Best Energy Efficiency Tech Companies in Quebec, Canada
The 34 best Energy Efficiency Tech companies in Quebec, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: BrainBox AI.
Our analysis of 50 Energy Efficiency Tech companies
$7.8b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Energy Efficiency Tech companies in Quebec
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BrainBox 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 | $103M | 39 mo ago | Acquired | Sean Neely Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors | 2017 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+21 | 16 patents Patents concentrated in mechanical & energy engineering | — |
| 2 | XNRGY Manufacturer of thermal management systems for data centers and healthcare 53Tech top 39%Moat top 39%Funding top 40%Growth top 42% All 8 signals ▾Techtop 39% Moattop 39% Fundingtop 40% Growthtop 42% Markettop 47% Talentbottom 49% Newsbottom 45% Globalbottom 36% Tech: 38 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 5/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $57M | 12 mo ago | Series C | John Gocek Co-Founder & CFO | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
| 3 | Distech Controls Building management solutions | $37M | 163 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1995 | SitecoreVideoJSYouTube+27 | 189 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 4 | Lumenpulse SaaS-driven smart LED lighting products for commercial, institutional and urban environments | $21M | 150 mo ago | Public | — | 2006 | YouTubeVideoJSVue.js+19 | 32 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 5 | Verdant Networking thermostat energy management systems for hospitality industry | $6M | 93 mo ago | Acquired | Alain Belanger CEO | 2008 | Node.jsSvelteKitSvelte+9 | — | — |
| 6 | QScale AI-driven energy management and HPC solutions | — | 41 mo ago | Acquired | Vincent Thibault Co-Founder | 2018 | Webflowcore-jsPreact+16 | — | — |
| 7 | Domely Online AI interfaced roof inspection software for building owners | — | 44 mo ago | Seed | CharlPhillip Boutet Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 8 | - Maintenance Assistant inc Property management and preventive maintenance management platform | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2020 | — | 6 patents Enterprise maintenance management software with collaborative asset tracking and consumer service | — |
Top 7 Energy Efficiency Tech companies in Quebec
#1
Series C · Longueuil, Quebec · founded 2019 · 217 employees$57.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of thermal management systems for data centers and healthcare. The company specializes in custom-engineered systems prioritizing energy efficiency, water conservation, and reduced carbon footprint. Its products include air handling units, chillers, dehumidification systems, and cooling units. The company also provides air purification solutions featuring modular design and disinfecting filtration technology.
- Oct 2025Series C—
- Jul 2025Series C—
- Mar 2023Series C—
- Jan 2020Series C$57.5M
#2
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.
- Jul 2023Series B$10M
- Apr 2023Series B$30M
- Feb 2023Series A$4.8M
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$178.2K
#3
Acquired · Brossard, Quebec · founded 1995 · 190 employees$37Mraised▾
Distech Controls provides building management technologies and services that optimize energy efficiency and comfort in buildings. It offers EC-NetAX, a Web-based BAS that provides integration of HVAC, lighting, access control, CCTV, energy management, and other building systems: ECLYPSE, which offers connected IP and Wi-Fi product series and many other building management products. Their IP-based solution, Eclypse awarded by Consulting-Specifying Engineer as 2015 top product.
- Mar 2013Series A$37M
#4
Public · Longueuil, Quebec · founded 2006 · 138 employees$21Mraised▾
SaaS-driven smart LED lighting products for commercial, institutional and urban environments. They develop proprietary technologies which enable auto-dimming, remote controlling, digital controls over AC power lines, temperature monitoring, lifetime prediction, and light cooling through air circulation. The lighting products can be used for indoor and outdoor applications. It offers lighting control electronics and a power supply system.
- Apr 2014Post IPO$337.7K
- Feb 2013Venture Debt—
- Feb 2013Series B$5M
- Aug 2011Series A$16M
#5
Acquired · Saint laurent, Quebec · founded 2008 · 70 employees$6Mraised▾
Verdant Environmental Technologies specializes in the energy management for the hospitality industry to reduce guest room heating and air-conditioning costs. Their patented thermostat technology modulates heating and cooling based on random occupancy patterns by using wireless networking to connect to remote management systems for increasing energy savings. Verdant’s EI energy management service maximises property’s energy savings through intelligent real-time automation that’s customized for property
- Jan 2019Conventional Debt$6M
#6
Acquired · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2018 · 25 employees—raised▾
AI-driven energy management and HPC solutions. The platform offers performance computing centers with energy recovery systems. It provides solutions for supercomputing and colocation.
- May 2023Seed—
#7
Seed · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2019—raised▾
Online AI interfaced roof inspection software for building owners. The platform offers tools for monitoring commercial rooftops and tools which allow monitoring of the snow load achieved on the roofs. It uses AI to analyze building structures using LIDAR images to model the weather safety factors.
- Jan 2023Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Energy Efficiency Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Energy Efficiency & Buildings is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Energy Efficiency & Buildings — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 750 Canada-affiliated papers.
- Toronto Metropolitan University120
- University of Waterloo51
- University of Alberta40
- Concordia University37
- Natural Resources Canada37
- Renewable energy1→18
- Energy management15→29
- Heat pump3→11
- Heat exchanger2→7
- Distributed generation2→6
- Heat pump55→124
- Heat exchanger14→36
- Thermal6→24
- Greenhouse gas2→17
- Air source heat pumps4→15
- Heat pump7→22
- Thermal energy storage1→5
- Borehole1→5
- Building envelope1→4
- Nuclear engineering1→4
Where energy efficiency 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 energy efficiency patents in Canada
Canada energy efficiency patent filing is accelerating — 185 filings from 162 assignees (2016–2025), led by Enersion, Hydro Quebec, Green Power LABS; annual filings 8→21.
- Enersion21
- Hydro Quebec18
- Green Power LABS14
- Venmar CES13
- Pratt & Whitney Canada11
- Nortek AIR Solutions Canada11
- Systemes LMP11
- HU LUNG TAN8
Common questions
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