Best AdTech Companies in Montreal, Canada
The 34 best AdTech companies in Montreal, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: District M.
Ranked: Best AdTech companies in Montreal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District M Platform offering ad network software | $39M | 68 mo ago | Series C | Jean Francois Cote Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 2 | Sharethrough Provider of omnichannel advertising exchange platform, enhancing ad experience and performance | $38M | 67 mo ago | Acquired | JF Cote CEO | 2008 | WebflowSalesforceAtlassian Statuspage+18 | — |
| 3 | Optable Data clean room platform for advertisers and publishers | $24M | 20 mo ago | Series A | Bosko Milekic Co-Founder & CPO | 2020 | — | — |
| 4 | Hippoc Developer of Neuro-AI platform for advertising creative generation and prediction | $2M | 44 mo ago | Seed | Jean Larouche Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowZoho+13 | — |
| 5 | CONTXTFUL SaaS-based advertising platform | $2M | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | — |
| 6 | Datacratic A real-time audience optimization and segmentation | $2M | 170 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Jeremy Barnes Founder and CEO | 2010 | — | — |
| 7 | SourceKnowledge Ad Exchange for videos | $2M | 127 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2009 | — | — |
| 8 | SpherePlay YouTube for immersive VR media and monetization platform | $1M | 107 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 9 | Seevibes Smart data targeting for social media advertising | $1M | 148 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Laurent Maisonnave Founder & CEO | 2011 | — | — |
| 10 | Retinad VR Analytics platform for virtual reality | $600K | 133 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 11 | Mobicow Mobile advertising network | $250K | 175 mo ago | Seed | Dominic Desjardins Co-Founder & Head of Business Development | 2011 | — | — |
Top 12 AdTech companies in Montreal
#1
Series A · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2020 · 47 employees$23.6Mraised▾
Data clean room platform for advertisers and publishers. It provides a data connectivity platform to derive the audience data and enable people based targeting by using identity data. The platform allows users to exchange information related to first party data and audiences. It offers data management solutions for publishers, brands, and alliances.
- Jan 2025Series A$20M
- Apr 2023Series A$20M
- May 2021Seed$3.6M
#2
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2018 · 22 employees$2Mraised▾
CONTXTFUL provides a SaaS-based advertising platform for media buyers, publishers, and 3rd party data providers to assess, at the impression level and in real-time. It delivers insights about how users are interacting with content, website or ads. Its features include context analysis, media monetization, behavioral analysis, and attention measurement. It can be integrated with advertisers, DSP, ad exchange, SSP, and publishers.
- Apr 2025Seed$1.9M
- Jan 2020Seed$2M
#3
Acquired · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2008 · 60 employees$38Mraised▾
Provider of omnichannel advertising exchange platform, enhancing ad experience and performance. The platform maximizes user attention through research-backed ad enhancements and inventory curation. It focuses on directness, sustainability, and quality. The platform offers solutions for advertisers and publishers, including ad enhancements, curation, and addressability. It also provides resources such as case studies and carbon emissions estimators.
- Mar 2021Series C$15M
- Sep 2016Series C$8M
- Sep 2014Series C$10M
- Jan 2014Conventional Debt—
#4
Series C · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2013 · 15 employees$39Mraised▾
Platform offering ad network software. It allows advertisers to deliver ads across display, video, native platforms, etc. It leverages the DSP workflows to buy banners, video, and native ads. The platform leverages AI that determines the DSP to most likely bid on.
- Feb 2021Series C$19M
- Jan 2019Series B$12M
- Sep 2016Series A$8M
#5
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2019 · 8 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Developer of Neuro-AI platform for advertising creative generation and prediction. The platform streamlines content creation and produces ads, enabling informed decisions. It leverages neuroscience and artificial intelligence to generate ad creatives that align with brand guidelines. The technology offers predictions on ad performance by analyzing ad networks data.
- Jan 2023Seed$2.2M
#6
Acqui-Hired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2010$2Mraised▾
A real-time audience optimization and segmentation
#7
Acquired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2009 · 22 employees$1.5Mraised▾
SourceKnowledge is a video advertising private exchange in Canada. It provides it's advertisers and agencies the ability to purchase video advertising inventory worldwide on desktop, mobile and connected TV. It integrates directly into supply chain platforms and purchases programmatically all inventory on a real-time-bidding basis to ensure both reach and value for clients. It claims that it reaches over 9.8 million unique users in Canada and 81 million unique users in the United States (comScore, September 2014). Founded in 2009, SourceKnowledge is located in Montreal and has clients around the world.
- Mar 2016Conventional Debt$1.5M
#8
Deadpooled · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2014 · 5 employees$1.3Mraised▾
SpherePlay is an easy-to-use, “shoot it, upload it, share it” 360°-spherical content distribution network. SpherePlay provides monetization platform which allows people to create, discover, watch, embed and easily share virtual reality media spheres. It provides advertisers with ad performance, engaging with 360/VR formats and premium publisher inventory. It allows publishers to maximize ROI, superior VR experience and cross-platform distribution. ESPN, Fox Sports, Bell, Intel, and Dolby are part of its clientele.
- Nov 2017Seed$1.3M
- Oct 2014Seed—
#9
Acqui-Hired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2011 · 23 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of analytics dashboard designed to monetize the social television audience and optimize cross-media planning. The company's dashboard provides smart data targeting for social media advertising through aggregation of knowledge about television and brand engagement on social media, enabling clients to make efficient marketing strategies.
#10
Acquired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2014 · 7 employees$600Kraised▾
Retinad is an analytics platform for virtual reality. It offers a drag & drop SDK which claims to works with every type of headset & content as well as enables to know content performance content across platforms, device type, location and hardware metrics, heatmaps, measurement of product placement and key visual elements. Also, offers tailored data solutions which include solutions for ad networks, brands, creatives, and agencies. Part of Rothenberg River accelerator's Fall '15 batch.
- Sep 2015Seed$100K
- May 2015Angel$500K
#11
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2011 · 6 employees$250Kraised▾
Provides its proprietary AdCenter, a self-serve advertising platform that turns mobile traffic into revenue by letting publishers deliver relevant ads based on a user’s location, device, operating system and carrier. Merged with EvoLeads, an affiliate performance-based network, in July 2015.
- Mar 2012Angel$250K
#12
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2009—raised▾
Location based ad platform for enterprises. It enables advertisers to target ads using hyperlocal contextual variables in real time. It allows advertisers to bid intelligently for ad spaces without relying on users browsing history. It simplifies the process for ad platforms to incorporate AI and location based contextual data and make more informed decisions.
- Oct 2023Seed—
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