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Best Artificial Intelligence Companies in Quebec, Canada

The 77 best Artificial Intelligence companies in Quebec, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: 5C.

77companies tracked
$1.6Bdisclosed funding
0unicorns
39have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE × QUEBEC

Our analysis of 151 Artificial Intelligence companies

$81.0b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

151companies analysed
96%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
51unicorns
2021median founding year
232kcombined LinkedIn audience
45%of audience held by top 3
6companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Artificial Intelligence companies in Quebec

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
15C
Provider of AI digital infrastructure, including data centers and cloud services
53Funding top 15%AI top 20%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 48%
All 6 signals ▾
Fundingtop 15%
AItop 20%
Talentbottom 49%
Globalbottom 48%
Techbottom 42%
Marketbottom 35%
Funding: Raised $835M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr)
AI: Classified as an AI company
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100
$835M11 mo ago—Steve P
Co-Founder
WebflowYouTubeGSAP+13Top 10M—1 partnership
2Coveo
Provider of AI-powered search and recommendation solutions for enterprise businesses
$342M11 mo ago71—SitecoreSentryAtlassian Statuspage+31Top 5M13 patents
AI-driven enterprise search, ranking, and index optimization with speech-to-text indexing
1 partnership · 3 awards
3BrainBox AI
Developer of an AI platform for building HVAC system optimization
60AI top 20%Funding top 27%Moat top 31%Patents top 38%
All 12 signals ▾
AItop 20%
Fundingtop 27%
Moattop 31%
Patentstop 38%
Talenttop 38%
Innovationtop 46%
Producttop 47%
Markettop 48%
Globalbottom 48%
Techbottom 46%
Growthbottom 42%
Newsbottom 24%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $103M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 6 yrs (1.2/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100
$103M35 mo ago170Sean Neely
Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors
HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+21Top 5M16 patents
AI-driven optimization and dynamic control of HVAC systems in buildings
—
4Congruence Therapeutics
Developer of therapeutics for the treatment of rare diseases
50AI top 20%Funding top 24%Moat top 31%Talent top 38%
All 8 signals ▾
AItop 20%
Fundingtop 24%
Moattop 31%
Talenttop 38%
Marketbottom 38%
Globalbottom 38%
Techbottom 31%
Newsbottom 22%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $65.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 4 yrs (1.0/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100
$65M3 mo ago33Michael Goldsmith
Co-Founder
WordPressMySQLPHP+18Top 50M——
5Landr
Provider of online tools for music mastering, distribution, and collaboration
$36M83 mo ago126Pascal Pilon
Co-Founder & CEO
SkolengoPrismicUnbounce+30Top 500k—4 job openings
6Ability
Developer of modulating biotherapeutics to address cancer and autoimmune diseases
$30M24 mo ago—Jean Buerckert
Co-Founder & CTO
WordPressMySQLPHP+9Top 50M—1 internship
7Maxa AI
Cloud and AI-based enterprise resource planning software
$23M24 mo ago45Alexis Steinman
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35Top 10M——
8Extend AI
Developer of document processing toolkit providing parsing, extraction, and splitting
$17M12 mo ago11—TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+19Top 5M——
9Deck
Provider of authentication agents, jobs, workflows, storage, and extraction services
$16M14 mo ago—Julien Belisle
Co-Founder
Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceGoogle Cloud+20Top 5M——
10Bot Press
Provider of a platform for building and deploying AI agent solutions
69AI top 20%Funding top 34%Growth top 35%Talent top 38%
All 10 signals ▾
AItop 20%
Fundingtop 34%
Growthtop 35%
Talenttop 38%
Moattop 39%
Techtop 40%
Producttop 49%
Marketbottom 45%
Globalbottom 36%
Newsbottom 32%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $15.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100
$15M12 mo ago33Justin Watson
Co-Founder
WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25Top 500k—1 launch
11Airy 3D
Developer of a 3D computer vision platform
$14M95 mo ago28Ji-Ho Cho
Co-Founder & Vice President Advanced Research
