Top Healthcare Startups in Alberta, Canada

PurposeMed was founded in 2019 with the mission of improving access to complex care for underserved communities. We’ve grown quickly in our first few years, and now our exceptional team serves thousands of patients each month across our multiple verticals. PurposeMed consists of three complex care business units: Freddie, Frida, and Foria, and partners with Affirming Care Pharmacy. Freddie is focused on improving sexual health through education, prevention, and treatment with a focus on the LGBTQ2S+ community—we’re the #1 rated PrEP provider in North America, serving patients in both Canada and the USA! Frida is changing the lives of patients with easier access to adult ADHD diagnosis, and fast and affordable treatment. Foria Clinic provides trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse Canadians with gender-affirming healthcare. Affirming Care Pharmacy is a specialty pharmacy with locations in Calgary, Alberta, and Mississauga, Ontario. This partnership provides our patients with an end-to-end healthcare experience, from treatment, to prescription delivery, to continuous affirming care. We’re proud to be ranked #2 on Deloitte’s 2024 list of Canada’s 50 fastest-growing tech companies and recognized as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures for two consecutive years. Driven by a strong mission, our team is passionate about making healthcare accessible to those who need it most—and we make sure to have fun along the way!

A personal fitness service that combines certified personal trainers, mobile apps and cloud technology to deliver fitness results. How it works: - Meet your trainer in-person, 1-4x each month. - Get personalized, guided mobile app workouts from your trainer. - Stay connected, motivated and accountable, 24/7. GAIN Trainer Network - Highly vetted, expert certified personal trainers - Diverse network spanning multiple fitness specialties in select geographic markets GAIN Clients App - Best-in-class guided workout experience - Performance tracking of exercises, sets, reps - 2,000 exercise instruction multimedia & detailed database developed by top fitness experts GAIN Trainers App - Personalized workout program building tools - Suite of client management & communication tools - In-person meeting scheduling & verification system

We are a tech consultancy, working with big fitness brands to design and build next-level fitness technology. We're entrepreneurs, having started 3 product-tech companies and 1 prior consultancy. We're ex-Silicon Valley and ex-Google. We're hands-on designers and product people who are passionate about the details and love creating epic product experiences. We are tri-coastal and nomadic -- living in inspiring places, traveling freely, and working with influential clients all over the world. Oh, and of course, we love working out. Join us to help build the next gen of epic fitness tech.

FairwAI is building real-time accountability infrastructure to detect bias in the moments that matter most. We’re solving one of the toughest challenges in tech: how to make fairness not just a principle but a system. From healthcare and hiring to hospitality and housing, bias shows up when people are most vulnerable. FairwAI turns those moments into measurable, actionable data—using AI, computer vision, and behavioral science to flag risks and enable institutional change before harm happens. We’re not a DEI tool. We’re compliance infrastructure for a new era—where safety, dignity, and fairness are non-negotiable. Our team includes engineers, policy thinkers, civil rights advocates, and public interest technologists from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, The UN, and beyond. We’re launching high-impact projects and building the backbone of ethical AI adoption across sectors. For interns & fellows, this is not a coffee-run experience. You’ll co-design tools, analyze live scenarios, and help shape the future of bias detection and remediation. Your work will be mentored, respected, and turned into real-world impact. If you care about fairness, ethics, and building tools that actually change lives—FairwAI is where your skills meet purpose. Join us. Let’s build the infrastructure fairness deserves.

SportsReflector is the first multi-sport AI coaching platform — combining AI video analysis, real-time AR form correction, AI workout planning, and AI nutrition tracking across 22+ sports and every gym exercise. We're collapsing three software categories that have each produced billion-dollar outcomes independently — AI sports coaching (HomeCourt, SwingVision), AI fitness planning (Fitbod, Future), and AI nutrition tracking (Cal AI, MyFitnessPal) — into a single integrated platform at half the price. On-device inference via CoreML means zero GPU cloud costs per analysis. Gross margin scales with subscriptions, not usage volume. Pre-seed. Solo technical founder. Live on iOS App Store. 25 languages. Weekly shipping cadence.