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Best Healthcare IT Companies in Ottawa, Canada

The 36 best Healthcare IT companies in Ottawa, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Entrada.

36companies tracked
$19.4Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
10have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · HEALTHCARE IT × OTTAWA

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.

50companies analysed
76%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
1unicorns
2016median founding year

Ranked: Best Healthcare IT companies in Ottawa

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Entrada
Physician productivity Solution Provider for EHR adoption
$7M146 mo agoAcquired—2010———
2Welbi
App-based elder care planning and management platform for providers
$6M50 mo agoSeed—2016WebflowLeadfeederZoominfo+19——
3Privacy Analytics
De-identification solution for healthcare organizations
$4M145 mo agoAcquiredKhaled El Emam
CEO
2007WordPressBugHerdMySQL+2980 patents
Machine learning‑driven privacy‑preserving data anonymization and transformation for regulatory compliance
—
4Aetonix
Care co-ordination platform for seniors and people with special needs
$1M105 mo agoAcquired—2014WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+17——
5Realize Medical
Developer of VR platform for creating 3D medical models
10Talent bottom 49%Funding bottom 43%Global bottom 32%Market bottom 24%
All 4 signals ▾
Talentbottom 49%
Fundingbottom 43%
Globalbottom 32%
Marketbottom 24%
Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Funding: Raised $1.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 6 yrs (0.5/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 10/100
$1M21 mo agoSeedJustin Sutherland
Co-Founder & CEO
2019——2 job openings
6Vaultt
Provider of software solutions to manage personal health information
$50K69 mo agoFunding RaisedAudrey Bond
Founder & CEO
2018———
7Treehouse
Online platform to find caregiver for pregnancy care
$30K65 mo agoSeedJulia Slanina
Founder & CEO
2019———
8Symbi Medical
Provider of remote patient education software solutions for endoscopic clinicals
$25K71 mo agoAcquiredCameron Sehl
Co-Founder & CEO
2018———

Top 11 Healthcare IT companies in Ottawa

#1
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2019 · 10 employees
$1Mraised
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Realize Medical is a developer of a VR platform for creating 3D medical models. It provides a medical image viewing, modeling, and communication platform. It can be used for the benefit of health care professionals and patients.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 10how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
bottom 49%
Funding
bottom 43%
Global
bottom 32%
Market
bottom 24%
Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Funding: Raised $1.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 6 yrs (0.5/yr) · Last round Seed (Dec 2024)
Global: Single-market focus (Canada)
Audience (LinkedIn): 4k LinkedIn followers — 17.6% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Quality Assurance Test Lead, clinical applications superstar
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2024Seed$195.5K
  • Apr 2021Seed$1M
  • Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$17.5K
Founders & team
Justin SutherlandCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Capital Angels Network, Maple Leaf Angels, York Angel Investors, Leva Capital
#2
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2016 · 26 employees
$6Mraised
▾

App-based elder care planning and management platform for providers. The company provides users the insights regarding their health using data from different fitness wearables. The app helps a user to keep a track of all the family members via a single platform. The app monitors and analyzes daily activities, sleep quality, heart rate, and weight and notifies the user in case of discrepancy. The app allows users to share weekly and monthly reports to help healthcare professionals.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 11.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2022Seed$2.3M
  • 2020Seed$1.3M
  • Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$50K
  • May 2017Seed—
Investors
Startup Garage, Ontario Brain Institute, Graphite Ventures, MaRS IAF, SoGal Ventures, Roach Capital
Tech stack
WebflowCloudflareJqueryGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle AnalyticsCdnjs
#3
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2010 · 59 employees
$7.1Mraised
▾

Entrada’s workflow solution protects physician productivity before, during and after the transition to an EHR system. Entrada’s mobile documentation solution facilitates adoption and use of EHRs by integration with all major EHRs. Entrada also provides speech-to-text documentation using ExpressNote technology,which after back-end processing and editing, inserts the finished narrative directly into individual text fields within EHR templates. Also allows to capture patient images and sync with EHR. $5M revenue in mid 2013.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2014Series A$750K
  • Nov 2013Series A$1.1M
  • Oct 2012Series A$1.2M
  • Aug 2011Series A$1M
Investors
Clayton Associates, Claritas Capital, Escalate Capital Partners, Vformation
#4
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2007 · 99 employees
$4Mraised
▾

