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ApplyBoard is an online marketplace designed to help international students apply to educational institutions in Canada and the USA. The platform is used by students, schools, and recruiters, to facilitate and streamline the application process, including visa application, airport pickup, and other services. Applicants using ApplyBoard have seen a 95% acceptance rate.
Education
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Applyboard
Acquired
IPO
An enterprise digital contracting platform that allows for the automation and streamlining of contract creation, negotiation, approvals, execution and storage. Arteria was founded within Deloitte Canada’s AI practice and is being spun-out in order to encourage rapid development of the platform.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Arteria AI
Acquired
IPO
Avidbots has built Neo, the world’s only truly autonomous floor scrubbing robot. The company serves customers across a variety of industries, from airports and transit terminals to warehouses, universities and hospitals. By automating the cleaning process, Avidbots provides better cleaning at a much lower price point.
Manufacturing
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Avidbots
Acquired
IPO
For the top 50 pharmaceutical companies, BenchSci is the only preclinical R&D SaaS platform that brings novel medicine to patients 50% faster with 80% fewer experiments. BenchSci achieves this by decoding the world's biomedical data with machine learning to increase experimental success, eliminate wasted work, and drive scientific discovery. Unlike other companies using AI for drug discovery, BenchSci doesn't compete with pharmaceutical companies but equips their scientists with a powerful platform of AI-enabled applications to develop drugs better, faster, and more cost-effectively themselves.
Life Sciences
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
BenchSci
Acquired
IPO
A SaaS platform focusing on the $48B daycare industry. A mobile-first solution, it is building a platform that delivers the full value chain for both daycare service providers and parents.
Education
California
Active
Brightwheel
Acquired
IPO
Faire is a two-sided marketplace and wholesale platform that helps retailers find and buy unique wholesale merchandise for their stores while helping brands and makers reach local retailers.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Faire
Acquired
IPO
A real-time, end-to-end spend automation platform to eliminate expense reports and reimbursements to make business spending effortless.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Float
Acquired
IPO
A sales performance management (SPM) platform that utilizes fundamental business rules, automates payouts and creates a ledger of truth for sales teams.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Forma.ai
Acquired
IPO
Neo is building Canada’s most customer-centric everyday spending rewards platform.
Fintech
Canada West
Active
Neo Financial
Acquired
IPO
A marketplace for the restaurant repair and maintenance industry. ResQ helps streamline the servicing process by connecting restaurants with professionally qualified vendors.
Food
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
ResQ
Acquired
IPO
Skip the Dishes is a mobile and online ordering platform. Acquired by JustEat (LSE: JE).
Consumer
Canada West
Exited
Skip the Dishes
Acquired
IPO
A SaaS-enabled marketplace for satellite data and intelligence.
Frontier
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Skywatch
Acquired
IPO
Frontier
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Waabi
Acquired
IPO
A community that brings together aspiring and professional writers with readers in a highly engaging environment. Acquired by Naver.
Media
Toronto & Waterloo
Exited
Wattpad
Acquired
IPO
Xanadu produces a universal quantum processor leveraging a photonic cluster state model. Xanadu offers a more scalable and affordable architecture for quantum computing that can operate at room temperature.
Frontier
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Xanadu
Acquired
IPO
ActionX is a mobile app for cross-screen retargeting. Acquired by WPP (LSE: WPP).
Business Services
Boston & NYC
Exited
ActionX
Acquired
IPO
Web3 powered workspaces
Crypto
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Aikido
Acquired
IPO
Alyce is an AI-powered Personal Experience Platform that helps Enterprise sales and marketing teams create personal bonds with their prospects, customers and partners through one-to-one gifting. This unique approach creates relatable, relevant and respectful outreach that appeals to the person behind the persona to build rapport, earn trust and drive loyalty.
Business Services
Boston & NYC
Active
Alyce
Acquired
IPO
Apptentive is a customer feedback solution that measures shifts in sentiment from customer experience to win back consumers and activate fans. The Apptentive solution helps enterprise brands including Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Jetblue, and eBay. Apptentive captures actionable emotions and feedback from the 90 percent of consumer voices typically missed, and quickly turns that feedback into action.
Business Services
Other
Active
Apptentive
Acquired
IPO
A fixed-price auto hauling marketplace. Auto Hauler removes the need for brokers and empowers carriers to pick up loads directly.
Business Services
Other
Active
Auto Hauler Exchange
Acquired
IPO
An AI platform used to passively measure mental health. The product helps organizations measure and predict levels of stress, burnout, depression and anxiety across teams while protecting user privacy
Life Sciences
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Autumn
Acquired
IPO
Barley is a compensation management software that's fast, transparent, and unified. Barley helps companies make better pay decisions every day by combining pay bands, compensation reviews, pay equity, and candidate benchmarking into one single easy-to-use platform.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Barley
Acquired
IPO
Business intelligence platform for medtech and pharma companies – providing analytics and insights that guide strategic product development decisions.
