Top 100 Companies to Watch in 2025

We’re beyond excited to unveil this year’s list of Top 100 Companies to Watch in 2025 showcasing trailblazers and industry leaders redefining the future. These companies are set to make a big impact in 2025 and beyond, and we’re honored to share their stories. Huge thanks to the founders and teams who inspire with their vision and determination. Congratulations to all the remarkable companies featured.

Special thanks to our official partner, monday dev for supporting this year’s coverage.

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100. Stella
99. Lemma Alpha
98. Strategy Solution
97. Whistle Technologies
96. The Good Growth Company
95. Brazily Fitness
94. Toronto Tech Fest
93. Stand Up for Me
92. Savant Recruitment
91. ARKI
90. Starling
89. KB Consulting
88. HireHippo
87. Scalewithoutborders
86. Lightyear Strategies
85. JobBliss
84. Pivot + Edge
83. Brikli
82. Javelin
81. Devanow
80. Kakushin
79. HelloHair 
78. Consoul
77. Polycareers
76. RideaLike
75. AltGrocery
74. Simplicity
73. Deeded
72. Immitracker
71. Polar Labs
70. Privy Reviews
69. PERA
68. Navio
67. ThankQ
66. Engyne
65. Quantigo AI
64. PilotX
63. Karla
62. Katalyze AI
61. Consuy
60. Cansulta
59. WNORTH
58. Nu Benefits
57. Souqh
56. Salubrum
55. Standard Field Systems
54. Surex
54. Carbonhound
53. Discrepancy AI
52. BrightIron
51. Punchcard Systems
50. Leni
49. wrksourcing
48. Ramping Up
47. Tenure
46. Crafty Ramen
45. Motiv
44. Athena AI
43. Equivesto
42. Pacto Medical
41. Ntangible
40. Kompas
39. Toast
38. Summit EHSQ
37. Linkus Group
36. Binoloop
35. Niura
34. Maple
33. SingleKey
32. Edgecom Energy
31. System-3
30. Islands
29. Agora
28. Biiibo
27. Friendlier
26. Blanka
25. Hera Fertility
24. 409.ai
23. Pathcore
22. Fortay
21. eeva
20. Huex Labs
19. Stay22
18. MedMe Health
17. Shinydocs
16. Purity Gas
15. Vetster
14. Boast
13. FutureVault
12. Platformatic
11. Chocolate Soup
10. CruxOCM
9. Part3
8. Able Innovations
7. Gambit Technologies
6. Airfairness
5. Wisedocs
4. Mappedin
3. Badal
2. Index Exchange
1. Wagepoint

100. Stella

Founders: Alykhan Kara
Website: https://stellathestylist.com/

Elevator Pitch: Stella is an AI-powered personal stylist app that simplifies outfit planning with real-time feedback and personalized recommendations based on your uploaded wardrobe, style, and favorite brands.

Growth to Date: Completed two successful beta tests, refined through user feedback, and now live with a growing user base.

Superpower: Stella’s AI delivers hyper-personalized style advice by integrating user preferences, wardrobe, and brand favourites to create seamless recommendations.

What’s Next? Scaling user acquisition, enhancing wardrobe and brand integration, and forming strategic partnerships with fashion brands.

99. Lemma Alpha 

Founders: Masih Mehdizadeh
Website: https://lemmaa.com/

Elevator Pitch: Imagine a university built for the AI era, tailored to prepare individuals for the challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence brings to industries and society. This isn’t just about learning how to use AI tools; it’s about fostering critical thinkers, builders, and innovators who understand how to thrive in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Growth to Date: Recently launched alpha version

Company Superpower: We are very adaptive and resilient, with a hybrid academic-entrepreneurial background.

What’s Next? We are gearing up for beta launch, during which it plans to onboard a diverse group of students and mentors. The beta will serve as an opportunity to refine its offerings through close collaboration with users, creating a feedback loop to further enhance the curriculum, mentorship programs, and AI-powered learning tools. Expanding the mentor network is also a top priority, ensuring students gain access to leaders from academia, AI research, and industry pioneers.

Longer-term plans include scaling its platform to accommodate a global audience, introducing specialized tracks in areas like ethical AI, AI in healthcare, and AI for startups, as well as building partnerships with leading AI companies and organizations.

98. Strategy Solution

Founders: Paola Ruiz
Website: https://www.thestrategysolution.com/

Elevator Pitch: The SASI platform aims to modernize, transform, and revolutionize the way small businesses and startups plan and track their performance. By using proprietary strategy frameworks and performance metrics powered by AI, SASI offers a wide range of customizable templates and tools to guide businesses through the strategic planning process and set and track clear, actionable goals. The SASI platform also uses AI to analyze data and provide insights on how a business optimizes performance and achieves better results in its specific niche and industry. Whether businesses are just starting out or looking to take their business to the next level, the SASI platform is the perfect partner to help them succeed.

What is your company superpower? Our supowerpower is in being a fractional partner

Growth to date: Currently beta testing with the users

97. Whistle

Founders: Anil Sedha
Website: https://whistle.tech

Elevator Pitch: Whistle is a next-gen platform redefining the future of communications

Growth to date: Acquired our 1st Fortune500 client last year and working towards more Enterprise projects

What is your company superpower? We are keeping it simple – developing a platform that makes communications results driven, affordable, and innovative.

What’s next? Will be releasing our 3.0 version.

96. The Good Growth Company

Founders: Daniel Francavilla
Website: https://thegoodgrowth.company

Elevator Pitch: An upskilling company for non-profit organizations and purpose-driven businesses that are seeking to invest in their people to help scale their mission. Boost your social impact and level up your team with targeted training, membership, and consulting.

Growth to date: 
Hosted 20 Events with over 550 Participants in our first year.
Expanded into the US with multiple sector and community partners.
Built a roster of experts from a diverse range of industries dedicated to social good.
Established a programming partnership with Centre for Social Innovation, Canada’s largest social innovation community.

What is your company superpower? We’ve built a really diverse network in a few industries, so a superpower is connecting skilled experts from various industries to nonprofits and social purpose businesses.

What’s next? As we continue to grow our community through free weekly online sessions, we’re expanding our custom training offerings (both in-person and online). Look out for exciting collaborations and in-person experiences.

95. Brazily Fitness

Founders: Mariana Santos
Website: https://www.brazilyfitness.com

Elevator Pitch: Brazily Fitness is a transformative approach to mental health that blends the vibrant energy of Brazilian dance with fitness to build confidence, resilience, and joy. Our programs go beyond traditional workouts to address mental health challenges, empowering you to unlock your inner strength and feel unstoppable. Through dynamic dance routines and empowering fitness sessions, Brazily Fitness helps you connect with yourself, embrace your unique power, and gain the confidence to tackle life’s challenges.

Growth to date: Recently started university clubs at Ottawa University and OCAD university, will use club funding to certify students to become instructors and ambassadors on campus.

What is your company superpower? Brazily Fitness’ superpower is its ability to transform fitness into a joyful, confidence-boosting experience rooted in Brazilian culture, where self-expression, mental well-being, and inclusivity take center stage. Unlike traditional fitness programs focused on appearance, Brazily Fitness taps into the vibrancy of Brazilian dance and music to help participants embrace their bodies, build resilience, and feel unstoppable. This unique approach combines the uplifting, communal feel of Brazilian dance with mental health empowerment, offering young adults a space to celebrate who they are, rather than conform to standards. Brazily Fitness doesn’t just offer a workout—it provides a lifestyle shift that radiates positivity, self-belief, and community.

What’s next? Our 12 month goal is to establish 20 active university clubs across Canada and certify at least 100 student instructors. This would create a solid foundation of brand ambassadors on campuses, helping spread our mission organically and driving awareness among young people. Additionally, achieving 5,000 active app users within this period would signify a successful launch and widespread adoption of our digital platform, making Brazily Fitness accessible nationwide.

These goals would position Brazily Fitness as a recognized leader in inclusive, mental health-focused fitness and set a powerful precedent for further expansion, both online and on more campuses across North America. Through these milestones, we could create a supportive, nationwide community of students and young adults who feel empowered and confident in every area of their

94. Toronto Tech Fest 

Founders: Michael liu, Mellonie Truong, Frank-chen, Arda Erturk, Parry Chan, Victor Ou, Eric Lay
Website: https://www.torontotechfest.com/

Elevator Pitch: We’re the biggest decentralized unconference week in Toronto, producing a series of events within 1 week each year, that is brought to you by the community, for the community.

Growth to date: 3500 attendees, 100+ events in Y1

What is your company superpower? Our mission is to provide an incredible experience for Toronto’s tech ecosystem to come together through a series of mass events put on by the biggest innovators across Toronto.

What’s next? Expanding the week in 2025 to bring in larger partners, and make the week even bigger for Toronto Tech.

93. Standup for Me 

Founders: Joel Andrews
Website: https://standupforme.app/

Elevator Pitch: If you’ve been looking for a better tool to help simplify your team’s standups – without overly complicated systems that take more time to manage then the standup itself (we’ve been there!), we’ve got you!

We built this tool to help solve our own needs, and we know there are other scrappy tech startups looking for ways to keep connected and moving fast across time zones, locations, and teams

Growth to date: Launched in the Slack App Marketplace this November, we’re excited to have over 25 organizations using Standup For Me (in just the first few weeks!) to make their team communications more effective, efficient, and less of a pain in the butt!

What is your company superpower? Standups made easy. We KNOW daily standups can be a pain – a daily interruption, coordinating around time zones, and rambling updates that eat up your already busy day. We made a tool that WE wanted to use – something to help tech companies, entrepreneurs, and startups share info across teams, update when works for them, and keep folks in the loop so you can get things done without interruption.

What’s next? Now that our app is live in the Slack Marketplace. Check it out here. We’re focused on supporting our early users, growing our customer reach, and introducing some new integrations to make life a whole lot easier (shhh… there’s some pretty awesome stuff in the works, if we do say so ourselves!).

92. Savant Recruitment 

Founders: Jessica Smith
Website: https://www.savantrecruitment.io/

Elevator Pitch: Precision recruitment for elite engineering teams: your engineering talent & business building solution. This is your your one-stop shop for north american talent we recruit, test, and place top-tier engineers, reducing your time-to-fill up to 50%

What is your company superpower?
We have streamlined a state of the art talent acquisition process to reduce bottlenecking and make the lives of Executives and Engineering teams easier. We care about metrics like time-to-fill. Our backing of Technology Subject Matter Expert partners are helping us not only build engineering teams, but build businesses.

What’s next?
We’re going to be adding more to our tech partnership arsenal to help the companies we work with, go faster!

91. ARKI

Website URL: https://www.getarki.com/

Elevator Pitch: ARKI is the operating system for construction automating work with AI-driven expertise

Growth to date:  8 architectural firms are engaged, 4 countries, 50+ users, and 10,000+ assets loaded

What is your company superpower? Our company’s superpower is the unique synergy between architectural expertise and AI-driven technology. By combining deep industry knowledge with cutting-edge innovation, we create solutions that streamline design workflows, enhance efficiency, and ensure compliance. Our team’s complementary skills and shared vision enable us to tackle complex challenges in construction, delivering tools that empower professionals to work smarter and more intuitively. This alignment fuels our obsession to solve industry problems and build a transformative platform for the AEC sector.

What’s next? We’re currently fundraising to meet growing demand, expand our team, and accelerate product development to continue building a solution that truly meets the needs of our users. Our focus is on scaling our platform, enhancing core features, and adding new capabilities that provide even more value to our customers. With a larger team, we’ll be able to iterate faster, respond to customer feedback more effectively, and keep driving innovation in the AEC industry.

90. Starling 

Elevator Pitch: Starling is a specialty delivery service designed for unique foods. It was founded in 2020 by two sisters, Sarah and Kate Brown. It began as a movement to support local businesses, offering an affordable on-demand home delivery service for Toronto’s local shops, and it has since evolved into a comprehensive logistics network.

Growth to date: We’re really happy with our traction! Our customer base has increased 2.5x year-over-year on a referral basis alone. We’ve hired an incredible team which is now allowing us to turn our attention towards outbound marketing for the first time.

What’s next? We’re looking to scale it up in 2025.

89. KB Consulting

Founders: Kasey Bayne
Website: https://www.kaseybayne.com/

Elevator Pitch: Combining the creativity of marketing, with the strategic insights of metrics and analytics. They say “marketing is a mix of art and science,” but what does that actually mean to your business? We help you build your marketing and sales machine, to power your business, and help you make smarter business decisions, faster.

Growth to date: Client numbers are growing year over year: working with clients in SaaS, and seeing expansion into even more STEM businesses and service organizations. Our team is also involved with mentoring the next generation of marketers and entrepreneurs at UBC, SFU, and U of T, and helping women in STEM get the resources they need to be successful.

What is your company superpower? Bringing together the best of both worlds: Growth and Metrics! Built by an experienced SaaS CMO and growth leader, KB Consulting helps companies build and implement strategic growth plans, fueled by metrics and analytics every step of the way.

What’s next? We’re doing even more data-driven marketing, expanding our core HubSpot RevOps specialization, and using our strategic marketing experience to help clients as Fractional CMO – leading growth, demand generation, revenue operations, and strategic leadership.

88. HireHipo 

Key People: John Goff
Website: https://hirehipo.com

Elevator Pitch: Hipo connects high-growth companies to high-potential talent by combining our years of experience recruiting with the latest in AI and automation to give talent acquisition specialists superpowers. We make sure that you only see high-potential applicants, and you want to hire every person you interview.

Growth to date: 35,000+ high potential candidates and growing!

What is your company superpower? We work closely with our clients to find candidates that are interested in the company’s mission, that fit their unique role requirements, and company culture. We have a 96% retention rate after 6 months across all roles!

What’s next? Expanding to larger hiring teams, continuing to refine our passive candidate discover process.

87. Scale Without Borders 

Founders: Nouhaila Chelkhaoui
Website: https://scalewithoutborders.com/

Elevator Pitch: Scale Without Borders helps immigrants access resources to succeed in tech, and helps employers tap into brilliant, diverse immigrant tech talent.

Growth to Date: Over 6,000 immigrants

What’s next? We’re going to continue to do what we’re doing, and will focus on scaling our work to amplify impact. We’re also looking to have a heavier presence in various provinces in Canada, and building more partnerships and presence with other countries particularly in North and South America.

86. Lightyear Strategies

Founders: Nima Olumi
Website: https://www.lightyearstrategies.com/

Elevator Pitch:
Lightyear Strategies is a tech-driven public relations and communications agency specializing in crafting compelling narratives, securing high-impact media placements, and building meaningful connections between brands and their audiences. With a focus on personalized strategies and innovative outreach, the agency helps clients amplify their voices and achieve measurable success.

Growth to Date: Lightyear Strategies works with 12 clients across industries such as technology, healthcare, and entertainment. Operating as a bootstrapped company, Lightyear has achieved significant growth and success through its personalized approach to PR, securing placements in top-tier outlets like Washington Post, CNN, ESPN, New York Times, & Forbes.

