Toronto-based startups who hired in last year and are currently hiring
15Rock operates an autonomous AI reasoning platform with a dual-AI architecture (Athena analysis, Arcos verification), delivering contextual analysis and real-time decisioning to institutional clients and specialized subsidiaries.
October’s Very Own (OVO) is a Toronto-founded lifestyle and streetwear brand created by Drake, Oliver El-Khatib and Noah “40” Shebib that sells premium apparel and accessories through 12 flagship stores and a global e-commerce platform.
Bench IQ operates an LLM-powered judicial intelligence platform that aggregates proprietary judicial data and uses AI agents to infer judges’ reasoning and surface case-specific insights for litigators.
Greenspace Health provides SaaS measurement-based care software that enables mental-health providers and organizations to implement real-time patient-reported outcome measures to inform clinical decision-making, patient engagement, and care coordination.
Rentsync provides listing marketplace Rentals.ca, workflow software, and data analytics to streamline rental property marketing, leasing, and property management for owners, REITs, and managers in Canada.
Greenspace Health provides SaaS measurement-based care software that enables mental-health providers and organizations to implement real-time patient-reported outcome measures to inform clinical decision-making, patient engagement, and care coordination.
Cohere builds enterprise-grade large language and vision models that companies can deploy with full data sovereignty.
Figment is a Toronto-based blockchain infrastructure provider that offers staking, node operations, governance tools, and data analytics for institutional clients, protocol teams, and developers.
MedMe Health provides a configurable web-based platform for pharmacies to manage scheduling, intake, documentation, patient communication, and clinical services (vaccinations, POCT, chronic care), with AI-powered transcription and voice agents.
Klick Group is an independent life‑sciences commercialization agency providing marketing and media buying, medical affairs and communications, value/market access, and omnichannel enablement with in‑house medical experts and decision‑sciences.
Birdseye is a Toronto-based startup that offers AI-driven direct-mail marketing and a new competitive-intelligence platform called Yolando.
Asepha builds interoperable AI agents for pharmacies—OCR prescription-entry, call automation, and browser-navigation agents that automate administrative tasks and streamline real-time pharmacy workflows.
Tailscale provides an identity-first, zero-trust networking service that uses WireGuard to create peer-to-peer encrypted meshes, integrating with identity providers to simplify NAT traversal and access control.
Float is a Canadian fintech platform that unifies high-limit corporate cards, high-yield business accounts and automated spend management for more than 6,000 Canadian businesses.
floatfinancial.comCritical One is a mining company developing an antimony exploration and production project, focusing on resource identification, permitting, and mine development.
APX Lending is a Toronto-based fintech that issues crypto-backed loans to Canadian customers.
Portless operates an e-commerce and DTC fulfillment platform with a Shenzhen fulfillment center and U.S. HQ, enabling brands to buy only needed inventory and ship direct with domestic‑like delivery.
Edgecom Energy provides AI-powered energy management software for commercial and industrial facilities, offering peak demand prediction, demand response, real-time monitoring, and distributed energy resource management via an AI CoPilot.
Shared Tower develops, owns, and operates carrier-neutral communications towers and shared infrastructure under long-term contracts to enhance mobile and broadband connectivity across Canada.
Linda Lifetech develops patented health-tech hardware and software for the early detection of breast cancer.
Lake.com is a Toronto-based vacation-rental marketplace focused exclusively on lakeside properties, offering standardized policies, AI-driven discovery, and transparent pricing.
UDCS is a fully integrated Canadian data‑centre platform that develops, designs, constructs and operates hyperscale facilities, managing ~2 million sq ft and ~172 MW total capacity with Toronto expansion.
Kuvi.ai provides an Agentic Finance OS: an AI text-to-trade interface using a modular agent framework and fine-tuned LLMs to execute natural-language token trades and condition-based automations across blockchains.
Waabi is a Toronto-based Physical AI company developing a single, verifiable AI brain and neural simulator for autonomous trucks and robotaxis.
Looki is an AI-native hardware startup building wearable multimodal AI devices.
Altura is a decentralized-finance (DeFi) platform.
Glassbox is a Toronto-based fintech startup reinventing Excel-compatible spreadsheets with an AI-ready framework called FinScript for faster, error-reduced financial analysis.
Xatoms develops solar-activated, infrastructure-free water-treatment materials discovered via AI and quantum chemistry, purifying pathogens, heavy metals, and chemical contaminants within 30-minute using sunlight or LED for off-grid sites.
