Best Data Center Infrastructure Companies in Canada
The 53 best Data Center Infrastructure companies in Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: 5C.
- Data Center Infrastructure Market to Hit $549.99 Billion By 2032, Buil
- Data Center Infrastructure Market revenue to cross USD 120 Bn by 2028
Ranked: Best Data Center Infrastructure companies in Canada
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5C 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 | $835M | 11 mo ago | Acquired | Steve P Co-Founder | 2025 | WebflowYouTubeGSAP+13 | — | 1 partnership |
| 2 | eStruxture Provider of colocation, bandwidth, security, and support services to customers 67Talent top 15%Funding top 24%Growth top 25%News top 26% All 10 signals ▾Talenttop 15% Fundingtop 24% Growthtop 25% Newstop 26% Producttop 38% Moattop 39% Markettop 47% Techbottom 48% Innovationbottom 46% Globalbottom 36% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 Funding: Raised $668M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 8 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $668M | 42 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2017 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | — | 1 expansion |
| 3 | ROOT Data Center Offers co-location solutions | $115M | 104 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Kaloom Platform offering software defined interconnect solution | $42M | 46 mo ago | Series B | — | 2014 | — | 54 patents Secure network packet discovery, ordering, and tunneling protocols for data‑center fabrics | — |
| 5 | Fusepoint Managed Services Offers colocation and managed IT solutions | $39M | 246 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1999 | — | — | — |
| 6 | HIVE Digital Technologies Data center owner and operator powering cutting-edge projects in the Web3 and AI industries 50Partners top 22%Growth top 30%News top 32%Funding top 34% All 8 signals ▾Partnerstop 22% Growthtop 30% Newstop 32% Fundingtop 34% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 47% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 32% Partners: 3 partnership announcements in 12 mo (3 in 24 mo) · 6 contract events in 12 mo Growth: 27 acquisition/expansion moves in 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $22M | 30 mo ago | Public | Aydin Kilic Chief Executive Officer & President | 2023 | UbuntuYouTubeVue.js+12 | — | — |
| 7 | BluWave-ai Developer of artificial intelligence software for optimizing energy grid operations 64Innovation top 21%Patents top 24%Moat top 25%Talent top 25% All 11 signals ▾Innovationtop 21% Patentstop 24% Moattop 25% Talenttop 25% AItop 30% Fundingtop 40% Producttop 40% Globalbottom 40% Marketbottom 38% Techbottom 34% Newsbottom 22% Innovation: 51 patents (top 30% of patent-holders) · 42 filings since 2022 vs 9 in 2017-21 Patents: 51 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 42 filings since 2022 vs 9 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $18M | 43 mo ago | Series A | Paul Georges Leroux Co-Founder | 2017 | jQueryHSTSGoogle Workspace+3 | 51 patents Smart EV charger fleet management and grid power allocation communication systems | 2 awards |
| 8 | COLO-D Data center design and building solutions | $15M | 128 mo ago | Acquired | Patrick David CEO & President | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 9 | CoolIT Systems Manufacturer of liquid cooling systems for data centers and servers | $6M | 64 mo ago | Acquired | Brydon Gierl Founder SVP Product and Process Development | 2001 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 187 patents Modular liquid cooling and fluid control systems for high‑performance electronic equipment | 2 launchs |
| 10 | iWeb Cloud hosting, server hosting and virtualization | $4M | 214 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1996 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Cinnos Products for building modular data center | $2M | 115 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | — | 2 patents Intelligent power distribution and monitoring for mission‑critical rack systems | — |
| 12 | Whipcord Managed network, colocation, cloud and disaster recovery solutions provider | $2M | 84 mo ago | Seed | Ryan Johnson President and CEO | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Cerio Cloud and AI based software defined server solutions 32Talent top 38%AI top 45%Funding bottom 40%Market bottom 37% All 5 signals ▾Talenttop 38% AItop 45% Fundingbottom 40% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 30% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated AI: Product described with: ai based rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $1M | 16 mo ago | Seed | Doug Carwardine Co-Founder | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Hyperview Provider of cloud-based data center infrastructure management software powered by AI | $300K | 104 mo ago | Seed | Jad Jebara President & CEO | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+36 | — | 1 launch |
Top 12 Data Center Infrastructure companies in Canada
#1
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.
- Jul 2025Conventional Debt—
- Jul 2025PE$835M
#2
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2012$1.3Mraised▾
Cloud and AI based software defined server solutions. Cerio is a platform that offers composable infrastructure for data centers. It serves the financial services, media and entertainment, cloud services, energy, and federal agencies sectors
- Mar 2025Seed$1M
- Feb 2025Seed$299.9K
#3
Acquired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2017 · 130 employees$668Mraised▾
Provider of colocation, bandwidth, security, and support services to customers. The company offers cloud and carrier-neutral colocation services to support mission-critical information technology, backed by connectivity solutions. Services include customizable colocation options, wholesale colocation, and enterprise colocation. Enterprise-grade network solutions include cloud connection, internet access, and data center interconnection.
