AI Companies in Canada

Shopify

Ottawa

Shopify is a leading e-commerce platform enabling businesses of all sizes to create and manage online and offline sales channels. Their platform increasingly integrates AI-powered tools, such as their Sidekick assistant and AI design features, to streamline store creation and enhance the customer experience. Shopify serves a broad market, from individual entrepreneurs to large enterprises like Mattel, providing a comprehensive, all-in-one commerce solution.

Kinaxis

Ottawa

Kinaxis is a Canadian software company providing cloud-based supply chain planning solutions powered by a concurrent planning engine. Their flagship product, Maestro, utilizes context-aware AI to enable end-to-end supply chain visibility and rapid, collaborative decision-making. Kinaxis primarily serves large enterprises seeking to improve supply chain resilience, particularly in response to disruptions like tariffs and geopolitical instability, as evidenced by solutions like their Tariff Response offering.

Coveo

Quebec City

Coveo is a Canadian AI platform company specializing in relevance solutions for enterprise knowledge and customer experiences. Their AI Relevance™ platform integrates with existing systems to deliver unified search, recommendations, and generative AI-powered conversational discovery. Coveo targets large organizations seeking to improve information access, drive e-commerce revenue, and enhance customer and employee experiences without replacing existing technology investments.

1Password

Toronto

1Password provides extended access management solutions, going beyond traditional password management to secure employee access to applications and sensitive data. Their platform utilizes device trust and application insights to control access risk across all identities, including legacy, unfederated, and shadow IT applications. Targeting enterprises, 1Password aims to close the “Access-Trust Gap” and optimize SaaS spending through integrated workforce identity and credential management.

Wealthsimple

Toronto

Wealthsimple is a Canadian financial technology company providing accessible investment and banking solutions. Their core offering is a robo-advisor platform utilizing algorithms to build and manage diversified investment portfolios at low fees, alongside commission-free trading and high-interest cash accounts. Wealthsimple targets Canadian retail investors seeking automated wealth management and a comprehensive, low-cost alternative to traditional banking and investment services.

Hopper

Montreal

Hopper is a travel booking platform leveraging AI-powered price prediction to assist consumers with travel planning. Their core technology analyzes billions of data points to forecast future price fluctuations for flights, hotels, and car rentals, recommending optimal booking times. Targeting cost-conscious travelers, Hopper aims to deliver the lowest price on travel accommodations through data-driven insights and proactive price monitoring.

Clearco

Toronto

Clearco is a fintech company providing revenue-based financing to e-commerce and SaaS businesses. Utilizing proprietary AI-driven underwriting, they offer flexible funding solutions – including fixed and rolling working capital, invoice funding, and cash advances – based on a company’s existing revenue performance. Clearco targets rapidly scaling direct-to-consumer brands seeking non-dilutive capital to fuel growth initiatives like inventory, marketing, and operational expenses.

ApplyBoard

Waterloo

ApplyBoard is a Canadian EdTech platform facilitating international student recruitment and placement. The company leverages an AI-powered application platform to streamline the often complex process of applying to universities and colleges abroad, boasting a 95% application success rate. ApplyBoard targets international students seeking higher education and partner institutions looking to expand their global reach by simplifying application management and improving student outcomes.

Trulioo

Vancouver

Trulioo is a Canadian company providing global identity verification services for Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB), and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance. Their core product is a unified API that accesses over 450 data sources and 14,000 document types, enabling real-time identity proofing for over 5 billion people in 195+ countries. Trulioo primarily serves businesses requiring robust and scalable international identity verification, particularly in financial services, fintech, and e-commerce.

Hootsuite

Vancouver

Hootsuite is a social media management platform enabling businesses to schedule, monitor, and analyze performance across all major social networks. Their core offering integrates an AI assistant to enhance content creation – generating captions, hashtags, and visuals – and provides data-driven insights for optimizing social strategy. Hootsuite targets social media and marketing teams within larger organizations seeking to streamline workflows, demonstrate ROI, and leverage employee advocacy programs.

