Best Open Source Companies in Canada
The 38 best Open Source companies in Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Tasktop.
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Ranked: Best Open Source companies in Canada
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tasktop Cloud-based application lifecycle management software provider | $131M | 65 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | — | 3 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 2 | Mobify Optimise websites for mobile platform | $25M | 107 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 3 | The Open Application Network Cross-platform application development solutions provider | $22M | 107 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Discourse Open source discussion platform | $20M | 60 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | GhostNode.jsVarnish+15 | — | — |
| 5 | Ethereum Blockchain-based public network for decentralized applications | $18M | 58 mo ago | Series B | — | 2013 | TurbopackSentryNode.js+17 | — | — |
| 6 | 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 | 14 mo ago | Series B | Justin Watson Co-Founder | 2017 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | — | — |
| 7 | Tina Open-source CMS supporting Git and visual editing | $5M | 74 mo ago | Seed | Jordan Patterson Co-Founder | 2015 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+25 | 5 patents AI-driven well data interpretation and reservoir production forecasting for petroleum engineering | 1 launch |
| 8 | Protecode Open Source License Management | $4M | 223 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2006 | — | 5 patents Software code analysis and digital content provenance for IP verification and traceability | — |
| 9 | E14n Open source social media platform | $2M | 193 mo ago | Deadpooled | Evan Prodromou Founder | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Eclipse Platform offers plugins | $2M | 56 mo ago | Funding Raised | Lior Susan Founder & Partner | 2001 | GitLabAtlassian StatuspageRuby+12 | — | — |
| 11 | bitHound Code analytics for developers for Node.js | $2M | 141 mo ago | Seed | Dan Silivestru Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+9 | — | — |
| 12 | ICEsoft Provider of enterprise software solutions | $174K | 102 mo ago | Public | Brian Mckinney CEO | 2001 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — | — |
| 13 | KeyDB Provider of NoSQL databases | $150K | 72 mo ago | Acquired | John Sully Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Evidence Provider of reporting and dashboarding solutions | $125K | 60 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | Node.jsSvelteKitTailwind CSS+10 | — | — |
Top 12 Open Source companies in Canada
#1
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
#2
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2007 · 200 employees$131.3Mraised▾
Tasktop is a cloud-based application lifecycle management software provider. It provides a platform for automating the integration between various tools in a DevOps toolchain. The platform provides a centralized view of the processes happening in various tools such as APM, CD/CI, project management, and testing platforms. This helps the DevOps professional to identify the performance bottlenecks in the system. Users can also add a new tool to be integrated with the platform, without writing any code. Clients include BMW, Daimler, and Virgin Mobile.
- Apr 2021Series C$100M
- Apr 2017Series B$11.3M
- Dec 2016Series A$9M
- May 2014Series A$11M
#3
Series B · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2013 · 1 employees$18.3Mraised▾
Blockchain-based public network for decentralized applications. It is a blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. It provides a decentralized virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes. It enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications.
- Oct 2021Series B—
- Apr 2018Series A—
- 2016Seed—
- Sep 2014ICO$18.3M
#4
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2012 · 186 employees$20Mraised▾
Discourse offers an open source platform for running discussion forums. Features include support for integrating with tablet and mobile, SEO, integrates with existing site's login system with easy, robust single sign on, social login, blog integration, desktop notifications etc. Pricing varies from $100/month to $1000/month for enterprise version.
- Aug 2021Series A$20M
- Nov 2012Seed—
#5
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2007 · 47 employees$25Mraised▾
Mobify is an open eCommerce platform to optimise websites for mobile and tablet devices. Enterprises like Starbucks, Lululemon, Bosch, Ideeli and Threadless, Expedia, Coastal.com use Mobify products. Developers can build adaptive web experience by remixing HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Mobify open-source tools like Mobify.js and Mobify Cloud services.
- Sep 2017Series B$15M
- Feb 2017Series A—
- 2016Series A—
- Feb 2016Series A$10M
#6
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2017 · 14 employees$22Mraised▾
Cross-platform application development solutions provider. The features of the product include tamper-proof voting, development of cross-platform rewards programs, crowd-source funding, digital reputation, etc.
- Oct 2017Seed$22M
#7
Funding Raised · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2001 · 172 employees$2Mraised▾
Platform offers plugins. It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. Eclipse is written mostly in Java and its primary use is for developing Java applications, but it may also be used to develop applications in other programming languages via plug-ins. Also available in cloud-based versions through Orion, Eclipse Che, and Dirigible.
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$356.5K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$294.6K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$163.3K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$216.2K
#8
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2015$4.8Mraised▾
Open-source CMS supporting Git and visual editing. The platform allows users to manage content and make changes using an interface. It provides a collaborative content management solution.
- Jun 2020Seed$4.2M
- Apr 2017Angel$560K
#9
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2006 · 19 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Protecode develops and sells tools for managing open source software licensing. Protecode utilizes a comprehensive proprietary database of more than 450,000 indexed public open source projects as a reference to match against other software libraries to identify open source components and cross-reference corresponding license obligations. The Protecode product suite produces a software inventory report cross-referenced to licensing and copyright attributes to indicate corresponding licensing obligations. Protecode also offers an audit service where Protecode Professional Services can analyze software licensing in situations such as upcoming business transactions like M&A.
- Jan 2008Series A$4.2M
#10
Deadpooled · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2008 · 1 employees$2.4Mraised▾
E14N is a software company in Montreal creating activity stream servers for the social Web. Softwares include pump.io which is the activity streams server, spamicity.info is the spam filter for the social web, open farm game is the pump.io farm game. Pump.io software is useful for Mobile-first social networking, Activity stream functionality for an existing app, Experimenting with social software
- Aug 2010Series A—
- Oct 2009Seed$875K
#11
Seed · Kitchener, Ontario · founded 2013 · 7 employees$2Mraised▾
bitHound is a software analytics solution that provides developers with the information required to build software. It provides valuable insights into software projects and provides relevant actions to improve code quality. Provides personal plans starting at $6 and organisational plans starting at $25. Customers include netflix, phonegap, uber, spacecraft. Frameworks supported are Node.js.
- Nov 2014Seed$2M
#12
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2021 · 6 employees$125Kraised▾
Provider of reporting and dashboarding solutions. It provides a business intelligence platform for modern data teams to sync reports to the data with SQL and markdown. It also provides solutions such as reports and data infrastructure testing, backlog by writing analysis in code, generates pages from users data, etc.
- Sep 2021Seed$125K
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