WordPressMySQLPHP+21Top 50M——
12Reliant AI
Provider of an AI platform for biopharmaceutical research and development
$11M22 mo ago—Karl Hermann
Co-Founder & CEO
WebflowVercelMicrosoft Advertising+13Top 10M—1 partnership
13Korbit
Platform providing AI powered code review solutions
$10M36 mo ago32Iulian Serban
Founder
WebflowAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Clarity+20Top 5M——
14Immervision
Provider of end-to-end camera and imaging systems and software
$10M82 mo ago29—WordPressMySQLPHP+37Top 50M95 patents
Design and manufacturing of metalens-based ultra‑wide‑angle and panoramic imaging optics.
2 job openings
15wrnch
Platform for machine learning on edge devices
$9M84 mo ago38———29 patents
Computer vision for human pose, activity recognition, depth estimation, and camera calibration
—
16Valence Labs
AI research engine focusing on advancing drug discovery through computational biology
$8M54 mo ago27Therence Bois
Co-Founder & COO
WordPressMySQLPHP+20Top 10M—1 launch
17Maluuba
Online platform for natural language processing solutions
$8M125 mo ago22———75 patents
Natural language understanding and dialogue systems, especially machine reading comprehension.
—
18designstripe
Developer of AI design agents for go-to-market teams
$8M48 mo ago30Alexander Dixon
Founder & CEO
WebflowSvelteAmazon Web Services+18Top 1M——
19Waste Robotic
Developer of robotic systems for waste sorting and material recovery
$7M33 mo ago30Pier Grenon
Co-Founder
WordPressMySQLPHP+36Top 10M——
20Sportlogiq
Provider of sports data, analytics, and video analysis technology
$7M105 mo ago155Craig Buntin
Co-Founder & CEO
WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30Top 10M81 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
—
21Noze
Developer of a breath-based diagnostic platform to detect disease markers noninvasively
$7M22 mo ago54Ashok Masilamani
Chief Technology Officer and Founder
WebflowGSAPjsDelivr+6Top 50M——
22Lia 27
Platform offering AI-based digital person for user engagement
$5M44 mo ago2Jean-Francois Comeau
Co-Founder & CEO
Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+19Top 10M——
23HumanFirst
Platform for text based customer support powered by artificial intelligence
$4M34 mo ago12Mathieu Rene
Co-Founder & CTO
WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26Top 50M——
24FrontlineIQ
Provider of AI-driven coaching and sales enablement platform for teams
$3M7 mo ago—Ben Rodier
Co-Founder & CEO
———3 partnerships
25Remedium AI
Provider of an AI-based platform for drug discovery
$3M——Robert Murgita
Founder
————
26HiringBranch
Provider of skills assessment platform for hiring and training talent
$2M14 mo ago—Stephane Rivard
Co-Founder & CEO
WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+28Top 10M——
27Ubenwa
Provider of AI-based diagnostic application platform for newborns
$2M46 mo ago8Charles Onu
Co-Founder & CEO
Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+9Top 50M——
28Hippoc
Developer of Neuro-AI platform for advertising creative generation and prediction
$2M40 mo ago8Jean Larouche
Co-Founder & CEO
Webflow EcommerceWebflowZoho+13Top 50M——
29AssistIQ
AI-powered computer vision system for supply and implant management
$2M14 mo ago10Moishe Liberman
Co-Founder
WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+14Top 10M—2 awards
30Simmunome
Provider of an AI-powered computational models for clinical trial study
$2M33 mo ago5Armstrong Murira
Co-Founder & CEO
Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+12Top 50M——
31Perceiv
Developer of artificial intelligence based platform for aging related diseases
$2M42 mo ago9Cesar Laurent
Co-Founder & CTO
Google Siteslit-htmllit-element+4Top 50M——
32Fluent.ai
Platform for speech recognition and natural language processing tools
$1M109 mo ago18Vikrant Tomar
Co-Founder & CTO
WordPressMySQLPHP+24Top 10M23 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
—
33Imeka
Provider of non-invasive imaging solutions to quantify key markers of brain conditions
$950K31 mo ago17—WordPressMySQLPHP+21Top 50M5 patents
AI-driven analysis and quality control of diffusion MRI tractography for neurodegeneration biomarkers
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34into
AI-powered customer service solutions
$400K30 mo ago—Alain Paquin
Co-Founder
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Top 12 Artificial Intelligence companies in Quebec