What is your Company Superpower?
Our ability to craft hyper-personalized, data-driven PR strategies that resonate with audiences and deliver impactful results, backed by strong relationships with journalists.

What’s next? Looking ahead, Lightyear Strategies is focused on driving business development by expanding its client portfolio and building partnerships across emerging industries. The company is investing heavily in cutting-edge PR technology to enhance analytics, outreach, and campaign optimization. Above all, Lightyear remains steadfast in its commitment to fighting for its clients, ensuring their stories are told in ways that resonate and deliver ROI.

85. JobBliss

Founders: Angie Kramer
Website: https://jobbliss.com/

Elevator Pitch: JobBliss is a platform that simplifies contractor and remote team management. With JobBliss, companies can build, manage, and track their freelancers, contractors, and vendors in one dashboard. The platform helps businesses create their own private freelancer talent pool, ensuring that they have the right people when they need them.

Growth to date: JobBliss has an impressive client list, including Rothy’s, Walmart International, OPG, Intuit Canada, Corus Entertainment, and SGSco.

What’s next? Some new product lines are on the way.

84. Pivot + Edge

Founders: John Fleischauer
Website: https://www.pivotandedge.com/

Elevator Pitch: Early-stage and growth companies are always looking for talent to take the next step. Whether it’s one key hire or several, brand and marketing will play a key role in ensuring fit. At Pivot + Edge, we have a long history of helping startups and growth organizations set up and optimize their hiring infrastructure – recruitment process, technology, recruitment marketing, storytelling, employer brand, talent communities, etc., so they can access the right talent at the right time for a fraction of the cost of traditional recruiting.

Growth to date: Pivot + Edge has experienced significant growth over the past couple of years, solving recruitment challenges for companies across Canada, Europe, and the United States. As we head into 2025, we’re proud to be doubling our revenues from the previous year—a testament to the success of our unique approach and the trust our clients place in us.
In addition to expanding our client base, we’ve exponentially enhanced our service offerings over the last 18 months. Our disruptive approach to recruitment has evolved, taking our clients’ recruitment marketing strategies to unprecedented heights. By combining innovation with a deep understanding of our clients’ needs, we’re transforming the way companies attract and engage top-tier talent.

What is your company’s superpower? Pivot + Edge has trail blazed a potent and efficient way for early-stage and growth organizations to hire – better, faster, and more cost-effectively – by creating a services model that marries and aligns “Human Resources” with “Marketing”. Knowing that deep down, hiring is a human process, and people are every organizations greatest marketing asset, Pivot + Edge provides hiring organizations with the knowledge, infrastructure, support, and confidence that they no longer need to rely on costly recruitment agencies while hiring, by providing organizations with the ability to make human connections with their future hires before they have even applied or responded to outreach.

What’s next? Pivot + Edge was originally founded as a recruitment firm but has grown into a recruitment marketing engine that helps our clients not only hire but build their employer brand and increase employee advocacy.
“The Trailblazer Hub” – is one of two of our next major steps forward in the market to help make hiring easier, faster, and more cost effective for growing organizations. The Hub supports employee advocacy, and has already shown to result in organizations receiving a higher volume of top qualified applicants, better sourcing metrics, overall access to higher quality hires, while at the same time providing organizations with visibility to their employee engagement.

“Basecamp – Powered by Pivot + Edge” is the second of our two major steps forward. This community provides job seekers with the opportunity to learn about potential new employers from the inside out, get alerts about new opportunities that fit their employment goals, and get ahead of the competition seeking the same roles, all for free.

83. Brikli

Founders: Jonathan Ouaknine
Website: https://www.brikli.com/

Elevator Pitch: Brikli is the AI-powered property management platform revolutionizing real estate. Landlords are stuck with outdated systems, clunky software, and time-consuming manual processes. Brikli eliminates inefficiencies by automating leasing, rent collection, financial reporting, and tenant interactions—all within a seam-less, all-in-one platform. With a dual-portal system for landlords and tenants, we streamline operations, optimize cash flow, and transform real estate management into a modern, automated experience.

Growth to Date:  Brikli has 25 developers and key landlords on our waiting list, representing over 200 buildings and 2,570 units ready for trans-formation. Proving the strong demand for an AI-powered property management solution. We’re actively collaborating with industry leaders and refining our platform for full-scale adoption.

What is your company superpower? Brikli is redefining real estate management by automating leasing, rent collection, maintenance, and financial tracking—eliminating the outdated, manual processes that slow landlords down.

What makes Brikli different? Our dual-portal system:

– The Landlord Portal centralizes operations, maximizes efficiency,
and turns real estate into a truly automated asset.
– The Tenant Portal simplifies rent payments, maintenance requests,
and communication, creating a seamless renter experience.

Brikli’s AI-powered Lease Wizard will revolutionize leasing—automating custom lease generation, smart recommendations, and compliance checks, making complex leasing as simple as filling out a form. Brikli isn’t just modernizing real estate—it’s rewriting the rulebook on how properties are managed and leased.

What’s Next? Brikli is scaling fast, with rapid expansion North America on the horizon. Next up: our AI-powered Lease Wizard, making leasing instant, automated, and effortless. We’re also rolling out next-level automation tools that will reshape how land-lords and tenants interact. And this is just the beginning. Brikli is not just improving property
management—it’s setting a new industry standard. Stay tuned.

82. Javelin

Founders: Justin Ford and Coleman Chan
Website: https://www.javelinsportsinc.com

Elevator Pitch: The Javelin app helps people find and join drop in volleyball games in their area.

Growth to date: 7-figures in revenue in 2.5 years.

What is your company superpower? We are focused on our customers and providing them a good experience. We believe that is the key to our success.

What’s next? We’re currently expanding across Canada.

81. Devanow

Founders: Konstantin Melkov
Website: https://www.devanow.com/

Elevator Pitch: Devanow is a Canadian subscription bookkeeping service that reduces the day-to-day hassle of running a business. No more stacks of paperwork to go through. Payroll is transparent. Bills are organized. Government reports are filed. All at a predictable monthly price.

Growth to date: Growing steadily year over year

What’s next? We are about to release our first public software product (early 2025). No more guess work on why your Shopify report is not showing numbers that make sense.

80. Kakushin 

Founders: Spiridoula Trakaki and Aletia Trakakis
Website: https://kakushin.io/

Elevator Pitch: Kakushin, inspired by the Japanese word for ‘innovation,’ transforms bold ideas into scalable, market-ready solutions. From crafting AI-powered MVPs to designing disruptive branding strategies, we empower startups and businesses across sectors to thrive in competitive markets.

Growth to date:
– Helped over 94 startups globally across multiple industries, including health tech, EdTech, and AI.
– Developed 6 unique algorithms and completed numerous projects involving wearable devices and AI integration.
– Secured deals up to €96,000 per client, delivering high-value solutions to businesses across various industries.
– Expanded operations to key markets: EU, Middle East, and the US.

What is your company superpower? Kakushin excels at blending technology with strategy to deliver impactful solutions. Whether it’s crafting unique AI-driven algorithms, creating standout branding, or driving growth with a results-focused approach, Kakushin brings transformative innovation to life.

What’s next? Expanding into new markets, with a focus on Canada, US East Coast, and Africa.
Launching AI-integrated services for health tech, EdTech, and wearable technologies.
Growing the team to include more tech and branding specialists to meet increasing demand.
Partnering with global communities and organizations to expand our international presence.

79. HelloHair

Founders: Anita Grant
Website: https://hellohairbook.com/

Elevator Pitch: Hello Hair is on a mission to represent, wducat and celebrate the beauty of textured hair through inclusive products for children and the (inner) child in all of us!

Growth to date: An online community of over 90K; 2000 young girls positively impacted by Hello Hair book & doll, recently on Dragons’ Den secure a deal with Arlene Dickinson & Wes Hall

What is your company superpower? Our vulnerability in sharing our hair stories

What’s next? Expanding partnerships with beauty brands and animated TV series

78. ConSoul

Founders: Cindy Diogo
Website: https://www.consoulapp.com/

Elevator Pitch: Consoul is redefining the future of work by solving one of the most critical, yet overlooked, challenges: how to empower employees balancing demanding careers and personal responsibilities. Our platform uses AI to automate care tasks, streamline resource coordination, and proactively address mental health, creating a scalable solution for modern workforce productivity. With caregiving responsibilities pulling millions out of the workforce—especially women—employers are facing an untapped crisis of lost productivity and talent. Consoul delivers a data-driven, AI-powered solution that doesn’t just support employees—it drives measurable ROI through improved engagement, retention, and well-being. Built in Toronto by a team with deep personal and professional insights, we’re at the forefront of the tech-for-good movement, leveraging cutting-edge technology to tackle a $9 trillion global problem.

Growth to date: Consoul launched in 2023 and has already secured over $150,000 in non-dilutive funding, including grants from the Canadian federal government, CGI Women in Tech, and Women in Business programs. Our platform is currently in pilot with multiple organizations, including leaders in mental health research, retail pharma, and legal tech. These pilots are helping us gather critical data to validate our approach and demonstrate ROI for employers. Consoul is on track to scale, driven by our focus on AI automation and the growing need for workplace caregiving solutions.

What is your company superpower? Consoul’s superpower is its ability to turn caregiving from an overwhelming personal challenge into a shared, automated solution—empowering employees to thrive both at work and at home. Through AI-driven task automation and proactive mental health support, we alleviate the caregiving burden while seamlessly activating support networks. This not only prevents burnout but also enables employers to retain top talent, boost productivity, and foster inclusive workplaces. Our secret sauce? We’ve built Consoul from lived caregiving experiences, blending empathy with cutting-edge technology to solve a $9 trillion global problem in a way no one else can.

What’s next? We’re focused on scaling our impact and reaching more caregivers and employers across Canada and the U.S. Our pilot programs are expanding to validate ROI and refine our platform to meet real-world needs. On the product side, we’re enhancing our AI-driven automation and launching new features like peer-to-peer support chat, making Consoul even more indispensable. Looking ahead, we’re laying the foundation for global expansion, with North America as our starting point. Consoul is poised to become the go-to platform for empowering caregivers and transforming workplaces worldwide.

77. PolyCareers

Founders: Virginia Poly, Asif Chowdhary
Website: https://polycareers.com/

Elevator Pitch: PolyCareers is revolutionizing hiring in Canada with AI-powered tools that simplify the process. Job seekers get free resume tools and personalized profiles including video to stand out, while employers always have access to two free job slots—only paying if they need more. We make hiring smarter, faster, and stress-free.

Growth to date: We officially launched PolyCareers last week, and while we’re in the very early stages, we’re excited to leverage over 20 years of experience in the recruitment industry. Having worked with both big and small companies across Canada, we’ve built strong relationships and a deep understanding of what employers and candidates need.

Our plan is to build momentum over the coming months by tapping into these existing relationships, engaging early adopters for feedback, and rolling out targeted campaigns to showcase the unique value of our platform. We’re confident this foundation, paired with our commitment to continuous improvement, will drive meaningful growth as we expand.

What is your company superpower? Our superpower is combining 20+ years of recruitment expertise with innovative AI tools to make hiring and job-seeking smarter, faster, and more personal. We bridge human connection and cutting-edge technology, creating tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of employers and candidates. At our core, we’re redefining recruitment with trust, empathy, and efficiency.

What’s next? We’re focused on scaling our user base by leveraging our existing relationships in the recruitment industry and gathering feedback from early adopters to refine our platform. Over the next few months, we’ll roll out targeted marketing campaigns, enhance our AI-driven tools, and build partnerships to expand our reach. A key part of our growth strategy is a community-based approach—fostering meaningful connections among employers and candidates to create a collaborative and supportive ecosystem. Long-term, our vision is to become the go-to recruitment platform in Canada, connecting people in smarter, more impactful way.

76. RideAlike

Founders: Zelani Bhuiyan, Abeda Pathan Bhuiyan 
Website: https://www.ridealike.com/

Elevator Pitch: At RideAlike, we are redefining car access, as easy as saying hi to your neighbor. That’s why we launched the world’s first AI-powered, peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace for multi-residential communities. Rent or swap vehicles with neighbors just next door. Turn your parked car into extra income, or find a convenient ride without leaving your building. By reducing the need for personal car ownership, RideAlike helps cut traffic congestion, maximize parking efficiency, and lower carbon emissions, making urban spaces more sustainable. Discover a greener way to drive, connect with your community, and experience the convenience of shared mobility in your building, neighborhood, workplace, and city—because life is better when it’s shared!

Growth to date: RideAlike has demonstrated impressive growth, fulfilling over 3,000 rental days and achieving $15K (USD) in monthly recurring revenue (MRR), driven organically through word of mouth. The platform is fully available on both iOS and Android, offering a seamless user experience for renters and car owners. Every trip is backed by $2M in liability insurance and 24/7 roadside assistance, ensuring user safety and peace of mind.

Now AI-enabled, RideAlike leverages cutting-edge technology to enhance community engagement, optimize car-sharing experiences, and promote sustainability. The company has secured key partnerships in the Greater Toronto Area, aligning with its mission to foster sustainable urban living.

RideAlike is preparing to scale operations across Canada and the U.S. in 2025, starting with San Francisco, Calgary, and Edmonton, bringing its community-driven car-sharing model to new markets. To date, RideAlike has successfully raised $670K (USD) to fuel its growth and innovation.

What is your company superpower? RideAlike’s superpower lies in its community-driven approach to car sharing, blending innovation, sustainability, and human connection to transform urban mobility. By focusing on trust and collaboration, RideAlike empowers users to share vehicles within their communities, driving convenience and eco-consciousness. The platform’s unique features and partnerships create a win-win ecosystem for car owners, renters, and property developers alike.

– Community Engagement: Builds trust by fostering collaboration among neighbors.
– Unique Swap Feature: Enables seamless vehicle exchanges for diverse needs.
– Sustainability Focus: Supports EV adoption and eco-friendly urban living.
– Property & Municipality Partnerships: Reduces parking needs, enhancing real estate value.
– User Empowerment: Offers tailored incentives to car owners and renters.
– Visionary Goals: Aims to reduce traffic, cut emissions, and reimagine city living.

What’s next? RideAlike is gearing up for a transformative phase as it accelerates growth and innovation in the car-sharing industry. The roadmap ahead includes:

– Strengthening Leadership: Recruiting an industry expert with a strong background in technology and marketing to join the C-suite, driving strategic innovation and growth.

– Expanding Footprint: Launching services in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, and San Francisco, California, to tap into thriving urban markets aligned with RideAlike’s vision of sustainable mobility.

– Raising Strategic Investments: Targeting a total raise of $800K USD, with $460K already committed by leading Ontario VCs. This funding will fuel technological advancements, robust marketing initiatives, and community development efforts.

– AI-Powered Platform: Introducing cutting-edge AI-driven features to optimize car-sharing experiences, enhance user satisfaction, and provide predictive tools for renters and owners.

These initiatives position RideAlike as a trailblazer in building tech-forward, sustainable urban communities through innovative car-sharing solutions.

