Top Tech Startups in Canada in 2026

NexGenT is building the largest online IT school to help millions of people transition into tech jobs. Our mission is to inspire, create, and empower the next generation IT workforce by providing the highest quality tech education that is affordable to anyone.

Hi! I'm Benji, the Co-Founder and CEO at Ashby. At Ashby, we're improving the productivity of working professionals with intelligent and powerful software. We put a lot of effort into designing products that are approachable to beginners but mastered & extended by power users. In many ways, spreadsheets set the bar here. Our first products provide talent teams with clever automation, powerful analytics tools, and customizable workflows packaged in great UX. We haven't launched publicly, but we have many paying customers who love us and use us every day like Opendoor, Airtable, Duolingo, and Notion. Notion's Head of Talent said Ashby is "probably the tool we are in the most and rely on the most, as a recruiting team." Our culture is motivated by Abhik's (my co-founder and Head of Engineering) and my belief that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build a great product and service fast (and work regular hours!). We hire exceptional people and provide an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We are well funded and backed by great investors, including Y Combinator, Elad Gil, and Lachy Groom. We'll share more once we meet!

Remitly is an international payments company that leverages digital channels, including mobile phones, to send money internationally. Remitly's digital products are fundamentally faster, less expensive, and far more convenient for customers to send money across borders. We’re here to help the millions of immigrants around the world who make the huge sacrifice of leaving their families behind to live and work in another country. These unsung heroes deliver on their promises to take care of those they love and provide them with upward mobility, improving their quality of life. We work hard to help their hard-earned money stretch farther so more make it to their loved ones safely.

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

Sardine helps fintech, crypto, and web3 companies "move money confidently" by developing fraud, compliance, and payment infrastructure. With Sardine, builders can focus on growing their business instead of spending time, fighting against fraudsters. We're growing incredibly fast and powering over 100 customers around the world like Brex, MoonPay, Bakkt, Luno, Transak, Chippercash, Candy Digital, Metamask, Brave, and RelayFi.

Aview empowers content producers to seamlessly scale, globalize and monetize their media worldwide.

Brex is building a first-of-its-kind solution to integrate the financial services and software that businesses need to be successful. While they build the future, we’ll be building everything they need to launch confidently and scale smarter. We are a hybrid company, optimizing for flexibility and connection. Our employees work remotely while coming to the office for a few coordinated days per week. We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Salt Lake, Vancouver BC and Sao Paulo.

Faire was founded in 2017 on the belief that the future is local. We’re helping independent entrepreneurs chase their dreams by building an online wholesale marketplace that connects local retailers with thousands of emerging and established brands. Our platform empowers independent retailers with the advantages of big-box terms, and helps independent makers build and simplify their wholesale business.

Altinity is the leading service and software provider for ClickHouse - an open source SQL data warehouse offering industry-leading query speeds on petabyte-scale data. Altinity offers the highest expertise on the market to help customers deploy and run the most demanding analytic applications. We also provide innovative software to manage ClickHouse in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare metal environments.

Chowbus is a food ordering platform which curates featured dishes from selected ethnic restaurants daily and delivers them fresh and hot to your home or office affordably with the tap of your cell phone. We provide dish-centric mobile ordering experience for consumers to easily explore and order authentic ethnic food and we empower local ethnic restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their business.