Best Tech for Film & TV Companies in Toronto, Canada
The 38 best Tech for Film & TV companies in Toronto, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ZoneTV.
Ranked: Best Tech for Film & TV companies in Toronto
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZoneTV Digital entertainment network for Pay TV | $27M | 47 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2002 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 2 | Mogul Productions Crowdfunding platform focused on film productions 8Funding top 50%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 38%Market bottom 15% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 50% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 15% Funding: Raised $15.2M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 8/100 | $15M | 25 mo ago | Funding Raised | Michael Colley Owner & CEO | 2019 | — | — |
| 3 | MARZ VFX solutions for Film and TV industry | $5M | 57 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceApple iCloud Mail+24 | — |
| 4 | SideFX 3D animation and VFX software provider | $2M | 234 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1987 | PythonVimeoDjango+19 | — |
| 5 | Set Scouter Online film location scouting marketplace | $250K | 130 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | SentryZohoFacebook Login+30 | — |
| 6 | SmartTones Media Audience engagement and measurement solution | $35K | — | Deadpooled | Daryl Hemingway CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 7 | North Plains Systems SaaS-based Digital asset management solutions povider | — | 186 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 1994 | — | — |
| 8 | animangaplus Animanga Plus is a premium producer of Animated Mangas and Comics. | — | — | Private | — | 2014 | — | — |
Top 7 Tech for Film & TV companies in Toronto
#1
Funding Raised · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2019 · 12 employees$15.2Mraised▾
Moghul Productions is a crowdfunding platform focused on film productions. It is based on blockchain technology to connect investors and film owners. Allows users to raise finances and capital for managing cash flows of movie budgets, fans, and investors. Users can avail rewards and perks for the investments made.
- Jul 2024ICO$1.2M
- Apr 2021ICO$14M
#2
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2002 · 33 employees$26.6Mraised▾
Digital entertainment network for Pay TV. It aggregates digital-first brands into channel lineups for PayTV. It combines PayTV and OTT to deliver programming to TV households through distribution partners and helps to generate advertising and subscription-based revenue-share opportunities. Also provides direct integration with set-top boxes.
- Oct 2022Conventional Debt—
- Oct 2022Series A$22.5M
- Nov 2015Seed$4.1M
- Conventional Debt$5M
#3
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2012 · 270 employees$5.1Mraised▾
VFX solutions for Film and TV industry. It offers VFX services using GPU clusters, game engine technology, and AI.
- Dec 2021Series A$5.1M
#4
Funding Raised · Toronto, Ontario · founded 1987 · 167 employees$1.5Mraised▾
SideFX provides 3D animation and VFX software for films, commercials, and video games. Provides modeling, rigging, animation, particle effects, dynamics, compositing, integrated rendering through it's multiple Houdini products. Supports Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows operating systems. Awards won include "Best Visual Effects". Houdini has been used in various feature animation productions films including Frozen and Zootopia, Rio, and Ant Bully.
- Mar 2007Venture Debt$1.5M
#5
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2012 · 11 employees$250Kraised▾
Set Scouter is a film location scouting marketplace that connects filmmakers looking for the set with property owners looking to rent out their space for production. Users can search for spaces by applying the location filter. It charges a booking price to owners for creating listings. Renters are charged on the total charge for every additional half hour post booking time.
- Nov 2015Seed$250K
#6
Deadpooled · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2014 · 4 employees$35Kraised▾
SmartTones Media provides audience engagement and measurement solution. The platform offered by the company provides a solution to encode, create and execute campaigns, capture and monitor data in real-time. It enables television and radio broadcasters to measure audiences in real-time.
- Seed$35K
#7
Acqui-Hired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 1994 · 94 employees—raised▾
North Plains Systems develops SaaS-based digital asset management solutions for the production, management, distribution, and archiving of rich media content for marketers, brand managers, content creators, and producers. Offers Xinet, a server-based DAM solution to manage, control, and distribute multimedia assets and streamline workflow, and Telescope, a DAM system that provides automated ingest, search, virtual collaboration, and distribution of media files through a browser-based interface. It also provides On Brand, a product for users to control, protect, create, and collaborate for their brands, and Unify, a Web-based marketing application platform. Clients include Pernod Ricard, Discovery Education, and Diageo.
- Mar 2011Series A—
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