Best Native AI Companies in Quebec, Canada
The 78 best Native AI companies in Quebec, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: 5C.
Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies
$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Native AI companies in Quebec
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5C Provider of AI digital infrastructure, including data centers and cloud services 53Funding top 15%AI top 20%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 15% AItop 20% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 42% Marketbottom 35% Funding: Raised $835M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $835M | 11 mo ago | Acquired | — | Steve P Co-Founder | WebflowYouTubeGSAP+13 | — | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Coveo Provider of AI-powered search and recommendation solutions for enterprise businesses | $342M | 11 mo ago | Public | 71 | — | SitecoreSentryAtlassian Statuspage+31 | 13 patents AI-driven enterprise search, ranking, and index optimization with speech-to-text indexing | 1 partnership · 3 awards |
| 3 | BrainBox AI Developer of an AI platform for building HVAC system optimization 60AI top 20%Funding top 27%Moat top 31%Patents top 38% All 12 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 27% Moattop 31% Patentstop 38% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 46% Producttop 47% Markettop 48% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 46% Growthbottom 42% Newsbottom 24% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $103M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 6 yrs (1.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $103M | 35 mo ago | Acquired | 170 | Sean Neely Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+21 | 16 patents AI-driven optimization and dynamic control of HVAC systems in buildings | — |
| 4 | Congruence Therapeutics Developer of therapeutics for the treatment of rare diseases 50AI top 20%Funding top 24%Moat top 31%Talent top 38% All 8 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 24% Moattop 31% Talenttop 38% Marketbottom 38% Globalbottom 38% Techbottom 31% Newsbottom 22% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $65.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 4 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $65M | 3 mo ago | Series B | 33 | Michael Goldsmith Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — |
| 5 | Landr Provider of online tools for music mastering, distribution, and collaboration | $36M | 83 mo ago | Series B | 126 | Pascal Pilon Co-Founder & CEO | SkolengoPrismicUnbounce+30 | — | 4 job openings |
| 6 | Ability Developer of modulating biotherapeutics to address cancer and autoimmune diseases | $30M | 24 mo ago | Seed | — | Jean Buerckert Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+9 | — | 1 internship |
| 7 | Maxa AI Cloud and AI-based enterprise resource planning software | $23M | 24 mo ago | Series A | 45 | Alexis Steinman Co-Founder & Co-CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | — | — |
| 8 | Extend AI Developer of document processing toolkit providing parsing, extraction, and splitting | $17M | 12 mo ago | Series A | 11 | — | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+19 | — | — |
| 9 | Deck Provider of authentication agents, jobs, workflows, storage, and extraction services | $16M | 14 mo ago | Series A | — | Julien Belisle Co-Founder | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceGoogle Cloud+20 | — | — |
| 10 | Bot Press Provider of a platform for building and deploying AI agent solutions 69AI top 20%Funding top 34%Growth top 35%Talent top 38% All 10 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 34% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Moattop 39% Techtop 40% Producttop 49% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 32% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $15.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $15M | 12 mo ago | Series B | 33 | Justin Watson Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | — | 1 launch |
| 11 | Airy 3D Developer of a 3D computer vision platform | $14M | 95 mo ago | Series A | 28 | Ji-Ho Cho Co-Founder & Vice President Advanced Research | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — | — |
| 12 | Reliant AI Provider of an AI platform for biopharmaceutical research and development | $11M | 22 mo ago | Acquired | — | Karl Hermann Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowVercelMicrosoft Advertising+13 | — | 1 partnership |
| 13 | Korbit Platform providing AI powered code review solutions | $10M | 36 mo ago | Deadpooled | 32 | Iulian Serban Founder | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Clarity+20 | — | — |
| 14 | Immervision Provider of end-to-end camera and imaging systems and software | $10M | 82 mo ago | Early Stage | 29 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | 95 patents Design and manufacturing of metalens-based ultra‑wide‑angle and panoramic imaging optics. | 2 job openings |
| 15 | wrnch Platform for machine learning on edge devices | $9M | 84 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 38 | — | — | 29 patents Computer vision for human pose, activity recognition, depth estimation, and camera calibration | — |
| 16 | Valence Labs AI research engine focusing on advancing drug discovery through computational biology | $8M | 54 mo ago | Acquired | 27 | Therence Bois Co-Founder & COO | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — | 1 launch |
| 17 | Maluuba Online platform for natural language processing solutions | $8M | 125 mo ago | Acquired | 22 | — | — | 75 patents Natural language understanding and dialogue systems, especially machine reading comprehension. | — |