75. AltGrocery

Founders: Tom Pischel
Website: https://www.altgrocery.ca/ca

Elevator Pitch: AltGrocery is reshaping food accessibility by connecting consumers with independent grocers, farmers, and markets through an innovative map-based platform. Born from frustration over rising grocery prices and a reliance on large chains, AltGrocery empowers local food ecosystems by offering advanced tools for small vendors to market their products, connect with customers, and compete with industry giants. With features like live “Pop-up Produce” stands and an upcoming Farmers Market Tool, AltGrocery makes local, affordable, and sustainable food options more discoverable, helping communities thrive while addressing food affordability and transparency.

Growth to date:  Since its launch in May 2024, AltGrocery has experienced significant growth:

Within two weeks of launching, the platform attracted 27,000 users, with Nova Scotia being the fourth most searched page. AltGrocery received approximately 107,000 visitors shortly after its debut, leading to a temporary suspension of the map feature due to high traffic. These milestones underscore AltGrocery’s rapid adoption and the growing consumer interest in alternative grocery options.

What is your company superpower? AltGrocery’s superpower is its ability to empower local food ecosystems through hyperlocal mapping technology and innovative tools that make independent grocers, farmers, and markets more discoverable and competitive. With a mission-driven approach, we bridge the gap between consumers seeking affordable, sustainable food options and small vendors who lack the resources of big grocery chains. By prioritizing community over profit and leveraging technology to create accessible, scalable solutions, AltGrocery helps local food networks thrive while addressing food affordability and transparency.

What’s next? AltGrocery’s next steps include a major platform expansion and feature rollout in Spring 2025. Key initiatives include:

Feature Development: Launching a Farmers Market Tool with live interactive maps, vendor profiles, and product listings to help market organizers and vendors connect with local communities. Expanding the “Pop-up Produce” feature to support seasonal stands and geolocation-based sales.

Market Expansion: Entering the U.S. market in 2025, followed by Australia and Europe in 2026, to bring affordable, local food options to a global audience while supporting independent food networks.

Freemium SaaS Transition: Introducing premium tools for vendors and small businesses to enhance their digital presence, market their products, and engage with customers.

Team Growth: Building a team to support platform development, marketing, and partnerships, with a focus on creating a sustainable and scalable business model.

AltGrocery is poised to strengthen its role as a vital hub for affordable, local, and sustainable food solutions.

74. Simplicity 

Founders: Briana Sim, Ian Sim
Website: https://www.simplicitycms.ca/

Elevator Pitch: SimpliCity is the only composable content management and digital services platform purpose-built for Canadian municipalities. Works for you today; grows with you tomorrow.

Growth to date: We started from the realization that although governments want to provide direct digital services to their citizens, current website tech was never designed for the integrations necessary to make this a reality. For the past year and a half, we have been working behind the scenes to build a new technology platform for website content and data integrations. Our Founding Partner, the District of North Vancouver, signed up as our first customer while we were still in development, as they believe in our vision and the power of our platform. Our first public release with their content and integrations on SimpliCity will be happening soon. 

What’s next? After our public launch with the DNV, we will be connecting with municipal stakeholders and partners, and demoing SimpliCity while we exhibit at various conferences within Canada. We’re looking to expand nationwide across Canada in 2024 by building relationships with three to five additional Founding. Partners to pilot SimpliCity, provide input on features to add to Release 2 of our platform, receive exclusive discounts, and help shape the future of municipal service delivery excellence. On the development roadmap, we are working to introduce CRM integration, citizen service authentication, and payment processing to the platform.

73. Deeded

Founders: Reuven Gorsht
Website: https://deeded.ca/

Elevator Pitch: Deeded is reimagining the closing experience for Real Estate. Closing on a property should be exciting, but instead, it’s a nightmare of endless paperwork, confusing legal jargon, and last-minute surprises. Traditional closings are slow, inconvenient, and filled with hidden fees—leaving buyers and sellers stressed out during one of life’s biggest milestones. Deeded is fixing this. By making real estate closings 100% digital, we’re eliminating unnecessary headaches and empowering homeowners with a fast, transparent, and hassle-free experience. No more in-person meetings, no more uncertainty—just smooth, seamless transactions from the comfort of your home.

Growth to date: Lots of homeowners closed seamlessly (and with rave reviews). Expanded in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta.

What is your company superpower? We combine technology with expert legal support to make closings as easy as clicking “done.”

What’s next? We’re expanding our platform across multiple provinces and introducing new products that turn the last mile of homebuying into lasting smiles.

72. Immitracker

Founders: Nino Melikidze, Blayne Kumar
Website: https://myimmitracker.com/

Elevator Pitch: Immitracker, the Waze of Immigration. We’re an immigration application tracker and community for immigrants relocating to Canada and Australia.

Growth to date: 190K+ users. We’re one of the largest immigration platforms in Canada and Australia.

What is your company superpower? We’re the only platform in the Canadian immigration space that offers an in-depth insight into the workings of the IRCC – how long they actually take for processing times of each program and what are the steps involved. Rejections and earlier approvals. Correlation between delays and nationality. Our unique superpower is data and community, something that almost nobody else has.

What’s next? Transition into B2B market and strategic corporate partnerships. Expansion into Australia.

1. Canada focus: work with universities that have large international student populations and employers with immigrants to support them with transitioning between different visa and immigration statuses and determining real application processing timelines
2. Increase presence in Australia by adding new trackers, community groups, and corporate partnerships for newcomer offerings
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71. Polar Labs

Founders: Ryan Ovas 
Website: https://polarlabs.ca

Elevator Pitch: A Snowflake Select Partner specializing in developing data-intensive applications and AI solutions, empowering businesses to harness the full potential of their data.

Growth to Date: Successfully expanding our client base with a focus on delivering impactful data-driven solutions.

What is your company superpower? Our unique ability to seamlessly integrate software engineering and data engineering expertise, leveraging insights from both disciplines to deliver innovative, high-performance solutions.

What’s Next? Strategically scaling our network and client base while continuing to deliver transformative data and AI solutions.

70. Privy Reviews

Founders: Vanessa Franz
Website: https://privy.reviews

Elevator pitch: Privy Reviews helps creators collect authentic testimonials and showcase them seamlessly with branded widgets that amplify credibility—no self-promotion needed. Turn audience or client feedback into social proof to attract sponsorships, collaborations, and new opportunities effortlessly. Grow your influence by letting your reputation speak louder than any pitch.

Growth to date: Growth 18000 creators and bootstrapped

What is your company super power?  Our company super power is empowering creators and influencers to build a solid creator business online using social proof. We just launched a review widget that lets creators add their testimonials to platforms like Notion, Canva, Webflow, Wix, etc. Our Privy profiles are ranking very high among websites like Famous Birthdays and Reddit.com. That means more marketing and discovery for creators for free.

What’s next? Expansion is under way.

69. PERA 

Founders: Meryl Kaye De Leon
Website: https://www.peragrowthhub.com/

Elevator Pitch: PERA Growth Hub is breaking down the gap of opportunity and connecting business owners, entrepreneurs, and late-stage founders to equity and debt solutions.

Growth to date: Growing customer base year over year

What’s next?  From the outset, PERA has been committed to sustainable growth and building the right partnerships. In 2025, the focus will be on expanding the team and establishing deeper, more impactful collaborations with firms across the country Throughout this growth, delivering exceptional value to clients remains the top priority. While the work is transactional in nature, the relationships and services provided are designed to offer long-term value tailored to each client’s success.

68. Navio

Founders: Brooke Finlay
Website: https://navioimmigration.com/

Elevator Pitch: Canada is facing a productivity crisis, labour shortages and aging population. Migration is projected to account for 100% of Canada’s population growth by 2032 and has the potential to generate substantial economic gains worldwide. However, these benefits are mired by rampant fraud and exploitation, complex legal processes and inaccessibly high legal fees.

Navio is the Turbotax of immigration. Our digital platform curates the legal information needed to complete immigration applications faster and easier, with affordable support from a legal expert while increasing trust, transparency and integrity, enabling newcomers to live their fullest, most prosperous lives in Canada.

Growth to date:  96 users with paid services were enrolled on the Platform to date.

What is your company superpower? Navio simplifies immigration processes by making legal services affordable, transparent, and trustworthy. Our Done-Together solution bridges the gap between traditionally expensive legal services and time-consuming, stressful DIY approaches. By combining expert guidance with advanced technology, we help applicants save up to 65% compared to traditional legal fees. Our digital platform delivers essential resources—learning modules, templates, video tutorials, and step-by-step instructions— to prepare immigration applications quickly and confidently. Our innovative service model also offers consulting firms a scalable solution that boosts productivity by six times.

What’s next? Currently, Navio Platform is available to anyone who wants to immigrate to Canada from anywhere around the world. Next, our biggest aim is to offer access to the Navio Platform in the B2B sector to other immigration professionals who will then manage their clients’ immigration applications through our Platform. In the future, Navio Platform has the potential to expand globally, offering solutions to build programs for other countries (and open to the B2C and B2B markets globally).

67. ThankQ

Website: https://thankq.ca/
Elevator Pitch: We create and sell 3D models

Growth to date: 5 paid pilots, 10,000 models created, 10 LOI signed (since August)

What is your company superpower? Our friendship, my cofounder and I were born friends. Our parents were BFF in High School

What’s next? We are working on a 6 figure contract with Nvidia & Kinetex.

66. Engyne

Founders: Sukhpal Saini
Website: https://engyne.ai/

Elevator Pitch: Engyne is a GTM AI copilot that helps B2B startups plan, write and publish content that builds trust with your prospects and converts them into customers.

Growth to date:
– Techstars Founder
– Paddle AI Launchpad Top 10 company
– paddle.com as our enterprise customer
– Raised $120K – $50K in total revenue
– Featured on Yahoo Finance

What is your company superpower? Our team has 10 years of deep AI experience and 15+ years of combined GTM helping startups acquire customers. This unique mix of skills has helped us build our product in a way where we can take proven GTM strategies and scale them with AI agents.

What’s next? Launching our Linkedin thought leadership product – Brandbase (https://engyne.ai/brandbase) in a few weeks. Also opening up our Seed round in Q2. Expanding the team to bring on 2 more Product Engineers.

65. Quantigo AI 

Founders: Nasib Ahmed
Website: https://quantigo.ai/

Elevator Pitch: Quantigo AI empowers businesses by transforming human insights into machine intelligence with cutting-edge data solutions for AI and machine learning. Our human-centered approach ensures high-quality, scalable training data tailored to enhance the accuracy and performance of AI models across industries. From startups to global enterprises, we partner with clients to unlock AI’s potential, delivering reliable results that make a meaningful impact. With a commitment to transparency, innovation, and adaptability, Quantigo AI continues to push the boundaries of AI technology, helping businesses stay ahead in a competitive landscape.

Growth to date: Over the past few years, we have experienced remarkable growth, expanding our reach to clients across every continent. Our team has grown significantly, now supporting hundreds of clients, ranging from startups to enterprises, including leading academic and research institutions. We have successfully delivered diverse data annotation projects across multiple verticals, from autonomous driving and retail to agriculture, sports, and security, solidifying our position as a trusted partner in the AI industry.

What is your company superpower? Our superpower lies in delivering highly customized, end-to-end data solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of each client. Our human-centric approach ensures that data quality remains at the forefront, supported by a skilled global workforce that brings diverse perspectives and expertise to every project.

We differentiate ourselves by offering flexibility and adaptability, blending advanced AI-driven tools with human oversight to address the complexities of modern machine learning challenges. This combination allows us to handle everything from standard annotations to intricate and nuanced data requirements, ensuring that clients receive precise, reliable training data to fuel their AI models.

What’s next? We are focusing on expanding our capabilities to align with the rapidly evolving needs of the AI industry. This includes introducing complementary areas such as data collection, data anonymization, and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). By supporting advanced applications in computer vision, LLMs, and generative AI, we aim to deliver comprehensive, scalable solutions that address the growing complexity of our clients’ challenges.

64. PilotX

Founders: Kendall Darling and Ranajay Sarma
Website: https://pilotx.ca/

Elevator Pitch: Pilot X Technologies is an AI-focused transportation marketplace connecting users to delivery companies seamlessly.

Growth to date: 100 users and growing

What is your company superpower? Our superpower is our seamless integration of AI-driven logistics and personalized transportation solutions. We empower businesses by connecting them to the most efficient delivery services, all while optimizing routes, reducing costs, and ensuring a smooth experience for our customers. We’re making transportation smarter, more sustainable, and more equitable for everyone.

What’s next? Hiring sales experts, and digital marketing specialists, expanding to the Toronto landscape. Using AI and computer vision for route optimization and more efficient deliveries.

63. Karla

Founders: Robin Gray
Website: https://karlarent.com/

Elevator Pitch: Fully AI-powered Landlord Copilot—autonomous tenant screening and smarter property management.

Growth to date: Signed large banking client in Canada with over members 50,000 clients

What is your company superpower? We punch above our weight class. Our culture thrives on a relentless hacker mindset—breaking barriers, finding unconventional solutions, and always engineering smarter, faster ways to win.

What’s next? We are hiring AI Engineers, apply now!!

62. Katalyze AI 

Founders: Reza Farahani
Website: https://katalyzeai.com/

Elevator Pitch: Pharma & Biomanufacturing today faces complex challenges, from unpredictable processes to production bottlenecks. The industry is turning to AI to optimize manufacturing operations and to get the most out of existing resources, whether it’s raw materials, process parameters, or facilities.

In alignment with these objectives, the AI-powered platform offered by Katalyze AI works within regulatory and physical constraints, analyzing data from various sources, even unstructured or handwritten records. By uncovering actionable insights through multivariate analysis, stakeholders execute higher throughput and yield without the need for new facilities or large investments.

Katalyze AI transforms your data into optimized operations, empowering your business to produce more with less. With modular solutions, companies can start small, achieve quick wins, and scale as needed

Growth to date: Katalyze AI has achieved significant milestones, including securing top 10 pharma client working across multiple sites, with expansion to additional locations underway, and onboarding a leading cell and gene therapy company as a client. We successfully raised $1M at a $10M valuation and plan to raise $4M in 2025 to fuel our growth. With a 4.9 user rating and a product already in production, our solutions are proving their value in real-world applications. We formed partnerships with a few major names in the industry. In 2024, we doubled our team, bringing on scientists, data analysts, and establishing a commercial team. Currently focused on Canada and the USA, we plan to expand into European manufacturing hubs in 2025.

What is your company superpower? BioIntelligence: Our unique blend of scientific expertise, data analytics, and industry knowledge places us at the intersection of AI and biomanufacturing. With deep expertise in both fields, we drive measurable efficiencies, faster time-to-market, and higher quality for our clients who are producing life-saving products.

What’s next? Katalyze AI is poised for continued growth, with plans to expand the team and further enhance its AI-driven platform, providing greater efficiency and scalability for clients. The focus is on strengthening relationships with existing customers while expanding into European biomanufacturing hubs in 2025. To fuel this growth, Katalyze AI plans to raise $4M in 2025. Additionally, the company aims to secure more strategic partnerships to drive innovation and reinforce its leadership in AI-powered biomanufacturing solutions.

