Best Semiconductors Companies in British Columbia, Canada
The 65 best Semiconductors companies in British Columbia, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Aupera.
Our analysis of 219 Semiconductors companies
$47.9b in tracked funding; 70% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in British Columbia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aupera Provider of an AI and cloud-based integrated systems for video processing and real-time analytics applications | $50M | 56 mo ago | Series B | Roy Liao Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | 2 patents Flash storage management: file systems and distributed RAID for solid-state memory | — |
| 2 | 1QBit Hardware-agnostic platform for quantum computing | $45M | 95 mo ago | Series B | — | 2012 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+22 | — | — |
| 3 | RavenQuest BioMed Manufacturer of UV curable adhesives and related materials | $43M | 83 mo ago | Public | Jay Dhaliwal CEO | 1987 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Lite Access Fiber-optic deployment components provider | $26M | 43 mo ago | Public | — | 2003 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Redlen Technologies Manufacturer of Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) semiconductor radiation imaging modules | $17M | 138 mo ago | Acquired | Glenn Bindley President & CEO | 1999 | WixSentryBootstrap+11 | 48 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 job opening |
| 6 | Light-Based Technologies Designs ICs for lighting industry | $17M | 177 mo ago | Deadpooled | Art Aylesworth CEO | 2004 | — | 48 patents LED driver and isolated power supply circuits for advanced lighting control | — |
| 7 | Vortek Industries Semiconductor rapid thermal processing systems | $15M | 277 mo ago | Acquired | Reg Allen ex-CEO | 1976 | — | — | — |
| 8 | AirTest Provider of sensors for building energy management 19Growth top 45%Funding top 49%Global bottom 37%Tech bottom 33% All 6 signals ▾Growthtop 45% Fundingtop 49% Globalbottom 37% Techbottom 33% Marketbottom 24% Newsbottom 22% Funding: Raised $5.3M across 15 rounds · 15 rounds over 22 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 19/100 | $5M | 27 mo ago | Public | — | 1996 | WebflowreCAPTCHAHSTS+9 | — | — |
| 9 | Environmental Sensors Manufactures moisture and water sensors / probes and accompanying readers | $4M | 140 mo ago | Public | Johan Grandin CEO | 1973 | — | 10 patents Soil moisture measurement via insertable TDT rod probes and related moisture sensors. | — |
| 10 | Intrinsyc Product development services for intelligent connected devices. | $3M | 99 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1992 | — | — | — |
| 11 | LMI Technologies Provider of AI-powered inspection and optimization solutions for factories using 3D sensors | $3M | 80 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2011 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+41 | 9 patents High‑speed non‑contact 3D measurement and vision sensors for industrial and agricultural inspection | 1 launch |
| 12 | LGTmedical Smartphone attached pulse oximeter | $2M | 147 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tom Walker President & CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Illusense Leak Detection for Oil Pipelines | $2M | 117 mo ago | Funding Raised | Nathan Chan Co-Founder | 2013 | — | 15 patents High‑precision interferometric lidar/radar systems for simultaneous range and Doppler measurement. | — |
| 14 | Syscor Wireless Sensors for monitoring floating roofs in petroleum storage tanks | $1M | 143 mo ago | Seed | Nikolay Tzonev CEO | 2008 | GravPHPPure CSS+9 | — | — |
| 15 | Photon Control Manufacturer of fibre optic sensors for industrial process monitoring | $750K | 223 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 1988 | — | 88 patents Fiber-optic multi-parameter temperature sensing probes for industrial process monitoring | — |
| 16 | SiliconIntervention company is a fabless semiconductor providing advanced analog and mixed signals solution | $330K | 73 mo ago | Seed | Martin Mallinso Founder | 2018 | — | 87 patents Analog signal processing hardware: sigma‑delta ADCs, analog neural‑net FFT accelerators, mixed‑signal logic. | — |
| 17 | SST Wireless Develops sensors and gateways for multiple applications | $312K | 72 mo ago | Seed | — | 2004 | — | 8 patents Vehicle structural health monitoring and integrated body-mounted wireless antenna systems | 1 launch |
| 18 | Ynvisible Provides printable display technology based on electrochromic displays | $193K | 15 mo ago | Public | Michael Robinson CEO | 2010 | Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+20 | — | 1 partnership |
| 19 | Wolverineexploration Research, development, design, manufacturing, and testing of electronic products | $104K | 175 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2006 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in British Columbia
#1
Public · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2010 · 32 employees$193Kraised▾
Ynvisible provides printable display technology based on electrochromic displays. Its solutions are based on electrochromic display technology. It claims this provides benefits like low power, low weight, thin, flexibility, transparency, and robustness. Its displays can be integrated into a high volume into smart, interactive labels for packaging and CPG products. Some of its customers include Loreal, IDTechEx, Storaenso, and others.
