Best Continued Learning Companies in Canada
The 242 best Continued Learning companies in Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CFI.
Canada's Continued Learning sector has 242 companies tracked, $149M in total disclosed funding, and not a single unicorn yet. That last part's the tell. This directory ranks the strongest Continued Learning companies in Canada by disclosed equity and recent funding momentum, and the gap between where the market is heading and where valuations sit right now is exactly why you should be paying attention.
CFI leads the pack at $48M raised, Thinkific sits at $25M, and Figure 1 at $21M. So the top three alone account for roughly $94M of that $149M pool. The global market was pegged at $2.0B in 2020 and is forecast to hit $5.0B by 2025, a 20% CAGR according to ResearchAndMarkets.com, driven hard by digital adoption and the demand for rapid skills transfer. Median app install growth across 1,823 learning and e-learning apps is running at plus 13% year-on-year. I keep coming back to that figure because it's organic demand, not hype. Themes like AI research and machine learning are pulling continued learning into new territory fast, and pieces like this case for pushing personal learning boundaries reflect a cultural shift that institutional players are still catching up to. The funding's thin relative to the opportunity. That's the story this quarter.
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Ranked: Best Continued Learning companies in Canada
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CFI Online finance and banking training and certifications | $48M | 62 mo ago | Series B | 309 | Scott Powell Co-Founder | TypeScriptZone.jsAngular+22 | — |
| 2 | Thinkific Provider of online academy builder | $25M | 68 mo ago | Public | 354 | Miranda Lievers Co-Founder | ThinkificSentryAtlassian Statuspage+42 | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 3 | Figure 1 Provider of medical educational platform for professionals | $21M | 108 mo ago | Series B | 87 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+35 | — |
| 4 | Disco Provider of SaaS-driven course creation and content management solutions | $20M | 51 mo ago | Series A | 31 | Candice Faktor Co-Founder | SentryZendeskMUI+24 | — |
| 5 | Uvaro Provider of a sales training program | $12M | 55 mo ago | Series A | 106 | — | SentryNode.jsTypeScript+28 | — |
| 6 | LumiQ Online podcast streaming platform | $7M | 20 mo ago | Series A | 69 | Michael Kravshik Co-Founder & CEO | SentryAlgoliaSalesforce+24 | — |
| 7 | Rouxbe Online video classes and certifications on cooking | $7M | 101 mo ago | Series B | 35 | Dawn Thomas Co-Founder | Head of Media Production | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+46 | — |
| 8 | ClevrU Enabler for authoring and selling content. | $2M | 172 mo ago | Deadpooled | 11 | Dana Fox Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 9 | Battlesnake Game development solutions provider | $2M | 57 mo ago | Acquired | 9 | Brad Vugt Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 10 | LearnExperts AI-based platform offering course content-building tool | $1M | 57 mo ago | Seed | — | Sarah Sedgman Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 11 | District 3 Innovation Center A collaborative learning platform for entrepreneurs and startups | $1M | 128 mo ago | Seed | 66 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Fit Brains Brain fitness through app | $1M | 220 mo ago | Acquired | 11 | Paul Nussbaum Founder | — | — |
| 13 | Extempore Assessment platform for language instructors | $990K | 73 mo ago | Seed | 34 | Carlos Seoane Co-Founder & CEO | ZohoIntercomEmotion+25 | — |
| 14 | Onkea Online learning marketplace | $500K | 154 mo ago | Seed | 11 | Ken Smith Founder | — | — |
| 15 | Baby World Language English language development products for Pre-K | $400K | 151 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Paul Wittgenstein President & CEO | — | — |
| 16 | Kruzee Online platform providing driving-related learning solutions | $398K | 48 mo ago | Seed | 12 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — |
| 17 | Singspiel Piano learning & practicing app | $380K | 136 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Arian Rahbari Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 18 | Juno College Provider of training and support services | $150K | 81 mo ago | Seed | 134 | Heather Payne Founder | ContentfulApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+22 | — |
Top 12 Continued Learning companies in Canada
#1
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2016 · 69 employees$7.2Mraised▾
Online podcast streaming platform. It allows users to stream educational podcasts for learning about finance and accounting. The app is available for android and iOS users.
