Best High Tech Companies in Ottawa, Canada
The 112 best High Tech companies in Ottawa, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: GaN Systems.
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 Ottawa
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3D Excel Provider of geotechnical modeling software for the mining industry | — | — | — | Yaohong D Jiang Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | 5G Energy Energy monitoring solution with predictive analytics feature for IoT applications | — | — | 18 | — | — | — | 88 patents Radioisotope production/purification and waste-to-energy processing technologies | — |
| 3 | AAI Canada R& D company for Intelligenct Robot | — | — | — | Ann Griffith CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Active Bionics Developing exo-skeleton that can help paraplegics to walk again | — | — | — | Dmitry Klishch Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Ajile Provider of a 3D imaging system | — | — | — | Jeremy Gribben Co-Founder | — | — | — | 1 launch |
| 6 | Amika Mobile Provider of emergency notification and communication systems | — | — | — | Ken Grigg Co-Founder/CTO | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | arctic horizons A Canadian startup that makes UCAVs | — | — | 7 | — | Apache HTTP ServerGoogle Font APIMicrosoft 365 | Top 50M | — | 1 launch |
| 8 | Arvizio Augmented reality server platform for collaboration and visualization | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | 2 patents Automated level‑of‑detail generation for 3D point‑cloud and mesh data | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Ottawa
#1
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2018 · 33 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Provider of quantum cryptography-based secure communication solutions. It offers quantum cryptography-based encryption solutions for protecting data and securing communications. The features include file encryption, drag, and drop encryption and decryption, file access controls, etc.
- Apr 2026Seed$1.2M
- Dec 2025Seed$50K
- May 2025Seed$750K
- Oct 2024Seed$458.8K
#2
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2020 · 12 employees$14Mraised▾
Developer of all-analog AI neural network architecture for edge applications. It delivers efficient power and low latency using standard CMOS process technology. The company's technology offers solutions using industry standard software tools for always-on applications. It provides devices, chiplets, IP, and software for integration into various products.
- Apr 2025Series A$14M
#3
Series B · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2015 · 30 employees$36.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of metal powders for additive manufacturing and cold spray applications. The company claims that its atomization technique produces powder for manufacturing metal parts with mechanical properties. The powders have both a thin oxide layer and low water absorption. It is spherical, agglomerate- and fine-free, and rolls smoothly under the powder bed blade/roller for greatly improved spreadability. It can be used in the automotive, space, defense, and aviation industries.
- Apr 2024Series B$14.5M
- Apr 2020Conventional Debt$5M
- Apr 2020Series B$17M
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$8M
#4
Series C · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2009 · 216 employees$98.2Mraised▾
Provider of video analysis solution for loss prevention and security. It offers a cloud-based platform that acts as a hub to analyze the video stream to find the key points of data and create alerts and reports. It provides motion alerts by detecting unusual motion by setting regions of the camera views, and provides alerts when activity happens. It offers a wide range of tools to keep track of important events, history and identify outlying patterns and incidents. The company serves the retail, banking, and restaurants industry.
- Jul 2023Series C$60M
- Jun 2020Series B$16.9M
- Jan 2019Series A$16.3M
- Nov 2017Series A$5M
#5
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2008 · 200 employees$220Mraised▾
Manufacturer of semiconductor and system solutions for various application areas. The company provides a range of products, including microcontrollers, memories, power management solutions, and sensor technology. These products serve applications such as automotive, industrial, consumer electronics, and information and communication technology. The company also offers design resources, support, and training for its products.
- Nov 2021Series B$150M
- Dec 2019Series B—
- Dec 2017Series B—
- Jul 2017Series B—
#6
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2019 · 10 employees$1Mraised▾
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.
- Dec 2024Seed$195.5K
- Apr 2021Seed$1M
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$17.5K
#7
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2017 · 46 employees$17.8Mraised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence software for optimizing energy grid operations. The company provides solutions for smart grid optimization, data center energy management, and electric vehicle fleet orchestration. Its products support grid operators, utilities, and enterprises in managing energy storage and renewable energy resources. The company's technology also caters to off-grid microgrids and electric vehicle infrastructure.
- Dec 2022Series A$9.5M
- Nov 2022Conventional Debt$1.7M
- Apr 2022Series A$4.5M
- Mar 2020Seed$212.7K
#8
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2013 · 65 employees$18.6Mraised▾
Cloud-based platform for assets monitoring. It uses artificial intelligence that offers tools for real-time prescriptive analytics connected with machines, collects data such as up-time, counts, and error codes, and transmits data to the cloud. It analyses this data to find patterns and predict the future performance of machines and allows escalation in case of any issues are found. It is a tool available on the subscription based pricing model.
- Jan 2023Series A$12M
- May 2018Series A$6.1M
- Seed$500K
#9
Series A · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2017 · 19 employees$16.1Mraised▾
Developer of plant-based biomaterials for repair and regeneration of tissues. The company has developed an open-source platform that uses plant-derived cellulose to create scaffold architectures of organs. The company's products include CelluBridge a proprietary plant-based biomaterial that promotes the repair and regeneration of the spinal cord and CelluJuve a plant-based dermal filler that can assist with everything from injury recovery to cosmetic enhancement.
- Jul 2022Series A$13.2M
- May 2020Seed$2.5M
- Jun 2019Angel$376.8K
#10
Acqui-Hired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2004 · 26 employees$7.2Mraised▾
Provider of app-based demand response solutions & energy management software solutions. It provides energy management solutions that enable energy management through its vertically integrated consumer-connected demand response platform. Its app is available for Android devices.
- Jun 2012Grant (prize money)$2.9M
- May 2010Series B$7.2M
#11
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2009 · 10 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Provider of an AI operating system for cyber and electronic defense. It uses adaptive, behavioral intelligence to detect and defeat AI-powered threats. The system fuses behavioral, RF, and network signals to deliver real-time threat detection across cyber and electronic domains. Domain-informed AI models detect anomalies and explain what is happening, how it differs from the norm, and why it matters. The platform provides continuous threat detection, real-time situational awareness, and adaptive defense across cyber, identity, and electronic domains.
- Dec 2016Seed$1M
- Apr 2016Seed$1.8M
#12
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2013 · 18 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of connected cooking robots. Else Labs lab has designed and developed a smart and internet-connected automatic cooking device called Oliver which is monitored and controlled using a mobile app. The app has pre-programmed recipes and will also guide the user step-by-step on how to proceed and load them into the 7 designated canisters in the device. After loading all the ingredients, the user can program Oliver to start cooking.
- Aug 2017Seed$1.8M
- Oct 2015Angel—
- Angel$150K
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What Ottawa researches in semiconductors
University of Ottawa leads Ottawa's semiconductor research, focusing dominantly on photonic and optical devices with an optimistic tone (mean stance 0.59, breakthroughs outweighing concerns 9-to-2).
- University of Ottawa17
- Ottawa University1
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