Best Home Improvements Companies in Canada
The 115 best Home Improvements companies in Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ClickToShop.
Canada's Home Improvements startup map is smaller than you'd expect: 115 companies tracked, $5M in total disclosed funding, zero unicorns. But the underlying market these companies are chasing is anything but small. Global home improvement spend sits at roughly $524.2B in 2024 and is forecast to reach $1,399.1B by 2032, a 5.9% CAGR according to Market Research Future. ClickToShop leads our Canadian cohort with $2M raised, followed by Sensopia and Homesav at $1M each, and IGuardFire pulling in $868,182. So the funding is concentrated at the top, and the rest of the field is running lean.
What's actually moving right now? Eco-construction and renewable technologies are the themes getting traction, and housing market stress is pushing homeowners toward renovation over relocation, which feeds exactly the demand these startups are built for. I'd watch the Accelerator Centre and Communitech portfolios closely if you're tracking where the next funding rounds surface. The sector's hot enough globally that even pharma founders are pivoting into it. Canada's version is still early-stage and fragmented, but the tailwinds are real and the deal flow is picking up.
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
Ranked: Best Home Improvements companies in Canada
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClickToShop Online retailer of curated decor and gift products | $2M | 163 mo ago | Series A | Brendan McCarthy Founder & CEO | 2007 | — | — |
| 2 | Sensopia AR for Home Decor | $1M | 157 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Pierre Gaubil CEO | 2010 | — | — |
| 3 | Homesav Online platform offering multi-category home improvement products | $1M | 176 mo ago | Deadpooled | Alex Norman Co-Founder & CEO | 2010 | — | — |
| 4 | IGuardFire Online platform offering fire safety products for kitchen | $868K | 48 mo ago | Seed | Bill Ferguson Founder | 2013 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+21 | — |
| 5 | Aalo Internet-first brand of home improvement products | $150K | 96 mo ago | Seed | Sejun Park Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 6 | DraftingSPACE Home Improvements Design tool | $25K | 160 mo ago | Acquired | Laura Austin Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 7 | RENOMii Provider of a cloud-based platform for contacting home improvement contractors | — | 84 mo ago | Seed | Scott Barker Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 8 | Furnishr Online furnishings service provider | — | 92 mo ago | Seed | Michael Van Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLRedis+18 | — |
Top 9 Home Improvements companies in Canada
#1
Seed · Kelowna, British Columbia · founded 2013 · 2 employees$868.2Kraised▾
Online platform offering fire safety products for kitchen. The company provides device that connects to the user's stove, monitors usage and provides remote control. It also allows users to switch the stove off through their smartphones. The features include an advanced motion sensor, auto shut off timer, manual timer, child lock, user history reporting, smartphone notifications, room temperature monitor, adjustable reminders, daytime activity alerts, child lock, night time activity tracking, gas leak detection, and more.
- Jun 2022Seed$868.2K
#2
Series A · St. Paul, Alberta · founded 2007$2Mraised▾
ClickToShop is an online retailer of curated decor and gift products. It was ranked #680 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing privately held companies and #899 on the Internet Retailer magazine's list of largest online retailer companies in 2012. ClickToShop. Its curated assortment of décor and gifts is sold on its webstore and as well as on leading marketplaces including Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Rakuten.
- Nov 2012Series A$2M
#3
Acqui-Hired · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2010$1.2Mraised▾
MagicPlan, the first application that can automatically measure, draw and publish a floor plan, just by taking pictures with an iOS device (iPhone , iPod Touch or iPad ). With MagicPlan users get a complete floor plan of their house by taking a few pictures of their rooms.
- May 2013Series A$1.2M
#4
Deadpooled · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2010$1.2Mraised▾
Operator of an online shopping website based in Ontario, Canada. The company through its e-commerce platform that offers designer furniture, home décor products, lifestyle and family-related products, giftware, linen, kitchenware and lamps.
- Sep 2011Seed$1.2M
#5
Seed · Kitchener, Ontario · founded 2017$150Kraised▾
Aalo is an internet-first brand of home improvement products. Product catalog includes furniture & kits, DIY products, connectors, end caps, and more.
- 2018Seed$120K
- Oct 2017Seed$30K
#6
Acquired · Kitchener, Ontario · founded 2013 · 6 employees$25Kraised▾
DraftingSPACE is a web-based design tool where homeowners can customize various rooms basis some layout options and pre-set style packages. They initially started with customization for bathroom spaces. DraftingSPACE was acquired by BuildDirect in June 2015 and they have added a Design Center feature using the DraftingSPACE technology and the co-founders have joined BuildDirect to continue building design tools for other rooms and spaces. VeloCity, a startup program from University of Waterloo has helped launch DraftingSPACE in 2013.
- Feb 2013Grant (prize money)$25K
#7
Seed · Kitchener, Ontario · founded 2012—raised▾
Provider of a cloud-based platform for contacting home improvement contractors. It provides users with a software system designed to help homeowners to find renovation contractors. It also offers an easy-to-use web app that manages renovation projects and facilitates communication between contractors and clients.
- Jun 2019Seed—
- 2013Seed—
#8
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2015 · 12 employees—raised▾
Furnishr (rebranded from Four Walls) is an online furnishings service provider. It creates and sells its room designs and sources all its furniture and decor items from manufacturers. Users can purchase the room designs and get it installed by the Furnishr team within 5-15 working days. It provides its services in all the cities of Canada and the USA.
- Sep 2018Seed—
#9
Deadpooled · Kitchener, Ontario · founded 2015—raised▾
MiiCasa is an interactive sales centre and interactive decor centre for new home/condo developments. It provides buyers with an interactive online design platform that helps them visualize their options in real-time 3D renderings. It streamlines the process and provides real-time tracking for builders and reducing costs. Its parent company is Mii Corp which has two product brands: MiiCasa and RENOMii.
- Feb 2016Angel—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Home Improvements coverage by sub-theme.
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