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LYTIKA saves you a seat
The marketing consultancy makes an unusually concrete promise: one business category, one municipality, one client. Its service menu shows how that idea extends from local search to the checkout.
CGI built a business on staying
The technology industry loves a launch. CGI makes its living in the years that follow, when banks, utilities and governments need the machinery to keep working.
MEDFAR wants the doctor back in the room
Two aeronautical engineers built an electronic medical record around the work of a clinic. MEDFAR’s next bet is that connecting the paperwork can give the appointment back to the patient.
Cycle Capital bets on the parts that save power
A chip, a membrane, a better molecule: Cycle Capital backs the machinery behind a less wasteful economy. Its wager is that climate technology wins customers when it improves the bill as well as the planet.
Startupfest puts your pitch to the grandmother test
In Montréal, a startup festival pairs investor access with a jury that has little patience for jargon. Its real product is the carefully arranged encounter.
Flare wants to close the door before a stolen login opens it
The Montreal company watches the places where stolen identities are traded. Its wager: threat intelligence earns its keep when it helps defenders take away the keys.
Motion Graphics and the art of handing over the keys
A chef, an electric motorcycle and a Montreal landmark had different stories to tell. This design studio’s portfolio reveals a shared concern: who gets to update the website after the designers leave?
Too much work, too few hands. Enter hifens.
Built by agency veterans who knew the cost of overwork, hifens connects overloaded marketing teams with a distributed collective of specialists. Its business starts where the staffing plan runs out.
Canada Invents the Medicine. adMare Wants It to Own the Company, Too.
Canada has no shortage of good science. Its leak is what happens next. adMare puts capital, commercial judgment, lab benches and trained operators around discoveries so the companies - and more of their value - can stay home.
Québec Tech Is Building an Export Team, Not Another Startup Club
Québec has no shortage of clever technology. Québec Tech is betting that the missing machinery is commercial - a selective, publicly backed route from local proof to international revenue.
District 3 Takes No Equity. Bring Your Time.
At Concordia’s startup incubator, founders keep their shares and face some awkward questions. The real investment is learning what customers will actually pay for.
Sutton Quebec Let Brokers Keep 100% - Then Built a 1,500-Agent Network
The Montreal franchise network made a blunt bargain with real-estate agents: keep the commission, pay for the platform. Three decades later, its real product is not a listing - it is broker independence with a safety net.
Pharmascience Built a Generics Machine. Now It Wants Other Drugmakers to Hire It
The Montreal drugmaker is spending C$119.33 million to triple injectable capacity and sell its know-how to biotech companies. The bet turns an old factory discipline into a new growth engine - if quality and utilization keep pace.
The Ski Shop That Deleted Its Own Stores and Won
In 1984 it was a rental counter on St. Denis Street. By 2016 the last store was gone and the whole company lived online. Here is how two employees bought the place and turned closing stores into the plan.
Voxco
A New Era for Human Understanding.
Keatext
The Montreal company teaching machines to read the feedback businesses collect but rarely finish reading.
SPARK Microsystems
SPARK Microsystems is a Montreal-based fabless semiconductor company building ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless transceivers that aim for wire-like performance without the wire. Its patented LE-UWB technology delivers ultra-low latency, high data throughput, and very low power draw, targeting applications where Bluetooth falls short: wireless audio, gaming peripherals, AR/VR and AI wearables, presence detection, and industrial IoT. Founded in 2016 by researchers out of Montreal's engineering community, SPARK has raised roughly CAD $48M+ and is scaling commercial adoption of its second-generation SR1120 transceiver.
Transit
Transit is a Montreal-based mobile app that turns the chaos of public transportation into a single, legible screen. It aggregates real-time schedules, GPS vehicle locations, and crowdsourced rider data across more than 1,100 cities in dozens of countries, layering in bikeshare, carshare, ridehail, microtransit, and mobile ticketing so people can navigate a city without owning a car. Founded by Sam Vermette and Guillaume Campagna, Transit partners directly with transit agencies who endorse and increasingly sponsor the app for their riders.