Life Sciences
Boston & NYC
Active
Basil
Acquired
IPO
Bettermode is a cloud-based community building platform that provides a suite of tools to create and maintain thriving online communities.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Bettermode
Acquired
IPO
A live trivia network that combines the mass appeal of trivia with the paid mechanics of sports betting
eSports & Gaming
Boston & NYC
Active
Big Brain
Acquired
IPO
Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform developing targeted therapies for biologically defined patient sub-populations. Biossil is focused on diseases for which traditional drug discovery has been challenged by population variability.
Life Sciences
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Biossil
Acquired
IPO
An epidemic intelligence solution that helps governments protect citizens, global enterprises anticipate and manage risk, and help hospitals protect the health of their frontline providers and patients.
Life Sciences
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
BlueDot
Acquired
IPO
DevSecOps Automation Platform to Secure your Software Supply Chain
Business Services
Active
BoostSecurity.io
Acquired
IPO
Brkaway empowers creators to run their entire content business while allowing brands to manage their content pipeline
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Brkaway
Acquired
IPO
Bunch is a synchronous social network that sits on top of multiplayer games. Bunch allows you to chat live with your friends before, during and after a game session.
eSports & Gaming
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Bunch
Acquired
IPO
Callia is a consumer floral marketplace, selling standardized products direct from the warehouse to the customer. By owning the last mile, they are able to provide consistently delightful experiences.
Consumer
Canada West
Active
Callia
Acquired
IPO
CarbonRun is a mission-driven organization that is the first in the world to use a well-established river restoration approach to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Business Services
Other
Active
CarbonRun
Acquired
IPO
An AI-differentiated, real-time player-vs-player, squad-based game with deep social elements.
eSports & Gaming
California
Active
Carbonated
Acquired
IPO
Clearco invests in entrepreneurs to help them grow their web-enabled businesses. The Company uses AI-powered proprietary underwriting technology to offer capital faster, and on better terms than traditional financing options.
Fintech
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Clearco
Acquired
IPO
Composer is a no-code platform for automated investment management. Composer allows you to build, test, deploy, and manage automated investing strategies - all without writing a line of code.
Fintech
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Composer
Acquired
IPO
Configure8 is building a platform that empowers developers and devops engineers by simplifying and accelerating service development. With configure8, developers and devops can create, manage, and discover services with ease and flexibility.
Business Services
Other
Active
Configure8
Acquired
IPO
Crux makes software to enable autonomous control room operations for pipeline and midstream facilities in the oil and gas industry.
Business Services
Canada West
Active
Crux OCM
Acquired
IPO
Cybrid is a Crypto Banking as a Service provider that integrates seamlessly with exchanges, custodians, and banks.
Crypto
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Cybrid
Acquired
IPO
A low-code workflow automation platform for enterprise. Daylight turns manual internal processes into streamlined, automated experiences.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Daylight
Acquired
IPO
Deck provides secure, universal access to user-permissioned data through a robust API platform, enabling businesses to connect, integrate, and utilize data from multiple sources such as energy, government and many more.
Business Services
Other
Active
Deck
Acquired
IPO
Delphia believes data is the key to capital formation and economic empowerment. We build products that incentivize the contribution of proprietary data in order to generate an edge in financial markets. We believe that actively managing people’s data can unlock new forms of wealth creation for individual and institutional investors alike.
Crypto
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Delphia
Acquired
IPO
Disco is a live learning platform that allows creators, experts and next-gen teachers to easily build paid classes. It manages the end-to-end experience so that creators can focus on what they do best—engaging their communities.
Education
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Disco
Acquired
IPO
Diversio is the people intelligence platform that measures, tracks, and improves diversity & inclusion. Through their powerful AI-based “Recommendation Engine”, companies generate real-world business solutions to specific problem areas, leading to measurable & trackable improvement.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Diversio
Acquired
IPO
An ultrasound based haptic interface for virtual and augmented reality. Emerge allows users to interact with the virtual world using only their bare hands, no controller required.
Frontier
California
Active
Emerge
Acquired
IPO
EnPowered is an energy innovator driving the adoption of clean energy. They help all types of organizations transform their energy spend, unlocking immense savings by changing the way we manage energy costs.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
EnPowered
Acquired
IPO
Bringing human skills mainstream
Education
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Equil
Acquired
IPO
Accelerating the widespread adoption of sustainable materials by leveraging next-gen biomaterials, AI, and a reimagined approach to designing plastic alternatives. Erthos AI platform streamlines material discovery and enables intelligent optimization for brands and suppliers moving away from traditional plastics.
