Top Tech Startups in Calgary, Canada in 2026

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.

TravelAI is building an agentic network for the global travel industry, connecting travelers, suppliers, and AI agents across a singular platform. The TravelAI Network is optimized to drive conversions and help customers book better travel experiences. TravelAI operates more than 400 consumer-facing brands, each hyper-targeted to guest personas to better match the right traveler to the right property, activity, or location.

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.

Cashew Research is an AI-powered market research platform making sophisticated customer insights accessible to teams that don’t have the time, budget, or in-house expertise to run traditional research. We combine research expertise, AI, and purpose-built software to help companies move from a business question to a structured study, targeted audience, quality data, and actionable report in one connected workflow. Market research has historically been slow, expensive, and dependent on specialized experts. Cashew changes that by automating the heavy lifting behind research while preserving the rigor, structure, and strategic thinking that great insights require. Our platform helps teams create high-quality studies, generate survey questions, reach the right audiences, analyze results, and produce polished, business-ready outputs they can use for decision-making, stakeholder updates, board meetings, and external communications. We’re an early-stage, venture-backed team building at the intersection of AI, research, and workflow automation. We move quickly, care deeply about product quality, and are building the infrastructure for a more accessible, intelligent way to understand customers.