Best Internet of Things - Industry Applications Companies in Alberta, Canada
The 47 best Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Alberta, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Orpyx.
Our analysis of 184 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
$13.9b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Alberta
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orpyx Wearable devices for neuropathy patients and athletes 53Funding top 29%Growth top 35%Tech top 39%Product top 46% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 29% Growthtop 35% Techtop 39% Producttop 46% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 41% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 18% Funding: Raised $38.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 6 yrs (0.5/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $39M | 22 mo ago | Series B | Breanne Everett Co-Founder & CEO | 2010 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Node.js+20 | — | — |
| 2 | Fluent Home Provider of smart home security, automation, and energy management solutions | $30M | 149 mo ago | Funding Raised | Graham Wood Founder & CEO | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — | — |
| 3 | Ambyint Provider of platform for oil well optimization | $26M | 32 mo ago | Series B | — | 2004 | HubSpot CMS HubGSAPAmazon Web Services+25 | — | 2 job openings |
| 4 | VEERUM Provider of digital twin based asset visualization tool for manufacturing units 42Product top 30%Innovation top 34%Funding top 42%Tech bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾Producttop 30% Innovationtop 34% Fundingtop 42% Techbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 38% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 22% Product: 6 distinct product lines · Company stage: Series B Innovation: 6 product lines rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $23M | 38 mo ago | Series B | David Lod CEO | 2014 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | — | 1 job opening |
| 5 | Hifi Provider of fiber optic sensing for infrastructure integrity and monitoring | $16M | 85 mo ago | Series B | John Hull Founder | 2007 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — | 1 launch |
| 6 | Data Sciences Int. Wireless implantable telemetry devices and data analytic IT solutions | $12M | 293 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1984 | Progress SitefinityWindows ServerKendo UI+14 | — | 1 launch |
| 7 | 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 | 16 mo ago | Series C | Sunil Vedula Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+19 | — | 1 launch |
| 8 | FREDsense Provider of a biosensor platform to detect water-borne chemicals 55Innovation top 23%Talent top 28%Product top 36%Moat top 39% All 10 signals ▾Innovationtop 23% Talenttop 28% Producttop 36% Moattop 39% Techtop 44% Growthtop 45% Newstop 46% Fundingtop 49% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 34% Innovation: 5 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Tech Hardware Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $3M | 10 mo ago | Series A | Emily Hicks Co-Founder and President | 2014 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+32 | — | 1 launch |
| 9 | ZeroKey Developer of real-time location systems for industrial and manufacturing applications | $665K | 78 mo ago | Series A | Hugh McMillan Co-Founder & COO | 2016 | WordPressBetterDocsSentry+36 | 45 patents High‑precision 3D ranging and object positioning for self‑localization and gesture input. | 1 partnership |
Top 12 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Alberta
#1
Series A · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2014 · 25 employees$3Mraised▾
FREDsense has developed biosensors for detecting water-borne chemicals. The water sample is added to the cartridge of its product Field Ready Electrochemical Detector (FRED) wherein the engineered sensor bacteria detects chemical presence & produces an electrochemical signal. The process data is communicated through 3G, wifi or a USB connection to a computer, mobile device or server. It can be used to detect arsenic, iron, manganese & acidity level. Partners are H2O Challenge, Imagine H2O, Evok Innovations, and Canada Mining Council.
- Sep 2025Series A$7M
- Jul 2021Series A$2.5M
- Dec 2017Seed$500K
- Sep 2015Seed—
#2
Series B · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2010 · 89 employees$38.5Mraised▾
Wearable devices for neuropathy patients and athletes. It develops a sensor-based product, Orpyx SI, the sensory insoles with remote patient monitoring allows users to manage and prevent diabetic foot ulcers and limb loss through advanced foot sensor technology and real-time analytics. The insoles can fit above the shoe and capture pressure data from the user's feet. The pressure data is then wirelessly transmitted from the shoe inserts to a smartwatch. The smartwatch alerts the user at extreme pressure levels to modify their behaviour and avoid damage. The device can be used to track neuropathy and is FDA cleared. Other product lines include SurroSense Rx system, Orpyx LogR solution and SurroGai Rx system.