Tenstorrent

Toronto

Tenstorrent designs high-performance AI processors and ML infrastructure, currently offering the Grayskull™ chip based on a novel, scalable architecture. Their key innovation lies in the combination of this architecture with an open-source, MLIR-based compiler stack, TT-Forge™, enabling optimized workload deployment and broad software compatibility. Tenstorrent is targeting AI inference and training applications, and recently released TT-Forge™ into public beta to foster community development and accelerate model support for their hardware.

Element AI

Montreal

Element AI was a Canadian firm specializing in applied AI solutions for enterprise clients, acquired by ServiceNow in 2020. Their core offering was a platform enabling companies to build and deploy custom machine learning models, alongside AI consulting services focused on natural language processing and data science. Element AI primarily served large organizations seeking to integrate AI capabilities into existing workflows and product offerings, particularly in areas like customer service and automation.

Ada

Toronto

Ada is a Canadian company specializing in AI-powered customer service automation for enterprise businesses. Their core product is a no-code chatbot platform leveraging natural language understanding and machine learning to resolve a high volume of customer inquiries. Ada targets large organizations seeking to reduce support costs and improve customer satisfaction through automated, personalized self-service experiences.

Sanctuary AI

Vancouver

Sanctuary AI is developing the Phoenix humanoid robot, powered by a full-stack AI system designed for general-purpose work in industrial settings. Their technology focuses on embodied AI, specifically advanced dexterity and tactile feedback enabled by unique high-performance hydraulic hands, allowing the robot to learn and perform complex manipulation tasks. Targeting industries like automotive, manufacturing, and logistics facing labor shortages, Sanctuary AI recently demonstrated its capabilities at Hannover Messe 2025 in partnership with Microsoft, showcasing industry-leading dexterous policy training.

Untether AI

Toronto

Untether AI develops specialized hardware accelerating AI inference through an innovative at-memory compute architecture. Their core product, the tsunAImi® accelerator card, significantly improves performance and energy efficiency for demanding AI workloads by integrating computation directly within memory. Targeting applications ranging from assisted driving to smart cities, Untether AI enables cost-effective deployment of AI at the edge and in data centers by supporting standard AI frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch.

Vidyard

Kitchener

Vidyard is a Canadian video platform specializing in sales and marketing applications. Their core technology centers on AI-powered personalized video creation and delivery at scale, enabling businesses to move beyond generic outreach. Vidyard targets sales and marketing teams seeking to improve lead generation, pipeline acceleration, and customer engagement through individualized video messaging.

Waabi

Toronto

Waabi develops autonomous trucking technology utilizing a novel “Physical AI” approach. Their core product is an end-to-end AI model coupled with a high-fidelity neural simulator, enabling faster development and verification of self-driving capabilities compared to traditional methods. Waabi targets the long-haul trucking industry, offering a potentially more scalable and efficient path to Level 4 autonomy through reduced development costs and increased safety validation.

Ideogram

Toronto

Ideogram is a Canadian AI company focused on text-to-image generation. Their core technology excels at accurately rendering legible and stylistically integrated text within generated images, a key differentiator from many competing models. This capability positions Ideogram as a valuable tool for designers, marketers, and creators needing to produce visually compelling graphics with embedded text, such as posters, social media content, and mockups.

Kira Systems

Toronto

Kira Systems, a Litera company, provides AI-powered contract review software for legal teams. Their platform utilizes patented machine learning to identify and extract over 1,400 contract clauses and data points, supplemented by generative AI capabilities for natural language querying and insight generation. Targeting law firms and corporate legal departments, Kira streamlines due diligence and contract analysis, reducing review times while maintaining high accuracy.

Mindbridge

Ottawa

MindBridge AI provides anomaly detection software for financial professionals, utilizing artificial intelligence to analyze broad financial datasets across disparate systems. Their core product, MindBridge AI™, identifies and surfaces potential risks and opportunities within an organization’s complete financial picture. This technology targets audit, risk, and compliance teams, enabling more efficient and comprehensive financial analysis to mitigate fraud and financial loss.

