Best Brands Tech Companies in Canada
The 57 best Brands Tech companies in Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vendasta.
Canada's Brands Tech sector has 57 tracked companies and $444M in disclosed funding, and if you're trying to find where the real momentum sits, this directory ranks the best Brands Tech companies in Canada by exactly that: equity raised and recent funding trajectory.
Two names dominate the capital picture. Elastic Path Software and Vendasta each sit at $144M, together accounting with 360insights ($48M) and a handful of smaller players for the bulk of that $444M pool. That concentration matters. As shown in 2018 research on clustering effects in tech ecosystems, capital tends to compound around a few anchor firms, and Canada's Brands Tech stack is showing that pattern clearly. Real Ventures, BDC, and Export Development Canada are the most active backers here, which tells you something about the risk profile investors are willing to hold. So where does that leave earlier-stage players like Sampler ($11M) or Paperstack ($7M)? Competing hard on product differentiation, mostly. No unicorns yet in this cohort, zero, but the funding base is denser than it looks at first read, and I'd watch the mid-tier closely this quarter as hot themes around next-generation platforms and drive system innovations start pulling brand-side software into adjacent territory fast.
Ranked: Best Brands Tech companies in Canada
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vendasta Provider of an AI-powered platform automating marketing, sales, and operations | $144M | 61 mo ago | Series D | 677 | Allan Wolinski Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | — |
| 2 | Elastic Path Software API-based enterprise commerce software and content management platform | $144M | 19 mo ago | Series C | 216 | — | Cart FunctionalitySentryTailwind CSS+31 | 2 launchs |
| 3 | 360insights SaaS-based loyalty solution for sales channels | $48M | 22 mo ago | Series C | 609 | Jason Atkins CEO | HubSpot CMS HubGSAPAmazon Web Services+23 | 1 award |
| 4 | Nolk Platform for acquiring digital-first brands | $22M | 36 mo ago | Series A | 126 | Alexandre Renaud Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+17 | — |
| 5 | PNI Media On-demand personalized print products and shipping solutions for retailers | $14M | 229 mo ago | Acquired | 142 | Alexander Douglas CEO | — | — |
| 6 | Sampler Provider of SaaS-based retail sampling solutions | $11M | 29 mo ago | Series A | 56 | — | Apple iCloud MailTypeScriptTinyMCE+11 | — |
| 7 | Orium Provider of headless commerce storefront software solutions for brands | $11M | — | Acquired | 61 | Jason Cottrell Founder & CEO | ContentfulTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+24 | — |
| 8 | BlackCart Online platform offering virtual try on solution for online stores | $11M | 65 mo ago | Series A | 35 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Paperstack Provider of operation management solutions for e-commerce brands 14Talent top 38%Funding top 41%Tech bottom 42%Global bottom 37% All 5 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 41% Techbottom 42% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 15% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $6.7M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 5 yrs (0.6/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 14/100 | $7M | 10 mo ago | Series A | 4 | Vadim Lidich Co-Founder | Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+10 | — |
| 10 | Heyday.ai Provider of chatbots solutions | $7M | 64 mo ago | Acquired | 54 | — | — | — |
| 11 | BuyBack Booth Developer of trade applications and kiosks to offer payments for used smartphones | $4M | 72 mo ago | Seed | 18 | Tony Mastronardi CEO | — | — |
| 12 | LiveScale Live shopping solution for ecommerce brands | $3M | 63 mo ago | Seed | 13 | — | — | — |
| 13 | BlackSquare Online SaaS-based solutions suite for the beverage industry | $3M | 121 mo ago | Seed | 53 | Matthew Protti Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLMariaDB+26 | — |
| 14 | EMERGE Commerce Online platform acquiring e-commerce brands and businesses | $3M | 4 mo ago | Public | 25 | Ghassan Halazon Founder & CEO | Q4MediaElement.jsMicrosoft ASP.NET+13 | — |
| 15 | loopt Platform offering rental subscription programs for brands | $2M | 62 mo ago | Deadpooled | 8 | — | — | — |
| 16 | Spocket Provider of dropshipping platform facilitating product sourcing and order management | $2M | 94 mo ago | Seed | 45 | Tom Hansen Co-Founder | Webflow EcommerceWebflowStripe+20 | — |
| 17 | Centro Provider of inventory management solutions for Shopify stores | $2M | 33 mo ago | Seed | 4 | Jamyang Tenzin Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 18 | Blanka Dropshipping solutions to private label beauty brands | $2M | 34 mo ago | Seed | 12 | Adam Chuntz Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalityShopifyBootstrap+30 | — |
| 19 | Shopistry Provider of storefront solution for DTC brands | $2M | 62 mo ago | Seed | 7 | Jaafer Haidar Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 20 | Green Story Sustainability and carbon footprint awareness solutions to e-commerce brands | $1M | 51 mo ago | Seed | 55 | Navodit Babel CEO | WebflowStripeAmazon Web Services+9 | — |
| 21 | Vantage Analytics Data Analytics & Marketing Platform for Offline and Online Retailers | $1M | 142 mo ago | Seed | 34 | Aran Hamilton CEO at Vantage | Leading Innovation in Retail Media Orchestration | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | 1 job opening |
| 22 | Stage TEN Cloud based live video broadcasting platform | $1M | 89 mo ago | Seed | 45 | — | — | — |
| 23 | Jasper Cloud-based software solutions for PIM and analytics | $671K | 39 mo ago | Public | 32 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+39 | 1 job opening |
| 24 | DG1 Cloud based marketing and business software | $316K | 14 mo ago | Early Stage | 20 | — | Cart FunctionalityUnbounceNode.js+25 | — |
Top 12 Brands Tech companies in Canada
#1
Series C · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2000 · 216 employees$143.6Mraised▾
Elastic Path provides an API-based enterprise commerce software and content management platform. It adds e-commerce functionality including commerce engine, customer engagement, promotions & payments, catalogs management, search & merchandising, account management, payments, PIM, etc. It also offers pre-built applications including chatbot, augmented reality & voice commerce. The clients of the company include illumina, Breville, TESLA, Motability, etc.
