Best High Tech Companies in Edmonton, Canada
The 55 best High Tech companies in Edmonton, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Drivewyze.
Our analysis of 81 High Tech companies
$6.8b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Edmonton
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Employees | Last round | Stage | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GeoVerra Geomatics firm providing mapping solutions | — | 308 | — | Unfunded | Mitch Ettinger CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+28 | — | 1 job opening |
| 2 | Fluent Home Provider of smart home security, automation, and energy management solutions | $30M | 189 | 148 mo ago | Funding Raised | Graham Wood Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — | — |
| 3 | Drivewyze Provider of software solutions for weigh station alerts and bypass systems for truckers | $100M | 173 | 72 mo ago | Acquired | — | WordPressBetterDocsSentry+31 | 5 patents Real-time vehicle traffic management and electronic toll transponder systems. | — |
| 4 | Liberty Security Provider of smart home security and business alarm systems | — | 133 | — | Unfunded | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
| 5 | Nanoprecise Provider of AI-based predictive maintenance solutions for industrial equipment 62Innovation top 23%Talent top 28%Product top 29%AI top 30% All 12 signals ▾Innovationtop 23% Talenttop 28% Producttop 29% AItop 30% Fundingtop 39% Moattop 39% Techtop 42% Growthtop 45% Globalbottom 43% Marketbottom 41% Fin. healthbottom 31% Newsbottom 18% Innovation: 12 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence, Tech Hardware Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $10M | 73 73 → 97 (+33%) | 15 mo ago | Series C | Sunil Vedula Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+19 | — | 1 launch |
| 6 | Wyvern Provider of high-resolution hyperspectral imagery data and open data programs 55Tech top 27%Talent top 28%Funding top 34%Growth bottom 47% All 7 signals ▾Techtop 27% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 34% Growthbottom 47% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 20% Tech: 54 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Fastly Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $12M | 63 | 4 mo ago | Seed | Callie Lissinna Co-Founder & Vice President of Strategic Relations | WordPressMySQLPHP+39 | — | — |
| 7 | Serious Labs Virtual reality solutions for workforce training | $5M | 55 | 107 mo ago | Series A | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
| 8 | Entos Pharmaceuticals Provider of nanotech-based drug delivery solutions | $100K | 41 | 13 mo ago | Series A | — | GoDaddy Website BuilderGoogle MapsReact+11 | 53 patents Oncolytic viral therapies and SARS‑CoV‑2 nucleic‑acid vaccine platforms | 1 partnership |
| 9 | Interface Fluidics Provider of a nanotech-enabled simulation and modelling platform | $11M | 36 | 56 mo ago | Series B | Stuart Kinnear Co-Founder and CEO | — | 45 patents Microfluidic chip platforms for precise fluid property measurement and oil‑solvent interaction analysis | 1 launch |
| 10 | Tensor Graph AI powered conversational platform for enterprises | — | 22 | — | Unfunded | Wessam Gad El Rab Founder | — | — | — |
| 11 | Quantiam Technologies Advanced & nanomaterials coatings based energy intensive applications | $9M | 20 | 92 mo ago | Series A | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | AQM Developer of silicon quantum dots and nanomaterials for various applications | — | 13 | — | Unfunded | David Antoniuk Chief Executive Officer | Cart FunctionalityWixSentry+13 | — | — |
| 13 | Direct-C Provider of nano-based leak detection and monitoring solution for oil and gas industries | $5M | 11 | 47 mo ago | Series A | Kaushik Parmar Co-Founder | — | 19 patents Hydrocarbon leak detection sensors using 3D carbon microstructure nanocomposites | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Edmonton
#1
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2018 · 63 employees$11.6Mraised▾
Provider of high-resolution hyperspectral imagery data and open data programs. The company focuses on delivering analysis-ready format imagery for use in geospatial environments. It offers access to hyperspectral imagery through its open data program. The business model centers on providing reliable and affordable data.
- Feb 2026Seed—
- Oct 2024Seed$6M
- Nov 2022Seed$7M
- 2022Seed—
#2
Series C · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2015 · 73 employees$10Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based predictive maintenance solutions for industrial equipment. It offers wireless IoT sensors and software platforms that monitor machine health parameters including vibration, temperature, acoustics, RPM, humidity, and magnetic flux. The solutions provide prescriptive insights to predict failures, optimize energy use, and extend asset life. MachineDoctor sensors enable real-time data collection and analysis via cloud-based AI for condition monitoring across rotating machinery.
- Mar 2025Series C$38M
- Mar 2025Conventional Debt—
- Oct 2023Conventional Debt$3.5M
- Jan 2023Series B$10M
#3
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2023$16Mraised▾
Developer of a behavior engine for creating intelligent game agents. The engine uses foundation models to enable game systems to become autonomous agents. This allows for expressive characters, dynamic encounters, and personalized experiences without game-specific training. The engine integrates into any game genre, empowering creators with tools and workflows.
