Best Cybersecurity Companies in British Columbia, Canada
The 90 best Cybersecurity companies in British Columbia, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Trulioo.
Our analysis of 174 Cybersecurity companies
$16.2b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in British Columbia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trulioo 🦄 Provider of online identity verification services for KYC, KYB, and AML 74AI top 20%Funding top 27%Product top 28%Market top 31% All 12 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 27% Producttop 28% Markettop 31% Moattop 32% Innovationtop 37% Techtop 37% Patentstop 41% Partnerstop 41% Globaltop 42% Newsbottom 46% Growthbottom 32% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $477M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 14 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $477M | 60 mo ago | Series D | 412 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | 5 patents Privacy‑preserving data anonymization for fraud risk assessment in identity verification systems. | 1 launch · 1 expansion |
| 2 | Conexiom AI-powered order and invoice automation for manufacturers and distributors 72AI top 30%Funding top 33%Tech top 38%News top 39% All 9 signals ▾AItop 30% Fundingtop 33% Techtop 38% Newstop 39% Markettop 41% Producttop 41% Growthtop 45% Talenttop 46% Globalbottom 45% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-powered Funding: Raised $170M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 8 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $170M | 56 mo ago | Series D | 246 | John Mcneill CEO | Cart FunctionalityHubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud Mail+35 | — | — |
| 3 | Galvanize Vulnerability and threat management platform | $50M | 102 mo ago | Acquired | 299 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | — | — |
| 4 | Hyas Unified threat detection and management | $48M | 63 mo ago | Series B | 50 | David Ratner CEO | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+17 | — | — |
| 5 | Owl Technologies KYC solutions for banks and insurance companies | $40M | 55 mo ago | Series B | 89 | Sean Merat Co-Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+25 | — | 2 awards |
| 6 | BTQ Provider of a platform offering post-quantum blockchain scaling solution 48Funding top 31%Growth top 32%Talent top 38%Moat top 48% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 31% Growthtop 32% Talenttop 38% Moattop 48% Techbottom 48% Marketbottom 35% Globalbottom 25% Funding: Raised $36.3M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · 1 acquisition/expansion move in 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $36M | 11 mo ago | Public | 27 | Olivier Newton CEO | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+9 | — | 1 launch |
| 7 | CounterPath Cloud-based unified communication management software provider | $35M | 72 mo ago | Acquired | 90 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+35 | 12 patents Adaptive client configuration and network selection for unified communications over cellular networks | — |
| 8 | CyberQP Privileged access management solution 32Talent top 38%Funding top 40%Product top 47%Tech bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 40% Producttop 47% Techbottom 49% Marketbottom 41% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 29% Customersbottom 10% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $12.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $12M | 12 mo ago | Series A | 49 | Mateo Barraza Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorDiviWordPress+32 | — | — |
| 9 | Echosec Location based media monitoring and threat intelligence platform | $11M | 51 mo ago | Acquired | 29 | Karl Swannie Founder and Investor | — | — | — |
| 10 | D3 Security Cloud based full life cycle incident response and management solution | $10M | 57 mo ago | Seed | 145 | Gordon Benoit President | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+28 | 3 patents Mobile device security auditing tools and secure networked device communication protocols | — |
| 11 | Mega Blockchain Blockchain-based data security solutions | $8M | 101 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Syed H CEO | — | — | — |
| 12 | MediaCore Video Platform for Education sector | $6M | 135 mo ago | Acquired | 20 | Stuart Bowness Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 13 | Oculus VisionTech Forensic watermarking-based anti-tampering, anti-piracy and DRM solution | $4M | 62 mo ago | Public | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | KeyNexus Cloud-based encryption key management solution for cloud apps | $3M | 117 mo ago | Acquired | 14 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Plurilock AI based solutions for identity protecion and data loss prevention 69Partners top 18%Product top 19%News top 24%Growth top 32% All 11 signals ▾Partnerstop 18% Producttop 19% Newstop 24% Growthtop 32% Techtop 32% AItop 35% Innovationtop 42% Fundingtop 42% Moattop 48% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 45% Partners: 5 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 5 deals Product: 3 distinct product lines · Company stage: Public rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $3M | 16 mo ago | Public | 41 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+34 | — | — |
