A Mississauga enterprise-healthtech anchor.

Christopher Barnard, Rob MacLean

Founded 2000 in Toronto; loyalty-commerce platform powering ~60 of the world's leading reward/loyalty programs (airlines, hotels). Was public (TSX: PTS / Nasdaq: PCOM) until Montreal's Plusgrade acquired it ...

Andrew Ostro, Laura McKay & Jeff McKay

Founded 2018, Toronto. Digital insurtech offering fully-online term life insurance (up to $5M coverage) and expanding into new products with big-name distribution partners. Raised ~$37M total across seed, Se...

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....

Proptech company modernizing home buying/selling with an iBuyer-style model; raised a $22M Series A. A recognizable Toronto proptech name in the 2023–2025 window.

Darrell Heaps

Founded 2006 in Toronto; leading investor-relations (IR) operations software with the largest proprietary investor dataset, serving 2,600+ public companies. Went public then private via Sumeru Equity Partner...

Jordan Jacobs, Tomi Poutanen, Salim Teja, Aaron Rosenberg

Founded 2017; Toronto-based, AI-only venture firm and the ecosystem's most important local capital source. Early backer of Cohere, Waabi, Untether AI, Signal 1 and Writer. Closed a US$650M early-stage Fund I...

Alyssa Richard, James Laird

Founded 2010 in Toronto. Canada's leading financial-product comparison platform; owns mortgage lender CanWise, RH Insurance brokerage and MoneySense. Named ex-SoFi/Goldman leader Naga Parvatharajan CEO (2024...

Emily Hosie

Founded 2020; re-commerce marketplace for open-box and returned baby gear, processing overstock/returns for 2,500+ brands (Hudson's Bay, BabyBjörn, 4moms, Target). Raised a $24.45M CAD (US$18M) Series A in 2...

Yoseph West, Paul Klicnik

Founded 2018 in Toronto. Online business-banking and cash-flow platform targeting US SMBs. Raised a US$32.2M (CA$44M) Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures in 2024 and a further US$50M from General Catalyst'...

Amy Ding

Founded 2020 in Toronto. Proptech/mortgage fintech running a modernized rent-to-own program that lets aspiring buyers occupy a home now while saving for a down payment. Closed CA$26M in equity and debt in Ja...

Ray Reddy, Larry Stinson & Robert Kim

Founded 2014; social food-ordering / pickup app for restaurants. Raised US$120M+ from Greylock, Insight, Georgian Partners and others; a Georgian-led round valued it above US$300M. CEO Ray Reddy (Indian-orig...

Justin Sky, Justin Bailie & Alexander Luksidadi

Founded 2015, Toronto. Modern, API-first Transportation Management System (TMS) connecting carriers, brokers, shippers and drivers; added email-reading automation via acquisition. Raised ~US$38M Series B (~$...

Kerry Liu, Frank Thomas & Dan Theirl

Founded 2013; AI-based demand forecasting and trade-promotion / pricing optimization for retail and CPG. Acquired by Ottawa's Kinaxis for $81.4M CAD (US$60M), closing July 2 2020; CEO Kerry Liu became EVP of...

Marie Chevrier Schwartz

Founded 2013; digital product-sampling SaaS platform helping CPG brands (L'Oréal and others) distribute targeted, measurable samples. Raised ~$13M CAD total (BDC Women in Tech, StandUp Ventures, EDC, MaRS IA...

Etai Mizrahi, Andrew McEwen

Founded 2021 in Toronto (YC-backed); AI-powered data catalog / governance, lineage and discovery platform for data teams. Raised ~US$16M (Series A led by Craft Ventures). Acquired by Atlassian in December 20...

FLAG per instructions: Shopify is Ottawa-HQ'd, NOT GTA. Noted only to pre-empt inclusion.

Albert Chow & Kenneth Mo

Founded 2017; digitally-native D2C home-furnishings brand (mattresses, bed frames, bedding, furniture) at accessible price points. Acquired by Sleep Country Canada in 2023 — Sleep Country's second Toronto D2...

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...

Web3 company extending blockchain principles to off-chain, decentralized data management (products include DefraDB and the SourceHub protocol); raised funding from Delphi Ventures. A deep-infrastructure web3...

Vitaly Pecherskiy, Ildar Shar, Yang Han

Founded 2014 in Toronto; AI-powered programmatic advertising / demand-side platform. ~1,300 employees across 19 markets. In Feb 2025 secured US$235M led by Ontario Teachers' Venture Growth at a ~US$2.5B valu...

