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.

A brutal investor meeting forced the Agendrix cofounder to rethink the model. The response became his operating method: hear the criticism, study the customer, and keep the useful part.
The Quebec City company made its name finding microscopic faults in fiber networks. After four decades of expansion, acquisitions and a return to private ownership, EXFO is narrowing its focus just as AI data centers turn network testing into a much bigger problem.
The Quebec City firm bet that companies do not need another AI lecture. They need fewer broken machines, smarter routes and a proof of value before the expensive part begins.
Potloc is a Montreal-based market research technology company that runs an AI-powered, all-in-one survey platform built exclusively for management consulting and private equity firms. Founded in 2013 by HEC Paris graduates Rodolphe Barrere and Louis Delaoustre, the company pioneered social-media sampling to source hard-to-reach B2B and B2C respondents, and today handles the full research workflow - questionnaire design, sampling, live fieldwork monitoring, data-quality control, and AI-assisted analysis. Potloc has served 500+ global firms and collected hundreds of millions of survey responses across industries and geographies.