Page is a government relations software platform using AI and LLMs to process video, audio, and text, providing tracking and monitoring tools for legislation, consultations, meetings, and government activity.
Intrepid Labs' Valiant is a modular AI-driven robotic lab automating selection, preparation, and analysis of drug formulations, and develops oral and long-acting injectable formulations for small molecules and biologics.
GoodLeaf Farms is Canada’s only national vertical farming operator producing baby greens, micro-greens and specialty salad blends year-round.
Modern Campus provides a learner-to-earner higher education platform combining a purpose-built CMS, catalog and curriculum management, student engagement and career-pathways tools, and a workforce-focused student information system.
Brim Financial delivers an end-to-end, API-driven payments and credit-card platform that lets banks, credit unions and fintechs quickly launch and manage modern card programs.
FundThrough is a Toronto-based fintech that operates an online invoice-financing marketplace connecting SMBs' accounting and bank data to deliver near-instant working capital and business banking, card, and analytics services.
Frugal AI offers an Application Cost Engineering platform that automatically optimizes source code to cut cloud and AI service expenses for developers and FinOps teams.
The Home Equity Partners offers Canadian homeowners an upfront cash option through a Home Equity Sharing Agreement that involves no debt, interest, or monthly payments.
Ribbon provides an AI-powered, round-the-clock voice interviewer and hiring analytics platform that automates candidate screening and evaluation for startups, staffing agencies, and enterprise HR teams.
Fisent Technologies provides BizAI, an applied generative-AI platform that automates back-office workflows such as contract analysis, client onboarding, purchase order processing, expense/reimbursement interpretation, and customer request resolution.
Brickeye is a Toronto-based construction technology company that offers an IoT-powered platform for real-time monitoring and risk mitigation on jobsites.
Astrus develops reinforcement‑learning AI that automates analog IC placement and routing, generating manufacturable physical layouts from schematics and constraints, with parasitic‑aware models for multiple circuits and technology nodes.
AWAKE Chocolate produces Fairtrade, caffeinated functional chocolate bites and bars (vegan, non‑GMO, no artificial colors/flavors), distributed across Canadian retailers and U.S. food‑service/vending, scaling via co‑manufacturing, R&D, and influencer-driven marketing.
Cardiol Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing cannabidiol-based therapies for inflammatory heart diseases such as recurrent pericarditis, acute myocarditis, and heart failure.
Vena provides a cloud-native corporate performance management platform that turns Excel into a centralized planning system for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, scenario analysis and financial consolidation, integrated with Microsoft technologies.
HydroBlok manufactures lightweight, 100% waterproof, mold‑proof composite construction panels (HydroBlok One) that integrate insulation to replace drywall and sheathing, scaling US manufacturing, distribution, and product R&D.
FutureVault provides a digital vault platform that centralizes and automates client, advisor, and enterprise documents via bi-directional integrations, extracting data with private LLMs and OCR to power CRM workflows.
Alexi provides a proprietary AI litigation platform that generates legal research memos, identifies key issues and arguments, automates routine litigation tasks, and offers self-hosted enterprise deployments for law firms.
Xanadu Quantum Technologies builds photonic quantum computers that leverage particles of light to perform calculations beyond the capabilities of classical machines.
Infrared is a proof-of-liquidity staking protocol on Berachain that offers liquid staking for BGT and BERA, issuing iBERA tokens that capture validator rewards and can be deployed across DeFi.
Paradox Immunotherapeutics is a preclinical biotech using a lead-identification and validation platform to develop antibodies that selectively target misfolded proteins, pursuing therapies for AL amyloidosis and LECT2.
Cybrid is a Toronto-based platform that provides compliant stablecoin and fiat payment infrastructure through a single API.
Micruity provides data infrastructure that links recordkeepers, asset managers, and insurers to deliver lifetime income solutions within workplace retirement plans.
Science&Humans is a Toronto-based healthcare technology company that delivers personalized, evidence-based hormone health care to men and women through an integrated clinical and digital platform.
Ownright provides a digital real-estate law platform combining automation and on-demand legal expertise for remote property closings, mortgage refinancing, condo status certificate reviews, with document uploads and real-time tracking.
Feroot is a Canadian cybersecurity startup whose AI agents continuously scan websites and applications to keep them secure and compliant with more than 50 privacy and data-protection regulations.