- Mar 2025Post IPO$379.7K
- May 2021Post IPO$9.9M
- Feb 2021Post IPO$4.4M
- Jun 2019Post IPO$56.8K
#2
Public · Delta, British Columbia · founded 1996 · 13 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Provider of sensors for building energy management. The company helps in delivering solutions to commercial buildings such as ventilation control, humidity, and moisture control, parking ventilation control, air velocity measurement, and more. Applications are in the areas of agriculture, hospitality, industries, medical, electronics, telecommunication, and automotive fields.
- Mar 2024Post IPO$40.7K
- Feb 2023Post IPO$14.9K
- Mar 2022Post IPO$1.6M
- Apr 2021Post IPO$19.1K
#3
Public · Richmond, British Columbia · founded 2003 · 20 employees$25.5Mraised▾
Fiber-optic deployment components provider. It provides fiber-optic cable installation and deployment components to the operators, service providers, and business customers. Its microduct and air-blown fiber technologies enable the installation of fiber-optic networks and network kits. Air-blown fiber is a method of installing fibre optic cables that rely on the flow of compressed air.
- Nov 2022Post IPO$1.1M
- Mar 2022Post IPO$835.5K
- Mar 2022Post IPO$1M
- Feb 2021Post IPO$1.3M
#4
Series B · Burnaby, British Columbia · founded 2014$50Mraised▾
Provider of an AI and cloud-based integrated systems for video processing and real-time analytics applications. It provides users with a company that provides AI inference, custom computer vision pipeline development and deployment, data collection, model re-training, converged architecture of video transcoding, content analytics, and video storage systems.
- Oct 2021Series B$50M
- Aug 2020Series A—
- Oct 2016Seed—
#5
Public · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1987$42.8Mraised▾
Manufacturer of UV curable adhesives and related materials. This company produces a wide variety of adhesives, including one- and two-component UV adhesives, silicone adhesives, acrylic adhesives, epoxy adhesives, and polyurethane adhesives. They also offer pressure-sensitive adhesives, hot melt adhesives, and electrically conductive adhesives. The adhesives are designed for various applications and materials, including glass, metal, plastic, and ceramics. The company provides customized adhesive solutions to meet specific customer requirements. Their product line includes adhesives with varying properties such as viscosity, curing speed, and temperature resistance. They serve diverse industries, including automotive, electronics, and medical.
- Jul 2019Post IPO$1.9M
- Mar 2019Post IPO$1.6M
- Jul 2018Post IPO$6.3M
- Mar 2018Post IPO$26.3M
#6
Series B · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2012 · 69 employees$45Mraised▾
1QB Information Technologies (1QBit) is a quantum computing software company which has created a hardware-agnostic platform (can be integrated with both classical and quantum computers) for performing quantum computation. Provides an API endpoint which the industry partners can integrate into their existing applications. Partnered with D-Wave Systems, its software reformulates optimization problems into the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) format necessary to compute with D-Wave's quantum annealing processors. The company is primarily focused on applications such as computational finance, the energy industry, and the life sciences.