61. Consuy

Founders: Sathvik Lingala
Website: https://www.consuy.com/

Elevator Pitch: Consuy is an enterprise platform powered by advanced AI and virtual bots that automatically analyze and resolve technology issues. By eliminating the need for expensive processes to manage applications, Consuy streamlines operations, resolved issues, enhances user understanding, and automated business processes – All without human intervention

Growth to date: Key functionalities are completed, but major UI redesign is happening. Limited Beta Go-Live for customers is scheduled for December 2024.

What is your company superpower? Our superpower is redefining the role of IT consultants by enabling organizations to resolve technology issues autonomously through AI-Driven automation. Our smart AI agents eliminate the reliance of manual intervention, transforming how businesses manage and optimize their IT/Business processes.

What’s next? We are building additional features to enhance our platform’s capabilities. We are preparing for a limited beta version that will be available for selected customers, which will serve as a crucial step before onboarding more customers and scaling operations.

60. Cansulta 

Founders: Alexandra Kapelos-Peters
Website: https://www.cansulta.com/

Elevator Pitch: Supercharge your business with game-changing consultancy! Cansulta is an award-winning global platform of 200+ vetted consultants and experts that makes it easy for leaders to fill gaps in internal teams, face any business problem or challenge, and optimize every aspect of an organization.

Growth to date: Cansulta now features over 200 hand-picked, vetted experts and offers 550+ solutions (including core strategy, advisory, coaching and consulting services and their own courses, assessments & publications). The platform now also hosts over 1K business users!

What is your company superpower? Cansulta’s superpower is in finding & vetting trustworthy, reliable, experienced experts who have “been there, done that” and will deliver on expectations and promises. They get results! We’re also the only global platform offering 100% hiring flexibility: hire by the hour, the project, or get ongoing fractional support – just-in-time, and just-as-needed.

What’s next? Many new programs are launching in 2025!
– Going truly global by opening our private online business network to leaders & organizations everywhere.
– Integrating AI into our internal operations and platform: watch for improved matchmaking and shortlisting, and AI-driven answers to urgent questions for 24×7 assistance.
– Expanding our partner network to share our trusted B2B contacts, perks/discounts and solutions with our community.

59. WNORTH

Founders: Heather Odendaal
Website: https://wnorthconnect.com/

Elevator Pitch: WNORTH is an award-winning membership of leading Women, redefining success, and scaling new summits. WNORTH brings together professional women at a high level to share their systems, networks, knowledge, and experience and to collectively code leadership and management environments to women’s experiences through boutique in person and virtual events and programs.

Growth to date: 1,700 Members (expanding to 3,000 in 2025), no outside funding/investors, Celebrating 10 years, growing conference from 280 people to 450 in 2025.

What is your company superpower? Our Award-winning Conference and ability to foster community through our membership is our super power. At the 2024 Conference, of attendees surveyed 96% of the attendees rated their sense of belonging at the conference at 8 or higher out of 10.

What’s next? We are doubling the size of our Conference in celebration of our 10 year anniversary. We are hosting the 2025 WNORTH Conference at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler April 30-May 2, 2025 with a global set of influential women leaders.

58. Nu Benefits

Founders: Marcus Acaster
Website: https://www.getnubenefits.com

Elevator Pitch: At Nü Benefits we empower startups to offer competitive group benefits without breaking the bank—saving up to 75% on fees and commissions compared to traditional providers. Our fully independent approach delivers tailored, cost-effective plans that help you attract and retain top talent while keeping your resources focused on growth. With expert guidance, transparent pricing, and ongoing support, we make it easy for startups to provide big-company benefits on a startup budget.

Growth to date: Our client base has grown 100% since our first year, doubling in size as we wrap up an incredible second year of helping startups thrive with affordable group benefit solutions.

What is your company superpower? Our company’s superpower is being modern and lean, allowing us to pass significant savings—up to 75% in fees and commissions—directly to our customers. By leveraging innovative tools and a streamlined approach, we deliver tailored, cost-effective group benefits without the overhead of traditional brokers. This means our clients get exceptional service and support while keeping their costs low, helping them attract and retain top talent with maximum efficiency.

What’s next? What’s next for us is scaling our impact while staying true to our lean and cost-effective approach. We continue to form partnerships with innovative providers who align with our mission of offering more value, lower costs, and better employee experiences. By collaborating with forward-thinking insurers and benefit providers, we aim to deliver innovative solutions that enhance employee satisfaction while reducing expenses. Our vision is to simplify benefits management and create tailored solutions that help businesses grow while keeping their teams happy and supported.

57. Souqh

Founders: Ahmer Rafiq
Website: https://souqh.ca/

Elevator Pitch: Experience a modernized homeownership journey. Simply connect, collaborate and transact with real estate services and home improvement professionals – all in one place.

Growth to date: 3,000+ users

What is your company superpower? Bringing together the entire real estate and home services ecosystem together.

What’s next? Expanding across Canada and US

56. Salubrum

Founders: Osama Usmani
Website: https://www.salubrum.com

Elevator Pitch: Salubrum is on a mission to evangelize the North American healthcare system to medical tourism. We fundamentally believe that the increasing acute physician shortage in NA and the rising pressure from demand on our health systems is a wicked problem, with lowering deductibles and rising wait times being symptoms.

Medical tourism saves patients over 50-70% per procedure and offers much faster turnaround time, but the industry has historically been relegated to cosmetics and informal networks due to its Cash Pay model of healthcare.

However, headwinds have been changing since the Pandemic and payers are starting to enter the market, and companies like Salubrum will be taking advantage, by becoming the infrastructure sending patients abroad for care and the Expedia of medical tourism for patients.

We do this in two ways: For patients we build digital tools, like our Travelwise Passport, to make their medical tourism experience safe, affordable and easy. For payers we build compliance products that allow them to leverage medical tourism for their referrals. For providers we are a core commercialization partner for activating the North American market.

Growth to date: Salubrum is a graduate of NEXT Canada’s flagship program, NEXT36. Salubrum has also added Quironsalud, the largest private healthcare provider in Spain and the 2nd largest in Europe, as our first client. Salubrum is also backed by LA based Artest Management Group, led by former NBA Player Metta World Peace.

What is your company superpower? Rockstar team, mix of experts and innovators and enough chips for everyones shoulders.

What’s next? Pre-Seed round summer 2025.

55. Standard Field Systems

Founders: Sam Jenkins
Website: https://www.standardfield.co/

Elevator pitch: Standard Field Systems is transforming law enforcement with a smarter, more reliable platform for roadside evidence collection. We’re leading the way with the first digital protocol for the Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) and expanding support for ARIDE (Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement) and DRE (Drug Recognition Expert) evaluations. Our platform ensures greater accuracy, accountability, and efficiency in the field.

Growth to date: Over the past year, we’ve seen significant growth, primarily driven by our expansion into the US law enforcement ecosystem, and introducing additional protocols like ARIDE and DRE.

What is your company’s superpower? We bridge the gap between technology and frontline policing, making digital transformation seamless for law enforcement. Our platform isn’t just about collecting data—it’s about improving decision-making, ensuring due process, and building public trust. By digitizing SFST, ARIDE, and DRE protocols, we help officers conduct more consistent, defensible evaluations, reducing errors and strengthening cases.

What’s next? We’re continuing to drive value for US law enforcement, enhancing our data-powered insights, and rolling out new integrations to make field data collection even more comprehensive. We’re also introducing pilots in Australia and other national jurisdictions. Our mission is to set the new standard for digital roadside and field-based evidence collection, ensuring law enforcement has the tools they need to make informed, defensible decisions.

54. Surex

Founders: Lance Miller CEO, Matt Alston COO
Website: https://www.surex.com/

Elevator Pitch: Surex is an online insurance brokerage, allowing Canadians to Compare, Save and Purchase Car and Home insurance all online.

Growth to date: We have been in business for over 10 years, we have over 200 people working for Surex, and over 50,000 customers.

What’s next? We are always looking for great licensed insurance brokers to join our team! New partnerships are always in the works, and we are always improving.

54. Carbonhound

Founders: Sanders Lazier, Kyri Vanguard
Website: https://carbonhound.com

Elevator Pitch: Carbonhound automates high credibility climate reporting by integrating with thousands of primary data sources to unlock revenue opportunities and operational savings for our clients in a landscape of changing regulatory and customer expectations. Our platform simplifies carbon management to make it easy and affordable for businesses to take climate action and compete in greening supply chains.

Growth to date: Raised ~1.5M in funding, growing 4x year over year with over 150 customers

What is your company superpower? Empathy, we are really good at digging deeper to understand exactly what our clients need to ensure that we are delivering on their expectations as best we can.

What’s next? Growing the team to support the growth, releasing our french version of the app to expand into Quebec and drive more national partnerships

53. Discrepancy AI

Founders: Lisen Kaci
Website: https://www.discrepancyai.com

Elevator Pitch: Discrepancy AI uses artificial intelligence to automate and enhance document analysis for industries like insurance and real estate. By identifying inconsistencies in documents such as policies, claims, and lease agreements, Discrepancy AI helps companies reduce errors, improve compliance, and streamline document-heavy workflows. This enables insurers, real estate firms, and other documentation-focused industries to operate more efficiently with greater accuracy.

Growth to date: Since launching, Discrepancy AI has secured partnerships with multiple insurance providers and real estate firms to optimize their document workflows.

What is your company superpower? Discrepancy AI’s superpower is its ability to spot inconsistencies and potential risks in high-volume, complex documents quickly and with high precision. Leveraging machine learning, Discrepancy AI goes beyond traditional document management by identifying errors and discrepancies that could impact client decisions, compliance, and operational costs.

What’s next? Our next steps involve a combination of strategic growth initiatives. We’re focusing on expanding our AI-powered document analysis capabilities to deliver even more targeted insights and functionalities for our users. As we continue to evolve, we’re exploring potential new features that can further streamline document accuracy and compliance across industries like insurance, real estate, and beyond.

52. BrightIron

Founders: Mandeep Saini
Website: https://brightiron.com/

Elevator Pitch: BrightIron is a forward-thinking professional services firm for growth companies specializing in fractional finance and HR services for startups looking to optimize operations without the overhead of full-time staff.

Growth to date: 40% year-over-year growth

What is your company superpower? BrightIron’s superpower lies in its collective expertise. Comprising seasoned CFOs, HR leaders, Controllers, and Bookkeepers, we bring real-life experience in building, operating, and growing successful technology companies. Our mission is to guide tech startups through their growth journey, providing professional advice and insights from experts who have walked the path before.

What’s next? BrightIron’s goal is to continue its growth journey by innovating, expanding their capabilities, and delivering scalable solutions that support businesses through every stage of their growth journey.

51. Punchcard Systems

Founders: Sam Jenkins, Estyn Edwards
Website: punchcard.io

Elevator Pitch: Punchard System is Canada’s fastest-growing tech partner. It builds custom software, apps and automation for scale-ups & midsize enterprise.

Growth to date: Over the past 5 years, Punchcard Systems has witnessed an explosive amount of growth. Since 2020, we’ve doubled our headcount and grown our annual revenue by 225%. Most recently, we increased our revenue by 207% from 2021-2023—earning us a spot on The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business of Canada’s Top Growing Companies of 2024.

What is your company superpower? There are countless numbers of consultants, product studios, developers, agencies, and freelancers who can all deliver great results for their clients. But with Punchcard, not only do we deliver results but we build customized technology platforms that grow and scale alongside the changing needs of our clients.

Rather than focus on fancy features or subjective preferences, we establish alignment between our team and our clients to ensure we all work as one project team that strategically thinks through all challenges and opportunities together and is aligned on an outcome we’re collectively trying to achieve—which is focused on impacting the metric that matters most to our clients—whatever that may be. Ultimately, what makes Punchcard truly stand apart is our intense focus on the best possible outcome—finding the root of our client’s problem(s) and building a custom technology platform— from a mobile app to a Microsoft 365 automation to everything in between—that solves client challenge(s) and improves their metric that matters most.

What’s next? Over the next few years, Punchcard Systems is positioned for strategic growth centered around technological innovation and assembling talent from across the country to help scale said growth. We’ve set an ambitious target to incubate and launch 10 new technology platforms designed to create meaningful impact in their respective spaces. This initiative started with Standard Field Systems, a standardized toolkit for law enforcement to collect more accurate data and keep our streets safer while conducting standardized field sobriety testing, and has culminated in our most recent initiative, Check the Label, a community-driven mobile app that empowers Canadian consumers to make more informed decisions about the products they buy.

50.Leni 

Founders: Arunabh Dastidar, Gaurav Madani, Zain Nathoo
Website: https://leni.co/

Elevator Pitch: Leni is an AI-powered decision support system for asset owners and managers. We use advanced Data Science and Machine Learning models to help asset managers make better decisions across their portfolios.

Growth to date: We have grown over 400% in the last year and continue to have over 140% net retention rate

What’s next? We are expanding rapidly across the US market and continuing to partner with savvy asset owners who are looking to incorporate AI in their regular decision-making workflow.

49. wrksourcing

Founders: Tyler Cameron
Website: https://wrksourcing.com

Elevator Pitch: wrksourcing is your trusted virtual assistant and workflow solutions partner supporting entrepreneurs and business owners who are committed to growth. We help you save time by expertly handling administrative, sales, and marketing tasks, allowing you to channel your energy into strategic, revenue-generating endeavors. At wrksourcing, we advocate working smarter, not harder – the key to unlocking your business’s full potential.

Growth to date: From humble beginnings in January 2021 with a leadership team of 2 and 3 virtual assistants, wrksourcing has undergone a remarkable transformation. Presently, our leadership team boasts 6 members overseeing crucial areas such as Sales and Marketing, HR/Recruitment, Finance, and Client Success, supported by a core team of 35+ virtual assistants, specialists, and workflow experts. In terms of financial success, we’ve achieved a healthy 198% revenue increase from Fiscal 2021 to Fiscal 2023.

In what way AI is shaping your industry? We’ve been getting asked a lot lately on whether AI is going to replace the human roles – specifically the work of our virtual assistants and specialists. We see the rise of AI as an opportunity to seamlessly blend human touch with cutting-edge technology.

We’re actively investing in AI platforms ourselves to enhance the efficiency of our virtual assistants, transforming them into Super VAs. By incorporating AI tools, we aim to continuously elevate our services, providing clients with unparalleled value and staying at the forefront of technological advancements in our industry.

What’s next? Looking ahead to 2025, wrksourcing has exciting plans in store. A particular focus lies on expanding our Workflow Solutions product, an innovative offering born out of a deep understanding of entrepreneurs’ needs. Conducting comprehensive workflow audits allows us to identify and address foundational gaps before matching clients with virtual assistants. This personalized approach, coupled with creating tailored workflow plans, SOPs, and implementing these systems, distinguishes us in the outsourcing space. The goal is to not only make our clients’ lives easier by having proper processes and systems in place, but to also foster increased productivity and revenue for the entire organization. As we evolve, we believe our genuine and personalized approach to supporting entrepreneurs, combined with the Workflow Solutions offering positions us as leaders in the outsourcing arena.

