Best Road Transport Tech Companies in Montreal, Canada
The 31 best Road Transport Tech companies in Montreal, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Busbud.
Our analysis of 99 Road Transport Tech companies
$54.1b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Road Transport Tech companies in Montreal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Busbud App-based bus travel bookings | $46M | 56 mo ago | Series C | Michael Gradek Co-Founder and CTO | 2011 | VarnishTailwind CSSBootstrap+21 | — |
| 2 | Transit App-based platform offering trip planning services | $25M | 96 mo ago | Series B | Sam Vermette Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — |
| 3 | Bus.com Online platform for booking charter bus | $22M | 33 mo ago | Series B | — | 2013 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+27 | — |
| 4 | Teo Taxi Online electric car ride-hailing aggregator | $17M | 105 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | HubSpot CMS HubTikTok PixelLinkedin Insight Tag+19 | — |
| 5 | Eva App-based platform offering taxi-hailing and on-demand delivery services | $1M | 58 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | Google MapsAzure Front DoorReact+11 | — |
| 6 | Bixi Online booking platform for shared bikes | $1M | 158 mo ago | Seed | Christian Vermette CEO & MD | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 7 | Communauto App-based platform offering electric car-sharing services | — | 121 mo ago | Late Stage | Benoit Robert Founder & CEO | 1994 | Cart FunctionalityWordPress Block EditorElementor+31 | — |
| 8 | 8D Technologies POS solutions for bike sharing and parking | — | — | Acqui-Hired | Jean-Sebastien Bettez Co-Founder & CTO | 2009 | — | — |
Top 7 Road Transport Tech companies in Montreal
#1
Series B · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2013 · 108 employees$21.7Mraised▾
Online platform for booking charter bus. Users can book buses by providing location, destination, user details, payment details, preferred dates, and more.
- Feb 2024Series B$600K
- Jun 2019Series B$15.2M
- Apr 2017Series A$5M
- 2016Seed$120K
#2
Series C · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2011 · 86 employees$46Mraised▾
App-based bus travel bookings. It helps users find and select bus routes through clear and organized digital tools. The platform supports comparing options so trips can be planned with simplicity. It offers an online space where tickets and travel details are managed in one place.
- Feb 2022Series C$11M
- Sep 2020Series C$12M
- Sep 2018Series B$2M
- Jan 2018Series B$11M
#3
Series B · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2013 · 196 employees$24.9Mraised▾
App-based platform offering trip planning services. The platform enables users to plan for various transits like public transits, taxi hailing, etc. It enables users to get live transit details, route navigation services, subway maps, etc. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS devices.
- Nov 2018Series B$17.5M
- Sep 2017Series A$5M
- Sep 2016Seed$2.4M
- Apr 2013Seed$37.5K
#4
Series A · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2015 · 18 employees$17Mraised▾
Online electric car ride-hailing aggregator
- Feb 2018Series A$17M
- Nov 2015Seed—
#5
Seed · Montreal, Quebec · founded 2018 · 46 employees$1.2Mraised▾
App-based platform offering taxi-hailing and on-demand delivery services. The platform enables users to find and book their rides by providing location, passenger details, etc. It offers features like live vehicle tracking, variant payment options, etc. Also, it offers on-demand delivery services. The mobile application is available for both Android and iOS platforms.
- Dec 2021Seed$1.2M
#6
Seed · Montreal, Montreal · founded 2014$1Mraised▾
Online booking platform for shared bikes
#7
Late Stage · Montreal, Montreal · founded 1994 · 150 employees—raised▾
App-based platform offering electric car-sharing services. The platform enables users to find, book and unlock vehicles through the mobile application. It offers features like electric fleets, variant payment options, extends reservations, etc. At the end of the ride, users have to leave the vehicle at their preferred parking spaces. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS platforms.
- Sep 2016PE—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Road Transport Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Autonomous Vehicles — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 602 Canada-affiliated papers.
- University of Waterloo92
- Carleton University42
- University of Toronto39
- Concordia University36
- University of Ottawa29
- Computer vision1→18
- Robustness (evolution)1→13
- Control theory (sociology)2→14
- Object detection1→11
- Convolutional neural network1→5
- Computer vision1→14
- Control theory (sociology)1→13
- Trajectory1→12
- Real-time computing1→10
- Automation1→6
- Systems engineering1→4
Where autonomous vehicles 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 autonomous vehicles patents in Canada
Canada autonomous vehicles patent filing is cooling — 334 filings from 341 assignees (2016–2025), led by Blackberry, Rohani Mohsen, Research IN Motion; annual filings 26→21.
- Blackberry18
- Rohani Mohsen16
- Research IN Motion15
- Huawei TECH12
- LUO JUN11
- Yeung Peter11
- Medicago10
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals10
Common questions
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