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Best Media & Entertainment Companies in Quebec, Canada

The 118 best Media & Entertainment companies in Quebec, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Waverly.

118companies tracked
$692.5Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
15have raised

Ranked: Best Media & Entertainment companies in Quebec

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Waverly
AI-powered social platform for like-minded individuals
$616M53 mo agoSeries CPhilippe Gagnon
Co-Founder
2018——
2Landr
Provider of online tools for music mastering, distribution, and collaboration
$36M83 mo agoSeries BPascal Pilon
Co-Founder & CEO
2012SkolengoPrismicUnbounce+304 job openings · 1 launch
3Woozworld
Provider of a social virtual and gaming community platform
$9M177 mo agoAcquired—2010NginxAmazon Web Servicescore-js+1—
4Lighthouse
Metaverse navigation platform
$7M51 mo agoSeedJonathan Brun
Co-Founder & CEO
2022——
5Execution Labs
Investor in and developer of small and medium-sized game studios
$7M139 mo agoSeries AKeith Katz
Co-Founder
2012——
6GridBank
Provider of digital content assets for social media marketing campaigns
$5M2 mo agoSeedLaura Lalonde
Founder & CEO
2022SentryNode.jsGoogle Sign-in+25—
7BeatConnect
Cloud-based platform for music creation and collaboration
$4M27 mo agoSeedNicholas Laroche
Co-Founder
2020Node.jsHeadless UITailwind CSS+17—
8De Marque
Provider of book reading solutions
$4M68 mo agoSeries A—1990WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+241 award
9ORA Graphene Audio
Provider of innovative headphones
$2M60 mo agoSeedKaiwen Hu
Co-founder VP Research
2016Wix eCommerceWixSentry+15—
10Collider
Provider of entertainment news, movie trailers, upcoming movie reviews
$1M108 mo agoAcquiredSteven Weintraub
Founder
2005ZohoLogin with AmazonAmazon Web Services+11—
11Amaya Gaming
Gambling and Casino technology providers
$800K172 mo agoSeedDavid B
ex-CEO
2004——
12UniYu
Collaborative online platform
$500K153 mo agoDeadpooled—2011——
13Groupe PVP
Producer of animated films & TV shows and provides equipment and post-production services
$399K106 mo agoLate StageFrancois Trudel
Co-Owner
1985FirebaseJSSMUI+102 awards

Top 12 Media & Entertainment companies in Quebec

#1
Seed · Quebec · founded 2022
$5Mraised
▾

Provider of digital content assets for social media marketing campaigns. This entity supplies visual media including photographs and videos across categories such as lifestyle, food, travel, and fashion. These assets are utilized by creators for brand promotion and digital advertising purposes. The repository includes various aesthetic backgrounds and reaction clips intended for integration into social media content strategies.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Seed$5M
Founders & team
Laura LalondeFounder & CEO
Investors
StandUp Ventures, Version One Ventures, GreenSky, AQC Capital, Anges Quebec
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesClevertapClickbankClickceaseCloudflare
#2
Series C · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2018
$616Mraised
▾

AI-powered social platform for like-minded individuals. It allows users to connect with others who share similar interests, curate content, manage their feeds, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2022Conventional Debt$150M
  • May 2021Series C$325M
  • Nov 2019Series B$50M
  • Dec 2018Series B$91M
Founders & team
Philippe GagnonCo-Founder
Investors
Temasek, Google Ventures, KKR, Panache Ventures
#3
Seed · Beaconsfield, Quebec · founded 2020 · 18 employees
$3.9Mraised
▾

Cloud-based platform for music creation and collaboration. The platform can be used with all DAWs, instruments, and VSTs, and more. It enables users to video chat and share sequencers and also provides cloud storage.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Seed$1.7M
  • Oct 2022Seed$2.2M
Founders & team
Nicholas LarocheCo-FounderAlexandre TurbideCo-Founder
Investors
Sfermion, FICC, Anges Quebec, Triptyq
#4
Series B · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2012 · 126 employees
$35.9Mraised
▾

Provider of online tools for music mastering, distribution, and collaboration. It offers artificial intelligence mastering, distribution to streaming platforms, samples, plugins, and online music courses. Collaboration tools are available for remote sessions. Services include audio video chats and community channels. Users can access courses taught by industry professionals.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 16k LinkedIn followers — 12.6% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 5 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +5 · hiring: Spécialiste Support & Distribution Specialist, Designer UX (IA)
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2019Series B$26M
  • Feb 2018Conventional Debt$307.9K
  • Oct 2016Series A$3.2M
  • Sep 2016Conventional Debt$3.5M
Founders & team
Pascal PilonCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Sony Innovation Fund, Shure, Fonds de solidarite FTQ, Warner Music Group, Slaight Music, Plus Eight Equity Partners
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApache Tomcat
#5
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2022 · 28 employees
$7Mraised
▾

Metaverse navigation platform. Its navigation engine enables users to socialize and discover places, friends, experiences, and events across the spatial web.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2022Seed$7M
Founders & team
Jonathan BrunCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Accel, BlockTower, Animoca Brands, White Star Capital, Sparkle Ventures, StreamingFast
#6
Acquired · Montreal Est, Quebec · founded 2010 · 50 employees
$9Mraised
▾