#1
Series B · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2021 · 33 employees
$65Mraised
▾

Developer of therapeutics for the treatment of rare diseases. It offers an in-silico platform that enables the design of small molecules that stabilizes misfolded proteins to treat rare diseases. It offers computational drug discovery engine called Revenir which captures the biophysical changes caused by mutations in proteins. It examines surface features and numerous biophysical descriptors of both the mutated and wild-type proteins. It offers a lead candidate CGX-926 for obesity.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 50how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Funding
top 24%
Moat
top 31%
Talent
top 38%
Market
bottom 38%
Global
bottom 38%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $65.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 4 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series B (Mar 2026)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 7k LinkedIn followers — 2.9% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Senior Scientist in Computational Chemistry
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2026Series B$39.5M
  • Sep 2025Series B$32M
  • Mar 2023Series A$15M
  • Feb 2022Series A$50M
Founders & team
Michael GoldsmithCo-FounderClarissa DesjardinsCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Amplitude, Fonds de solidarite FTQ, Lumira Ventures, Invest Quebec, Orbimed, Driehaus
Tech stack
BootstrapCore-JsGodaddyGoogle Font ApiGsapIsotope
#2
Acquired · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2025
$835Mraised
▾

Provider of AI digital infrastructure, including data centers and cloud services. It designs and deploys AI infrastructure, from data centers to compute clusters. The company delivers infrastructure deployment by leveraging experience in high-performance computing and data center design. It supports environmentally conscious data center and compute AI infrastructure solutions. The company offers turnkey and customer-owned inventory delivery models.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 53how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 15%
AI
top 20%
Talent
bottom 49%
Global
bottom 48%
Tech
bottom 42%
Market
bottom 35%
Funding: Raised $835M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round PE (Jul 2025)
AI: Classified as an AI company
Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Audience (LinkedIn): 11k LinkedIn followers — 4.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Welcome AI) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Conventional Debt—
  • Jul 2025PE$835M
Founders & team
Steve PCo-Founder
Investors
Brookfield Asset Management, Deutsche Bank
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerGsap
#3
Public · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2004 · 71 employees
$342.3Mraised
▾

Provider of AI-powered search and recommendation solutions for enterprise businesses. It is a software company that provides an AI-powered relevance platform for enterprises, enabling superior search, recommendations, and generative answering capabilities across various digital experiences. Its unified search platform unifies data across systems, reduces search time, and boosts customer satisfaction. The company serves millions of people and billions of interactions across various industries.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 60k LinkedIn followers — 26.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 3 awards (incl. Xerox) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Post IPO—
  • Nov 2019Series F$172.6M
  • 2019Venture Debt—
  • Sep 2018Series E$9M
Investors
Fonds de solidarite FTQ, Invest Quebec, Elliott Management, SpeechIQ, OMERS, Tandem Expansion Fund
Tech stack
6SenseAmazon CloudfrontAmazon ElbAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAmplitude
#4
Series B · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2017 · 33 employees
$15Mraised
▾

Provider of a platform for building and deploying AI agent solutions. The platform offers tools for agent customization, autonomous engine utilization, and knowledge base integration. It facilitates human handoff, data storage, and supports integration with various channels and systems. The platform provides resources for developers, including API access and documentation, to build and manage agents.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 69how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Funding
top 34%
Growth
top 35%
Talent
top 38%
Moat
top 39%
Tech
top 40%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $15.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) · Last round Series B (Jun 2025)
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 28k LinkedIn followers — 11.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2025Series B$25M
  • Apr 2021Series A$15M
Founders & team
Justin WatsonCo-FounderSylvain PerronCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Inovia Capital, Decibel, Panache Ventures, Real Ventures, Hike Ventures, Overtime.vc
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#5
Series A · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2017 · 11 employees
$17Mraised
▾

Developer of document processing toolkit providing parsing, extraction, and splitting. The toolkit offers vision models designed for complex documents, handling tables, handwriting, and checkboxes. It provides agents that learn from documents, run experiments, and optimize schemas. The toolkit APIs and UIs enable document parsing, classification, extraction, and splitting. It also offers a memory system that learns from past documents.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2025Series A$17M
Investors
Innovation Endeavors, Y Combinator, Homebrew, Character
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Workspace
#6
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2024
$3.3Mraised
▾

Provider of AI-driven coaching and sales enablement platform for teams. It offers structured goal-setting, behavioral intelligence, and real-time insights to improve sales performance. The platform provides actionable guidance, practice scenarios, and progress tracking. It helps managers focus coaching efforts and link coaching to business results.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 3 partnerships (incl. Elite Rewards) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2025Seed$3.3M
Founders & team
Ben RodierCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
AQC Capital
#7
Series A · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2024
$16.5Mraised
▾