Privacy Analytics allows healthcare organizations to apply a de-identification methodology to ensure patient privacy and legal compliance. Healthcare organizations can use the anonymized data for secondary purposes without compromising personal health information. Software offered: Privacy Analytics CORE, combines de-identification and masking capabilities; and Privacy Analytics TEXT, enables use of unstructured data for secondary with privacy safeguard.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 15.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2014Seed$3.5M
  • Nov 2012Seed—
  • Sep 2012Seed$516.7K
  • Oct 2010Seed—
Founders & team
Khaled El EmamCEO
Investors
Vanedge Capital, BDC, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, MaRS IAF, Capital Angels Network
Tech stack
BootstrapBugherdCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#5
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2014 · 8 employees
$1.2Mraised
▾

Aetonix is the developer of aTouchAway, an online health communications platform for aging parents, nurses, doctors, and caregivers. The platform enables users to manage coordinated care plans & long-term care. The company also offers an optional personal emergency bracelet that is integrated with aTouchAway platform. The bracelet alerts caregiver or relatives for things like wandering outside “safe zones”, potential falls, or missed appointments.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 33.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2017Seed$1.2M
Investors
Ontario Canada, Invest Ottawa, Ontario Centre of Innovation
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerApple Icloud MailBunnyCore-JsGoogle Analytics
#6
Funding Raised · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2018 · 6 employees
$50Kraised
▾

Vaultt Inc is a provider of software solutions to manage personal health information. It provides a mobile app that allows users to upload prescriptions, test results, family birth dates, passport info, blood types, and other medical information for easy access anytime. Users can also store bank information, pet information, vehicle information, legal documents, business documents, and many more. The app enables users to communicate with healthcare providers for multiple health disorders.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$50K
Founders & team
Audrey BondFounder & CEO
Investors
SheBoot, Invest Ottawa, Capital Angels Network
#7
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2019 · 10 employees
$30Kraised
▾

Developer of a healthcare technology platform designed to offer pregnancy, prenatal and postpartum care services. The company's technology platform allows users to integrate with existing EHR systems and securely message with collaborative charting, multi-way video conference, patient management and share educational resources and webinars, enabling family healthcare providers to serve the needs of mothers and families in the maternal and children's health space.

Founders & team
Julia SlaninaFounder & CEO
#8
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2018 · 7 employees
$25Kraised
▾

Symbi offers software solutions that assist in the remote monitoring and education of patients for their endoscopic treatment. The tool provides information on pre-endoscopic steps for the patients to follow. It provides texts regarding instructions for the patients to follow before coming for the endoscopic test. The information provided to the patient can be in a text, video, or picture form. It educates the patient regarding the steps and instruction as a prep reminder for them to follow.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Seed$25K
Founders & team
Cameron SehlCo-Founder & CEODevin McArthurCo-Founder & CTOMax JenningsCo-Founder & COO
Investors
Innovacorp
#9
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2012 · 27 employees
—raised
▾

Developer of SaaS Learning Management tools designed to treat autistic diseases. The company's software is designed to run on an ABA clinic combining curriculum, electronic medical records, and data collection, enabling the autism and developmental delay clinical-care market to deploy best practices in their businesses to improve productivity, consistency of care, and clinic capacity.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 5.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2017Seed—
Founders & team
Paul McarthurFounder
Investors
L-Spark
#10
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2009 · 25 employees
—raised
▾

Cloud-based collaborative platforms for providers. The company offers workflow management solutions for family and specialty clinics. Its solutions include appointment reminders through voice reminders, email and text, customizable templates, email attachments, and text to speech or recorded voice, patient education solutions, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 5.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2016Seed—
  • 2016Seed—
Investors
Capital Angels Network, Wesley Clover, Calian, L-Spark, Infinite Ventures, Alacrity
Tech stack
ActivecampaignAll In One SeoAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesBootstrapCalendly
#11
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2007 · 4 employees
—raised
▾