Manufacturing
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Erthos
Acquired
IPO
Gigi helps brands and agencies buy and measure streaming TV ads.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Gigi
Acquired
IPO
Helpful is a human-centric video communication tool for the workplace. Acquired by Shopify (NYSE:SHOP).
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Exited
Helpful
Acquired
IPO
Horizon's Sequence platform will provide a scalable Ethereum architecture for third-parties to build and launch decentralized games that are provably fair, enable true digital ownership, and that reward activity by players on the network.
Crypto
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Horizon
Acquired
IPO
A SaaS marketplace that automates completion of security & compliance documents through machine learning.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
HyperComply
Acquired
IPO
An enterprise SaaS platform that connects front-line employees with the management layer.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Hypercontext
Acquired
IPO
Infinity Quick is a consumer application that brings messaging to life with animated avatar based messaging. Acquired by Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA).
Consumer
Toronto & Waterloo
Exited
Infinity Quick
Acquired
IPO
Influitive captures and promotes the enthusiasm that a company's advocates (customers, partners, fans, evangelists) have for the company and its products.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Influitive
Acquired
IPO
An e-commerce platform that is building the first global tattoo brand. Acquired in 2022 by BIC Group.
Consumer
Toronto & Waterloo
Exited
Inkbox
Acquired
IPO
InterationOS is a modern SDK for building and deploying hyper scaleable event queues and pipelines. Scale to tens of billions.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
IntegrationOS
Acquired
IPO
A marketplace for the North American home maintenance industry. Jiffy seamlessly delivers an instant appointment to homeowners, saving them time and money.
Consumer
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Jiffy
Acquired
IPO
Joist is a mobile and web application for small business contractors to estimate, invoice, record and process payments, and manage projects from anywhere. Acquired by EverCommerce.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Exited
Joist
Acquired
IPO
Spatial computing company focused on immersive learning and 3D entertainment.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Lumeto
Acquired
IPO
A cloud-based data platform that puts mobile application owners in full control of their data, while streamlining the integration process with multiple partners.
Business Services
Boston & NYC
Active
MParticle
Acquired
IPO
An operating system for carbon removal and carbon capture companies that enables precise CO2 tracking through their operations and value chain, resulting in strong data provenance, streamlined access to carbon markets and emerging tax and compliance regimes.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Mangrove
Acquired
IPO
Business intelligence platform for climate change risk
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Manifest Climate
Acquired
IPO
A patient data lookup, retrieval and enrichment API for medical records.
Life Sciences
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Marble
Acquired
IPO
Micromart™ develops food retail technology for vending, micro-market, and food service operators. Our mission is to power fully autonomous stores and connect communities to the food they crave.
Food
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Micromart
Acquired
IPO
MinervaAI is an automated screening platform for anti-money laundering compliance programs. It automates and facilitates the costly processes of enhanced due diligence, negative news analysis, and social media analysis to help AML operations run more efficiently.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
MinervaAI
Acquired
IPO
A headless software platform for B2B marketplaces that both buyers and sellers love.
Business Services
Boston & NYC
Active
Nautical Commerce
Acquired
IPO
Notch is an essential tool that brings precision to the chaos of ordering food service supplies. Notch helps you spend less time ordering product and more time honing your passion – whether you’re a buyer or distributor.
Food
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Notch
Acquired
IPO
A mobile-first game studio targeting millennial and Gen-X players that want to play competitively, in short sessions.
eSports & Gaming
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Odyssey Interactive
Acquired
IPO
Harnessing the power of AI, OneLocal provides innovative digital marketing solutions, specifically tailored to address the needs of small local businesses.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
OneLocal
Acquired
IPO
Our mission is to provide access to life-changing educational and career opportunities. Passage's platform empowers immigrants and international students by matching their unique talents with crucial workforce needs in Canada. We then work to provide financing and the support needed to facilitate their transformational journeys to study or work abroad.
Education
Toronto & Waterloo
Passage
Acquired
IPO
Pillar enables teams to build & run AI with minimal risk by providing a unified trust layer across the entire AI stack - from development to deployment.
Business Services
Other
Active
Pillar Security
Acquired
IPO
Plannin is more than a platform; it's a movement that empowers creators and connects them with travelers seeking authentic experiences, supported by trustworthy reviews. Plannin's mission is to transform the travel industry by redefining the modern travel agent and restoring the human connection. Committed to nurturing a community of creators, we unlock their earning potential by providing strategic insights through a dynamic platform that ensures sustained economic success, while their travel content inspires a global audience.
Consumer
Canada West
Active
Plannin
Acquired
IPO
An efficient B2B payment network for SME.