- Nov 2024Series C$5.1M
- Dec 2022Series C$30M
- Feb 2022Series C$60M
- Jun 2018Series B$32.6M
#2
Public · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2016 · 25 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Online platform acquiring e-commerce brands and businesses. It identifies and invests in digital-first brands including lifestyle, home, and more. It allows businesses to manage business with the product, merchandising, technology, supply chain, process optimization, demand planning, marketing strategy, and more.
- Feb 2026Post IPO$1.8M
- Apr 2025Post IPO$140.5K
- Jul 2023Post IPO$568.5K
- Feb 2021Post IPO—
#3
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2021 · 4 employees$6.7Mraised▾
Provider of operation management solutions for e-commerce brands. Its solutions include inventory management, advertising, finance payroll, and more.
- Aug 2025Series A$3.6M
- Feb 2023Series A$6.7M
- Feb 2023Conventional Debt—
- Sep 2022Seed—
#4
Series C · Whitby, Ontario · founded 2009 · 609 employees$47.6Mraised▾
360 insights offer a Saas based platform for managing loyalty solutions for clients and sales distributors. It offers sales incentive management, rebate management, sell through allowance tracking, MDF and co-op funds management, sales training for distributors and also compiles channel loyalty data and provides insights based on that. The solution offered by the company can be used in sectors such as automotive, insurance, retail, manufacturing, and telecom. Its major clients are Samsung, Motorola, Siemens, Haier, SONY, GE, Bosch, Whirlpool, and Yokohama.
- Sep 2024Conventional Debt—
- Oct 2016Series C$30M
- Jan 2016Series B$10M
- Jan 2013Series A$7.7M
#5
Series D · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan · founded 2008 · 677 employees$143.6Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-powered platform automating marketing, sales, and operations. The platform offers AI employees that automate tasks for businesses. These AI employees can capture leads, book appointments, and manage review requests. The platform provides tools to create and manage social media, unified PPC reporting, and email and SMS marketing automation. It also offers a white-label CRM and local SEO management.
- May 2021Series D$98.8M
- Jul 2019Series C$30.6M
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$3.3M
- Apr 2016Series B$3.2M
#6
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2013 · 56 employees$11.1Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS-based retail sampling solutions. It helps suppliers, agencies and retailers to create, promote and analyze a digital product sampling or couponing program. Offered features include product cataloguing, audience targeting, logistics and fulfilment, analytics and reports, remarketing, and more. Some of its clients include The Body Shop, Manitoba Harvest, Weleda, Living Proof and Enjoy Life.
- Feb 2024Conventional Debt$33.9K
- Nov 2022Series A$88.2K
- Jul 2020Series A$4M
- Aug 2019Conventional Debt$1M
#7
Series A · St Bruno de Montarville, Quebec · founded 2017 · 126 employees$22.1Mraised▾
Its proprietary solution provides data and analytics platforms used to discover, curate, and analyze e-commerce brands across numerous diverse and nontraditional metrics. The platform is able to track broad consumer trends and identify brands with potential within each vertical.
- Jul 2023Series A$250K
- Oct 2022Series A$21.8M
- Sep 2020Conventional Debt$1.1M
#8
Early Stage · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2000 · 20 employees$316.1Kraised▾
DG1 is a cloud-based marketing and business software for small and medium-sized businesses. It allows to create automated campaigns & set up triggers, lets to create custom forms & collect information from contacts and sending push notifications, emails, and SMS. Also provides e-commerce web builder, website management, and appointment scheduling tools. Monetizes through subscription-based pricing plans.
- Apr 2025Unattributed$316.1K
#9
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2022 · 4 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of inventory management solutions for Shopify stores. Its solutions include a dashboard, forecasting, procurement, shipment details, and more.
- Oct 2023Seed$2M
#10
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2020 · 12 employees$2Mraised▾
Dropshipping solutions to private label beauty brands. It assists businesses in creating their own branded cosmetics line and adding of product catalog of vegan cruelty-free cosmetics, skincare, and beauty products. Other features include Shopify, wix integration, dropshipping of products from the warehouse, and more.
- Aug 2023Seed$2M
#11
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2017 · 35 employees$10.9Mraised▾
Online platform offering virtual try on solution for online stores. It offers its users to select items to try, then the selected items are shipped to try on at home, and the selected kept items are automatically managed. Its features include automated payments, real-time ordering decisions, customization to fit, and more.
- Jan 2021Series A$8.8M
- Jun 2020Seed$2.1M
- Jul 2019Seed$150K
#12
Acquired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2016 · 54 employees$6.6Mraised▾
Provider of chatbots solutions. It builds custom chatbots for brands to engage customers across SMS, Facebook Messenger, and other messaging apps. Also supports Kik, Telegram, and Slack. From strategy and idea generation to chatbot design and development. It helps deploy chatbots to reach audiences on their platform of choice.
- Mar 2021Seed$5.1M
- Apr 2019Seed$1.5M
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