Moonvalley

Toronto

Moonvalley is a generative AI research lab developing Marey, a deep learning model for high-fidelity video generation. Their technology focuses on providing filmmakers and creative professionals with frame-level control and studio-grade quality outputs, trained on commercially licensed datasets. Founded in 2023, Moonvalley targets the professional film and video production market with a focus on precise, customizable AI-driven visual content creation.

Cognitive Systems

Waterloo

Cognitive Systems turns ordinary Wi-Fi signals into motion sensors—its AI-based WiFi Motion stack detects movement and activity patterns for whole-home sensing, security and eldercare (Caregiver), embedded in over 17 million homes. Founded in 2014 in Waterloo by ex-BlackBerry engineers Tajinder Manku and Oleksiy Kravets.

BrainBox AI

Montreal

BrainBox AI uses autonomous AI to optimize commercial-building HVAC, cutting energy costs by up to 25% and carbon emissions significantly across more than 14,000 buildings. Founded in 2017 in Montreal; acquired by Trane Technologies in early 2025 and now operates as its AI division.

Kindred AI

Toronto

Kindred AI develops robotic solutions for e-commerce fulfillment, specializing in automating previously manual tasks like sorting and packing. Their core technology utilizes reinforcement learning to enable robots to learn and adapt to handling a diverse range of items without extensive pre-programming. This allows retailers and logistics providers to increase fulfillment speed and efficiency while mitigating labor challenges in warehouse environments.

GeologicAI

Calgary

GeologicAI applies machine learning and high-resolution sensors (RGB, XRF, hyperspectral and LiDAR) to scan and analyze mining drill core in real time, producing digital core logs and resource models far faster than manual logging. It serves mineral-exploration firms and is backed by mining majors including BHP and Rio Tinto.

LANDR

Montreal

LANDR is a creative platform for musicians built around AI-powered audio mastering, which uses machine-learning algorithms to master tracks in minutes, alongside distribution, collaboration, plugins and sample tools. Founded as MixGenius, it launched its automated mastering service in 2014.

Wombo

Toronto

Wombo develops consumer AI applications and has expanded into distributed computing infrastructure. Their w.ai platform allows users to passively earn income by securely contributing their device’s idle processing power to a decentralized network. This network supports AI model training and aims to democratize access to computational resources for the development of artificial intelligence, backed by NVIDIA.

Botpress

Quebec City

Botpress is a Canadian company offering an open-source platform for developing and deploying AI agents. Their platform distinguishes itself through a no-code/low-code studio environment and extensive integration capabilities, enabling businesses to automate a wide range of workflows. Botpress targets developers and organizations seeking a flexible, self-hosted solution for building conversational AI applications powered by large language models (LLMs).

Voiceflow

Toronto

Voiceflow is a no-code development platform enabling teams to build and deploy AI agents for both voice and chat interfaces. The platform utilizes a visual flow builder alongside robust API integrations and a code editor, allowing for the creation of complex, generative conversational experiences without requiring extensive coding expertise. Voiceflow supports experimentation and scalability for use cases like customer support, internal automation, and innovative AI applications, and is used by teams seeking increased speed and observability in their AI agent development lifecycle.

Sportlogiq

Montreal

Sportlogiq is a Canadian company specializing in hockey analytics powered by proprietary computer vision and machine learning technology. They deliver detailed, data-driven insights – including both raw data and video analysis – by automatically tracking on-ice player and puck movements beyond the scope of human observation. Their services are utilized by professional sports teams, leagues, media outlets, and performance analysis companies to improve player development, game strategy, and broadcast quality.

Spellbook

St. John's

Spellbook is a Canadian Legal AI company that streamlines contract workflows for transactional lawyers. Utilizing large language models, including GPT-4o, Spellbook’s software integrates directly with Microsoft Word to automate contract drafting, redlining, and risk assessment. The platform differentiates itself by enabling users to leverage existing precedents while also benchmarking against over 2,000 common legal standards.

