Top Artificial Intelligence Startups in Canada

KeepTruckin is a San Francisco-based company that serves more than one million drivers and over 100,000 businesses that power the physical economy by equipping them with the technology needed to improve the safety and efficiency of their operations. Shoaib Makani and his co-founders Ryan Johns and Obaid Khan founded the company in 2013 to serve the trucking industry, a workforce that is essential to the economy but underserved by technology. Today, KeepTruckin’s 400,000-strong network of connected vehicles, ranging from small trucking companies to Fortune 500 enterprises, is one of the largest in North America. The products that KeepTruckin builds deliver integrated value for a diverse range of industries, from construction and oil and gas to distribution and moving and storage. At every turn, KeepTruckin provides cutting-edge hardware and software that leverages the latest advancements in AI and computer vision to solve a broad range of problems for businesses with vehicles — spanning video-based driver safety, Electronic Logging Device (ELD) compliance, GPS tracking, dispatch, and fuel and maintenance. KeepTruckin’s series E round valued the company at $2.3 billion, and it currently employs more than 2,400 people worldwide.

AssemblyAI is a remote-first company building powerful AI models for developers, startups, and enterprises to transcribe and understand their audio data. Our mission is to make production-ready, state-of-the-art AI models accessible to developers and product teams at extremely large scale through simple APIs. Customers, including Spotify, Algolia, Dow Jones, Happy Scribe, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and NBCUniversal, use our APIs to transcribe and understand millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and zoom meetings every day. Our APIs power innovative products like conversational intelligence platforms, meeting summarizers, content moderation, and automatic closed captioning. We're growing at breakneck speed, and recently announced our Series B round. We've raised $63M in total funding, backed by leading investors including Insight Partners, Accel, Y Combinator, Patrick and John Collision (Founders of Stripe), Nat Friedman (Former CEO of GitHub), and Daniel Gross (Entrepreneur & Investor in companies including GitHub, Uber & SpaceX). Our team is made up of problem solvers, innovators, and top AI researchers from companies like DeepMind, Google Brain, Meta AI, Amazon and Apple. They conduct cutting-edge AI research and develop novel algorithms and techniques to continually push the state-of-the-art in speech recognition and NLP. Join our world-class, remote team and help us build an iconic deep learning company!

We're Fireflies.ai, and we're on a mission to make all meetings more productive. You know those moments when you wish you could remember that key insight from an important conversation? That's the itch we're scratching. We created a smart meeting assistant that quietly joins your meetings, records conversations, transcribes them and summarizes everything. It then automatically organizes the information into a searchable archive. Fireflies is the super-powered note-taker you've always wanted! Our goal is simple - help teams cut down on redundant conversations and unlock more value from their meetings. We integrate tightly with tools you already use like Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, Salesforce, and more so it feels seamless. Excited yet?

We are building the next generation of voice AI and LLM platforms: - It is on-device - It runs anywhere, from Arduino to web browsers - It beats FAANG in accuracy, latency, and reliability

Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that rapidly delivers custom parts on-demand, to help companies accelerate new product introduction. From early-stage companies to large enterprises, thousands of companies use Fictiv to innovate with agility, de-risk their supply chains, and get products to market faster. Fictiv works with companies like Tesla, Honeywell, and NASA to build the next rockets, self-driving cars, and live-saving robots. We're transforming how teams design, develop, and deliver the next generation of hardware products. For more information about Fictiv or to learn about hardware manufacturing best practices, visit fictiv.com

Better data leads to more performant models. Performant models lead to faster deployment. We help deliver value from AI investments faster with better data by providing an end-to-end solution to manage the entire ML lifecycle.

At Magical, we're driven by a mission to change the future of work, empowering organizations by automating their most complex and essential manual workflows. We're building a new, innovative, and cutting-edge AI-first automation platform with reliability at the core. Join us and shape the future of work!

Ground News Pro is the world’s first news source comparison platform. Drawing from more than 40,000 media outlets worldwide and featuring an average of 30,000 news stories per day, we empower readers to arrive at the truth themselves. For each news story, we find dozens of publications across the political spectrum and from around the world covering the same event. Readers can quickly get a comprehensive view of what’s being said, who is saying it, how it’s being presented, and where and when in the world it was published or aired.

Klue is an AI-powered Competitive Enablement and Win-Loss Analysis platform. We enable enterprise sales teams to win more business by providing dynamic insights about competitors. The platform uniquely brings together external competitive intel and internal knowledge from your team in the field. Then, makes it easy for Sales to access the information wherever they are. Built by product marketers to give organizations the advantage in every competitive environment. We obsess about your competition so you don't have to. We’ve have raised $62M in Series B funding, led by Tiger Global and Salesforce Ventures. Our team is based in our 4 Hubs; Vancouver, Toronto, London, UK + Amsterdam.

Pepper is the operating system for the independent food distributor, the $1T industry we all rely on to feed us every day. Our customers are the family-owned, regional, and specialty wholesalers feeding the restaurants in your neighborhood. We're the category leader, and we just closed a $50M Series C and are backed by Lead Edge, ICONIQ, and Greylock. Our latest agentic products handle the messy and manual workflows that the industry has run on for decades. Pepper is growing quickly, and you'll grow with us!