- Sep 2024Series B$20M
- Oct 2023Series A$11K
- Jul 2020Series A$5.6M
#3
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
#4
Series B · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2004 · 40 employees$26.5Mraised▾
Provider of platform for oil well optimization. It provides a proprietary platform which combines and leverages the latest innovations in lightweight sensors, wireless communications and predictive data analytics, and enables oil producers to autonomously optimize well assets, increasing production and efficiency, while reducing costs - both operational and maintenance. It brings intelligence and insight to oil and gas production through emerging technologies including IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning.
- Nov 2023Series B—
- Feb 2020Series B$15M
- Sep 2017Series A$11.5M
#5
Series B · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2014 · 54 employees$23.1Mraised▾
Provider of digital twin based asset visualization tool for manufacturing units. It offers an AI and cloud based digital twin platform for predictive maintenance during construction. It enables 3D asset visualization solutions and enables to predict and resolve project issues. It interfaces with multiple sensors deployed on the site for creating a virtual replica of a physical project or environment that can be used to simulate, operate, and analyze the projects. It allows companies to upload, preview, manage, store, and distribute visual data directly from their web browser.
- May 2023Series B$9.3M
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$614.5K
- Feb 2021Series A$7.4M
- Sep 2019Seed$2.5M
#6
Series B · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2007 · 132 employees$16.5Mraised▾
Provider of fiber optic sensing for infrastructure integrity and monitoring. The company’s technology offers turnkey sensing systems with data analytics and monitoring support. It delivers engineering, installation, validation, and reporting services. The company’s high-fidelity distributed sensing platform detects leaks in pipelines. It provides real-time monitoring solutions using fiber optic cables and machine learning algorithms. The technology monitors acoustics, strain, vibration, and temperature.
- Jul 2019Series B$10M
- Feb 2014Series A$5.4M
- May 2012Seed$1.1M
#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
Funding Raised · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2020 · 6 employees$20Kraised▾
Platform offering AI-based mobile application to monitor cat well-being. The solution is designed to monitor the cat’s well-being by pointing the phone at the face. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze the cat in a live view, using the Feline Grimace scale and looking for the subtle clues that the cat gives.
- Oct 2024Grant (prize money)$20K
#9
Acquired · St. Paul, Alberta · founded 1984 · 180 employees$12Mraised▾
DSI produces telemetry instruments alongwith software and data analytic services that are used in preclinical pharmaceutical and physiological research.Products include both telemetry implants and external telemetry equipment that can be used to measure indices such as BP, ECG, Temperature, Biopotential, Left ventricular pressure, Tidal volume in both animals and humans, on an outpatient basis. DSI products are targeted at many industries i.e. pharmaceuticals, academic research, contract research, medical devices, and biotechnology.
- Feb 2002Series A$12M
#10
Series A · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2016 · 38 employees$665.2Kraised▾
Developer of real-time location systems for industrial and manufacturing applications. The company's technology digitizes and digitally twins the three-dimensional position of assets and workflows. This technology enables bolt sequencing, task monitoring, accident prevention, and real-time quality control. The platform offers operational visibility for manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain, and logistics.
- Jan 2020Series A$565.8K
- Aug 2018Seed$99.4K
#11
Seed · Alberta · founded 2007 · 7 employees—raised▾
Wearable technologies company providing VR gloves. The Peregrine Glove ST has customizable touchpoints in fingers which can be triggered via stainless steel constructed thumb as the points act as hotkeys. The glove can be configured via supplied Glovebox software, by connecting the glove to a socket that connects to the USB port.
- Dec 2024Seed—
#12
Seed · Edmonton, Alberta · founded 2014—raised▾
Provider of an AI-based data platform to manage emergency situations and urban growth. It offers an AI-based modeling platform that enables smart cities to rationalize designs of buildings and public transportation infrastructure, validate technology to support energy grids to facilitate consumers buying electric vehicles and solar panels, and develop intelligent response systems for disasters like earthquakes.
- Aug 2024Seed—
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