- Jun 2018Conventional Debt—
- Nov 2017Series B$45M
- 2014Series A—
- 2013Seed—
#7
Acquired · Saanich, British Columbia · founded 1999 · 119 employees$17.1Mraised▾
Manufacturer of Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) semiconductor radiation imaging modules. These modules are used in medical imaging, security screening, and non-destructive testing applications. The company develops photon counting detector solutions for computed tomography and offers application-specific detector modules. Its manufacturing process combines advanced CZT material with sophisticated electronics. The company's technology is used to create higher-resolution, lower-dose imaging products.
- Dec 2014Series D$1.5M
- Mar 2014Series D$5.5M
- Apr 2013Series C—
- Jun 2010Grant (prize money)$747.4K
#8
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2004$17Mraised▾
Light-Based Technologies designs and manufactures LED driver and LED controller IC solutions for solid-state lighting fixture manufacturers.The company offers proprietary control and power electronics that lower barriers to adoption, accelerate design iterations, and provide functionality improvements for solid-state lighting products.Its products are used in single channel deep and multi-channel dimming and multi-mode control.In 2013, the company has shut down its operations.
- Sep 2011Series B$7.5M
- Sep 2010Series B$7.5M
- Mar 2010Series A$2M
#9
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1976$15.3Mraised▾
Developer of advanced semiconductor rapid thermal processing technologies. The company focuses on developing arc lamp systems which are used in the manufacture of semiconductors. It also specializes in optical delivery, measurement and monitoring systems.
#10
Funding Raised · New Westminster, British Columbia · founded 2011 · 355 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered inspection and optimization solutions for factories using 3D sensors. Their 'FactorySmart' line of sensors is used for providing factory automation services. Other product lines involving 3D sensors are Gocator 3D Smart Sensors, HDI 3D Scanning Systems, and MikroCAD 3D Surface metrology systems.
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$2.7M
#11
Acquired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1992 · 93 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Intrinsyc is a product development company providing services for embedded, M2M, intelligent connected or IoT products. It partners with OEMs to make products like smartphones, embedded applications, robotics, wearables, automotive, medical, videoconferencing, digital signage, industrial and consumer cameras. Apart from product development services, it provides products like system on modules, development platforms, single board computers, etc. It claims to be an expert on Snapdragon technology from Qualcomm.
- Mar 2018Conventional Debt$3.4M
#12
Public · Sidney, British Columbia · founded 1973 · 3 employees$4Mraised▾
ESV Resources Ltd, formerly ESI Environmental Sensors Inc is a developer and manufacturer of patented and proprietary systems for water management. Its only reportable segment being environmental sensors. The company's product is used in Oil, Agriculture, Environmental Research, Waste Management, Civil Engineering, and Golf Courses/Turf Grass industries. Its product portfolio includes Flo-Point, Moisture-Point, and Gro-Point.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Semiconductors coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Semiconductors is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 739 Canada-affiliated papers.
- Polytechnique Montréal94
- University of Toronto60
- University of Waterloo57
- McGill University45
- University of British Columbia35
- Photonics15→24
- Transistor7→13
- Voltage5→11
- Photonic integrated circuit13→17
- Amplifier1→5
- Converters1→8
- Power (physics)1→7
- Photonics8→12
- Transient (computer programming)2→6
- Adder1→5
- Electronic circuit4→8
Where semiconductors 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 semiconductors patents in Canada
Canada semiconductors patent filing is cooling — 1,206 filings from 674 assignees (2016–2025), led by Vuereal, ATI Technologies ULC, GAN Systems; annual filings 129→94.
- Vuereal173
- ATI Technologies ULC84
- GAN Systems81
- Intel65
- Ignis Innovation65
- Advanced Micro Devices59
- Alpha & Omega Semiconductor INT58
- Tischler Michael A57
Common questions
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