| 16 | FusionPipe Behavioral biometrics-based user authentication | $2M | 117 mo ago | Seed | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | OYCO Systems Cloud based platform offering enterprise communication platform | $1M | 220 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Paul Of The Cross ex- CEO | — | — | — |
| 18 | Walkabout Smart Instant Messaging | $655K | 147 mo ago | Seed | — | Christopher Boothroyd Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 19 | aDolus Cloud-based solutions for industrial security | $633K | 66 mo ago | Acquired | 31 | Eric Byres CEO and Founder | — | — | — |
| 20 | Active Witness Provider of cloud and AI-based access control systems | $621K | 58 mo ago | Seed | 9 | — | — | 23 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 21 | MergeBase Provider of software composition analysis platform for managing application vulnerabilities | $500K | 74 mo ago | Acquired | 9 | Julius Musseau Co-Founder | HugoBootstrapNginx+15 | — | — |
| 22 | Neptune Digital Assets Bitcoin mining, decentralized finance, and staking solutions for cryptocurrencies | $494K | 62 mo ago | Seed | 3 | Cale Moodie Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — | 1 partnership |
| 23 | INETCO Developer of software for payment fraud prevention and cybersecurity solutions 62Product top 18%AI top 20%Innovation top 23%Talent top 31% All 9 signals ▾Producttop 18% AItop 20% Innovationtop 23% Talenttop 31% Newstop 45% Fundingtop 48% Techtop 50% Marketbottom 34% Globalbottom 29% Product: 4 distinct product lines AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $400K | 16 mo ago | Early Stage | 37 | Ugan Naidoo Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | 2 awards |
| 24 | Quortus Mobile core intelligence towards the network edge | $355K | 72 mo ago | Seed | 30 | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | Tevano Provider of temperature scanning device for workplace safety | $215K | 38 mo ago | Public | — | David Bajwa CEO & Director | — | — | — |
Top 12 Cybersecurity companies in British Columbia
#1
Public · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1998 · 27 employees$36.3Mraised▾
Provider of a platform offering post-quantum blockchain scaling solution. It is combining software and hardware to safeguard assets with post-quantum services and solutions.
- Jul 2025Post IPO$29.3M
- Dec 2024Post IPO$7M
#2
Series A · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2018 · 49 employees$12Mraised▾
Privileged access management solution. It is a software that offers MSPs privileged access management, including safeguarding customer admin accounts and preserving their clients' identities. They provide current customers with a demo and support portal. It also offers features like just-in-time account creation, privileged identity management, and monitoring changes to privileged accounts.
- Jun 2025Conventional Debt—
- Apr 2023Series A$12M
- Jun 2022Series A$7M
#3
Public · Victoria, British Columbia · founded 2016 · 41 employees$2.8Mraised▾
AI based solutions for identity protecion and data loss prevention. It specializes on AI-driven identity-centric security, single sign-on, cloud access security, and data loss prevention. The company offers a range of products and services designed to protect and secure identities, access, and data for governments, and more.
- Jan 2025Post IPO$161.6K
- Apr 2024Post IPO—
- Apr 2024Post IPO$12K
- Jan 2023Post IPO$1.6M
#4
Early Stage · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1984 · 37 employees$400Kraised▾
Developer of software for payment fraud prevention and cybersecurity solutions. The company provides tools for real-time fraud detection and blocking, insider fraud prevention, and account takeover fraud prevention. It offers cybersecurity solutions for enterprises, including DDoS attack prevention and bot-driven high-velocity attack mitigation. The company also provides real-time transaction monitoring and payment analytics.
- Jan 2025Unattributed—
- Jan 2025Unattributed$208.6K
- Dec 2024Unattributed$486.9K
- Oct 2021Unattributed$100.5K
#5
Trulioo 🦄Series D · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2011 · 412 employees$477.2Mraised▾
Provider of online identity verification services for KYC, KYB, and AML. The company offers a platform to customize workflows with person and business verification capabilities. It helps to achieve compliance and prevent fraud. The platform delivers integration through a single token and endpoint, giving access to verification services.
- Jun 2021Series D$394M
- Sep 2019Series C$52.9M
- 2018Series B$7.3M
- Dec 2015Series B$15M
#6
Series D · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2005 · 246 employees$170Mraised▾
AI-powered order and invoice automation for manufacturers and distributors. It helps manufacturers and distributors modernize their manual order entry process with purpose-built AI developed on industry expertise. Intelligent automation eliminates unnecessary errors, delays, and costs by accurately capturing, correcting, and transforming emailed and file-based orders from any document format, into fulfillment-ready ERP entries. Account teams move faster with AI-assisted accuracy and zero manual entry, while advanced touchless processing pushes high-volume transactions straight to the ERP. It turns the slowest manual channel into a smart, flexible digital pipeline that delivers faster turnaround, lower costs, and happier customers on a trusted, enterprise-grade platform.
