Best Mobile Companies in Vancouver, Canada
The 66 best Mobile companies in Vancouver, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: This Game Studio.
Our analysis of 127 Mobile companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Mobile companies in Vancouver
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This Game Studio Mobile games developer | $5M | 134 mo ago | Series A | Heather Lyell Price CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 2 | Archiact Developer of VR experiences and games | $3M | 123 mo ago | Series A | Frank Shen Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 3 | Picniic Provider of a family organizer app | $2M | 104 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 4 | Eruptive Games Game development studio focusing on web games | $1M | 167 mo ago | Deadpooled | Julian Ing Founder & CEO | 2009 | — | — |
| 5 | Wordlogic Alternate keyboard app utilizing predictive technology | $605K | 251 mo ago | Deadpooled | Frank Evanshen CEO | 1999 | — | — |
| 6 | Mouse Haunt NFT-based trading platform for mouse characters games | $400K | 54 mo ago | Funding Raised | Pedro D'Andrea CEO | 2021 | — | — |
| 7 | Roadhouse Interactive Mobile games development company | — | 132 mo ago | Deadpooled | James Hursthouse Founder & ex-CEO | 2009 | — | — |
| 8 | Compass Engine Game development studio | — | 204 mo ago | Deadpooled | Ben Hesketh Co-founder | 2009 | — | — |
Top 10 Mobile companies in Vancouver
#1
Funding Raised · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2021$399.5Kraised▾
NFT-based trading platform for mouse characters games. It enables users to buy, sell, collect NFTs, farm tokens, breed characters and build levels to earn money. Players can play as the heroes, as the villains, and as the architects of the castles
- Dec 2021ICO$399.5K
#2
Series A · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2014 · 38 employees$5Mraised▾
This Game Studio is a Canada based Mobile games developer with a focus on games that are based on licensed entertainment brands and IP. As of December 2015 they are working on their first game and have not yet released details about the game. The founding team is composed of veterans of Exploding Barrel Games and its parent company, Kabam.
- Apr 2015Series A$5M
#3
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2015 · 3 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of a family organizer app. It allows users to create, organize, and manage family events and tasks. It allows users to create shared calendars, add events, set reminders, assign tasks, create shopping lists, track progress, and share locations with family members. It also allows users to store personal information within the app. The app offers integration with third-party calendar apps. The app is available for iOS and Android devices.
- Sep 2017Seed$2M
#4
Series A · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2013 · 108 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Developer of VR experiences and games. The company is focused on creating virtual reality games, including "DOOM 3", "Evasion" "FREEDIVER" and "Journey to Foundation". The games are available on various platforms, including PSVR, Meta Quest, and Pico.
- Mar 2016Series A$3.2M
#5
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2009$1Mraised▾
Founded in 2010, Eruptive Games is a game studio. Produced action based multi-player games like Rise of Villains and Mercenaries of War. Mercenaries of War reportedly hit a 1 million players and monthly actives of about 500,000 in 2012. Had announced the next game, Citizen GRIM, a RPG game supported on mobile devices but the company was closed in 2013.
- Jul 2012Seed$1M
#6
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1999 · 1 employees$605Kraised▾
WordLogic provides an alternate keyboard app for users & businesses. It uses predictive technology to adapt to users texting style and auto-suggests words. It enables users to customize the keyboards with different themes and layouts. It also enables employees to enter industry-specific words and sentences and have them synced across a multitude of devices from computers to mobile phones, and tablets. Furthermore, users can also choose between a left-hand preference or right-hand preference keyboard.
- Jul 2005Post IPO$605K
#7
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2009—raised▾
Roadhouse Interactive is a Vancouver based mobile game development company founded in 2009. The company focuses on the development of mid-core games and develops games under its own banner as well as for clients. developer focused on mid-core tablet, smartphone and browser games. Some of their popular game title include 'Warhammer: Carnage' - the mobile adptation of Games Workshop®’s Warhammer 40K action game and 'Bike Unchained' - a mountain bike action game developed in associated with Red Bull Media House. The company also offers game publishing and user acquisition services.
- 2015Conventional Debt—
#8
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2009—raised▾
Founded in 2009, Compass Engine Games was a game development studio based in Vancouver, Canada. The company focuses on the development of location based mobile games. Popular games include ‘Catch the Canary’ and ‘Bounty Island.Compass Engine was part of the January 2011 cohort at the now defunct Bootup Labs and has also received financing from Mike Edwards' Initio Group. The company was acquired by East Side Games in September, 2011.
- 2009Seed—
#9
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2008 · 108 employees—raised▾
A Thinking Ape is a mobile game development company specializing in casual and mid-core genres. It has developed multiple games including "Kingdoms of War" (turn-based MMORPG) and "Smash Monsters" (MMORTS). The games are available on the Google Play store and Apple store. Has been awarded as "Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers 2018". It generates revenue through advertisements and in-app purchases.
- 2008Seed—
#10
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2008—raised▾
Chatterous, a product of A thinking Ape, provides an online platform for group chat using the web, im, email or sms. It allows users to create chatrooms and invite members for private communication. Users can integrate it with websites to provide chat option on the website. Users can join through Gmail, yahoo and other existing chat apps without switching chatrooms.
- Jan 2008Seed—
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How research on 5G / 6G Networks is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around 5G / 6G Networks — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 2,354 Canada-affiliated papers.
- University of Toronto256
- University of British Columbia221
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique211
- Concordia University182
- Université du Québec à Montréal173
- Beamforming154→326
- MIMO86→169
- Electronic engineering22→74
- Telecommunications5→53
- Base station15→47
- Beamforming279→364
- Telecommunications9→53
- Electronic engineering52→75
- Wireless15→34
- Base station46→63
- Telecommunications1→4
- Telecommunications link1→4
- Channel (broadcasting)3→5
- Wireless4→5
- MIMO9→10
Where 5g 6g 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 5g 6g patents in Canada
Canada 5g 6g patent filing is cooling — 17,876 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by Research IN Motion, Blackberry, Nortel Networks; annual filings 2698→812.
- Research IN Motion15153
- Blackberry9725
- Nortel Networks2296
- Huawei TECH942
- Interdigital Patent Holdings738
- Ericsson Telefon AB L M632
- CAI Zhijun587
- WI LAN584
Common questions
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