Find active Canadian startups — name, founders, year and city founded, HQ, category, funds raised, description and website — where "Canadian" means founded in Canada, Canadian founders, or strong ties to Canada.
“There are a lot of companies that I'm not seeing. For instance, companies like Tripify, Wealthsimple, Relay, Float, 1Password, and Ada, and Rootly… This list doesn't look very exhaustive. Check companies from a YC-like directory… There should be way, way more companies than what you just gave me.”
This expanded pass covers 284 deduplicated active companies: 236 candidates discovered across Y Combinator directory pages and Canadian VC portfolio sources, merged with the 50 companies from the earlier detailed report, plus a separate deep check of all seven named examples — 1Password, Ada, Float Financial, Relay, Rootly, Tripify and Wealthsimple. It is substantially broader but still not a census of every Canadian-founded company, especially US-headquartered firms whose Canadian-founder link is undocumented. 156 rows rest on a single source and are flagged.
| Company | Founders | Year | Founding city / HQ | Category | Reported funding (as sourced) | Connection | Active evidence | Found via | Source |
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Method: 284 deduplicated active Canadian-connected startups — 236 discovered via YC directory and Canadian VC portfolio pages, merged by normalized name with 50 rows from the earlier detailed report and 7 separately deep-checked named companies (the deep-check row wins conflicts; otherwise the better-sourced row). Collected 2025–2026. "Active" means a directory labels it active or recent evidence shows hiring, funding, product activity or legal operation. Funding strings are verbatim and not comparable across rows; 156 rows are single-sourced; descriptions and evidence are truncated in the table for space. No single URL backs more than half the rows. A Canadian investor alone did not qualify a company.