- Sep 2021Series D$130M
- Jul 2020Series C$40M
- Mar 2018Unattributed—
#7
Series B · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2018 · 89 employees$40Mraised▾
KYC solutions for banks and insurance companies. Offers a chatbot, which is an end-to-end encrypted, zero-knowledge system compliant with all regulations for handling sensitive data. The solution automates and streamlines the KYC process.
- Nov 2021Series B$30M
- 2020Grant (prize money)$3.5M
- Aug 2019Seed$2M
#8
Series B · Nanaimo, British Columbia · founded 2015 · 50 employees$48Mraised▾
Unified threat detection and management. It provides security solutions for SMB and SME and home users to detect, protect, deflect and inspect online threats. The product includes Saturna, an appliance based security for local endpoint at the small or remote offices, Comox, a cyber-intelligence toolkit to investigate online web domains and borderless internet, a DNS based security service provided by HYAS. The solution includes anti-Virus, Ad Blocking with no plugins, anti-phishing protection, threat intelligence, protocol shifting geo-IP relocation, anti-proxy detection and free speech and anti-censorship functions.
- Feb 2021Series B$16M
- Dec 2019Series B$25.2M
- Nov 2018Conventional Debt$2M
- Aug 2018Series A$6.8M
#9
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2002 · 90 employees$35Mraised▾
Counterpath is a cloud-based unified communication management software provider. The core product portfolio includes server applications, SIP-based softphones, and fixed-mobile convergence(FMC) solutions that enable enterprises and telecommunication service providers to deliver a unified communications experience across voice, media, and chat platforms. The flagship product of the company is Bria, which is the most advanced softphone client application which enables the users to do VOIP calls, instant messaging and video conferencing via desktop, mobile, and tablets. It also offers SDKs and APIs to its clients for creating customized solutions. Its clientele includes BT, Avaya, Rogers, Comcast, etc.
- Jun 2020Post IPO$1M
- Jan 2018Post IPO$1.7M
- Oct 2017Post IPO$33.3K
- Jul 2017Post IPO$15K
#10
Acquired · Victoria, British Columbia · founded 2013 · 29 employees$11Mraised▾
Echosec is a location based media monitoring platform. Clients can save more than one location, set up alerts for images, keywords, usernames, or specific regions, receive notifications to their phone, email, or wearable device. Clients can do universal search, username & keyword search and filtering.
- Mar 2022Conventional Debt$10M
- Apr 2019Conventional Debt$1M
#11
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1987 · 299 employees$50Mraised▾
Galvanize provides software for security, risk management, compliance, and audit. The company offers a wide range of software such as Rsam CyberBond which is threat and vulnerability management platform, RiskBond which is risk management software for the enterprise, AuditBond which is software for audit professionals to manage audit workflow, and Rsam ITGRCBond which is IT risk and compliance management software.
- Dec 2017Series C$50M
#12
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2002 · 145 employees$10Mraised▾
Cloud based full lifecycle incident response and management solutions to the organization. The platform comprises of analytics & planning engine that integrates with security event and threat detection systems for automatic escalation to incident or case records, and response planning via a NIST compliant playbook library. Features include task orchestration, process automation, triage prioritization, and risk management. Focused on the sectors like retail, energy, communications, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and software and technology.
- Aug 2021Seed$10M
- Aug 2021Conventional Debt$5M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Cybersecurity coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cybersecurity is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 438 Canada-affiliated papers.
- University of Waterloo37
- Carleton University35
- Concordia University28
- Toronto Metropolitan University24
- University of New Brunswick22
- Intrusion detection system15→49
- Anomaly detection3→17
- Denial-of-service attack5→15
- Robustness (evolution)2→12
- Artificial neural network1→10
- Denial-of-service attack7→15
- Cloud computing1→8
- Artificial neural network1→6
- Network packet3→8
- Spoofing attack1→4
- Key (lock)1→4
Where cybersecurity 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.
Who's filing cybersecurity patents in Canada
Canada cybersecurity patent filing is cooling — 9,109 filings from 5,252 assignees (2016–2025), led by Research IN Motion, Blackberry, Certicom; annual filings 816→795.
- Research IN Motion2692
- Blackberry2247
- Certicom1206
- Toronto Dominion BANK721
- Royal BANK Of Canada295
- Nortel Networks282
- Absolute Software270
- Schlumberger CA251
Common questions
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