- Jan 2023Conventional Debt$126.8M
- May 2021Series E$488M
- May 2021Conventional Debt—
- Jun 2019Conventional Debt$170M
#4
Public · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2023 · 18 employees$21.8Mraised▾
HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd is a company that builds and operates data centers in North America and Europe. They provide infrastructure solutions in the blockchain industry, powering cutting-edge projects in Web3 and AI. HIVE is focused on the digital transformation of the Web3 ecosystem and offers AI infrastructure for this purpose.
- Dec 2023Series B$21.8M
#5
Series B · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2014 · 107 employees$41.7Mraised▾
Platform offering software defined interconnect solution. It provides programmable, software-based data center fabric allowing VNFs to run at scale utilizing commodity hardware. It provides complete automation and full forwarding plane programmability. It addresses VNF performance by optimizing the packet flow through the fabric.
- Sep 2022Series B$21M
- May 2021Series A—
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$2.4M
- Nov 2018Series A$10M
#6
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2017 · 46 employees$17.8Mraised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence software for optimizing energy grid operations. The company provides solutions for smart grid optimization, data center energy management, and electric vehicle fleet orchestration. Its products support grid operators, utilities, and enterprises in managing energy storage and renewable energy resources. The company's technology also caters to off-grid microgrids and electric vehicle infrastructure.
- Dec 2022Series A$9.5M
- Nov 2022Conventional Debt$1.7M
- Apr 2022Series A$4.5M
- Mar 2020Seed$212.7K
#7
Acqui-Hired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2013 · 34 employees$115Mraised▾
ROOT Data center offers carrier-neutral data center services. Its data center is located in LaSalle, Montreal. The data center is redundant in power, cooling in a secure location with 2x redundancy. Its colocation offering includes renting of a single rack to one full cabinet. The company offers backup and disaster recovery with wholesale power pricing and infrastructure solutions.
- Oct 2017Series B$90M
- May 2016Series A$25M
#8
Acquired · Mississauga, Ontario · founded 1999 · 100 employees$39Mraised▾
FusePoint offers colocation, managed IT solutions such as managed infrastructure and hosting services, application development and maintenance services. Its data centers are located in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Its colocation services include rack, cabinet, private cages and private rooms. The company also offers managed services such as managed disaster recovery and managed backup.
- Jan 2006Series C$9M
- Apr 2004Series C$10M
- Jul 2001Series B$20M
#9
Acquired · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2001 · 142 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of liquid cooling systems for data centers and servers. The company provides coolant distribution units and technology cooling systems. It offers direct liquid cooled servers, coldplates, and rack manifolds. The company’s services include design, engineering, testing, validation, and manufacturing. It focuses on liquid cooling research and development.
- Mar 2021Series C—
- Jan 2019Conventional Debt$100M
- Sep 2011Series B$6.5M
#10
Acquired · Drummondville, Quebec · founded 2013$15Mraised▾
COLO.D provides data center design and building solutions. Its data centers have 55 megawatts of power capacity and 300,000 square feet of space. It provides solutions for colocation, custom solutions, connectivity and disaster recovery. Industry verticals covered include cloud providers, financial institutions, government and gaming. It is the second largest data center provider in Canada.
- Nov 2015Series A$15M
#11
Acquired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 1996 · 92 employees$4.3Mraised▾
iweb is offers cloud solutions ranging from colocation in data centers to infrastructure as a service solution. Its solutions in the cloud are compute environment, Microsoft private cloud, virtualization, and dedicated cloud services. It also provides solutions in storage such as networked or block storage, back up and disaster recovery. iweb also operates in network space with products and services in website security, CDN, firewalls, virtual private rack, and performance networking.
- Aug 2008Conventional Debt$22M
- Feb 2008Conventional Debt$1M
- Nov 2007Series A$4.3M
- Apr 2007Conventional Debt$1.3M
#12
Seed · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2009 · 17 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Managed network, colocation, cloud and disaster recovery solutions provider
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Data Center Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cloud Computing is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 961 Canada-affiliated papers.
- University of Waterloo69
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine63
- University of Toronto58
- Carleton University50
- Concordia University43
- Scalability4→43
- Point cloud1→29
- Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution1→25
- Operating system2→25
- Edge computing3→24
- Operating system1→18
- Edge computing3→17
- Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution1→14
- Scalability6→16
- Software2→12
- Operating system2→12
- Analytics1→7
- Aerosol2→6
- Software deployment2→6
- Interoperability1→5
Where cloud computing 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 cloud computing patents in Canada
Canada cloud computing patent filing is cooling — 169 filings from 219 assignees (2016–2025), led by ATI Technologies ULC, Ericsson Telefon AB L M, Advanced Micro Devices; annual filings 23→18.
- ATI Technologies ULC23
- Ericsson Telefon AB L M21
- Advanced Micro Devices19
- Royal BANK Of Canada17
- Blackberry14
- Shopify13
- Accedian Networks10
- Mimik TECH10
Common questions
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