Best Healthcare IT Companies in Montreal, Canada
The 61 best Healthcare IT companies in Montreal, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MEDFAR International.
Our analysis of 50 Healthcare IT companies
$2.3b in tracked funding; 76% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Healthcare IT companies in Montreal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MEDFAR International Cloud-based clinical practice management system for providers 76Tech top 26%Funding top 28%Market top 37%Talent top 38% All 8 signals ▾Techtop 26% Fundingtop 28% Markettop 37% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% AItop 45% Globalbottom 32% Newsbottom 22% Tech: 54 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Azure, Cloudflare Funding: Raised $41.9M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $42M | 42 mo ago | Late Stage | Patrick Issid Co-Founder | 2010 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | — | — |
| 2 | Optina Diagnostics Developer of eye-scanning devices for Alzheimer's disease | $24M | 53 mo ago | Series A | David LaPointe CEO | 2011 | — | 32 patents Advanced multispectral retinal imaging and AI-driven biomarker detection for eye diagnostics | — |
| 3 | Extenway Solutions Provider of patient engagement platform for healthcare organizations | $23M | 120 mo ago | Deadpooled | John Mcallister CEO & President | 2005 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Emovi Developer of a knee assessment device | $11M | 88 mo ago | Series C | Michelle Laflamme CEO & President | 2007 | — | 23 patents Personalized orthopedic surgery planning using 3D kinematic imaging and simulation | — |
| 5 | Aerial AI-powered WiFi motion intelligence solutions for elder care, smart homes, and security applications | $7M | 76 mo ago | Seed | Michel Allegue Co-Founder & CTO | 2015 | Apache HTTP ServerAmazon Web ServicesLodash+10 | — | — |
| 6 | Jintronix Motion tracking based therapy for MSK | $7M | 136 mo ago | Series A | — | 2010 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 7 | Pathway Provider of guidance tools for healthcare providers 35Customers top 14%Tech top 34%Product top 42%Moat top 42% All 12 signals ▾Customerstop 14% Techtop 34% Producttop 42% Moattop 42% Fundingtop 43% Talentbottom 49% Newsbottom 46% Patentsbottom 44% Innovationbottom 41% Globalbottom 40% Growthbottom 35% Marketbottom 32% Customers: App rating 4.5★ (201 reviews) · Review volume +55% in 6 mo Tech: 28 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $6M | 31 mo ago | Acquired | Jon Hershon Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | SentryZendeskNode.js+25 | 11 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 8 | Aifred Health AI-driven clinical decision support tools for personalized treatment in mental health | $4M | 66 mo ago | Seed | Robert Fratila Co-Founder & VP of AI | 2016 | — | 11 patents AI-powered clinical decision support for mental health treatment selection and data integration | — |
| 9 | ORO Health Provider of an AI-based telehealth and communication platform for healthcare professionals and patients | $2M | 58 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 10 | GrayOS Cloud-based patient-flow management tool for healthcare professionals | $1M | 59 mo ago | Seed | Andre Diamant CEO & Founder | 2018 | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 11 | Leap Medical A non-invasive device to detect brain injuries and infections | $1M | 195 mo ago | Deadpooled | Victor Lanzo Co-Founder & CEO | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 12 | SensAura Tech Multimodal emotion recognition platform using physiological data from wearables | $500K | 136 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jean-Philip Poulin Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Object Research Systems 3D visualization and analysis solutions | $200K | 192 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2004 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Healthcare IT companies in Montreal
#1
Acquired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2020 · 14 employees$6.3Mraised▾
Provider of guidance tools for healthcare providers. The app provides reference tools that give doctors access to guideline summaries, mobile-friendly interactive algorithms, clinical calculators, landmark trials, and more. It provides patient and case specific guidance. It provides rapid, evidence based answers to clinical questions by summarizing medical guidelines, offering interactive diagnostic algorithms, and integrating drug information, dosing, and study data.
- Nov 2023Seed$5M
- Oct 2021Seed$1.3M
#2
Late Stage · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2010 · 300 employees$41.9Mraised▾
Cloud-based clinical practice management system for providers. The company offers patient records, minimizing the administrative burden, and helping the medical team to build a successful relationship with its patients. It helps in managing patient demographics and electronic medical records, appointments and scheduling, billing, medications, prescriptions records, diagnostic imaging, and lab results.
- Dec 2022PE$22.2M
- Feb 2021PE$19.8M
#3
Series A · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2011 · 42 employees$23.7Mraised▾
Developer of ocular imaging systems and diagnostic technology designed to help detect key biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. The company's imaging systems detect age-related macular degeneration and ocular diabetic retinopathy and identify beta-amyloid plaques, enabling doctors to detect and treat the cause of memory loss through a simple eye exam.