| 18 | designstripe Developer of AI design agents for go-to-market teams | $8M | 48 mo ago | Series A | 30 | Alexander Dixon Founder & CEO | WebflowSvelteAmazon Web Services+18 | — | — |
| 19 | Waste Robotic Developer of robotic systems for waste sorting and material recovery | $7M | 33 mo ago | Series A | 30 | Pier Grenon Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+36 | — | — |
| 20 | Sportlogiq Provider of sports data, analytics, and video analysis technology | $7M | 105 mo ago | Series A | 155 | Craig Buntin Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30 | 81 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 21 | Noze Developer of a breath-based diagnostic platform to detect disease markers noninvasively | $7M | 22 mo ago | Seed | 54 | Ashok Masilamani Chief Technology Officer and Founder | WebflowGSAPjsDelivr+6 | — | — |
| 22 | Lia 27 Platform offering AI-based digital person for user engagement | $5M | 44 mo ago | Seed | 2 | Jean-Francois Comeau Co-Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+19 | — | — |
| 23 | HumanFirst Platform for text based customer support powered by artificial intelligence | $4M | 34 mo ago | Seed | 12 | Mathieu Rene Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | — | — |
| 24 | FrontlineIQ Provider of AI-driven coaching and sales enablement platform for teams | $3M | 7 mo ago | Seed | — | Ben Rodier Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 3 partnerships |
| 25 | Remedium AI Provider of an AI-based platform for drug discovery | $3M | — | Seed | — | Robert Murgita Founder | — | — | — |
| 26 | HiringBranch Provider of skills assessment platform for hiring and training talent | $2M | 14 mo ago | Series A | — | Stephane Rivard Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+28 | — | — |
| 27 | Ubenwa Provider of AI-based diagnostic application platform for newborns | $2M | 46 mo ago | Seed | 8 | Charles Onu Co-Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+9 | — | — |
| 28 | Hippoc Developer of Neuro-AI platform for advertising creative generation and prediction | $2M | 40 mo ago | Seed | 8 | Jean Larouche Co-Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowZoho+13 | — | — |
| 29 | AssistIQ AI-powered computer vision system for supply and implant management | $2M | 14 mo ago | Series A | 10 | Moishe Liberman Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+14 | — | 2 awards |
| 30 | Simmunome Provider of an AI-powered computational models for clinical trial study | $2M | 33 mo ago | Seed | 5 | Armstrong Murira Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+12 | — | — |
| 31 | Perceiv Developer of artificial intelligence based platform for aging related diseases | $2M | 42 mo ago | Seed | 9 | Cesar Laurent Co-Founder & CTO | Google Siteslit-htmllit-element+4 | — | — |
| 32 | Fluent.ai Platform for speech recognition and natural language processing tools | $1M | 109 mo ago | Seed | 18 | Vikrant Tomar Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 23 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 33 | Irreversible Developer of analog AI chips for ultra-low-power edge inference | $1M | 4 mo ago | Seed | — | Andrew Fursman Co-Founder & CEO | — | 7 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 34 | Imeka Provider of non-invasive imaging solutions to quantify key markers of brain conditions | $950K | 31 mo ago | Seed | 17 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | 5 patents AI-driven analysis and quality control of diffusion MRI tractography for neurodegeneration biomarkers | — |
| 35 | into AI-powered customer service solutions | $400K | 30 mo ago | Seed | — | Alain Paquin Co-Founder | — | — | — |
Top 12 Native AI companies in Quebec
#1
Series B · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2021 · 33 employees$65Mraised▾
Developer of therapeutics for the treatment of rare diseases. It offers an in-silico platform that enables the design of small molecules that stabilizes misfolded proteins to treat rare diseases. It offers computational drug discovery engine called Revenir which captures the biophysical changes caused by mutations in proteins. It examines surface features and numerous biophysical descriptors of both the mutated and wild-type proteins. It offers a lead candidate CGX-926 for obesity.
- Mar 2026Series B$39.5M
- Sep 2025Series B$32M
- Mar 2023Series A$15M
- Feb 2022Series A$50M
#2
Acquired · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2025$835Mraised▾
Provider of AI digital infrastructure, including data centers and cloud services. It designs and deploys AI infrastructure, from data centers to compute clusters. The company delivers infrastructure deployment by leveraging experience in high-performance computing and data center design. It supports environmentally conscious data center and compute AI infrastructure solutions. The company offers turnkey and customer-owned inventory delivery models.
- Jul 2025Conventional Debt—
- Jul 2025PE$835M
#3
Public · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2004 · 71 employees$342.3Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered search and recommendation solutions for enterprise businesses. It is a software company that provides an AI-powered relevance platform for enterprises, enabling superior search, recommendations, and generative answering capabilities across various digital experiences. Its unified search platform unifies data across systems, reduces search time, and boosts customer satisfaction. The company serves millions of people and billions of interactions across various industries.