Integrate.ai

Toronto

Integrate.ai is a Canadian company specializing in federated learning solutions for enterprises seeking to collaborate on data without data transfer. Their platform enables secure data science workflows by allowing organizations to evaluate models and gain insights from distributed datasets while maintaining complete data privacy and control – no raw data ever leaves the source. This technology primarily serves businesses in regulated industries or those prioritizing data security, accelerating proof-of-concept projects and reducing the costs associated with data collaboration.

Artificial Agency

Edmonton

Artificial Agency is an Edmonton-based startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers that builds a generative AI behavior engine for video games. The engine uses foundation models to turn NPCs and game systems into autonomous agents that act and react at runtime. It raised $16M in funding from Radical Ventures and Toyota Ventures.

Layer 6

Toronto

Layer6 is the AI center of excellence for TD Bank Group, focused on developing and deploying advanced AI solutions for the financial services industry. Their core technology centers on generative AI, specifically Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Text-to-SQL models – exemplified by the TD Securities AI Virtual Assistant – alongside novel research in automated causal inference like their CausalPFN model. Layer6 uniquely translates cutting-edge AI research into impactful applications for over 27 million customers, providing data-driven insights and personalized financial services while contributing to the Canadian AI ecosystem.

Durable

Vancouver

Durable provides an all-in-one platform leveraging generative AI to enable rapid business creation and growth. Their core offering is a no-code application combining AI-powered website building, SEO/GEO tools, and customer relationship management features. Targeting entrepreneurs and small businesses, Durable aims to streamline the process of launching and scaling online ventures, with a focus on speed and accessibility.

Browse AI

Vancouver

Browse AI provides a no-code web scraping and data extraction platform that transforms websites into structured APIs. Their technology utilizes automated site layout monitoring and human behavior emulation to reliably extract data – including from dynamic content – without requiring coding or technical expertise. They serve a broad user base seeking to automate data collection from virtually any website for integration into their existing systems, and also offer fully-managed data extraction services for customized needs.

Cohere

Toronto

Cohere builds security-first enterprise LLMs and agentic AI, including its Command model family, Embed, and the North agent platform, with on-prem and sovereign deployment options. The Toronto-based company raised over $500M in 2025 (backers include Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures) at a roughly $7B valuation.

Toronto AI Lab

Toronto

The Vector Institute is a leading Canadian AI research hub focused on advancing and commercializing deep learning technologies. Their research spans critical areas like privacy-preserving AI, security, and healthcare applications, with a recent study quantifying AI’s $100 billion economic impact across Canada. Vector collaborates with industry partners – such as CIBC – and offers programs designed to accelerate AI adoption and responsible development across multiple sectors, establishing them as a key driver of AI-led economic growth in Canada.

Mila

Montreal

Mila, founded in 1993 by Yoshua Bengio, is a leading Quebec-based research institute specializing in deep learning and generative models, with a particular focus on AI safety and responsible development. The institute coordinates the work of over 140 affiliated professors across multiple universities – including Université de Montréal, McGill, and Polytechnique Montréal – conducting research in areas like natural language processing and machine learning theory. Mila actively translates research into real-world impact through initiatives like the AI Policy Frontline and the TRAIL program, aiming to address critical challenges at the intersection of AI and public policy.

BorealisAI

Toronto

Borealis AI is the dedicated artificial intelligence research institute of Royal Bank of Canada, focused on advancing machine learning applications within the financial services sector. The company develops and deploys AI-powered solutions – leveraging a robust data platform – to improve RBC’s core banking operations and customer experiences. Borealis AI functions as an internal innovation engine, uniquely positioned to directly implement research into production systems for Canada’s largest bank.