- Jul 2024Seed$12M
- 2023Seed$4M
#4
Acquired · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2011 · 173 employees$100Mraised▾
Provider of software solutions for weigh station alerts and bypass systems for truckers. It provides apps with voice or visual alerts to indicate weighbridges and inspection sites on the way beforehand. It also helps the truckers to avoid them and thereby saving money for the transportation companies and also provides a subsidiary of intelligent imaging systems.
- Jul 2020Series B$60M
- Jan 2015Series A—
- Aug 2013Series A$7.5M
#5
Series A · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2016 · 41 employees$100Kraised▾
Provider of nanotech-based drug delivery solutions. The company is focused on the development of next-generation nucleic acid-based therapies using their proprietary drug delivery system. The system uses a novel mechanism of action to deliver molecules, intact and unmodified, directly into the cytosol of target cells. The technology is applicable to a wide range of therapeutic types including gene therapy, mRNA, miRNA, RNAi, and CRISPR.
- May 2025Series A$1M
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$4M
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$5M
- May 2020Seed$100K
#6
Series B · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2015 · 36 employees$11Mraised▾
Provider of a nanotech-enabled simulation and modelling platform. It offers a nanotechnology platform to perform chemical testing of fluid interactions at reservoir temperature & pressure. Testing service includes surfactant behaviour visualization, emulsification properties, foam stability & wettability modification. Also, provides viscosity screening & analytical services for reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery & pipeline designing.
- Nov 2021Series B$5.4M
- Aug 2019Series A$4.5M
#7
Funding Raised · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2011 · 189 employees$30Mraised▾
Provider of smart home security, automation, and energy management solutions. It integrates custom smart systems and the Fluent smart home app to control home security, energy management, and automation devices. Its offerings include smart touch screen control panels, personal emergency response devices, GSM wireless communicators, automated door locks, burglary, theft, fire, smoke, heat, carbon monoxide, flood, and temperature monitoring; remote access, remote arm and disarm, email and text notifications, lighting, and small appliance control.
- Mar 2014Conventional Debt$30M
#8
Series A · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2014 · 11 employees$4.8Mraised▾
Provider of nano-based leak detection and monitoring solution for the oil and gas industries. The offerings include a smart sensor that allows users to monitor sites remotely and a mobile application that can be attached to leak detection sensors to monitor storage tanks.
- Aug 2022Series A$3M
- Jan 2020Seed$1.7M
#9
Series A · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 1998 · 20 employees$9.2Mraised▾
Quantiam Technologies provides advanced materials, nanomaterials, cleantech and other solutions for energy intensive applications. Its technology exploits the properties of matter at the nano-scale and smaller for energy and greenhouse gas emissions reductions, and for life-cycle improvements of critical materials used in extreme operating environments. These solutions find applications in Chemical process industries, oil and gas, and defense sectors.
- Nov 2018Angel$2M
- 2017Series A$1.1M
- Feb 2010Series A$6M
#10
Series A · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2005 · 55 employees$5Mraised▾
Serious Labs develops virtual reality solutions for workforce training. Products include equipment VR simulators - Aerial Work Platform VR Simulator, Crane VR Simulator, Snubbing VR Simulator. Claims to have customers in the construction, mining, plant and maintenance, and oil and gas industries, including United Rentals and the Bechtel Group.
- Aug 2017Series A$5M
#11
Early Stage · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 1981 · 3 employees$145Kraised▾
Rational Robotics develops robots that are able to automatically paint parts. The robot produces a 3D scan, optimizes the tool path using custom algorithms and then paint. Rational's robots are widely used in auto parts repainting industry. Rational Robotics was selected to be a part of The Qualcomm Accelerator in May 2015.
- Jun 2015Unattributed$120K
- May 2014Unattributed$25K
#12
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2002 · 4 employees$150Kraised▾
Applied NanoTools provides nanotechnology-based fabrication of soft X-ray optical devices. It provides custom nano fabrication of Fresnel Zone plates for X-ray focusing. It also provides several X-ray mask technologies that include nano-gratings and calibration standards. Its products include X-ray Zone Plate Optics, Silicon Photonics Manufacturing, Calibration Standards, etc.
- Aug 2013Seed$150K
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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How research on Semiconductors is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 739 Canada-affiliated papers.
- Polytechnique Montréal94
- University of Toronto60
- University of Waterloo57
- McGill University45
- University of British Columbia35
- Photonics15→24
- Transistor7→13
- Voltage5→11
- Photonic integrated circuit13→17
- Amplifier1→5
- Converters1→8
- Power (physics)1→7
- Photonics8→12
- Transient (computer programming)2→6
- Adder1→5
- Electronic circuit4→8
Where semiconductors 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 semiconductors patents in Canada
Canada semiconductors patent filing is cooling — 1,206 filings from 674 assignees (2016–2025), led by Vuereal, ATI Technologies ULC, GAN Systems; annual filings 129→94.
- Vuereal173
- ATI Technologies ULC84
- GAN Systems81
- Intel65
- Ignis Innovation65
- Advanced Micro Devices59
- Alpha & Omega Semiconductor INT58
- Tischler Michael A57
Common questions
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