- Sep 2024PE—
- Aug 2022Series A$3.8M
- May 2021Seed$909.6K
- Jun 2019Seed$845K
#2
Series A · Ontario · founded 2020 · 31 employees$19.8Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS-driven course creation and content management solutions. The platform enables users to create courses online and integrate the content and engage the learning community through Zoom, chat, and feeds.
- Mar 2022Series A$15M
- Mar 2021Seed$4.8M
#3
Series B · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2016 · 309 employees$48Mraised▾
Online finance and banking training and certifications. It offers various certifications in areas such as financial modeling, business intelligence, commercial banking, and capital markets. Its training includes courses, learning paths, and access to templates and resources. It develops practical skills and enhances professional credibility in the finance industry, delivered through video lessons, interactive exercises, and skill validation assessments.
- Mar 2021Series B—
#4
Series A · Waterloo, Ontario · founded 2010 · 106 employees$12Mraised▾
Provider of a sales training program. The platform allows candidates to create a profile and develop skills in the sales, account management, and business development field. It allows employers to train new hires and recruit talent. The company offers live classes, feedback, etc.
- Nov 2021Series A$12M
- Jan 2020Seed$3.5M
#5
Public · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2012 · 354 employees$25Mraised▾
Provider of online academy builder. It enables users to create online courses, digital products, and communities that actually sell. It works on a premium model with revenue generated from transaction fees and subscriptions.
#6
Series B · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2013 · 87 employees$20.9Mraised▾
Provider of medical educational platform for professionals. The company offers a platform for doctors and the medical community at large can share photos and information about rare and difficult-to-diagnose cases. The features include image descriptions of existing images in the database so users can search for diagnoses. They also provide face detection software that finds any potential identifying features and more.
- Jun 2017Series B$10M
- Oct 2015Series A$5M
- Aug 2014Series A$4M
- Dec 2013Seed$1.9M
#7
Series B · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2005 · 35 employees$6.8Mraised▾
Rouxbe is an online school for cooking, with video lessons developed by professional culinary instructors for home chefs. Rouxbe provides its services to homes, schools, culinary academies, and restaurants. The firm provides different types of certifications on the training imparted such as plant-based training, cook certification, instructional training courses, etc. The Culinary Rx program intends to develop cooking skills for anyone who wants to move to a more health-supportive way of cooking. Works on the subscription-based pricing model.
- Dec 2017Series B$4.2M
- Jul 2017Conventional Debt$25K
- Jan 2013Series A$456.5K
- Sep 2009Series A$2.1M
#8
Acquired · Victoria, British Columbia · founded 2018 · 9 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Game development solutions provider. The platform allows users to create games collaboratively. It also allows developers to compete with each other and improve.
- Sep 2021Seed$1.5M
#9
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2019$1.2Mraised▾
AI-based platform offering course content-building tool
- Sep 2021Seed$1.2M
#10
Seed · Scarborough, Ontario · founded 2021 · 12 employees$397.7Kraised▾
Online platform providing driving-related learning solutions. The platform offers online courses, driving instructors, learning schedules, and more.
- Jun 2022Seed$397.7K
#11
Seed · St. Paul, Alberta · founded 2015 · 34 employees$990Kraised▾
Extemporeapp offers assessment platform for language instructors. Allows instructors and students to exchange video and audio assignments and provide feedback on them. The platform allows creating and editing video, image or audio assessments. Offers services for both individuals and institutions. Clients include K-12 schools and universities such as University of Miami, Temple University, Cranbook Schools, etc. Pricing is based on subscription. Available for Android and iOS platform.
- Apr 2020Seed$570K
- Mar 2018Seed$420K
#12
Deadpooled · Waterloo, Ontario · founded 2010 · 11 employees$2Mraised▾
ClevrU provides educators and students with a platform which manages to learn content and provides analytics. Educators can use resources present on the platform or create their own content to give personalized courses to students. Can be used across platforms, no filtering of content in China and other restrictive countries and purchases on the platform can be made in local currencies. ClevrDNA provides analytics support that can be used to demonstrate individual or group progress, identify and respond to learning flashpoints, assess student learning patterns, and predict outcomes and guide the student. Crowd-sourced translation of materials. Provides courses in English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, French, Russian and more. Works on a shared revenue model.
- Feb 2012Angel$2M
- Nov 2010Seed—
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