I'm based in Canada and curious to learn more about interesting or up-and-coming tech companies here — not just the usual big names like Shopify or Lightspeed, but also smaller startups, bootstrapped companies, or niche players doing great work in software, hardware, AI, sustainability, fintech, etc.
HTTPS://transit.app is amazing for public transport routing. Gives you a lot more information than the stock mapping apps. Some of the things they do are pure black magic.
We make tools for transit agencies to manage paratransit and microtransit services, mainly for people with disabilities but also for campuses and low-density areas. Managing these types of services is a real, hard problem with billions spent every year.
Our customers include Winnipeg, Oakville, St John, Saskatoon, and Powell River (also Dallas, LA, Austin, more in Japan and Europe), with more coming soon - including driverless vehicles with routing and scheduling powered by us.
We are building some exciting cloud deployment tools at https://defang.io.
We are making it super easy to manage your deployments through the compose.yaml file you probably already have. The idea is to have a single definition of your application, that you can use locally, and project it into any cloud.
We're a small team based in Vancouver. If you're in town, reach out and come visit: jordan.stephens@defang.io
Well, I will be definitely building a video feature, it’s a great suggestion. Let me know if you end up using Voicecast, or have any ideas on how to get the word out!
Safety (previously PyUp) - https://getsafety.com - software supply chain security. Offices in Vancouver but team is all over Canada. Raised a large seed round from First Round and others.
These are insanely popular in the US too. And I can verify that most of the guys I play with own one. They say their kids teams travel with four or five so the kids get their skates tuned before every game.
https://aloe.inc
Check out Aloe - the founding team left the Bay Area to found the company in Vancouver to have better access to top international talent.
Here's a peek at what we're building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6M5wSv6pyU
We are building MagicBoard which is a smart board that helps kids learn and develop structure in a way that’s interactive, age appropriate and fosters independence.
It comes to life through a dedicated device for kids with no passive content and a parent app that has an AI based assistant for the parent.
I've been a https://JMP.chat customer for years and love the service. The whole software stack is free, open source, and self-hostable, and the entity behind it is a Canadian worker-owned co-operative.
https://www.landr.com/ has been around for a while with its automated audio mastering service and it's now a one-stop-shop for everything related to music production. There's also really cool stuff coming up in a few months:)
Self-serving mention of https://sphyrnasecurity.com/ - we're a bootstrapped cybersecurity company with two main product lines: cross-domain hardware and GRC/IRM software.
Aylo, based in Montreal, operate some of the most popular social media and online video sharing platforms. It also own many renowned movie studios. Probably among the top five users of internet bandwidth in the world
Aylo is a Canadian multinational pornographic conglomerate owned by Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners.
Ethical Capital Partners is a Canadian private equity firm best known for its acquisition of Aylo, the owner of Pornhub. The company is chaired by businessman Rocco Meliambro
Why is that? I feel like every other go security vulnerability was reported by a security researcher there, so I assumed they have a decent engineering culture.
You're right they are one of the largest Go-based applications and get asked to test go releases.
My opinion is they have a poor engineering culture though and worse leadership that is abandoning open-source roots, chasing "mission critical" government/enterprise business.
https://layerzero.network/
https://1password.com/
https://www.wealthsimple.com/
https://floatcard.com
https://www.postgrid.com
https://www.dapperlabs.com
https://www.wattpad.com
https://gusto.com
https://cohere.com
https://clear.co/ https://www.clio.com/