Top Tech Startups in Canada in 2026

Primate Labs Inc. develops Geekbench, the industry-standard benchmark for desktop systems and mobile devices.

Kyotiq Solutions is a UAE-based engineering and technology consultancy helping industrial businesses improve efficiency, reduce waste, and turn operational challenges into practical opportunities. We work across industrial symbiosis, artificial intelligence, process optimisation, data analytics, automation and digital transformation, with a particular focus on manufacturing and other industrial sectors. Our industrial symbiosis work focuses on identifying ways for businesses to create value from waste and by-products. Instead of treating a material purely as a disposal cost, we explore whether it can be used by another industry, recovered as a valuable resource, or transformed into a new commercial product. Alongside sustainability projects, we help companies identify where AI, sensors, computer vision, machine learning and automation can solve real operational problems. Our approach starts with the engineering problem rather than implementing technology for its own sake. Projects can range from process and waste-stream analysis to AI-assisted industrial monitoring, automation concepts, process optimisation, custom software and early-stage technology development. Kyotiq Solutions works at the intersection of engineering, technology and sustainability, with the goal of making industrial operations more efficient, practical and resource-conscious.

Virtual Philanthropy understands that donors and nonprofits want the same things at their core: a fair and just society. However, many barriers and silos have been created, mostly in the name of doing good better. Virtual Philanthropy works with all sides of the social impact sector to foster collaboration, ideation, and innovation to create the systemic change all of us in the space want to see. We facilitate philanthropic convenings that target obstacles to better lateral collaborations. We work with nonprofit and civil society leaders to strengthen what works and address critical needs. And we bring all sides together to identify which silos can be dismantled collectively, and which innovations can be instituted in their place. We have been a part of or pioneered several major initiatives, including Clarity Fund globally and, most recently, Lancer Education in Canada. From hosting podcasts with donors who want to be more of a resource, to hosting multilateral convenings around topics including climate justice, gender justice, and poverty alleviation, Virtual Philanthropy is the connective tissue between a sector that is often fractured.