48. Ramping Up 

Key People: Emily Yu, Jo Gai 
Website: https://rampingup.com/

Elevator Pitch: Ramping Up provides all-in-one global talent solution for startups. We simplify remote hiring, management & payroll, so founders can focus on what matters. We are ex-founders who have been through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. During our journey, we struggled to find a one-stop solution that truly understood our needs. That’s why we built Ramping Up.

Growth to date: USD 10M + payroll under management. 500+ employees signed for our startup clients

What is your company superpower? We elevate the experience of remote team building and management

What’s next? expansion, increase the connectivity of US, Canada and Asia tech talents

47. Tenure

Founders: Jonathan Hillis
Website: https://www.tenurerewards.com

Elevator Pitch: Tenure helps companies reward employees by growing their savings, not their spending with giftcards, boosting morale, retention, while reducing financial stress in the workplace.

Growth to date: 20+ companies utilizing Tenure in first 3 months, bootstrapped to date.

What is your company superpower? Tenure’s superpower is turning employee rewards into financial wellness tools that reduce stress, build savings, and strengthen retention – all while creating a culture that truly values employees.

What’s next? Fundraising, expansion to US, offer some exciting new products and of course hiring.

46. Crafty Ramen

Key People: Miki Ferrall, Jared Ferrall, Khalil Khamis
Website URL: https://craftyramen.com/

Elevator Pitch: We’re reimagining what ramen looks like and carving out the white space in the ramen market by bringing restaurant-quality ramen to homes across North America.

Growth to date:  Fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2024: 700K to 7M; In the last 18 months, Crafty ramen is now sold in 1500 grocery stores across Canada. Total raised: 5M

What is your company superpower? Innovation, pivoting, and Restaurant-Quality Ramen – we opened our second restaurant location right before the pandemic and had to quickly pivot to figure out how to keep selling ramen (and our doors open). We created a DIY meal kit, packed by hand, that customers could take home to make. From selling these kits out of our restaurants, we opened an ecommerce channel and started shipping them to customers homes. We first shipped fresh kits, then fresh-frozen and later innovated an entirely new product that combined the same quality ingredients but with an added convenience – enter our Heat & Eat ramen.

We later realized there was a gap in the ramen market for a restaurant quality bowl of ramen that could be made at home (instant ramen was the only option) and decided to create one. We took the same recipe we serve at our restaurants and turned it into a frozen “puck”, ready to be cooked on the stove or microwave, and ready in minutes; simply just “Heat & Eat”! We now sell this product in 1500 grocery stores, and counting!

What’s next? Breaking into the U.S Market in 2025

45. Motiv

Founders/Key People: Clark Lai, Mariya Besedina
Website: https://motiv.digital

Elevator Pitch: Motiv is a leading innovation consulting firm and venture studio specializing in end-to-end venture building. Combining deep expertise in business, technology, and finance, we craft high-impact, scalable solutions that drive growth and create lasting value. Partnering with corporates, startups, universities, governments, and non-profits, Motiv has empowered clients and collaborators to generate over $2 billion in market value. Our mission is to turn bold ideas into transformative ventures that shape the future.

Growth to date: Motiv has empowered clients and collaborators to generate over $2 billion in market value.

What is your company superpower? Our company’s superpower is our end-to-end venture building approach, which integrates business strategy, cutting-edge technology, and financial expertise to craft scalable, high-value solutions. Equally, our dedication to collaborating with the broader innovation and technology ecosystem—spanning corporates, startups, universities, governments, and non-profits—empowers us to drive transformative impact and unlock new market opportunities for our partners.

What’s next? Our focus is on global expansion, sharing our innovative solutions with broader markets while continuing to catalyze strategic partnerships across innovation ecosystems. By fostering collaborations and creating mutual opportunities, we aim to drive transformative impact and scale our ventures to new heights.

44. Athena AI

Founders: Shao Hang He
Website: https://athenachat.bot/

Elevator Pitch: AI chatbot that visualizes the answers in chat with Diagrams, Web pages, Images, Maps and More! Delivering results immediately on any device.

Growth to date: More than 30,000 users since launch

What is your company superpower? We can built an AI tool in a weekend and get 5k users the next week.

What’s next? Marketing: we just open paid subscription last week.

43. Equivesto

Founders: Ryan Correia & Alexander Morsink
Website: https://equivesto.com

Elevator Pitch: Equivesto is an online investment portal and licensed Exempt Market Dealer that helps Canadian founders streamline their capital raising process. We provide a platform to raise funds compliantly from community members and traditional investors, help structure an investment offering, and provide critical investor readiness feedback to set founders up for funding success.

Growth to date: 100M+ Raised | 100+ Canadian Companies funded | 6,000+ Investors

What is your company superpower? Our Customer Service – We ensure founders are well prepared to raise capital prior to launching any fundraising campaign & all investors receive a positive investment experience, whether they are investing $100 or $100,000.

What’s next? Going into 2025, we will focus on our main strength areas of Funds, Real Estate, and Angel Syndicates (SPVs), while continuing to push the growth of Equity Crowdfunding in Canada. To do so, we plan to expand our team to a few more key members and build out further technology. We will also create more Canadian relevant educational content around private investing.

42. Pacto Medical

Founders: Robert Halvorsen, Ryan Stinebaugh, and Ian Speers
Website: www.pactomedical.com

Elevator Pitch: Our flagship patent-pending product is the SlimShot syringe – a compact and resource-saving pre-filled syringe for use across the healthcare industry and beyond. Though pre-filled syringes provide many benefits – including safety, precision, speed, and convenience – switching away from vials and empty syringes to pre-filled syringes has led to fewer syringes fitting on pallets than before. This is because pre-filled syringes come with their plungers almost fully extended. This wastes significant space during sterilization, shipping, storage, and distribution. We have invented a collapsible syringe with a 40% smaller packaging footprint relative to traditional pre-filled syringes.

Our SlimShot syringe design saves costs throughout the supply chain, reduces environmental impact, and brings the safety and quality benefits of pre-filled syringes to more patients around the world.

Growth to date: Over $225,000 in funding

What is your company superpower?
Intently listening to and co-designing products with users.

What’s next? Pilot of MVP in austere environments and expansion of design to multiple sizes.

41. NTangible

Founders: Dan Connerty
Website: https://www.ntangible.co/

Elevator Pitch: NTangible is Canada’s fastest growing sports technology company, which has created a mental assessment that can predict high-leverage performance of athletes. At a high level, we can determine who will perform in the clutch when you need them to score goals and win games. NTangible is based in Toronto, Canada, and currently the NTangible assessment runs 14.2x more predictive than the current market leader (Wonderlic Assessment).

Growth to date:
– Onboarded two MLS testing partners, as well as Apollon Limassol (Top pro soccer team in the Cypriot 1st Division).
– Secured major revenue partnerships with Alliance Fastpitch (Largest Youth Softball Organization in America with over 50 000 girls) and Future Stars Series (3rd largest HS Baseball Showcase Company)
– Worked with the Toronto Blue Jays to test athletes at the Canadian Future Showcase Event
– Tested 30+ NCAA Collegiate Partners

What is your company superpower? We can measure what was once considered unmeasurable in sports, or rather, the missing piece of the analytic picture – mental fitness to an accurate and predictive level

What’s next? Sales, Sales, and more sales! We are actively expanding our sports tests available, with the ultimate goal of having 15+ by the end of 2026; and hope to setup similar Alliance revenue relationships with each of them.

From a technical perspective, we are currently discussing potential voice and VR development applications for this assessment. Shifting to verbal allows for more tonality biometric measurements and readiness scalability, and VR would very much take our company into futuristic realms.

40. Kompas

Founders: Cory Friedman
Website: https://www.kompaspm.com/

Elevator Pitch: Kompas is an all-in-one property management and accounting software that was created and designed by property managers, for property managers. Our mission is to equip landlords and property managers with the tools to simplify all aspects of their operations, scale confidently and maximize their portfolio’s performance.

Growth to date: We are launching in January 2025 with beta customers totaling approximately 10,000 apartment units. This is approximately 60K in MRR. Our goal is to grow to over 25,000 units by the end of the year which would bring us to 150K in MRR.

What is your company superpower? Our company’s superpower is that we have created an accounting software designed to be used for non accountants. Many of the real users in property management and rental property ownership are not accountants. The incumbent solutions on the market are legacy systems that were designed as complex and friction filled accounting softwares. We have built in all of the backend complexities of a sophisticated enterprise accounting software but with a beautiful and easy UX designed for all of the specific users in your real estate organization.

What’s next? Expanding client base across Canada, hiring out teams in sales, marketing and customer success, developing new features and integrations.

39. Toast

Founders: Marissa McNeelands, April Hicke
Website: https://www.trytoast.community/

Elevator Pitch: Toast was born in 2022 based on our founders’ experiences working and hiring in tech. They saw first-hand women being the ‘lonely only’ on technical teams, leaving the industry due to unclear pathways into leadership, and hiring systems that perpetuate unconcious biases of the hiring managers.

Our mission at Toast is to help women get the work they want, for the pay they deserve, and with a community that supports them. We collaborate with purpose-driven companies committed to fostering gender equity on their technical teams, helping them build diverse and inclusive workforces. For women in tech, we provide a community offering hands-on support through hackathons, workshops, career coaching, and our flagship event, the Toast Summit.

Growth to date: Toast’s community has grown tremendously since its inception just 2 years ago. Our community has over 500 members from 14 cities across Canada and the US. Our reach extends through a weekly newsletter, social media channels, and highly attended events. In 2023, we hosted over 100 events. Our flagship Summit in Calgary had 500 people in attendance, learning from 30 speakers, with the support from over 100 companies in the tech ecosystem.

We proudly partner with over 100 impact-focused companies to help build diverse tech teams. Last year alone, we placed women in tech roles through our partners, collectively earning salaries exceeding $1 million. To date, 84% of our clients interviewed our candidates, and 49% hired an FTE or contractor from our talent pool of 20,000 women+.

What is your company superpower? Toast’s superpower is its ability to bridge the gap between women in tech and mission-driven companies, fostering meaningful connections that drive gender equity in the industry. As a values-driven company, we proudly and openly stand up for what we believe in, with the conviction that our actions can create a better future for women in tech and the industry as a whole. Through community-building, recruitment, and impactful programming, Toast creates opportunities for women to thrive and for companies to build diverse teams.

What’s next? Toast is on an ambitious growth trajectory. We aim to increase the number of women in our programs, expand the impact of our flagship Toast Summit, and facilitate millions of dollars in tech salaries for women each year. By 2027, we hope to host the a record-breaking hackathon, scale the Summit to multiple locations across the U.S., and drive over $20 million in tech salaries through our partnerships.To achieve these goals, we are expanding our team, with a focus on recruitment, community engagement, and platform development.

38. Summit EHSQ

Founders: Dave McLean, Matthew Roberts
Website: https://www.summitehsq.com/

Elevator Pitch: Summit EHSQ is a Professional Services & Managed Services Provider (MSP) enabling organizations to leverage technology to drive their Environmental, Health, Safety and Quality Management programs. We work with organizations to implement technology solutions, with a focus on the Intelex suite of products, leveraging our 20+ years of combined experience in supporting a host of diverse global brands.

Growth to Date: Over 300 Projects Completed with more than 100 Clients, with $0 of External Funding.

37. Linkus Group

Elevator Pitch: Linkus is a well-connected, high-touch recruitment search partner known for our attention to care, speed and quality. We have worked with many of the top companies in their early days as their exclusive recruitment partner, so we have unique experience with hiring success over and over again. We are known for helping startups and SMBs as they grow from 1-250+ with niche hard to fill roles in Executive, Engineering, Revenue, Operations and Finance. We’ve leveraged our own in-house technology HireHipo, as the fastest way to hire quality talent.

Growth to date: 35,000 pre-vetted high potential candidates on platform, recruited for +500 companies

What is your company superpower? We are known for helping startups and SMBs as they grow from 1-250+ with niche hard to fill roles in Executive, Engineering, Revenue, Operations and Finance.

What’s next? To allow startups and SMBs make their top hires in under 30 seconds. As well as improve the candidate experience and change how companies hire for the better.

36. Binoloop

Founders: Purvaja Soochit, Kanishk Patel
Website: https://www.binoloop.com/

Elevator Pitch: Binoloop empowers companies and government entities with autonomous sourcing AI agents to streamline procurement decisions. Through cutting-edge AI and automation, we transform the entire sourcing journey – from RFP analysis to supplier discovery – ensuring fairness and transparency while saving time and resources.

Growth to date:  Since our founding in 2023, Binoloop has achieved significant early traction:

–Successfully completed pilot programs with 3 federal agencies
–Secured $500K in pre-seed funding from angel investors
–Implemented tool at US Federal and US Local Government level
–Selected for the Dcode US Federal Accelerator program and 500 Global Accelerator
–Growing team from 2 to 10 employees across engineering and research
–Reduced RFP review time by 80% for pilot customers
–Currently in discussions with 5 major US defense agencies

What is your company superpower? Building truly autonomous AI agents that transform complex sourcing decisions into streamlined, fair processes. Our deep understanding of both procurement challenges and AI capabilities allows us to create solutions that actually work in real-world sourcing scenarios, not just in theory

What’s next? Our 2024-2025 roadmap focuses on launching an autonomous supplier discovery feature, enhancing AI models with multi-modal capabilities, and expanding automation across the full RFx lifecycle. We plan to scale our federal procurement presence, expand into the defense contractor market, and establish strategic partnerships with major procurement platforms. To support this growth, we will double our AI/ML engineering team, build out our federal sales team, and add procurement subject matter experts.

35. Niura

Founders: Ryan Ahmad
Website: https://www.niura.io/

Elevator Pitch: Where young people are facing higher levels of stress and productivity is decreasing more quickly than ever, we need a solution that tackles the root causes of lower focus levels and constant procrastination. Productivity software intended to decreasescreen time or organize your schedule is only a bandage solution at best – their implementation is often uninformed, and more often than not, apps and calendars become more stressful to maintain than they are helpful. We need a solution created for you, by you.

Niura brings a revolutionary concept packaged in a familiar format by integrating brain performance monitoring technology directly into wireless earbuds, so you know exactly what’s happening inside your head. These earbuds are designed for high-performing individuals like students and professionals to monitor their cognitive patterns and suggest optimal work-rest cycles, making concentrating in a world full of distractions easier than ever. Engineered to work smarter, Niura earbuds blend into everyday routines, gamifying deep work and flow state, turning it into a more engaging experience.

Growth to date: For the last two years, we have worked tirelessly on developing our initial product, bringing together engineers and researchers to create an innovative product and app for our users to make the most of their time and outperform their peers. Since our founding in 2022, we have raised funding from over 30 early investors. Additionally, over 60 publications have highlighted our work, most notably TechCrunch 2023, Yahoo Finance, and the first Men’s Health Magazine documentary, Generation Flex.