Farmers Edge

Winnipeg

Farmers Edge, now operating under Corvian, delivers enterprise-level digital transformation solutions for the agriculture, food, and finance industries. Their core offering is a precision agriculture platform leveraging satellite imagery, IoT data, and patented technologies to optimize crop performance and supply chain efficiency. Corvian differentiates itself through a managed services framework combining agronomic expertise with robust technology infrastructure, enabling scalable deployments for large organizations.

Blumind

Toronto

Blumind designs ultra-low-power analog AI chips for always-on edge applications (wearables, IoT, medical devices), claiming 100–1,000x energy savings versus conventional AI silicon, starting with its BM110 and BM210 processors. Founded in 2020 in Toronto by Niraj Mathur and John Gosson; raised a C$20M Series A in 2025.

Cobionix

Waterloo

Cobionix develops an autonomous robotics platform for procedural tasks, addressing labor shortages in healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics.

Keyhole

Toronto

Keyhole is a Canadian technology company providing social listening and media intelligence platforms for communications professionals. Their core product integrates social media monitoring with public relations data to deliver unified analytics on brand mentions, emerging trends, and competitive insights. Keyhole targets marketing and communications teams within large organizations and agencies seeking to streamline their workflow and improve campaign performance through data-driven decision-making.

Speak AI

Toronto

Speak AI is a Canadian company specializing in AI-powered transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Their core product utilizes Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to convert media into searchable, transcribed text and extract key insights. Speak AI primarily serves researchers and businesses needing to efficiently process and analyze qualitative data from interviews, meetings, and other spoken content.

Kraken Robotics

St. John's

Kraken Robotics develops advanced underwater robotics and sensor systems specializing in subsea intelligence solutions. Their core technology centers on synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) – including the KATFISH towed SAS – and LiDAR, providing high-resolution 3D data and metrology for subsea infrastructure inspection, mapping, and hazard assessment. Kraken primarily serves the defense, oceanographic, and energy industries, offering capabilities for detailed seabed analysis and asset monitoring.

Prophix

Mississauga

Prophix is a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform that utilizes AI-powered automation to streamline budgeting, forecasting, and corporate performance management. Their core technology centers on “AI Agents” which automate tasks like GL reconciliation and variance analysis, providing traceable audit trails and actionable insights directly within financial models. Prophix targets mid-to-large sized organizations seeking to move beyond spreadsheet-based financial processes and improve the efficiency and accuracy of their financial reporting and decision-making.

Cohere for AI

Toronto

Cohere for AI develops and openly releases large language models and related machine learning research. Their core technology centers on foundational LLM development, with a strong emphasis on open science and collaborative research. Cohere uniquely targets the academic, civic, and impact-focused sectors by providing free API access and fostering a broad open-source community to accelerate responsible AI development and deployment.

Private AI

Toronto

Private AI develops on-premise data de-identification software utilizing advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) to identify and redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), and Payment Card Industry (PCI) data. Their core product, Limina AI, employs context-aware NLP—going beyond simple pattern matching—to preserve data utility while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations across 52 languages. The company targets highly regulated industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, finance, and technology, and has achieved adoption among enterprise-level organizations needing to safely leverage sensitive data.

Borderless AI

Toronto

Borderless AI is a platform providing Employer of Record (EOR) and Professional Employer Organization (PEO) services to facilitate international team hiring and payroll management. Their core offering leverages automated financial workflows to enable rapid onboarding and compliant payment of employees in over 170 countries, maintaining direct entity ownership for streamlined operations. Notably, the company also conducts research into the evolving Canadian workforce, exemplified by their “Canadian Employment Pulse Check” survey in partnership with the Angus Reid Institute.

BlueDot

Toronto

BlueDot provides infectious disease intelligence and analytics services, leveraging machine learning algorithms to detect and predict outbreaks globally. Their core product analyzes diverse data sources – including airline ticketing, animal disease networks, and news reports – to identify and assess potential health security threats. BlueDot serves governments and health organizations, notably achieving early detection of the COVID-19 outbreak before official public warnings.