Repliers is a developer platform for real-estate data offering APIs and a developer portal with sandbox, docs, API key management, AI-powered listing/image search, valuations, geospatial tools and API firewall.
Crewscope is a jobsite productivity platform for critical-path trades that combines weekly planning, real-time progress feedback, and performance-based incentives to align field crews and reduce schedule risk.
Spellbook is a Toronto-based AI platform that integrates with Microsoft Word to help lawyers rapidly review and draft contracts using large language models.
Una Software provides an AI-powered FP&A and revenue intelligence platform that unifies finance and go-to-market data to deliver dynamic forecasting, anomaly detection, natural-language querying, and execution tracking.
Silver Mountain Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration company advancing projects in Peru.
ContactMonkey provides an internal communications platform integrating with Outlook, Gmail, Teams, SMS and HRIS systems to deliver announcements, manage segmented employee lists, collect feedback, and report engagement analytics.
1Password is an identity security company that offers an Extended Access Management platform for millions of consumers and 175,000+ enterprise customers.
Stablecorp is a Canadian fintech building bank-grade digital asset infrastructure, most notably the fully-reserved Canadian dollar stablecoin QCAD.
R-LABS is a real estate venture builder that co-creates and scales startups with corporate partners to develop solutions for housing affordability, climate resiliency, community planning, and building optimization.
Blue J provides a generative AI platform for tax and legal research, analyzing case law, predicting outcomes, citing authoritative sources, with a conversational interface, diagramming, and drafting tools.
Afynia Laboratories operates a Hamilton-based lab offering EndomiR, a PCR-and-algorithm blood test measuring circulating microRNA biomarkers to generate endometriosis risk scores, validated across studies and deployed to fertility clinics.
Synaptive Medical develops integrated surgical hardware and software—Modus V exoscope, Modus Nav, Modus Plan and a head-only 0.5T MRI—providing automated cranial imaging, navigation, visualization and OR data integration.
Electric Mind is an AI-led engineering and consulting firm that helps financial institutions modernize systems, automate workflows, and build data-driven platforms.
PolicyMe is a Canada-focused digital insurer offering online term life, critical-illness, and health & dental products with automated quoting/underwriting, end-to-end applications, and a white-label B2B2C platform.
Mycroft provides an AI-native platform that serves as an autonomous Security and Compliance Officer, automating enterprise-grade security, governance and IT operations for growing companies.
Canada Rocket Company is developing reusable methalox-powered launch vehicles to provide sovereign space access for Canadian national security and commercial missions.
Smile Digital Health provides a FHIR-based health data fabric and exchange with ONC-compliant event-driven FHIR APIs, clinical reasoning, digital quality measures, and electronic prior authorization for providers and payers.
NLPatent is a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to streamline patent research for legal professionals and tech companies.
Quadshift acquires vertically focused, mission-critical B2B software businesses and integrates talent with specialized operating teams to provide hands-on finance, back-office, marketing, sales, IT, product development, and AI-driven deal sourcing.
Mave is a Toronto-based AI platform that enables real-estate brokerages and their agents to scale branding, operations, and client service through industry-trained virtual experts.
Felix Health is a Toronto-based direct-to-consumer virtual care platform that provides online consultations, prescriptions, and preventive health testing across multiple therapeutic areas.
Moonvalley builds AI video models and Marey, a videography platform for filmmakers and enterprises producing short HD clips with fine-grained camera controls, licensed training data, storyboard UI and API.
Phoenix operates a Canada-wide telehealth clinic for men, connecting patients with licensed physicians for erectile dysfunction, weight-loss, and hair-loss assessments, prescriptions, and discrete medication fulfillment.
The Home Equity Partners offers Canadian homeowners an upfront cash option through a Home Equity Sharing Agreement that involves no debt, interest, or monthly payments.
StackAdapt is a Toronto-based programmatic advertising platform that uses AI-driven targeting and automation to buy native, display, video, CTV, audio, and gaming inventory across aggregated exchanges and publisher sites.
Sterling Brokers is a Toronto-based benefits brokerage and third-party administrator that delivers tech-enabled group benefits solutions through a proprietary platform.
Boardy AI operates a phone-based networking service where an AI voice agent interviews callers, searches its expanded network for relevant matches, and facilitates double-opt-in introductions via email.
Adaptis provides an AI decision-support platform that integrates financial, sustainability, and operational building data to prioritize retrofit and decarbonization opportunities and embed recommendations into capital planning.