Provider of a social virtual and gaming community platform. It enables users to create an avatar, play online and join a community to connect with other players. It offers a virtual world to hang out and makes new friends. Users can customize their avatars, invite friends to join their virtual world, chat, enter contests, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2011Series B$6M
  • May 2010Series A$3M
Investors
Inovia Capital, Telesystem
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCore-JsGoogle WorkspaceNginx
#7
Series A · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 1990 · 73 employees
$3.8Mraised
▾

Provider of book reading solutions. It offers various e-books, audiobooks, comics, and more related to various genres. It allows you to borrow and read both e-books and audiobooks on the same interface. It also provides solutions to customize the reading experience through fonts, margins, line spacing, text alignment, day/night mode, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 2.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Series A$3.8M
  • Aug 2011Conventional Debt$75K
Investors
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, BDC, Canadian Space Agency, FICC
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareContact Form 7Core-JsFacebook PixelGoogle Adsense
#8
Series A · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2012 · 4 employees
$6.7Mraised
▾

Investor in and developer of small and medium-sized game studios. It provides support and resources to game studios across the Americas and Europe. The focus is on fostering growth and development within the gaming industry by collaborating with a portfolio of independent studios. This includes providing access to networks, expertise, and funding to help these studios succeed.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2014Series A$5.3M
  • Nov 2012Seed$1.4M
Founders & team
Keith KatzCo-Founder
Investors
Corus Entertainment, BDC, Real Ventures, White Star Capital
#9
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2016 · 25 employees
$2.5Mraised
▾

Provider of innovative headphones. The company has developed headphones from sustainable products. It is made from graphene which provides a 3D audio delivery solution.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2021Seed$2.5M
Founders & team
Kaiwen HuCo-founder VP ResearchAri PinkasCo-FounderRobert GaskellCo-Founder
Investors
Ecofuel Fund, New York Angels, BoxOne Ventures
Tech stack
BootstrapCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud Cdn
#10
Acquired · Saint laurent, Quebec · founded 2005 · 18 employees
$1.1Mraised
▾

Provider of entertainment news, movie trailers, upcoming movie reviews. It delivers industry happenings, analysis, and commentary through interviews, features, videos, and podcasts. The website offers information on movies, television, streaming guides, and reality television. It also provides reviews and trailers.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 17k LinkedIn followers — 13.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • 2017Series A$1.1M
Founders & team
Steven WeintraubFounder
Investors
Techstars
Tech stack
Ad LightningAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesGoogle AdsenseGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Sign-In
#11
Seed · Pointe Claire, Quebec · founded 2004
$800Kraised
▾

Amaya is technology company based in Canada develops technology-based products and services in the global gaming and interactive entertainment industries. The company owns gaming and related consumer businesses and brands including PokerStars, Full Tilt, StarsDraft, the European Poker Tour, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, the Latin American Poker Tour and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. These brands collectively form the largest poker business in the world, comprising online poker games and tournaments, live poker competitions, branded poker rooms in popular casinos in major cities around the world, and poker programming created for television and online audiences.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2012Seed$800K
Founders & team
David Bex-CEO
#12
Deadpooled · Montreal Est, Quebec · founded 2011 · 1 employees
$500Kraised
▾

UniYu is a collaborative campus developed by students and for students. Platfrom help students to meet with other students, share notes, buy or sell textbooks and discuss on classes, professors or student clubs. Also provides ratings for the students.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2013Seed$500K

Funding & investor landscape

$692.5Mtotal disclosed funding
13companies funded
27disclosed rounds
1rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Anges Quebec2 rounds
BDC2 rounds
FICC2 rounds
LE CAMP2 rounds
Real Ventures2 rounds
Triptyq2 rounds
White Star Capital2 rounds
ACET1 rounds
AQC Capital1 rounds
Accel1 rounds

Notable founders

Laura Lalonde
Founder & CEO · GridBank
Philippe Gagnon
Co-Founder · Waverly
Nicholas Laroche
Co-Founder · BeatConnect
Alexandre Turbide
Co-Founder · BeatConnect
Pascal Pilon
Co-Founder & CEO · Landr
Jonathan Brun
Co-Founder & CEO · Lighthouse
Keith Katz
Co-Founder · Execution Labs
Kaiwen Hu
Co-founder VP Research · ORA Graphene Audio
Ari Pinkas
Co-Founder · ORA Graphene Audio
Steven Weintraub
Founder · Collider
David B
ex-CEO · Amaya Gaming
Francois Trudel
Co-Owner · Groupe PVP
Prism market signals · Canada · country-scoped Prism corpus, 8,640,143 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Media & Entertainment coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Media & Entertainment companies are there in Quebec, Canada?
Radar tracks 118 indexable Media & Entertainment companies headquartered in Quebec, Canada that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Media & Entertainment companies in Quebec, Canada?
The Media & Entertainment companies in Quebec, Canada on this list have raised a combined $692.5M in disclosed equity funding across 13 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Media & Entertainment company in Quebec, Canada?
Waverly is the highest-funded Media & Entertainment company in Quebec, Canada, with $616M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Media & Entertainment companies in Quebec, Canada are funded?
13 of the 118 Media & Entertainment companies in Quebec, Canada on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Media & Entertainment unicorns are there in Quebec, Canada?
None of the Media & Entertainment companies in Quebec, Canada on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Quebec, Canada Media & Entertainment companies?
The most active investors in Quebec, Canada Media & Entertainment companies on this list include Anges Quebec, BDC, FICC, LE CAMP, Real Ventures.
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