Fintech
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Plooto
Acquired
IPO
A B2B marketplace platform that fosters buyer confidence and empowers ethical producers and brands worldwide. With production management software and order financing cash advances, PBP makes it simple for buyers to work with small-batch producers from all over the world.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Powered By People
Acquired
IPO
An online residential real estate marketplace that takes the stress out of selling a home by purchasing homes directly from sellers in as few as five days.
Consumer
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Properly
Acquired
IPO
A biotechnology company that uses computational tools to design drugs for the protein-based drug market. ProteinQure leverages breakthroughs in AI and quantum computing to predict the structure of small and large proteins.
Life Sciences
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
ProteinQure
Acquired
IPO
Pulse makes remote work better. It goes beyond the green dot to signal availability, reduce interruptions, increase collaboration or however you choose to configure it.
Business Services
California
Exited
Pulse
Acquired
IPO
A login for blockchain applications. Ramper's API helps developers make their crypto apps more usable, starting with Terra and Polygon networks.
Crypto
California
Active
Ramper
Acquired
IPO
An emerging game development studio creating imaginative new worlds with inspired storytelling and rewards
Crypto
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
ReBlink
Acquired
IPO
REBEL is the ultimate destination to Shop Smarter™. By offering unbeatable savings of up to 50% off on open-box and overstock products in the baby gear and home space, REBEL makes it simple to shop with purpose every day. REBEL partners with the most popular brands to bring the very best assortment of open-box and overstock products right to their customers' doorsteps. As the only certified B-Corp in returns recommerce, REBEL keeps returns out of landfills.
Consumer
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Rebel
Acquired
IPO
A mobile company which allows users to place food and drink orders without ever standing in line.
Food
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Ritual
Acquired
IPO
A SaaS platform for enterprise. It allows users to create visual roadmaps of product timelines, allowing group viewing and commenting to help with the collaborative process across departments.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Roadmunk
Acquired
IPO
Secoda helps teams of all sizes capture their data knowledge, making finding, using, and understanding data simple.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Secoda
Acquired
IPO
Set.fm is a mobile music platform for both musicians and their fans to create and interact with high-quality audio of their live performances. Acquired by PledgeMusic.
Media
Other
Exited
Set FM
Acquired
IPO
Shakepay allows Canadians to participate in the crypto economy.
Crypto
Other
Active
Shakepay
Acquired
IPO
Shakudo is developing an end-to-end platform designed to take AI teams from ideation to production at breakthrough speeds.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Shakudo
Acquired
IPO
A global provider of travel identification requirements, providing travellers with the information and documentation they require to move confidently and securely across borders.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Sherpa
Acquired
IPO
A dating platform for Gen-Z. Snack leverages an algorithmic feed to help drive better matchmaking and interactions between prospective partners
Consumer
Canada West
Active
Snack
Acquired
IPO
Snowball is a mobile app that shows your messages from Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp, SMS and all your other social apps in one place. Acquired by Credit Karma.
Consumer
California
Exited
Snowball
Acquired
IPO
Stacked is a video game live-streaming platform that is owned and operated by its community.
Crypto
California
Active
Stacked
Acquired
IPO
Stadium Live is building the authentic digital world for next-gen sports fans and communities. Users create avatars to build and experience sports, music and culture together.
eSports & Gaming
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Stadium Live
Acquired
IPO
A suite of SaaS tools that connect retailers, Third- Party Logistics (3PLs), and local Delivery Service Providers (DSPs) to enable cost-effective same-day shipping.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Swyft
Acquired
IPO
A meta-community that acquires and builds online communities
Consumer
Boston & NYC
Active
Sylva
Acquired
IPO
An analytics platform that measures viewership data for television networks and advertising agencies
Media
Boston & NYC
Active
TVision
Acquired
IPO
Visual IDE that enables designers, PMs, and developers to collaborate on code with the help of AI
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Tempo
Acquired
IPO
The Tempo Smart Calendar is a mobile productivity app for organizing your day. Acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM).
Business Services
California
Exited
Tempo AI
Acquired
IPO
Terminal is Plaid for telematics data in commercial trucking. Companies building insurance products and fleet software for trucking use their unified API to access GPS data, speeding data and vehicle stats.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Terminal
Acquired
IPO
A marketplace to consult with top interior designers from across the globe via video consultations. The Expert breaks down traditional barriers, eliminating the need for a high budget or a full-service requirement to access personalized advice from an expert.
Consumer
California
Active
The Expert
Acquired
IPO
A workflow management platform for small teams. TimeHero uses AI to automatically plan daily tasks, projects, and recurring work.
Business Services
Other
Exited
TimeHero
Acquired
IPO
Tiny Mile is building the next generation of delivery, powering a fleet of remotely managed robots that enable 15-minute delivery, 10x cheaper than traditional methods.
Business Services
Toronto & Waterloo
Active
Tiny Mile
Acquired
IPO
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