- Jul 2025Post IPO—
- Nov 2019Series F$172.6M
- 2019Venture Debt—
- Sep 2018Series E$9M
#4
Series B · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2017 · 33 employees$15Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for building and deploying AI agent solutions. The platform offers tools for agent customization, autonomous engine utilization, and knowledge base integration. It facilitates human handoff, data storage, and supports integration with various channels and systems. The platform provides resources for developers, including API access and documentation, to build and manage agents.
- Jun 2025Series B$25M
- Apr 2021Series A$15M
#5
Series A · Quebec City, Quebec · founded 2017 · 11 employees$17Mraised▾
Developer of document processing toolkit providing parsing, extraction, and splitting. The toolkit offers vision models designed for complex documents, handling tables, handwriting, and checkboxes. It provides agents that learn from documents, run experiments, and optimize schemas. The toolkit APIs and UIs enable document parsing, classification, extraction, and splitting. It also offers a memory system that learns from past documents.
- Jun 2025Series A$17M
#6
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2024$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of AI-driven coaching and sales enablement platform for teams. It offers structured goal-setting, behavioral intelligence, and real-time insights to improve sales performance. The platform provides actionable guidance, practice scenarios, and progress tracking. It helps managers focus coaching efforts and link coaching to business results.
- Oct 2025Seed$3.3M
#7
Series A · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2024$16.5Mraised▾
Provider of authentication agents, jobs, workflows, storage, and extraction services. It offers tools to access data behind credentials and automate complex tasks. The company provides solutions for fetching documents, reading contents, and storing data. It also offers integrations to connect to sources and fetch data.
- Apr 2025Series A$12M
- Oct 2024Seed$4.5M
#8
Seed · Sherbrooke, Quebec · founded 2024$1Mraised▾
Developer of analog AI chips for ultra-low-power edge inference. The company designs analog processors that enable computation on memory devices. This architecture bypasses digital bottlenecks, reducing energy consumption. The chips support scalable neural architectures and offer hardware-aware training tools. They provide flexible integration options, from chip IP to full solutions.
- Jan 2026Seed—
- Grant (prize money)$1M
#9
Series A · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2014$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of skills assessment platform for hiring and training talent. The platform offers skills-based qualifying and hiring assessments. It provides interactive skills training and measures applicants by demonstrated skills. The platform is designed as an on-the-job conversation setting expectations and self-screening for candidates.
- Apr 2025Conventional Debt$2.5M
- Dec 2024Series A$3.5M
- Oct 2023Seed$2.5M
#10
Acquired · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2023$11.3Mraised▾
Provider of an AI platform for biopharmaceutical research and development. It offers a flagship product, Reliant Tabular that streamline the process of finding scientific evidence for decision-making, reducing data processing time. It combines an AI engine with customized tools to assist with portfolio strategy and launch success prediction. The platform automates data ingestion and extraction, and provides knowledge graphs to map relationships between trials and mechanisms.
- Aug 2024Seed$11.3M
#11
Series A · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2022 · 10 employees$1.8Mraised▾
AI-powered computer vision system for supply and implant management. The system captures supply and implant data in real time. It integrates with existing electronic health record and enterprise resource planning systems. The system helps to identify usage variations and eliminate documentation time. It provides visibility into ordering and utilization inefficiencies.
- Apr 2025Series A$11.5M
- Mar 2023Seed$1.8M
#12
Acquired · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2017 · 170 employees$102.8Mraised▾
Developer of an AI platform for building HVAC system optimization. The platform autonomously optimizes HVAC systems to reduce energy consumption. It offers a cloud building management system for portfolio-wide control. The company provides resources, including articles, case studies, and tools, related to AI and sustainability.
- Jul 2023Series B$10M
- Apr 2023Series B$30M
- Feb 2023Series A$4.8M
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$178.2K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Native AI coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
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How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 632 Canada-affiliated papers.
- University of Toronto76
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine56
- Université de Montréal37
- University of British Columbia32
- University of Waterloo31
- Pattern recognition (psychology)3→17
- Artificial neural network8→20
- Benchmark (surveying)6→17
- Task (project management)3→14
- Inference2→13
- Convolutional neural network1→8
- Feature (linguistics)1→4
- Pattern recognition (psychology)4→7
- Set (abstract data type)4→6
- Random forest2→4
- Context (archaeology)9
- MEDLINE6
- Set (abstract data type)5
- Generative grammar5
- Variety (cybernetics)5
Where artificial intelligence 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 artificial intelligence patents in Canada
Canada artificial intelligence patent filing is accelerating — 9,652 filings from 3,011 assignees (2016–2025), led by Toronto Dominion BANK, Royal BANK Of Canada, D WAVE Systems; annual filings 209→1385.
- Toronto Dominion BANK531
- Royal BANK Of Canada484
- D WAVE Systems469
- Schlumberger Technology406
- Schlumberger CA405
- Services Petroliers Schlumberger298
- Dwave SYS256
- Element AI224
Common questions
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