What’s next? We are currently raising a seed round to fund our manufacturing and shipping pipelines to bring our product to users. We have opened our waitlist to gauge traction and collect early user feedback before a full launch. Additionally, we will be working with industry experts in signal processing and machine learning to further the development of our product and its integration into the Niura app, creating a seamless experience to help users better understand their study habits and maintain focus when they most need it.

34. Maple

Founders: Ruchi Varshney, Aswinkumar Rajendiran, Aravindkumar Rajendiran
Website: https://maplebilling.com

Elevator Pitch: All-in-one accounts receivable platform that captures your sales-led or product-led revenue workflows in one place no matter your pricing model.

Growth to date: Seed stage with a rapidly growing customer-base

What is your company superpower? We ship blazingly fast. We’re an all star product and engineering team that returned from the valley to be back in Canada to build a great AR product in a rather fragmented  space

What’s next? Expansion and features for finance stakeholders.

33. SingleKey

Founders: Viler Lika
Website:  https://www.singlekey.com/en-ca/

Elevator Pitch: Trusted by more than 150,000 homeowners across the U.S. and Canada, SingleKey is a digital platform that helps property owners make more informed decisions when selecting tenants and managing their risk. Their tenant screening service, automated rent collection tool, and Rent Guarantee Program bring trust, transparency, and accountability into the rental process, allowing homeowners, renters, property managers, and realtors to rent risk free. For more information, visit singlekey.com.

Growth to date: SingleKey has helped over 500,000 tenants find homes with 150,000 housing providers.

What is your company superpower? Giving people the confidence to rent, improving housing accessibility for all. For homeowners, we’re giving them access to all the information they need about their potential tenants to make more informed choices and feel comfortable accepting new renters. For tenants, we’re helping them stand out as reliable renters in competitive rental markets so they can get approved for their new homes faster.

What’s next? SingleKey wants to help 1 million people rent risk-free by 2026. SingleKey is always on the lookout for incredible people who are passionate about helping bridge the trust gap between tenants and homeowners.

32. Edgecom Energy 

Founders: Behdad Bahrami, Mehdi Parvizi
Website: https://edgecom.ai/

Elevator Pitch: Edgecom Energy provides commercial and industrial consumers with an all-in-one energy management solution to outsmart rising energy costs. Our platform uses AI and combines real-time facility and grid analytics to deliver advanced insights and enable better decision-making, reducing costs and emissions while maximizing grid incentives.

Growth to date: 120 facilities, 500+ users, $2.5M seed round closed,

What is your company superpower? Our AI Energy CoPilot. It delivers tailored insights for your facility, offering in-depth trend analysis, anomaly detection, energy efficiency strategies, and more.

What’s next? Expansion into Texas and New York energy markets

31. System-3

Founders: Elan Pratzer and Malka Lewittes
Website: https://www.system-3.com/

Elevator Pitch: System-3 presents a powerful new way to identify and evaluate human capital.
Our simulation-based, data-driven, SaaS assessment measures complex executive decision-making providing an accurate and objective analysis of leadership talent fundamentally changing how organizations assess their leadership talent.

Growth to date:
Following its seed round in early 2023, System-3 completed a $2M plus financing in 2024.
System-3 has continued its mission to empower organizations with data-driven insights for objective, accurate, and informed human capital decisions, focusing on leadership talent. The System-3 Leadership Simulation solidified its position as a unique solution in the market, addressing critical needs in talent selection and evaluation, succession planning, team effectiveness, and identifying emerging leaders.
The System-3 solution has been validated by 800+ assessments with high accuracy for leadership success.

What is your company superpower? Human capital is every organization’s most important asset. It is also it’s most elusive. With our groundbreaking approach to the assessment of leadership talent, System-3 is launching a new era for the accurate identification, recruitment, and cultivation of business leaders. The impact is millions of dollars in valuation and operational efficiency by avoiding costly leadership failures. We set organizations up for measurable success, driving performance and growth. Objective and predictive our simulation yields unbiased, data-driven insights about how people are likely to perform, resulting in a better understanding of whether a leader will succeed in an organization.

System-3 is alone in the market as the only predictive behavioural technology-based leadership assessment . With technology that is fast, cost effective and scalable and an engaging candidate experience, System-3 is easily deployed across departments or organizations to realize immediate impact.

What’s next? System-3’s focus in 2025 is on bold execution, innovative thinking, and a relentless focus on our clients.
Product Innovation:
– HR platform integration to simplify client implementation.
– Channel Partner Optimization: Accelerate revenue growth, market penetration and scalability by deepening engagement with current partners and further leveraging high-impact channel partners, such as Executive Search Firms, PE firms, HR / leadership consulting firms.
– US Market Penetration: Aggressive strategic targeting of the US market focusing on high-growth channels and leveraging existing partnerships.

30. Islands  

Founders: Ali El-Shayeb
Website: https://www.islandshq.xyz/

Elevator Pitch: Islands is a Fractional CTO and Technology partner, specializing in AI and B2B SaaS. We also manage a venture studio called Island X, building and commercializing innovative solutions that’ll win in the market.

Growth to date: We have scaled from 5 to 40 engineers, designers, and technology folks, 3 to 25 clients and project at least 4x YoY revenue growth in 2024.

In what way AI is shaping your industry? We operationalize AI workflows every day in all aspects of the business. We specifically support our clients in building their own AI solutions, from architecture strategy to implementation of computer vision, LLM Models and scalable Machine Learning pipelines.

What’s next? We are gearing up for multiple venture studio product launches. One of our most sought-after products is a powerful time & performance tracking application built for agencies, professional services, and remote teams. We’re also launching an AI Corporate Venture Studio to support enterprises who want to optimize their business with AI. We continue to scale our team at Islands and seek top talent, including HR Generalists, Business Development Reps, and Software Engineers who are eager to define tech for forward-thinking companies.

29. Agora 

Founders: Charlie Feng, Kent Fenwick, Stepan Arsentjev, Yitong Zhang
Website: https://www.agora.xyz/

Elevator Pitch: Agora is the end-to-end governance platform that the top protocols in Ethereum rely on to make critical decisions, allocate ecosystem funding and resourcing. The decentralized, secure, compliant voting system for internet organizations. Agora was founded in 2022 by Yitong Zhang, Charlie Feng, and Kent Fenwick, who initially started working on governance tooling together through their involvement in Nouns, one of the most active onchain governance communities.

The trio has a long shared history prior: Yitong is a crypto-native designer and community builder, having been a staff product designer at Coinbase and co-creator of VectorDAO. Yitong and Charlie previously cofounded Hemingly. Charlie then went on to cofound Clearco, where he was the business and finance mind behind what became a multibillion dollar fintech (funded by Emergence, Founder’s Fund, and Softbank). Kent is a rare engineer with deep knowledge across growth and product, who tapped into the 2014 crypto scene before going on to work with Charlie as VP of Growth, then VP of Product at Clearco.

Growth to date: Raised $5M in 2024 from top investors such as Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Position Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Packy McCormick. Over 700K votes conducted onchain via Agora’s smart contracts, with 100K+ monthly active users.

What’s next? Agora currently powers the largest protocols around the world such as Optimism, Uniswap, ENS, Scroll. Agora is launching and now available for protocols looking to launch, servicing end-to-end, fully customizable, one stop shop. Agora also has an ecosystem partners they are launching this year to bring a robust set of offerings to their customers.

We’re growing our team, if you know anyone who’s interested, please send us a note!

28. Biiibo 

Elevator Pitch: Biiibo is transforming construction supply with an on-demand marketplace that connects homeowners and contractors to materials fast. Our app simplifies renovation projects – find what you need, get same-day or scheduled delivery, and manage your team and projects all in one place. With Biiibo Pro, subscribers unlock free deliveries and discounts, supercharging efficiency. We’re not just delivering supplies; we’re building smarter ways to work.

Growth to Date: Since our March 2020 launch, Biiibo has scaled fast – fully self-funded, we’ve grown to a team of 100+ and expanded across the Greater Toronto Area. Thousands of customers now rely on us, and we’ve reshaped how construction materials move, one delivery at a time.

What’s Your Company’s Superpower? Our superpower is tech-driven simplicity. We turn complex construction needs into seamless experiences – think same-day deliveries for big orders or a mobile app that feels custom-built for every user. We save time, cut costs, and boost productivity.

What’s Next? Biiibo’s 2025 is about bold moves: we’re growing our sales and engineering teams, building generative AI tools to supercharge the customer experience, and pushing innovation harder. Our goal? Smarter, faster solutions that keep builders and contractors ahead of the game.

27. Friendlier 

Founders: Kayli Smith, Jacqueline Hutchings
Website: https://www.friendlier.com/

Elevator Pitch: Friendlier is simplifying the world’s transition from single-use to reusable packaging. Our turnkey reuse system empowers businesses to reach their ESG targets, comply with single-use regulations, and appease growing demands from consumers. Through our system, we supply reusable packaging to food service businesses, that consumers can return through our network to claim a deposit. Each package is tracked through our reuse management system, and deposits are managed digitally for the user through their smartphone to ensure convenience. Our system manages the reverse logistics and sanitation of the returned packages to be reused. The data we collect as we track the packages throughout the supply chain is displayed to our clients through our client dashboard.

Our reuse system is supporting over 200 food service clients (including the largest contract food service companies in North America), and we have already diverted almost 2 million packages from landfill. Based on life cycle comparisons, this is equivalent to 116k kg of waste and 336k kg of GHG emissions. We currently service Ontario, Quebec, and BC, and are expanding rapidly to meet demands of this quickly growing market. Friendlier is uniquely positioned to scale because we have developed the most robust and efficient reverse logistics and sanitation processes in reuse in North America. We can continue to provide the ease, convenience, and affordability that food service businesses are used to with their packaging.

Growth to date:  Doubling YoY, raised over $8M in funding, over 2M packages reused to date.

What is your company superpower? Friendlier’s superpower is making sustainability easy and profitable. By seamlessly integrating reusable packaging with intuitive software and logistics, Friendlier eliminates the complexity of switching from single-use to reusable packaging. Our solution not only helps businesses reduce waste and meet sustainability goals but also creates measurable cost savings and operational efficiencies.We turn what could be a challenge into an opportunity, empowering businesses to make an impact without compromising on convenience or profitability.

What’s next? Friendlier is expanding to support our clients across Canada, we’ve recently launched in BC and will be launching in Alberta shortly.

26. Blanka

Founders: Kaylee Astle, Adam Chuntz, Doug Long
Website: https://blankabrand.com/

Elevator Pitch: Blanka is a platform that automates the process of launching a branded beauty line. With hundreds of high quality products manufactured in North America and with
zero minimums or upfront costs, Blanka’s technology unifies the process of launching a
brand – from product selection through order fulfillment.

Growth to date: Blanka has played a key role in launching thousands of brands, experienced impressive year-over-year growth of over 250%, and secured over $3M in capital to fuel ongoing expansion.

What is your company superpower? Our superpower is putting people first, which is one of our company values. This value is at the core of everything we do—whether it’s the world-class support we provide to our brands (with near-perfect ratings on Google, Shopify, and Trustpilot) or how we treat our team members. We’re incredibly proud of our culture, reflected in our 5.0-star rating on Glassdoor. At Blanka, we work hard and play hard, fostering an environment where both our customers and our team feel supported, valued, and empowered to succeed.

What’s next? We’re on a mission to empower anyone to bring their dream beauty and wellness line to life. In 2025, our focus is squarely on growth—continuing to help brands

25. Hera Fertility 

Founders: Thiv Paramsothy, April Rutter
Website: https://herafertility.co/

Elevator Pitch: We help men become fathers by treating their infertility comfortably at home instead of in an awkward clinic. Our at-home testing and app-based treatment program can improve infertility almost half the time and save more than 22 months by doing it at home.

Growth to date: 
– Pilot Program: 125 paying patients from 5 clinics across 3 states generating $20K+ with 8:1 LTV:CAC
– 130 clinicians already in network across 10 states, expected $325,000 & 1,300 new patients once activated
– Raised $250K from Techstars, Baskar (founder of YC-backed company Pagerduty), Orrick (law firm), Foundry Square Investors. And now raising $1.5M pre-seed.

What is your company superpower? Hera Fertility’s superpower is making male infertility testing and treatment simple, accessible, and stigma-free with at-home solutions and expert care.

What’s next? Raising $1.5M pre-seed to help 3000 men become fathers and generate $1M annual revenue. Expand clinic partners and launch new test solution.

24. 409.ai

Key People: Adam Czach
Website: https://www.409.ai/

Elevator Pitch: 409.AI builds Machine Learning Technology for business Valuations. We help founders, VC’s, and private equity firms value their businesses 10x faster, 50% cheaper, and infinitely easier.

Growth to date: We’ve doubled our revenue every quarter in 2024 and have brought on major partnerships in the US, Canada, and Australia.

What is your company superpower? Super Speed! Our team and ML ability allows us to deliver for our clients in market leading times!

What’s next? Partnerships & product expansion. We’re partnering with VC’s, PE firms and FinTech companies to offer fast & accurate valuations to expanding market.

24. Pathcore

Founders: Dan Hosseinzadeh, Dr. Anne Martel
Website: https://pathcore.com/

Elevator Pitch: Pathcore® provides a digital pathology software suite powered by an industry-leading data management platform run from the cloud. Our flagship offering, PathcoreFlow™, is engineered to streamline collaboration on, and analysis of, high resolution (tera-pixel sized) pathology images. Coupled with PathcoreScholar™ and the Sedeen Viewer™, Pathcore serves multiple verticals in the pathology market—from industry-leading pharmaceutical companies and biotech pioneers to educational institutions and hospitals. Pathology and research teams can now focus on the science, while Pathcore handles the technology.

Growth to Date: Pathcore has expanded its team across Canada and now has staff from coast-to-coast. Our customer base now stretches even further across the globe from Canada to the US, Europe and Asia. Quite dramatically, we have been one of the only cloud service providers that have reduced the cost of storage for our customers by as much as 75%, even while inflationary pressures have led to a 30% increase in cloud storage costs.

What is your company superpower? Our superpower lies in the belief that we can engineer solutions for processing large images (tera-pixel and even peta-pixel images) in a user’s browser more effectively than most desktop applications. We are a team of resourceful engineers, software developers, architects, and system administrators working alongside pathology experts to engineer turbocharged user experiences for big datasets using off-the-shelf technologies.

What’s next? In the coming year we are looking to launch new products that truly accelerate pre-clinical pathology research, allowing new cancer therapeutics to come to market faster and with lower cost. Building on a foundation of broad industry technology compatibility, we continue to partner with market leading providers of laboratory information systems, image analysis systems and slide scanning platforms to deliver a unified digital pathology experience. Stay tuned for these exciting announcements.

