Best High Tech Companies in Manitoba, Canada
The 39 best High Tech companies in Manitoba, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Librestream.
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 Manitoba
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Librestream On site video collaboration platform | $55M | 66 mo ago | Series D | Kerry Thacher Founder | 2003 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+34 | 14 patents Optimizing adaptive video frame rates and HTTP streaming for low‑resource devices | — |
| 2 | Farmers Edge Technology enabler providing managed services and digital solutions for the agriculture industry | $42M | 65 mo ago | Public | — | 2005 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+38 | 145 patents Precision agriculture: satellite-based crop health monitoring, stress detection, and operation validation. | — |
| 3 | BodiTrak Provider of smart fabric for pressure sensing | $300K | 122 mo ago | Early Stage | Bruce Macfarlane CEO | 1992 | — | — | — |
| 4 | LumoPlay Interactive floor-projector for motion-reactive games | $153K | 182 mo ago | Seed | Meghan Athavale CEO | 2010 | TypeScriptUbuntuVimeo+20 | — | — |
| 5 | AgSky Technologies Provider of agriculture data services | $7K | 134 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Warren Genik Co-Founder & Director of Technology | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Precision ADM Provider of tech-enabled industrial 3D printing services | — | 83 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Ainutz Network exploring artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and automation through community and experiments | — | — | Unfunded | Kevin Carthy Founder | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Ambutech Manufacturer and retailer of aids for visually impaired people | — | — | Funding Raised | Bill Fenton President & CEO | 1985 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyBootstrap+20 | — | — |
Top 6 High Tech companies in Manitoba
#1
Series D · Winnipeg, Manitoba · founded 2003 · 88 employees$55Mraised▾
Librestream provides on site video collaboration solutions to service businesses. Provides features for sharing audio and video, circling and marking areas that need attention, adjusting lighting, and capturing still images and more.
- Feb 2021Series D—
- Jun 2020Series D$18.8M
- Mar 2016Series B$8.3M
- Nov 2013Series A$780K
#2
Public · Winnipeg, Manitoba · founded 2005 · 417 employees$41.6Mraised▾
Technology enabler providing managed services and digital solutions for the agriculture industry. They empower agribusinesses with enterprise technology, data intelligence, and agronomic expertise. Their offerings include managed services, custom development, licensing, and advisory services, focusing on sustainability, compliance, and farm productivity. They provide digital agronomy, soil testing, insurance, lending solutions, risk assessment, and data management. They serve various segments, including crop inputs, CPG, biofuel, ag retail, ag insurance, and farm management. They transform complex datasets into enterprise clarity and build intelligent systems to support every facet of agriculture, advancing sales, operations, risk management, sustainability, and cost efficiency. They offer white-labeling, custom development, and licensing options.
- Mar 2021Post IPO$437.5K
- Dec 2016Series B—
- Sep 2016Grant (prize money)$4.6M
- Jan 2016Series B$40.8M
#3
Early Stage · Winnipeg, Manitoba · founded 1992$300Kraised▾
Provider of smart fabric for pressure sensing. The fabrics have sensors consisting of a layer of pressure-sensitive fabric whose resistance varies with pressure between two layers of alternating knit of conductive and nonconductive columns. These sensors enable the user to create and monitor real-time 3-D pressure maps, record body position, and movements. This smart fabric can be used in a variety of applications like medical for making pressure sensing beds, seats, sports for monitoring body movements during training, etc.
- Jun 2016Unattributed$300K
#4
Seed · Winnipeg, Manitoba · founded 2010 · 4 employees$153Kraised▾
LumoPlay is an interactive floor AR projector for multi-player games for children, families, and education. Provides game making tools to customize motion reactive games and effects inside the games. It is developed in the hardware accelerator "Highway1". Also provides interactive display and projection software its clients to promote their brands.
- Jun 2011Seed$153K
#5
Acqui-Hired · Swan River, Manitoba · founded 2014$7Kraised▾
Provider of agriculture data services. It offers farm monitoring and data analytics services using near‑infrared and optical sensing to help growers assess crop health. Its solutions deliver insights to improve decision‑making in farming.
- 2015Grant (prize money)$7K
#6
Seed · Winnipeg, Manitoba · founded 2014 · 65 employees—raised▾
Provider of tech-enabled industrial 3D printing services. It uses metal 3D printing and multi-axis machining to create parts and devices for medical, aerospace, energy, and other industry sectors. Its other services offerings include services for post-processing and machining, engineering and design, and metallurgical operations. It has developed an advanced digital manufacturing process that includes design support, engineering, manufacturing, and finishing.
- Sep 2019Angel—
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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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