Amanda Hall (founder & CEO)

FLAG — HQ in Calgary, Alberta (West-coast operations). Direct lithium extraction (denaLi DLE) that converts brine into battery-grade lithium hydroxide at the mine site with lower water/chemical use; deployme...

Smart-grid / grid-management software company headquartered in Brampton, enabling utilities worldwide to run reliable, efficient, sustainable energy networks. A cleantech/enterprise anchor of the Brampton In...

Stephany Lapierre

Founded ~2014/2015 in Toronto; AI-driven Supplier Data Platform that autonomously enriches supplier/vendor master data across millions of global suppliers for procurement teams. Acquired by Supplier.io in Ap...

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...

Mike Silagadze, Mohsen Shahini

Founded 2009 (started in Waterloo, now Toronto-HQ'd); higher-ed courseware and student-engagement SaaS used across North American universities. Backed by Georgian, Union Square Ventures and others. Toronto e...

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 ...

Emerged from stealth in 2025 with a US$6M seed round. Collaborative payments platform enabling secure, real-time data sharing between merchants, banks and service providers to combat global payments fraud.

Ali Asaria

Founded 2013; mobile clienteling / retail-associate SaaS giving store staff inventory, product and customer data (clients: Saks, Michael Kors, Indigo, Toys 'R' Us). Raised ~$70M total including a US$28M Seri...

Yoav Schwartz, Randy Frisch

Founded 2012 in Toronto; content-experience platform (martech) for building and personalizing buyer-journey content streams. Acquired by PathFactory in July 2024 (both are Toronto-area martech). Part of the ...

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 ...

Ron Benegbi, Patrick Reily

Founded 2021 in Toronto. AI-driven credit-scoring and risk-assessment infrastructure that helps small-business lenders extend fairer credit, using alternative data. Founder is an immigrant entrepreneur (not ...

Don Mal, George Papayiannis, Rishi Grover

Founded 2011 in Toronto (built out of a co-founder's parents' basement); FP&A / financial planning platform native to Excel and Microsoft 365. Crossed US$100M revenue in 2024; raised ~US$476M total, includin...

Mark Bordo & Regan Johnson

Founded 2020; veterinary telemedicine marketplace connecting pet owners with vets over video/text/audio, plus pet-med commerce. Raised a $12.25M Series A (Whitecap, Brightspark) and an oversubscribed $37.8M ...

Autonomous-driving (self-driving trucks) company founded by U of T professor Raquel Urtasun, using an AI-first "Waabi World" simulation approach. Reported to have reached unicorn status as of January 2026 — ...

Benjy Katchen

Founded 2020, Toronto. Digital, AI-powered real-estate platform offering streamlined historical data across ~400 GTA neighbourhoods plus multiple buy/sell service tiers. CEO Benjy Katchen previously founded ...

Derek Szeto, Oliver Wennergren

Toronto insurtech providing an embedded-insurance technology platform that lets enterprises and financial institutions distribute insurance inside their own products. Raised CA$4.6M in 2024 led by National B...

Allen Lau, Ivan Yuen

Founded 2006 in Toronto; storytelling/social-publishing platform with a large creator community and a data/IP-licensing (Wattpad Studios/Webtoon) business. Acquired by South Korea's Naver in 2021 for ~US$600...

Michael Katchen, Brett Huneycutt, Rudy Adler

Founded 2014, Canada's anchor consumer fintech — commission-free investing, trading, saving, crypto and tax. In October 2025 raised CA$750M at a CA$10B valuation, one of Canada's most valuable private tech c...

Ali Asaria

Founded 2008; pioneering Canadian online health/beauty/household retailer (40,000+ SKUs). Acquired by McKesson Canada (Dec 2017); resold to PE firm Birch Hill Equity Partners (Sept 2024). Founder Ali Asaria ...

Dean Skurka (CEO)

Toronto-HQ crypto group operating Canada's largest regulated exchanges (Bitbuy, Coinsquare) after consolidating CoinSmart, Bitbuy and Coinsquare; 1.7M+ registered Canadians and CA$1.5B+ in custody. Acquired ...

Photonic quantum-computing company building quantum hardware and the PennyLane open-source software framework; one of Toronto's marquee deep-tech "soonicorn" names in quantum.

Diana Virgovicova, Kerem Topal Ismail Oglou & Shirley Zhong (co-founders)

Founded 2024 out of the University of Toronto / Western, Xatoms uses AI and quantum chemistry to discover new light-activated materials for solar/LED water purification (purifies water in ~30 minutes). Close...

Danish Yusuf & Sultan Mehrabi

Founded 2016, Toronto. Digital commercial-insurance brokerage for small businesses, contractors and startups, quoting general liability, property, cyber and professional liability across 50+ carriers with cl...