Next Hydrogen designs and manufactures patented water electrolyzers that produce green hydrogen for decarbonising transportation and industrial sectors.
Augmenta provides a cloud-native AI platform that automates constructible, code-compliant MEP building system designs—initially electrical raceway routing—using machine learning, generative design, and mathematical optimization for engineers and contractors.
Assetflo provides IoT-powered mesh-network technology that makes physical assets searchable and traceable both indoors and outdoors for enterprise logistics and manufacturing customers.
Axelar is a decentralized interoperability platform providing APIs, SDKs and the Mobius Development Stack to enable permissionless cross-chain communication, asset transfer, wallet and validator integrations across multiple blockchain networks.
Infinite Investment Systems provides portfolio management software for Canadian wealth managers, including its Harmony platform, and focuses on technology enhancements and expanded product and service offerings.
Common Wealth is a Toronto-based SaaS provider that offers a full-stack platform for administering group retirement plans.
Venn is an all-in-one digital banking and financial management platform purpose-built for Canadian businesses.
Xaba builds AI-driven cognitive platforms (xCognition, xTrude) that model robotics and FDM process physics to automate robot programming, optimize large-format 3D printing, and reduce supervision and failures.
Wealthsimple is a Toronto-based digital money management platform offering investing, trading, crypto, tax, spending and savings products to Canadian consumers.
Azoma provides a generative engine optimisation (GEO) and AI-driven brand-discovery platform that helps ecommerce brands improve visibility across AI-powered search and conversational interfaces.
Swap Robotics builds 100% electric autonomous robots and software for utility-scale solar construction and O&M, performing vegetation management, panel installation and materials movement with modular attachments and swappable batteries.
Demand AI Group is a Denver-based company that delivers AI-powered B2B demand-generation, lead-generation and content-marketing solutions to enterprise clients worldwide.
Fairgrounds is a free-to-join, design-forward racket club network offering pickleball and padel facilities across Canada.
Hydrostor is a Toronto-based developer and operator of long-duration energy storage systems that use advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) technology.
SWTCH Energy provides EV charging hardware, software-based energy and load management (SWTCH Cortex/Control), and charging-as-a-service for multifamily, commercial, workplace, and municipal property owners and operators.
Jozu provides an enterprise AI operations control plane and orchestration tools for deploying, scaling, securing, governing, testing, and auditing self-hosted AI models and agents, maintaining KitOps.
OverActive Media Group is a global media, sports and entertainment company developing ActiveVoices, an AI-powered content-localisation SaaS platform alongside its portfolio of top-tier esports franchises.
Yolando is a competitive-intelligence and Generative Engine Optimization platform that helps brands monitor AI-search visibility, analyze competitors, and auto-generate on-brand content that boosts placement in LLM answers.
Tempo Labs provides an AI-powered design tool for React that lets founders, product managers and designers visually collaborate on production-ready code.
ProteinQure develops AI-driven peptide therapeutics using its ProteinStudio platform—combining machine learning, structural and atomic-level simulations—to design non‑natural amino acid peptides for tissue‑specific delivery across oncology, neurology, and nephrology programs.
Beacon Software is an AI holding company that acquires and partners with vertical software and services businesses to modernize them with centralized AI and engineering talent.
Axibo designs and manufactures robotics, from 4D volumetric capture and cinema robots for film to humanoid robots focused on autonomy and dexterity for healthcare, logistics, industrial, and personal assistance.
Cosm Medical operates Gynethotics, a hardware and software platform using imaging, AI design, and 3D printing to produce custom pessaries for pelvic floor disorders, with U.S. and Canadian approvals.
Raenest offers multicurrency virtual accounts (USD, GBP, EUR), debit cards, and platforms for individuals and businesses to receive international payments and make cross‑border transfers, with banking partnerships.
Keep provides Canadian small businesses with an integrated financial operating system combining a fintech business credit card, automated bookkeeping and expense management, multi-currency accounts, and global bill pay.
Solenery is a Toronto-based AI-driven clean-energy platform that generates personalized solar and net-zero feasibility studies, cost projections, incentive recommendations, and connects residential and commercial customers with providers.
FreshBooks is a Toronto-based cloud accounting platform for service-based small businesses and self-employed professionals, providing invoicing, time-tracking, expense management, payments, payroll, bank reconciliation, reporting, and integrations.
tofu builds an identity and security platform that verifies job-applicant authenticity and prevents recruiting fraud.