Oh Canada! 5 Hot Canadian Startups Hiring in 2022
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The startup scene in Canada is booming, having received $14.2 billion in venture capital in 202, a 215% increase from the previous year.
Fintech is a bright spot, as the Great White North is home to 700+ fintech companies and gaining a strong foothold in the global startup economy. Along with it, Canada is attracting top tech talent.
Startup scenes are bustling across the country, from Montreal, Calgary, and Atlantic Canada, in the east, to so-called “tech-couver" in the west. In between, the Toronto-Waterloo corridor is one of the continent’s fastest growing innovation ecosystems with 300k tech workers. Companies from the region include MaRS Discovery District and Communitech.
The Collision,is one of the fastest growing tech conferences in North America, attracting some of the top minds in the industry from around the globe to Toronto for the past three years. Or, take a company like Calgary- and San Francisco-based Hemlane, which is making waves in the rental property space alongside the likes of bigger players like Airbnb.
Canada is poised to become a juggernaut in the startup world. Here is our list of five fast-growing Canada-based startups hiring now.
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- http://www.hemlane.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- San Francisco, Calgary
- About
Digitizing traditional property management with a next generation solution to raise the bar for the level of service offered in management.
We combine robust technology with our tech enabled operations team to provide a world class property management solution to savvy real estate investors, property managers and real estate agents across the US.
- Industries
A virtual office that makes room for casual conversations with coworking and shared music11-50 Employees- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://remotion.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- About
We believe people thrive when they can live and work on their own terms, and we're on a mission to help teams embrace distributed work.
Our team brings together 13 unique perspectives from 8 cities and 4 continents. We're building Remotion, a video workspace that helps teams talk like they’re in person. Remotion is core to how we build a team culture that feels fast, connected, and human.
- Industries
- Website
- https://www.copilotup.com/
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Canada, United States, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Remote
- About
We're building the Sales OS - a single place where a company's revenue teams can do all their work. Our team includes Andy, Rohan and Paul, with engineering experience at Google and Square, sales experience at McKinsey & Co., and CS degrees from Princeton and Stanford.
We have raised a $2.7M seed round led by Amity Ventures. Our other backers include Unshackled Ventures, Alchemist Accelerator and the founders of Thumbtack, Bolt and Neoreach.
- Industries
- B2C
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://home.dorian.live/
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- San Francisco
- About
At Dorian, we are building a new social interactive storytelling platform. Immersive fiction is a growing category due to the generational shift in how we read.
We are passionate about building a community of players who can role-play and collaborate around their favorite stories, while giving writers a new immersive outlet for sharing their content with the world!
Our team previously worked on games that generated hundreds of millions dollars in revenue at Pixelberry (acquired by Nexon), Nexon, Crowdstar (acquired by Glu), G5 Games (listed in NASDAQ OMX: G5EN.ST), Telltale & Digital Chocolate. i
- Industries
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Toronto
- About
Kepler Communications is a satellite communications company that is working towards establishing an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets.
Put simply, we are building cell phone towers in space. This infrastructure will resolve the problem of intermittent connectivity for non-geostationary satellites, will open new business opportunities that necessitate real-time connectivity to satellites, and will reduce reliance on costly and difficult to deploy ground infrastructure.
- Industries
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