Best HealthTech Companies in Edmonton, Canada
The 50 best HealthTech companies in Edmonton, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: DrugBank.
Our analysis of 71 HealthTech companies
$9.5b in tracked funding; 81% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best HealthTech companies in Edmonton
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DrugBank Drug database for life sciences and healthcare and clinical APIs | $9M | 51 mo ago | Seed | Craig Knox Co-Founder & CTO | 2006 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceRuby+29 | — | — |
| 2 | KemNet Provider of reformulated drugs for women's health | $125K | 49 mo ago | Seed | Morenike Eniola Olaosebikan Founder & CEO | 2022 | — | — | — |
| 3 | divethru Online platform connecting therapist for mental health conditions | $20K | 49 mo ago | Seed | Sophie Gray Founder & CEO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Softworks Group Cloud-based clinical documentation system | — | 5 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1990 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Adewunmi Skincare Online platform for the purchase of skincare products | — | — | Funding Raised | Ade Adegbonmire Founder | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 6 | AidRx AI driven platform offering solutions for patient centered care in the healthcare industry | — | — | Funding Raised | Tony Lee Founder & CEO | 2023 | — | — | — |
| 7 | ARBR Developer of software for cannabis strain recommendation | — | — | Deadpooled | Kit Poon Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Aris MD Augmented and virtual reality based solution for surgery | — | — | Unfunded | Chandra Devam CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
Top 4 HealthTech companies in Edmonton
#1
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2006 · 81 employees$9Mraised▾
The company offers drug databases for clinical and academic research. It also offers a clinical API software that provides decision support and analytics based on the database.
- Apr 2022Seed$9M
- Oct 2020Seed—
#2
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2022 · 2 employees$125Kraised▾
Operator of a health tech platform intended to supply pharmacies with premium reformulated medications of popular drugs for specific groups of patients. The company's platform provide pharmacies with products that are more useful for specific groups of patients than traditional drugs such as custom medications for erectile dysfunction, hair growth, pain, weight loss, and women's health, enabling users to help improve patient's healing experiences through customized medications.
#3
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2018 · 9 employees$20Kraised▾
Online platform connecting therapist for mental health conditions. It offers a matching tool to connect user to a therapist for virtual consultation, mental health courses, guided journaling exercise, mindfullness exercise, and articles.
- 2022Seed$20K
- Jun 2019Seed—
#4
Funding Raised · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 1990 · 8 employees—raised▾
Softworks Group is the developer of Synoptec, a cloud-based electronic synoptic reporting solution for surgeons, radiologists and pathologists.. The software solution replaces narrative transcription with template-based synoptic reports. The company claims synoptic reports improve report outcomes by reducing reporting errors and omissions which are the leading risk factors in medical liability.
- Mar 2026Unattributed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of HealthTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time flat
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Digital Health is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Digital Health — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 2,157 Canada-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Health313
- University of Toronto275
- McMaster University160
- University of British Columbia137
- McGill University114
- Health care3→42
- Health informatics3→37
- Public health2→22
- Wearable computer2→20
- Remote patient monitoring2→15
- Health care12→180
- Health informatics50→142
- Public health21→87
- Psychological intervention6→67
- Mental health2→51
- Health care44→291
- Public health42→196
- Health informatics99→246
- Nursing research47→147
- Health administration81→180
Where digital health 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 medical devices patents in Canada
Canada medical devices patent filing is cooling — 23,091 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by Medtronic Cryocath, Trudell Medical INT, UNIV Health Network; annual filings 2103→2001.
- Medtronic Cryocath802
- Trudell Medical INT750
- UNIV Health Network586
- Orthosoft473
- Kardium452
- Baylis Medical420
- Sunnybrook RES INST410
- Titan MED390
Common questions
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