22. Fortay

Founders: Marlina Kinnersley
Website: https://www.fortay.co/

Elevator Pitch: Fortay.ai is the world’s first inclusion-centered, Employee Experience platform that helps business leaders build diverse, healthy, high-performance cultures for business success. With a revolutionary, holistic, human-centered approach, Fortay empowers leaders with expert & science-backed surveys, critical people insights, AI-driven recommendations, and action plans, competency-based performance reviews and development plans, leadership effectiveness development, and culture and values-alignment hiring. Our robust suite of impact-driven products to designed to improve the employee experience, diversity, equity, inclusion, & belonging progress and business outcomes. Learn more about how we can help you and your company at fortay.ai.

Growth to date: Fortay.ai is in high growth mode with plans for team expansion and new partnerships to help more organizations build inclusive, high-performing cultures and teams! With over 1.5 million employee and candidate data points, and being trusted by the most innovative organizations, Fortay continues to bring the company the most progressive, human-centered, AI-powered Employee Experience platform to the market.

What’s next? We recently launched Perform & Grow, structured, fair, and effective 360 performance reviews that employees actually love. Every employee receives a personalized AI-driven development plan to help them grow after feedback is in. Companies love it because it helps to boost employee engagement and productivity and drives high team performance! We will continue to develop accompanying features and add more AI-driven features to further empower and enable people leaders to improve the employee experience.

21. eeva

Founders: Adrienne Jung,  Jarrod Nicho
Website: https://eeva.ai

Elevator Pitch: Adulting is hard— the endless planning, remembering, and coordinating leaves you stressed, burnt out, and with a mental load heavier than your laundry pile.

If your life’s currently held together by too many apps, piles of paper, and a cluttered brain… eeva’s got your back. eeva is an all-in-one adulting app that adapts to your lifestyle, pulling everything together—notes, lists, reminders, appliance details, maintenance schedules, documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks—into one collaborative hub. eeva helps you manage your home, organize your life, and keep your people in line.

Our mission? To lighten your mental load, create more harmony at home, and make adulting just a little easier—because when the little things run smoothly, the big things become possible.

Growth to date: We just launched our product on the App Store & Google Play in open beta. We officially launch at CES 2025 (which has been confirmed and we have a booth for CES). We have over 1,000 users as of the time of writing this application. We have raised over $2 million dollars to date through Angels, Grants, and Competitions. We continue to grow week over week, and by the time CES is here we are on track to have over 5,000 users. The entire development is done in-house, and our AI features are being activated within the month, which will dramatically change the way people manage their home-life.

What is your company superpower? Both Adrienne and Jarrod have years of business experience under their belt which has allowed them to create a truly world class team, while securing the business foundation for long-term growth. Their experience in operations, continuous improvement, and organization are perfectly suited to help eeva do exactly what it is intended to, change the way people manage their home-life forever. Comparing eeva to all the competitors on the market you can see that it is far and away better than anything out there. This is because it was built from the ground up internally and not just a reskin of existing platforms. We also play nice with everything you’re already using to create a true one-stop shop for home-life management.

What’s next? We have multiple new hives (components) coming online in the coming months include vehicles, pets, and budgeting. We also have eeva coming tor life through our AI integrations before the end of the year, and then API connections with existing platform you already use. While some of these are active today (Google, Apple), we will be adding Microsoft, OneCart and many others in the months ahead. Staffing levels are at a place where we don’t need to hire anyone else, we’re just focused away on building the greatest platform that’s ever existed to help with the adulting problem we all share.

20. Huex Labs

Founders: Anik Seth, Kiran Kadekoppa
Website: http://www.huex.ai/

Elevator Pitch: Voice is the invisible interface and has seen the most traction as demand for contactless services increased. Brick and Mortar and Retail locations are facing severe labor crises. We are bringing voice automation and providing a digital employee to augment their ground staff.

Growth to date: We have a huge interest from both VCs, device manufacturers, and some notable names in the Toronto area. We are already running paid pilots programs across several locations. We are planning to launch a pilot with another US-based Food chain.

What’s next? We want to deploy our solution rapidly and expand across Food / Restaurant chains, followed by expansion into Retail, Healthcare and other industries.

19. Stay22 

Founders: Andrew Lockhead, Hamed Al-Khabbaz
Website: https://www.stay22.com/

Elevator Pitch: Stay22 empowers travel content creators to monetize their platforms effectively through our innovative affiliate program and AI-powered conversion tools. We help users enhance their content while driving revenue.

Company Superpower: We excel at combining cutting-edge technology with seamless integrations, enabling content creators to maximize earnings without compromising their workflow.

What’s next? Exploring new growth markets to diversify further and reach untapped audiences like consumer goods.

18. MedMe Health 

Founders: Purya Sarmadi (Chief Executive Officer), Nicholas Hui (Chief Product Officer)
Website: https://www.medmehealth.com

Elevator Pitch: At MedMe, we’re passionate about empowering pharmacists to provide services beyond just prescribing for patients in the community. Our mission is to build an all-in-one cloud-based platform that empowers pharmacists to schedule, document, and manage clinical services at scale. We help pharmacies transform into community health hubs.

We’re building software for an industry that has relied on pen and paper throughout its history. This is why crafting, building, and constantly improving the end-to-end customer experience is essential. We must listen deeply to the diverse needs of our pharmacies, which could be located anywhere from dense urban jungles to small remote communities. We design and build for their needs to ultimately provide more proactive and sustainable care for the patients in their communities.

Growth to date:  MedMe has many of the largest pharmacy chains in Canada as clients. We’re servicing over 4,000 pharmacies, and we’ve powered over 25 million patient services. We played a critical role across the country throughout the pandemic in getting the larger population vaccinated, having supported over 2 million flu and COVID vaccinations this year alone. We have continued to expand our scope of clinical services that are supported by our platform towards our mission to transform pharmacies from today’s dispensing locations to tomorrow’s health hubs.

Today, pharmacists use MedMe for AI powered consultations, deliver travel consultations, medication reviews, chronic disease management, minor ailment consultations, diabetes care (50+ appointment types and counting), and follow-ups. MedMe has raised over $3.7M USD from investors such as M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), MaRS IAF, and Y Combinator.

What is your company superpower? Our superpower is our innovative customers and our multidisciplinary team collaborating to revolutionize pharmacy practice. By partnering with forward-thinking pharmacies, we develop cutting-edge clinical and AI solutions that transform traditional pharmacies into proactive community health hubs, enhancing patient care and expanding the role of pharmacists in the healthcare ecosystem.

What’s next? We are supporting even more pharmacies in the U.S, leveraging our success in Canada to support both independent pharmacies and enterprises in delivering a broader range of clinical services. Our goal is to equip pharmacies with the clinical and AI solutions they need to succeed in an evolving healthcare landscape.

We are continuously enhancing our platform by introducing new clinical operations and AI solutions to maximize pharmacy efficiency and fully support the expanding scope of pharmacy services in every function possible.

To fuel our rapid growth and product innovation, we are scaling our team across engineering, customer success, and sales. We are seeking mission-driven individuals eager to build technology that streamlines pharmacy workflows, improves patient care, and enables pharmacists to practice at the top of their qualifications.

17. Shinydocs

Founders: Jason W. D. Cassidy
Website: https://shinydocs.com/

Elevator Pitch: Shinydocs’ platform provides the tools you need to gain complete visibility and control over your data. Use AI and automation to eliminate cost, maximize risk management, and safeguarding of privacy information, all while enjoying a great search experience along the way.

Growth to date: Shinydocs continues to get quick traction with our Shinydocs Pro product offering and has nearly doubled our customer base in recent months, with much more growth ahead.

What is your company superpower? We help organizations find and manage the information they need with minimal time, cost, and effort.

What’s next? Shinydocs is rapidly developing our Shinydocs Pro offering to include more data connectors to popular and industry-specific content repositories, adding new ways to visualize data and content inventory results, and building more tools to take action on data results into our out-of-the-box solution.

16. Purity Gas

Founders: Alan Hopkins and Chris Styles
Website: https://puritygas.ca

Elevator Pitch: Purity gas engineers and builds nitrogen gas generation systems, empowering manufacturers to produce nitrogen on-site at a fraction of the cost and environmental impact of traditional supply methods. By eliminating reliance on delivered nitrogen, we provide a more sustainable, efficient, and scalable solution.

Growth to Date: In 2024, we expanded our North American client base, secured partnerships with Fortune 500 companies across food & beverage, oil & gas, and manufacturing, and achieved significant year-over-year growth. We strengthened our product offerings to meet diverse customer needs and expanded into an additional 8,000 sq. ft. facility to support long-term success. To drive innovation, we also invested in top engineering and operations talent, reinforcing our leadership in on-site nitrogen generation.

What is your company superpower? Our superpower is seamlessly transitioning businesses from traditional nitrogen supply to a more sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective on-site solution. With cutting-edge technology, deep industry expertise, and exceptional service, we help clients optimize operations, achieve measurable savings, and reduce their environmental footprint.

What’s Next? Purity Gas is poised for substantial growth in 2025, focusing on innovation, sustainability, and market expansion. We are deepening our presence in the U.S., launching new products, and introducing digital tools for real-time monitoring and optimization. To support this growth, we’re scaling our engineering, sales, and customer support teams to enhance client experience and service delivery. With manufacturing shifting back to North America, Purity Gas is uniquely positioned to help businesses enhance competitiveness while addressing the growing need to manage and reduce carbon emissions. As we revolutionize the nitrogen supply chain through cutting-edge technology, we remain committed to driving meaningful change in a rapidly evolving market.

15. Vetster 

Founders: Mark Bordo, CEO and Regan Johnson, CTO
Website: https://vetster.com/

Elevator Pitch: Vetster is the world’s fastest growing veterinary platform connecting pet owners with top-rated licensed veterinary professionals, virtually. Pet owners can speak to a veterinary professional from the comfort of their own home by video or online chat – 24/7.

Growth to date: Since its founding, Vetster has experienced triple digit growth YoY. Most recently it was named to Deloitte’s Fast 50 Companies-to-Watch list, ranking 13th on the list with with 562% growth between 2021 and 2023.

Whitecap, Brightspark, Kensington, Wealthsimple’s Michael Katchen and others have invested $40M USD to-date (Series B in 2022). Today the company boasts thousands of veterinarians in every state and province across Canada, America and the United Kingdom serving:
– Over 1-million pets and their owners
– 100 countries
– Treating +20 species
– Delivering a 4.9/5 star rating

What is your company superpower? Transforming the pet health space by bringing pet owners and veterinarians together. We aren’t disrupting the industry, we are introducing new modalities of work that help both communities to achieve their purpose – taking care of our pets. Our commitment to our values which include customer obsession, inclusion, ambition, and unity differentiate us and are highlighted throughout our work. We move quickly and are included among peers within the tech community were founded much earlier, we are shaping an industry and working with government to change legislation around telemedicine so that veterinary care can be accessed no matter where someone lives, and ou

What’s next? This year, Vetster enhanced its commitment to accessible pet care with Vetster Plus, a comprehensive subscription offering that includes four comprehensive veterinary appointments, unlimited coaching with veterinary technicians, discounts and perks, covering all pets in a household for less than $12/month. Since its January debut, the program has tripled MoM subscriber acquisition, reflecting growing demand for affordable, convenient pet healthcare.

Additionally, with recent legislative changes in key regions like Arizona, Florida, and California—and more expected to follow—Vetster expanded its prescription-fulfillment offering, enabling comprehensive pet care from the comfort of home. These advancements allow Vetster to better meet the growing demand for accessible, full-service virtual veterinary care, empowering pet parents everywhere.

14. Boast 

Key People: Anastasia Hambali, Golnaz Raoufi, Mike Azzano
Website: https://boast.ai/

Elevator Pitch: Boast specializes in helping organizations claim and access eligible R&D tax credits, minimizing audit risks and time-consuming processes in Canada and the United States. Boast AI combines in-house technical and R&D tax expertise with the latest AI technology to help companies effortlessly navigate the complexities of tax credits, enabling them to focus on what they do best: Innovate. Since Boast AI’s founding in 2011, we’ve helped more than 1500 businesses across North America tap into more than $600 million in innovation capital to build stronger products, extend their runway and drive world-changing innovation.

Growth to date:  1500+ customers and over $600m in capital unlocked

What is your company superpower? Our people – industry experts preparing R&D claims alongside our AI-platform

What’s next? To be the #1 trusted partner for R&D tax credits and R&D insights in North America

13. FutureVault  

Founders/key people:  G Scott Paterson (Co-founder, Executive Chairman), Daniel Kenny (Chief Executive Officer), Kristian Borghesan (Chief Marketing Officer)
Website: https://www.futurevault.com/

Elevator pitch: Transform your enterprise, advisor, and client value propositions by significantly improving the way documents, data, and information are managed within a centralized and secure single source of truth.

Growth to date:
– 150,000 client vaults (accounts) which we expect to grow to 2x-3x over 2025
– 4,000+ partner professionals using the platform
– $600B+ AUM of partner firms
– USD $30M in funding

What is your company superpower? FutureVault automates, aggregates, and centralizes Client, Advisor, and Enterprise documents, data, and information within a secure single source of truth powering insights, advice, and engagement at scale.

Founded by G Scott Paterson in 2015, FutureVault was conceptualized with a view that the aggregation of critical documents when coupled with AI will ultimately change the face of financial services and advice for the better. FutureVault’s Client Life Management Vault is a new paradigm in the way Advisors and Clients interact and engage, ultimately helping Advisors become the most trusted partner in their clients’ lives.

What’s next? We continue to expand our footprint in Canada and the US, with an emphasis on enterprise institutions and wealth management organizations.

On the product and technology side, we are heads-down focused on the contextualization of all documents contained within individual client Vaults (Last Will, Portfolio Statements, Insurance Policies, Mortgage Agreements, etc.,) for the benefit of the Enterprise, Advisors, and Clients. A key focus of ours is building the ability to aggregate and converge data (from within documents) across all client Vaults to provide actionable insights and drive workflow automation for Advisors, Lines of Business, and Enterprises.

12. Platformatic

Founders: Luca Maraschi and Matteo Collina
Website: https://www.platformatichq.com/

Elevator Pitch: Platformatic is revolutionizing how enterprises build and scale Node.js applications. Backed by over a decade of experience and contributions to the Node.js ecosystem, including essential open-source tools like Fastify and Pino, Platformatic offers the first Node.js-specific platform designed for large-scale environments. We simplify the complexity of managing infrastructure, optimizing performance, and navigating the challenges of distributed systems. By providing an out-of-the-box solution for enterprises, we help teams focus on building, not firefighting, so they can scale faster, more reliably, and at lower costs.

Growth to date: We have undergone 2 seed funding rounds, totalling $7.8 million, and are backed by Rialto Ventures, Decibel and Panache Ventures. Our open source toolkit has >3M monthly downloads. Our enterprise offering is used across various industries, particularly within the fintech and banking sectors.