Provider of authentication agents, jobs, workflows, storage, and extraction services. It offers tools to access data behind credentials and automate complex tasks. The company provides solutions for fetching documents, reading contents, and storing data. It also offers integrations to connect to sources and fetch data.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Series A$12M
  • Oct 2024Seed$4.5M
Founders & team
Julien BelisleCo-FounderFrederick LavoieCo-Founder Yves LeboeufCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Golden Ventures, Infinity Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Luge Capital
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailClerkCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesCore-Js
#8
Series A · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2014
$2.5Mraised
▾

Provider of skills assessment platform for hiring and training talent. The platform offers skills-based qualifying and hiring assessments. It provides interactive skills training and measures applicants by demonstrated skills. The platform is designed as an on-the-job conversation setting expectations and self-screening for candidates.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Conventional Debt$2.5M
  • Dec 2024Series A$3.5M
  • Oct 2023Seed$2.5M
Founders & team
Stephane RivardCo-Founder & CEOPatricia MacleodCo-Founder
Investors
BDC, Export Development Canada, Anges Quebec, Credit Mutuel Equity, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Tech stack
ActivecampaignAhrefsAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflare
#9
Acquired · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2023
$11.3Mraised
▾

Provider of an AI platform for biopharmaceutical research and development. It offers a flagship product, Reliant Tabular that streamline the process of finding scientific evidence for decision-making, reducing data processing time. It combines an AI engine with customized tools to assist with portfolio strategy and launch success prediction. The platform automates data ingestion and extraction, and provides knowledge graphs to map relationships between trials and mechanisms.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 3.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Cohere) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Seed$11.3M
Founders & team
Karl HermannCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Tola Capital, Inovia Capital
#10
Series A · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2022 · 10 employees
$1.8Mraised
▾

AI-powered computer vision system for supply and implant management. The system captures supply and implant data in real time. It integrates with existing electronic health record and enterprise resource planning systems. The system helps to identify usage variations and eliminate documentation time. It provides visibility into ordering and utilization inefficiencies.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Series A$11.5M
  • Mar 2023Seed$1.8M
Founders & team
Moishe LibermanCo-Founder
Investors
StandUp Ventures, The Kale Fund, N49P, Battery Ventures, Tamarind Hill
#11
Acquired · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2017 · 170 employees
$102.8Mraised
▾

Developer of an AI platform for building HVAC system optimization. The platform autonomously optimizes HVAC systems to reduce energy consumption. It offers a cloud building management system for portfolio-wide control. The company provides resources, including articles, case studies, and tools, related to AI and sustainability.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 60how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Funding
top 27%
Moat
top 31%
Patents
top 38%
Talent
top 38%
Innovation
top 46%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $103M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 6 yrs (1.2/yr) · Last round Series B (Jul 2023)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 16 patents · Soonicorn
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Series B$10M
  • Apr 2023Series B$30M
  • Feb 2023Series A$4.8M
  • Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$178.2K
Founders & team
Sean NeelyVice-Chair of the Board of DirectorsJean-Simon VenneCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Esplanade Ventures, Desjardins, Quebec, ABB, Education Development Center
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAosApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDocusign
#12
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2023
$30Mraised
▾

Developer of modulating biotherapeutics to address cancer and autoimmune diseases. It has AbiLeap discovery engine that combines continuously learning AI with an extensive database of antigen-antibody interactions to generate fully human, IgG-based multispecific antibodies across cancer and autoimmune applications. The pipeline includes Leap 1121 for auti-immune disease, Leap 1009 and 1030 for solid tumors.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2024Seed$18M
  • Dec 2023Seed$12M
Founders & team
Jean BuerckertCo-Founder & CTOGiles DayCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Amplitude, Fonds de solidarite FTQ, Charles River Laboratories, Alexandria, Page One Ventures, Invest Quebec

Funding & investor landscape

$1.6Btotal disclosed funding
35companies funded
83disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Invest Quebec6 rounds
TandemLaunch6 rounds
BDC5 rounds
Real Ventures5 rounds
BoxOne Ventures4 rounds
Fonds de solidarite FTQ4 rounds
Inovia Capital4 rounds
Amplitude3 rounds
Anges Quebec3 rounds
Credit Mutuel Equity3 rounds

Notable founders

Michael Goldsmith
Co-Founder · Congruence Therapeutics
Clarissa Desjardins
Co-Founder & CEO · Congruence Therapeutics
Steve P
Co-Founder · 5C
Justin Watson
Co-Founder · Bot Press
Sylvain Perron
Co-Founder & CEO · Bot Press
Ben Rodier
Co-Founder & CEO · FrontlineIQ
Julien Belisle
Co-Founder · Deck
Frederick Lavoie
Co-Founder · Deck
Stephane Rivard
Co-Founder & CEO · HiringBranch
Patricia Macleod
Co-Founder · HiringBranch
Karl Hermann
Co-Founder & CEO · Reliant AI
Moishe Liberman
Co-Founder · AssistIQ
Prism market signals · Canada · country-scoped Prism corpus, 8,300,335 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Artificial Intelligence coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Canada

