Best GovTech Companies in British Columbia, Canada
The 35 best GovTech companies in British Columbia, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MediaValet.
Ranked: Best GovTech companies in British Columbia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MediaValet Cloud-based digital asset management | $28M | 44 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1993 | WordPress Block EditorUnbounceWordPress+41 | — |
| 2 | Clariti Developer of software for government permitting and community development solutions | $27M | 26 mo ago | Series A | Unni Padma Sukumaran Founder & Ceo | 2006 | WordPressHubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud Mail+34 | — |
| 3 | First Responder Technologies Provider cloud & AI-based weapons detection systems | $3M | 42 mo ago | Public | Robert Delamar CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 4 | BasicGov Provider of SaaS-based platform for basic government tasks | $2M | 90 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2010 | — | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 5 | iCompass Tech Meeting and records management for government agencies | $1M | 126 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1999 | WordPressMySQLSalesforce+35 | — |
| 6 | UrbanLogiq Machine learning based analytics for city planners | $50K | 104 mo ago | Seed | Herman Chandi Co-Founder | 2016 | WordPress Block EditorUnbouncewpBakery+40 | — |
| 7 | Syscon Justice Systems Offender management software. | — | 149 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1981 | — | — |
| 8 | Envisio SaaS software for Strategy management and project tracking | — | 152 mo ago | Seed | Cara Ong Co-founder and Chief Product Officer | 2011 | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+30 | — |
Top 8 GovTech companies in British Columbia
#1
Series A · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2006$26.6Mraised▾
Developer of software for government permitting and community development solutions. The software provides a framework of ready-to-go processes. It allows local governments to make the system their own. The software is configurable, easy to use, and serves as a one-stop-shop.
- Jul 2024Conventional Debt$10M
- Apr 2024Series A$24.6M
- Jun 2022Venture Debt—
- Mar 2019Seed$2M
#2
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1993 · 98 employees$27.8Mraised▾
MediaValet (formerly VRX Worldwide) develops and delivers cloud-based digital asset management software, built entirely on Microsoft Azure. Features include one single library in the cloud, available on hyper-scalable Microsoft data centers, control of assets and user rights, triple redundancy & geo-replication, sort, search and filter assets based on different criterion. In addition, it offers features such as search media assets; a preview & detailed view of photos, videos, graphics; upload, and sharing & download. It primarily serves companies in multiple industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, resource, high-tech, agricultural, consulting, consumer, travel, and hospitality industries. Clients include City of Surrey, City of Gresham Oregon, County of Placer, and Central Coast Council.
- Jan 2023Post IPO$2.6M
- Oct 2020Post IPO$11.5M
- Sep 2019Post IPO$3.5M
- Apr 2019Post IPO$1.6M
#3
Public · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2017$3.3Mraised▾
Provider cloud & AI-based weapons detection systems. The product offers a wi-fi concealed weapon detection technology. The features of the product include wave penetration, attack prevention, threat detection, and response. It also provides warnings of a potential active shooter on-premises. The company has developed the world's first Wi-Fi-based walkthrough metal detection device. The founder is a serial entrepreneur. It also provides AI-based open-carry weapon detection systems & cloud-based threat management systems.
- Mar 2023Post IPO$595K
- Oct 2021Post IPO$74.7K
- Oct 2020Post IPO$753.4K
- Mar 2020Post IPO$1.9M
#4
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2010 · 104 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS-based platform for basic government tasks. The platform offers a suite of web-based software that includes permits, inspections, code enforcement, licensing, planning, and a citizen portal.
- Mar 2019Seed$2M
- Oct 2010Angel$450K
#5
Acquired · Kamloops, British Columbia · founded 1999 · 16 employees$1.2Mraised▾
iCompass Tech provides meeting and management tools for small and medium-sized local governments. Tools are designed to automate manual tasks in meeting and records cycle. Agenda Manager, Records Manager, and Meeting Manager are the products available for free and subscription based. Also, provides a civic web portal for public to access the functioning of city hall. Pricing starts at $125 per month for Agenda manager and $365 per month for records manager. Claims that 400 agencies are customers. Some of them include City of Paducah and City of St.Francis.
- Mar 2016Unattributed$1.2M
#6
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2016 · 29 employees$50Kraised▾
UrbanLogiq platform integrates datasets from the government data sources, adds public, private and Internet data sources, and applies analytics and machine-learning algorithms to make city planning faster, cheaper and more accurate. Its product for Economic Development provides insights into industry sector and business changes occurring in user targeted regions. Its Traffic analytics platform provides instant analysis on all historical and real-time traffic count data for transportation and traffic planners.
- Jan 2018Seed$50K
- Feb 2017Seed—
#7
Acquired · Richmond, British Columbia · founded 1981 · 152 employees—raised▾
Syscon justice systems offers software for offender management, jails, and corrections management through its Elite suite of software. Elite Jail is for managing county jails, Elite Prisons is for managing state jails. Elite Community is a case management, parole, and probation software.Elite Financial is the software to manage finances of offenders providing solutions for managing debts, fines, restitutions, and bills among others. Claims to have customers across six countries and 15 states across the U.S. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and National Offender Management Service in England are among the customers
- Apr 2014Venture Debt—
#8
Seed · Richmond, British Columbia · founded 2011 · 41 employees—raised▾
Envisio offers a cloud-based strategic plan implementation, performance management, and reporting software to help Government and Educational institutions. Product features include Cascade planning with customizable hierarchies, labels and performance measures, visualization dashboards drilled down to individual stakeholder level, custom report generation and performance tracking, cross-departmental collaboration in addition to automated notifications and reminders. Also offers a community dashboard to enable data democratization to promote transparency. Clients include Educational institutions and local government agencies across the US and Canada.
- Jan 2014Seed—
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