#4
Deadpooled · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2005 · 37 employees$22.9Mraised▾
Provider of patient engagement platform for healthcare organizations. The company has designed a digital platform called myHealthHub that supports needs and entertainment along with clinicians' needs. The software assist clinicians and healthacre professionals with patient management and care. The platform provides patients with medical information, entertainment and medical solutions. The company provides an app-based platform for clinicians access to patients' needs and communication. Patients are allowed to order meals, ask for requests, and more. Clinicians can look into bed and patient flow management, discharge reports of a patient, and more.
- Jun 2016Post IPO$800K
- Jun 2016Conventional Debt$800K
- Mar 2015Post IPO$2.9M
- Mar 2015Conventional Debt$9.4M
#5
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2015 · 28 employees$6.8Mraised▾
AI-powered WiFi motion intelligence solutions for elder care, smart homes, and security applications. The company leverages existing WiFi infrastructure to detect human presence, activity, sleep patterns, and environmental changes without additional hardware like cameras or wearables. Their technology analyzes WiFi signal distortions using advanced AI models to provide non-invasive monitoring.
- Feb 2020Seed—
- Nov 2018Seed$3M
- Feb 2018Seed$1.5M
- Jul 2017Seed$1.7M
#6
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2016 · 26 employees$4.4Mraised▾
AI-driven clinical decision support tools for personalized treatment in mental health. The platform predicts remission probabilities for medications based on patient data, addressing trial-and-error prescribing where of patients fail initial treatments.
- Dec 2020Seed$4M
- Aug 2019Seed$368.4K
#7
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2020 · 18 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-based telehealth and communication platform for healthcare professionals and patients. The company has developed a digital platform that allows patients and doctors to connect with each other. The system has features for medical imaging, patient monitoring, scheduling, AI diagnosis, and more.
- Aug 2021Conventional Debt—
- Aug 2021Seed$2.4M
#8
Series C · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2007 · 38 employees$11.3Mraised▾
KneeKG has developed a knee assessment device. The KneeKG device is used for providing the data and insight on the movement of the knee joints, biochemical markers, gait impairment or alteration and cause of the knee pain. Based on the knee kinematics, data-driven, personalized therapies are provided.
- Mar 2019Series C$11.3M
- Mar 2019Conventional Debt$3.8M
#9
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2018 · 9 employees$1Mraised▾
Cloud-based patient-flow management tool for healthcare professionals. The company has developed software that assists with patient health management and operational data. It has features for scheduling, prediction, real-time optimization, a patient engagement portal, and automated treatment planning solutions.
- Aug 2021Seed$1M
#10
Series A · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2010 · 11 employees$6.7Mraised▾
Jintronix is a medical software company, which offers an online platform for physical and cognitive rehabilitation. Offers motion tracking technology to create engaging therapy experiences, while also providing remote monitoring and management tools for clinicians. Claims that the company's software can capture 25 joints on the human body at a rate of 30 times per second, all in a 3D space using the new Kinect for Windows v2 sensor. The company combines evidence-based treatments, virtual games, and motion tracking sensors to offer a fun and effective tool for physical rehabilitation. Currently works with 70 clinics. The company has offices in Seattle and Montreal.
- Feb 2015Series A$5M
- Jul 2014Series A$1.2M
- Oct 2012Seed$486.3K
#11
Deadpooled · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2008$1Mraised▾
Leap Medical, a McGill University spin-off, is is developing a photonic technology based non-invasive device to detect brain injuries and infections.
- Mar 2010Seed$1M
#12
Deadpooled · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2014 · 4 employees$500Kraised▾
SensAura is a real-time emotion recognition PaaS using one or multiple biosignal modalities. It can be linked to any wearable devices on the market that include at least one biosignal sensor. The machine-learning-enabled software converts biometric signals (heart rate and skin conductivity) into excitement and affability coordinates, which can be translated into emotions. Claim to leverage novel AI methods and new modalities in their solution which is able to accurately predict a user’s emotions and has ability to adapt with time. Not focusing on a specific field of application and offering the software as a platform to link compatible wearable devices for potential real-life applications
- Feb 2015Seed$500K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Healthcare IT coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Montreal researches in digital health
Montreal's institutions—led by Montreal Children's Hospital and the Neurological Institute—research digital mental health interventions and patient monitoring technologies with a cautiously optimistic yet contested tone (mean stance 0.17, concerns nearly matching advancements).
- Montreal Children\'s Hospital4
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital3
- Montreal Police Service2
- Montreal Heart Institute2
- Montreal Clinical Research Institute2
Common questions
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