How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in Canada

A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 632 Canada-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
200820152026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 32% → 50% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
  • University of Toronto76
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine56
  • Université de Montréal37
  • University of British Columbia32
  • University of Waterloo31
leading researchers
Yoshua Bengio · Geoffrey E. Hinton · Erydir Ceisiwr · Lumos Aureon · Zelalem Negeri · Ruslan Salakhutdinov · Gerundium · Ilya Sutskever
▲ Breakthroughs300 · 47%
▲ 32%→53% share
▲1.7× share momentum0 median citations78% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (32%→53% of field), led by Pattern recognition (psychology).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)3→17
  • Artificial neural network8→20
  • Benchmark (surveying)6→17
  • Task (project management)3→14
  • Inference2→13
Newly emergingRobustness (evolution) 0→14 · Graph 0→11 · Transformer 0→10
Landmark ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks · 75,550 cites
◆ Advancements136 · 22%
▼ 31%→19% share
▼0.6× share momentum0 median citations61% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (31%→19% of field), led by Convolutional neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Convolutional neural network1→8
  • Feature (linguistics)1→4
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)4→7
  • Set (abstract data type)4→6
  • Random forest2→4
Newly emergingPipeline (software) 0→6
Landmark Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling · 10,749 cites
▼ Concerns90 · 14%
▼ 22%→11% share
▼0.5× share momentum0 median citations56% since 2021mostly reviews
Concerns are cooling (22%→11% of field), led by Context (archaeology).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Context (archaeology)9
  • MEDLINE6
  • Set (abstract data type)5
  • Generative grammar5
  • Variety (cybernetics)5
Newly emergingMEDLINE 0→6 · Key (lock) 0→5
Landmark Representation Learning: A Review and New Perspectives · 12,724 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Canada

Where artificial intelligence is researched across Canada

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Toronto85 · +0.58
Hot · Recurrent neural networkAdvancing · Speech recognitionOpportunity · Motion (physics)
Montreal82 · +0.44
Hot · Generative grammarAdvancing · VisualizationOpportunity · Key (lock)Concern · Inference
Edmonton/Calgary51 · +0.38
Hot · VisualizationAdvancing · Artificial neural networkOpportunity · Key (lock)
Vancouver46 · +0.46
Hot · ScalabilityAdvancing · Pipeline (software)Opportunity · Neuroimaging
Waterloo/Hamilton44 · +0.27
Hot · Diagnostic testOpportunity · Software
Ottawa/Kingston23 · +0.34
Hot · Delphi methodOpportunity · Focus (optics)
PATENT SIGNAL · Canada

Who's filing artificial intelligence patents in Canada

Canada artificial intelligence patent filing is accelerating — 9,652 filings from 3,011 assignees (2016–2025), led by Toronto Dominion BANK, Royal BANK Of Canada, D WAVE Systems; annual filings 209→1385.

9,652 filings3,011 assigneespeak 1471/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • Toronto Dominion BANK531
  • Royal BANK Of Canada484
  • D WAVE Systems469
  • Schlumberger Technology406
  • Schlumberger CA405
  • Services Petroliers Schlumberger298
  • Dwave SYS256
  • Element AI224

Common questions

How many Artificial Intelligence companies are there in Quebec, Canada?
Radar tracks 77 indexable Artificial Intelligence companies headquartered in Quebec, Canada that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Artificial Intelligence companies in Quebec, Canada?
The Artificial Intelligence companies in Quebec, Canada on this list have raised a combined $1.6B in disclosed equity funding across 35 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence company in Quebec, Canada?
5C is the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence company in Quebec, Canada, with $835M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Artificial Intelligence companies in Quebec, Canada are funded?
35 of the 77 Artificial Intelligence companies in Quebec, Canada on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Artificial Intelligence unicorns are there in Quebec, Canada?
None of the Artificial Intelligence companies in Quebec, Canada on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Quebec, Canada Artificial Intelligence companies?
The most active investors in Quebec, Canada Artificial Intelligence companies on this list include Invest Quebec, TandemLaunch, BDC, Real Ventures, BoxOne Ventures.
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