Best Gaming Companies in Montreal, Canada
The 69 best Gaming companies in Montreal, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mino Games.
Our analysis of 180 Gaming companies
$26.0b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Gaming companies in Montreal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mino Games Developer of mobile-based casual games | $48M | 40 mo ago | Series B | Sasha Mackinnon Co-Founder & CEO | 2011 | WebflowMailgunGoogle Workspace+6 | — |
| 2 | GetReady Game development engine for game developers | $8M | 82 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 3 | Edgegap Solution provider for gamers & developers to improve their gaming experiences | $8M | 55 mo ago | Series A | Mathieu Duperre Founder & CEO | 2018 | Framer SitesReactPostHog+11 | 1 launch |
| 4 | Hibernum Game and application development studio | $5M | 139 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2005 | — | — |
| 5 | Gamerizon Mobile game development studio | $5M | 177 mo ago | Deadpooled | Alex Sakiz President & CEO | 2008 | — | — |
| 6 | Audiokinetic Audio middleware for the game developers | $5M | 225 mo ago | Acquired | Simon Ashby Head of Product - Co-founder | 2000 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceMUI+21 | — |
| 7 | Psychedelic Games Developer of a multiplayer online battle arena game with heroes | $4M | 6 mo ago | Series A | Mason Richman Co-Founder & COO | 2021 | — | — |
| 8 | Tiny Digital Factory Online mobile game developer | $3M | 41 mo ago | Seed | Stephane Baudet Founder & CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 9 | BR1 Developer of PC and console-based shooter games | $3M | 40 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | UbuntuTailwind CSSNginx+8 | — |
| 10 | Breaking Walls Console game developer specializing in core games | $2M | 74 mo ago | Seed | Nathanael Dufour Co-Founder | 2015 | — | 2 launchs |
| 11 | rob0 AI enabled analytics solutions provider for video games | $714K | 73 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Annick Laporte Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 12 | Typhoon Studios Independent game developer based in Canada | $225K | 105 mo ago | Acquired | Reid Schneider Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
Top 12 Gaming companies in Montreal
#1
Series A · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2021$3.5Mraised▾
Developer of a multiplayer online battle arena game with heroes. The game features ship combat, treasure hunting, and team-based battles. Players can select heroes with distinct styles and roles. The game offers a free-to-play experience with matches lasting approximately twenty minutes.
- Dec 2025Series A$3.5M
#2
Series B · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2011 · 68 employees$48.5Mraised▾
Developer of mobile-based casual games. The games developed by the company include Dog Game, mino monsters, and The Cats Collector. The games are available for iOS and android platforms. It generates revenue through advertisements and in-app purchases.
- Feb 2023Series B$15M
- Jul 2019Series B$30M
- Oct 2015Series A$2.2M
- Nov 2011Seed$1M
#3
Series A · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2018 · 23 employees$8Mraised▾
Solution provider for gamers & developers to improve their gaming experiences. The company provides various solutions including real-time lagging, gaming servers, reliable infrastructure, and smart matchmaker, and more.
- Nov 2021Series A$7M
- Dec 2019Seed$1M
#4
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2021 · 18 employees$3Mraised▾
Developer of PC and console-based shooter games. It offers Infinite Royale game which is survivalist gameplay based on blockchain technology that evolves into an all-out urban battleground.
- Feb 2023Seed—
- Jul 2022Seed$3M
#5
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2015 · 40 employees$3.2Mraised▾
The Tiny Digital Factory is an online mobile game developer. The company specializes in developing simulation & racing games. Some of the games developed by the company include RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch, F1 Mobile Racing & Shell Racing Legends, etc. These games are available on Android & iOS platform. It generates revenue through in-app purchases.
- Jan 2023Seed$3.2M
#6
Series A · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2016$8Mraised▾
Ready Makers is a game development engine for game developers. It enables gamers to develop and publish their mobile games for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms without writing gaming code.
- Aug 2019Series A$5M
- Oct 2017Series A$3M
#7
Deadpooled · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2005 · 143 employees$5Mraised▾
Hibernum is a Canada-based game and application development company. The company has developed multiple games including "Magic Puzzle Quest" (a puzzle video game for Android and iOS devices), "Porta Pilots"( kids interactive game for Android and iOS devices), and "Trans-Galactic Tournament" (a MOBA game for PlayStation devices). The games are available on Google Play store, Apple Store and PlayStation Store. Have clients like Cartoon Network, Disney, Eidos, Halfbrick, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE), and Wooga. It generates revenue through in-app purchases.
- Nov 2014Series A$5M
#8
Deadpooled · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2008$5Mraised▾
Founded in 2008, Gamerizon is a mobile game development studio famous for the "Chop Chop" series of games. Focused on iOS platform, the company has developed 9 different games with 17 million downloads reportedly. The company was closed in 2014.
- Sep 2011Series A$5M
#9
Acquired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2000 · 50 employees$5Mraised▾
Audiokinetic is an interactive audio solution provider based in Canada. It has developed "Wwise" and "SoundSeed" that helps in the audio development process for games. Supports major game engines such as Unity, Unreal, Cry Engine, and Marmalade. Has also developed product "Wwise VR" for 3d sound in VR games developed for Oculus Rift and Playstation VR.
- Sep 2007Series A$5M
#10
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2015 · 10 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Breaking walls is a console game developer. It specializes in developing core games. It has developed a VR game named Away. It is an animal survival game.
- Apr 2020Seed$1.8M
- Jul 2019Seed$103.4K
#11
Acqui-Hired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2018$714Kraised▾
Rob0 is an AI-powered video analytics solution for video game developers. It offers plug & play SaaS solutions. It provides details like when and why players leave playing the game. It provides video game data and insights that result in the optimization of products and maximize revenues.
- May 2020Seed$714K
#12
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2023$20Kraised▾
Developer of AI based non-player character behaviors in video games. It is an AI middleware company that uses machine learning to simplify and accelerate the production of non-player character behaviors in video games.
- 2023Seed$20K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Gaming coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Gaming Technology is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Gaming Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 92 Canada-affiliated papers.
- University of Toronto9
- University of Waterloo9
- Carleton University8
- McGill University6
- Advanced Micro Devices6
- Rendering (computer graphics)9→13
- Computer vision1→5
- Real-time rendering3→7
- Virtual reality2→6
- Computer graphics (images)7→8
- Rendering (computer graphics)17
- Computer graphics (images)13
- Real-time rendering11
- Game engine8
- Human–computer interaction7
- Rendering (computer graphics)3
- Image-based modeling and rendering2
- Real-time rendering2
- Architecture2
- Game engine2
Where gaming tech 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 gaming tech patents in Canada
Canada gaming tech patent filing is accelerating — 19 filings from 8 assignees (2016–2025), led by ATI Technologies ULC, Kinematicsoup TECH, Advanced Micro Devices; annual filings 1→6.
- ATI Technologies ULC10
- Kinematicsoup TECH5
- Advanced Micro Devices4
- YU CHUN HUNG2
- LI LI1
- YU Chunhung1
- PANG SHUO1
- ZHOU Jiehan1
Common questions
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