Therapeutic Monitoring Systems is developing clinical decision support software for use in critical care medicine. The company's CIMVA software platform will be used by physicians nurses in the hospital ICU and emergency department. CIMVA software integrates with critical care monitors to analyze patient vital signs, offering insights into a patient’s health status currently unavailable. CIMVA software can be used on browser-enabled central viewing stations or mobile devices.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2011Seed—
Investors
MaRS Discovery District, Genesys Capital, Hot Towel Strategies
Tech stack
FirebaseHstsHttp/3

Funding & investor landscape

$19.4Mtotal disclosed funding
8companies funded
16disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Capital Angels Network4 rounds
Invest Ottawa3 rounds
L-Spark2 rounds
MaRS IAF2 rounds
Ontario Centre of Innovation2 rounds
Alacrity1 rounds
BDC1 rounds
Calian1 rounds
Claritas Capital1 rounds
Clayton Associates1 rounds

Notable founders

Justin Sutherland
Co-Founder & CEO · Realize Medical
Khaled El Emam
CEO · Privacy Analytics
Audrey Bond
Founder & CEO · Vaultt
Julia Slanina
Founder & CEO · Treehouse
Cameron Sehl
Co-Founder & CEO · Symbi Medical
Devin McArthur
Co-Founder & CTO · Symbi Medical
Paul Mcarthur
Founder · Portia
Prism market signals · Canada · country-scoped Prism corpus, 282,532 docs

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

RESEARCH IN OTTAWA · Health & Bio

How research on Digital Health in Ottawa is moving

A read on the academic research around Digital Health in Ottawa — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 148 papers.

148 papers · stance +0.10 · 9% breakthrough · 55% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
top institutions
  • University of Ottawa99
  • Ottawa Hospital69
  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute37
  • Ottawa University6
  • Ottawa Public Health4
leading researchers
Jeremy Grimshaw · Ian D. Graham · Dawn Stacey · Jill Francis · Heather Colquhoun · Andrea M. Patey
prism intelligence · tone & topics
82% positive · 9% critical tone
HealthcareBusinessPublic HealthMental HealthPolicyGovernment
▲ Breakthroughs11 · 7%
▲ 0%→10% share
5 median citations82% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→10% of field), led by Health informatics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Health informatics4
  • Health services research3
  • Health administration3
  • Health care3
  • Public health2
Newly emergingHealth care 0→3 · Health informatics 0→3
Landmark Moving knowledge into action for more effective practice, programmes and policy: protocol for a research programme on in · 362 cites
◆ Advancements44 · 30%
▼ 33%→27% share
▼0.8× share momentum22 median citations57% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (33%→27% of field), led by Psychological intervention.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Psychological intervention1→7
  • Health care1→6
Newly emergingNursing research 0→5 · MEDLINE 0→3 · Primary care 0→3
Landmark A guide to using the Theoretical Domains Framework of behaviour change to investigate implementation problems · 3,794 cites
▼ Concerns68 · 46%
▼ 54%→44% share
▼0.8× share momentum8 median citations59% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (54%→44% of field), led by Public health.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Public health5→13
  • Health care4→11
  • Health informatics13→15
  • Nursing research5→7
  • Health administration11→12
Newly emergingMental health 0→5 · Qualitative research 0→5 · Primary care 0→4
Landmark Healthcare professionals' intentions and behaviours: A systematic review of studies based on social cognitive theories · 1,139 cites

Common questions

How many Healthcare IT companies are there in Ottawa, Canada?
Radar tracks 36 indexable Healthcare IT companies headquartered in Ottawa, Canada that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Healthcare IT companies in Ottawa, Canada?
The Healthcare IT companies in Ottawa, Canada on this list have raised a combined $19.4M in disclosed equity funding across 8 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Healthcare IT company in Ottawa, Canada?
Entrada is the highest-funded Healthcare IT company in Ottawa, Canada, with $7.1M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Healthcare IT companies in Ottawa, Canada are funded?
8 of the 36 Healthcare IT companies in Ottawa, Canada on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Healthcare IT unicorns are there in Ottawa, Canada?
None of the Healthcare IT companies in Ottawa, Canada on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Ottawa, Canada Healthcare IT companies?
The most active investors in Ottawa, Canada Healthcare IT companies on this list include Capital Angels Network, Invest Ottawa, L-Spark, MaRS IAF, Ontario Centre of Innovation.
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