What is your company superpower? Our superpower is simple: we make Node.js work for enterprises—out of the box, no reinvention required. Unlike other solutions that force you to adapt to their platform, Platformatic is built directly into Node.js, enhancing what already makes it powerful without changing its core. We didn’t reinvent Node; we improved it. And because we’re the same people who helped build and shape Node.js—through essential libraries like Fastify and Pino, and key contributions to the Node.js project itself—our platform comes with unmatched expertise.
With Platformatic, you get a seamless, enterprise-ready Node.js experience that works just as easily at scale as it does for small teams.

What’s next? More features purpose-built for enterprise teams to help them cust infra costs, help them increase development efficiency, and deliver memorable features to their users. At the same time, we will be continuing to build on providing knowledge to the Node.js community via the creation of free resources and community meetups.

11. Chocolate Soup

Founders: Pj Lowe, Dan Silivestru, Megan Hall
Website: https://chocolatesoup.ca

Elevator Pitch: Chocolate Soup is revolutionizing employee recognition through our innovative subscription service that delivers personalized, non-monetary gifts directly to employees. We emphasize thoughtful, curated experiences that foster workplace satisfaction and a positive culture, supporting local, small, and diversely founded businesses in the process. Our unique model focuses on the ‘surprise and delight’ factor, ensuring each gift not only recognizes but truly celebrates employees, enhancing engagement and retention. Whether it’s a milestone, birthday, or professional achievement, Chocolate Soup helps companies show genuine appreciation in a way that resonates deeply with their staff.

Growth to date: We’ve grown our client base and revenue 6x in the past 4 years and continue to see YoY growth.

What is your company superpower? We truly care! We’re super passionate when it comes to making sure our clients’ employees feel truly valued and cared for and move mountains to make it happen!

What’s next? We’re continuing to grow our team and are focused on expanding into the US market. Stay tuned for several new integration features in the near future.

10. CRUXOCM 

Founders: Vicki Knott and Roger Shirt
Website: https://www.cruxocm.com/

Elevator Pitch: CruxOCM revolutionizes industrial pipeline operations by providing adaptive automation software that dramatically improves safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Our platform enables control room operators to maximize throughput while reducing manual errors, delivering an additional 2-7% top line revenue. We transform complex industrial processes into seamless, optimized operations that minimize environmental impact and maximize operational excellence.

Growth to Date:
– Secured $17 million USD in Series A funding led by Microsoft’s M12 Venture Fund in August 2024
– Grew their team to 40 this last year
– Signed with Delek Logistics Partners with CruxOCM’s gatherBOT™ to streamline and optimize their gathering systems control center operations.

What’s your companies superpower? CruxOCM has redefined the approach advanced process control, starting in the midstream pipeline industry.

9. Part3

Founders: Jack Sadler, Corey Stanford, Jess Luczycki
Website: https://www.part3.io/

Elevator Pitch: Part3 is the ultimate platform, redefining construction administration. Built by architects for architects, it creates a single source of truth, connecting architects, engineers, owners, and contractors to collaborate seamlessly. Powered by AI, Part3 delivers faster, smarter, and more accurate construction administration, defining a new category within the industry.

Growth to date: Having raised a $2m USD Seed round in 2023, Part3 has grown to a team of 16 and has seen incredible traction with Architecture firms across North America. The platform is becoming the leading choice for design professionals and is now used on 1,500+ active construction projects across the US and Canada, representing over $14bn USD worth of construction!

What is your company superpower? Part3’s superpower is innovation rooted in real industry experience. Founded by professionals who know the challenges firsthand, we listen to our customers and stay ahead of trends and anticipate challenges to deliver the best construction administration platform in the industry.

What’s next? We’re expanding our product and sales teams to deliver even greater value to our customers. We’re also introducing game-changing features that empower designers with greater control over their projects, streamlining workflows and enhancing collaboration. These advancements reflect our commitment to transforming construction administration for architects, engineers, and owners.

8. Able Innovations 

Founder: Jayiesh Singh, Philip Chang
Website: https://www.ableinnovations.com/

Elevator Pitch: Able Innovations is automating the most labour intensive task in healthcare. Able’s ALTA Platform automates the most labour intensive task in healthcare- patient transfers. A task that today takes between 2-8 staff can now be done with a single user at the push of a button. This enables improvement in safety, efficiency and patient dignity.

Growth to date: Launching across Canada from hospitals in Nova Scotia to Vancouver

What is your company superpower? We’re helping nurses do more with less. Our technology protects staff from injury while boosting efficiency and offering a more dignified patient experience.

What’s next? Next steps include raising a Series A funding round, expanding into the U.S. market, and establishing manufacturing operations

7. Gambit 

Founders: Patrick Belliveau, Chris Silivestru, Ryan Burgio
Website: https://gambitco.io/

Elevator Pitch: At Gambit, we build AI-driven tools tailored to solve complex problems across health, tech, and business sectors. Our unique approach integrates custom-built conversational AI systems, empowering users with precise, actionable insights. Whether it’s improving patient outcomes in healthcare or optimizing sales strategies, Gambit leverages its proprietary technology to deliver innovative, scalable solutions that transform industries. We don’t just build products—we create game-changing IP that drives growth and retains value for our partners.

Growth to date: Cumulatively, our tools have been used over 100,000 times, with many engaging users multiple times a day. Take AskEllyn, for example—it’s been used in 15 countries, supports as many languages, and has never gone unused between 1–4 AM local time. With a 38% return rate to the site and zero marketing or email campaigns, our products prove their value by delivering consistent, impactful results around the clock.

What is your company superpower? We build AI personalities that people actually want to talk to. Our secret sauce is blending cutting-edge tech with human-like charm to create conversations that drive results—whether that’s generating leads, closing deals, or keeping customers coming back for more. Clients trust us because we know how to make AI work and feel real.

What’s next? Next, we’re focused on two major initiatives: expanding our footprint in healthcare, particularly in patient support, and launching our Changemakers program. This program will empower innovators worldwide to develop and deploy AI tools, driving real impact across industries. Through these efforts, we aim to broaden our reach, deepen our expertise, and enable more transformative solutions.

6. Airfairness 

Founders: John Marzo, Zohair Khan, David Linardi
Website: https://www.airfairness.com

Elevator Pitch: Flight delays suck. They often ruin what should have been an amazing opportunity to experience a different part of the world. Passengers get stuck on hold or are banished to e-mail limbo where they can even get lied to when they eventually have to deal with the airlines when they attempt to request their rightful compensation. That’s where airfairness comes in. We handle absolutely every step of this process and ensure that the airlines pay up the absolute maximum. We use AI and a wide range of data sources to lay out the facts to the airlines and make it impossible for them to be dishonest. Let us worry about the fight while you worry about your vacation.

Growth to date:
– Secured $1.5m CAD Seed funding
– Largest service provider of its kind in North America
– Thousands of global customers in less than 1 year in the market

What is your company superpower? Our customer satisfaction. Our “Win or Free” model allows us to perform at our highest level while maintaining a deep connection to our customers. Our biggest ongoing accomplishment is that 100% of our customers are 100% organic. We have yet to spend a single penny on advertising or any other method of paid traffic. The world of mouth impact that our services provide to the market is staggering and our rate of repeat customers is something other brands would kill for.

What’s next? 
– Recently Launched our FlightFacts product
– Offer our B2B assessment and enterprise tracking
– Work directly with the Canadian government (specifically the CTA) to help them increase efficiency and overall effectiveness
– Hire 3 more software developers

5. Wisedocs 

Founders: Connor Atchison, Jenna Earnshaw
Website: https://www.wisedocs.ai/

Elevator Pitch: Wisedocs is the medical record indexing, review, and AI summaries software platform for insurance carriers, healthcare providers, law firms, and TPAs. We serve the auto, liability, disability, workers’ compensation, tort law, and similar markets. Providing an easy-to-integrate solution for improved accuracy and speed to deliver improved outcomes in processing medical records, Wisedocs is at the forefront of change in the claims ecosystem.

Growth to date: We are a Toronto founded company that currently operates across Canada and have expanded our product into the US. Wisedocs raised $12.7M in an oversubscribed series A round in 2024 and secured $4.5M CAD in growth capital financing from CIBC Innovation Banking to support Wisedocs’ mission to both further broaden its client base and to expand its product offering. Insurance carriers, legal firms, as well as third-party medical examiners within the insurance ecosystem leverage Wisedocs’ AI-driven platform to efficiently deliver meaningful reviews of complex medical records.

With this support from our investors, Wisedocs is poised to continue its role as a market leader in the industry to manage claims process within an intelligent technology platform leveraging state-of-the-art generative AI. We’ve consistently been recognized amongst our peers in the industry, most recently being named amongst the 20 Rising Stars as part of the eighth annual Forbes 2024 Cloud 100 list. We’ve also been selected for the CB Insights’ Insurtech 50 list and the Fintech Global Insurtech100 List.

What is your company superpower? Wisedocs indexes and summarizes medical records using machine learning for insurance carriers, healthcare providers, laws firms, and TPAs. We serve the auto, liability, disability, and workers’ compensation markets. Wisedocs provides an easy-to-integrate solution for improved accuracy and speed to deliver better outcomes in the medical claims process. We allow medical records and other data to be processed in real time, with advanced customizable machine learning outputs.

What’s next? In the next 12 months, Wisedocs is poised to accelerate our company’s growth and global expansion with strategic initiatives aimed at scaling our impact in the claims ecosystem. By enhancing our sales and marketing efforts, we’re set to strengthen our brand awareness and industry presence in key sectors including workers’ compensation, enterprise, medical, and legal industries, focusing primarily on the US market to boost brand recognition. To meet the demands of our expansion, we are increasing hiring efforts across all departments, bringing in top talent to support our growing operations and ensure seamless execution.

4. Mappedin 

Founders: Hongwei Liu
Website: https://www.mappedin.com/

Elevator Pitch: Mappedin is a global leader in indoor mapping and spatial data management. Our solutions power billions of square feet of indoor space and guide millions of people visiting malls, stadiums, airports, offices, healthcare facilities, warehouses, universities, and more. We’re making maps as powerful indoors as they are outdoors.

Growth to date: Series A – $16.1 million funding, 1.75+ billion sqft mapped, 15,000+ users

What is your company superpower? Making the indoors discoverable, one map at a time.

What’s next? Scaling map creation for enterprises with AI mapping.

3. Badal

Key People: Zohaib Butt (Founder/CEO), Eugene Miretsky (Founder/Chief Data Officer), Ron Bond (Founder/Managing Partner), Alano Medonte (Managing Partner of Sales, Alliances, and Marketing)
Website: https://badal.io

Elevator Pitch: We seamlessly tailor scalable cloud solutions across industries, empowering businesses to optimize complex workloads while reducing costs and enhancing agility. By combining deep industry expertise with advanced cloud technology, through Google Cloud Platform, Badal.io delivers customized, actionable solutions that drive measurable results, helping businesses unlock their full potential in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Growth to date: Badal has experienced an impressive 5x year-over-year growth since its inception in 2019

What is your company superpower?

Data Whisperer: Badal can take messy, unorganized data and turn it into a valuable asset for mid-sized enterprises. We understand how to clean, organize, and secure data, making it ready to be utilized for AI and business growth.

Cloud Orchestrator: Badal is an expert at leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to meet the specific needs of mid-market companies. We act as the conductor, combining different GCP services to build secure and scalable solutions.

AI Catalyst: Badal helps businesses unlock the true power of AI by ensuring their data is ready and accessible. This allows them to gain faster insights, improve marketing efforts, and optimize efficiency.

What’s next? We are actively expanding our services across North America and are continually seeking talented individuals to join our exceptional team of engineers.

2. Index Exchange

Founders: Andrew Casale
Website: https://www.indexexchange.com

Elevator Pitch: Index Exchange is a global advertising supply-side platform enabling media owners to maximize the value of their content on any screen. As a trusted partner and ally, we connect leading experience makers with the world’s largest brands to ensure a quality experience for consumers.

We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. With our radically transparent business practices and dedication to total market efficiency, we’re committed to upholding the integrity of the programmatic ecosystem at large. Our global teams are dedicated to driving industry standards and building technology that delivers scale, efficiency, and long-term value for our customers and partners.

Growth to date: This year, we’ve made remarkable strides in enhancing efficiency and performance at Index through ongoing innovations in machine learning. Our exchange currently processes 500 billion daily auctions and we’re not slowing down.

We’ve welcomed new Index Marketplaces partners, including Chalice AI and Dentsu Japan. Our partnership with Chalice AI enables them to leverage advanced machine learning models in a containerized approach on our exchange infrastructure, resulting in more precise and efficient auction dynamics. Meanwhile, our collaboration with Dentsu Japan allows them to programmatically trade brand-safe, high-quality media inventory using their preferred demand-side platform, giving media buyers direct access to premium inventory along with enhanced control and visibility over ad placements.

Additionally, we’ve continued to collaborate with industry leaders to develop standards for the ad tech industry. We’re currently working to develop new standards for the rapidly evolving streaming TV landscape.

To support these advancements, we’re hiring top talent across our global teams, driving our growth and ensuring we remain at the forefront of the ad tech industry.

What is your company superpower? We have two company superpowers: our incredible employees and our strong relationships within the ad tech industry. Our employees are the smartest minds in ad tech—their expertise and passion drive our success. Their commitment to excellence, care for the work they do, and continuous improvement fuels our growth and empowers us to create meaningful impact at scale.

Our extensive network of partnerships enables us to collaborate effectively with industry leaders, fostering innovation and ensuring we remain at the forefront of programmatic advertising. This synergy enhances our ability to deliver exceptional solutions that prioritize efficiency, quality, and transparency. Both of these superpowers make us a trusted partner in the industry, which is essential.

What’s next? We’re going to double down on our current investments and continue innovating to pursue our vision of total market efficiency. We’re committed to enhancing our platforms’ scalability, leveraging machine learning to deliver greater value for our customers. We’ll also continue to scale our new Index Marketplaces solution and work to enhance programmatic in streaming TV, ultimately delivering exceptional solutions for our customers. Finally, we are committed to growing our teams responsibly, prioritizing the success of our Indexers and creating meaningful opportunities for impact.

1. Wagepoint 

Founders: Shrad Rao and Ryan Dineen
Website: https://www.wagepoint.com

Elevator Pitch: Designed just for small businesses, Wagepoint helps make payroll simple. With an intuitive app, real-human support and a mission to bring the absolute best user experience to our customers, we uncomplicate things like taxes and calculations — even if payroll isn’t your thing. We’re proud to work with an amazing community of accountants and bookkeepers and, together, we help small businesses thrive.

Growth to date:  We’ve grown our customer base to more than 28,000 across all our products and our team to more than 180 employees.

What is your company superpower? Wagepoint’s superpower is always operating with small business values at heart. Despite (or maybe because of) our growth and how many customers now trust our software to run payroll, caring for people comes first. We try our best to balance the interest of all parties at the table – customers, employees and the company.

What’s next? We’re excited to keep evolving and just launched a new, upgraded version of Wagepoint. We learned a lot from customer feedback and a decade of operating the former version. We’ve taken those learnings to transform the way small business owners, bookkeepers, and accountants manage payroll, including great new features to make the process even better.

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