Best Wearable Technology Companies in Vancouver, Canada
The 34 best Wearable Technology companies in Vancouver, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Recon Instruments.
Our analysis of 50 Wearable Technology companies
$7.0b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Wearable Technology companies in Vancouver
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recon Instruments Heads-up Display technology for sports and activity-specific environments | $17M | 150 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Fatigue Science Provider of sleep analyzing and tracking wearable devices | $11M | 80 mo ago | Series A | Andrew Morden CEO | 2006 | HubSpot CMS HubSentrySalesforce+26 | — | — |
| 3 | Total Flow Medical Developer of medical devices for cardiopulmonary bypass | $4M | 53 mo ago | Seed | Luke Harris Co-founder and Inventor | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 4 | LGTmedical Smartphone attached pulse oximeter | $2M | 151 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tom Walker President & CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Plantiga Provider of smart insoles for activity tracking | $1M | 64 mo ago | Seed | Norman McKay Co-Founder | 2006 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+18 | 12 patents Integrated footbed suspension systems for shock‑absorbing footwear | — |
| 6 | Enject Developer of drug delivery device to inject glucagon and treat severe hypoglycemia | $1M | 205 mo ago | Deadpooled | Richard Rylander CEO & Co-Founder | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Linquet Link valuables to smartphone in real time. | $181K | 152 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | — | 9 patents Real-time IoT object linking and digital twin integration for networked services | — |
| 8 | BioInteractive Technologies Wrist worn device for tracking hand gestures and control connected devices | $120K | 100 mo ago | Seed | Lukas Karim Merhi Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Bionic Power Wearable charger packs | $106K | 27 mo ago | Series A | — | 2007 | WordPressMySQLZoho+18 | 59 patents Patents concentrated in mechanical & energy engineering | — |
Top 12 Wearable Technology companies in Vancouver
#1
Series A · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2007 · 19 employees$106Kraised▾
Bionic Power’s first product - the PowerWalk M-Series - was developed in collaboration with the Canadian Forces and the US Army. With a device on each leg, a user walking at a comfortable speed generates an average of 12 watts of electricity. Now the company is also planning to make such products that can have applications in healthcare, direct consumer applications like on a trip etc.
- Jul 2024Series A—
- Jan 2009Seed$29K
- May 2008Seed$27K
- Oct 2007Seed$50K
#2
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2021 · 5 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Developer of medical devices for cardiopulmonary bypass. It offers cannula to prevent injury during extracorporeal circulation and minimally invasive cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
- May 2022Seed$3.5M
#3
Series A · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2006 · 40 employees$11.1Mraised▾
Fatigue Science has developed wearable devices to optimize sleep and manage fatigue in athletes, military, and organizations. The company's products include ReadiBand which is a wearable device used for tracking sleep and Readi analyzes those data to predicts sleep's impact on reaction time and cognitive effectiveness.
- Feb 2020Series A$3.2M
- Feb 2019Series A$7.6M
- Oct 2009Seed$300K
#4
Acqui-Hired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2008 · 75 employees$17Mraised▾
Recon’s award winning multi-patent and patent-pending technology platforms integrate a Heads-up Display with a micro-computer and sensor suite. Has worldwide distribution and partnerships with leading technology and optics companies. Delivers real-time access to performance stats, GPS navigation, and communication information, direct-to-eye. It has designed its products especially for sports therefore comes with shock and water-resistant technology. Acquired by Intel in 2015.
- Apr 2014Series B$7M
- Sep 2013Series A—
- Jan 2012Series A$10M
#5
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2006 · 9 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of smart insoles for activity tracking. The company has developed AI-based wearable insoles to analyze and track lower body musculoskeletal injuries, body health, and performance output. Also, it provides a mobile-based app for the users to review data and visualize the progress of the activity.
- Jun 2021Seed$1.2M
- Feb 2012Seed$250K
#6
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2012 · 7 employees$2Mraised▾
LionsGate Technologies (LGTmedical) is commercializing a suite of low cost vital signs monitoring solutions that can be downloaded as applications to smartphones, tablets and laptops. The "Vital Signs DSP" is the company’s proprietary signal processing platform for the development and commercialization of ultra-low cost vital signs monitoring applications in mHealth. Its first product, Phone Oximeter, is a small device that attaches to a smartphone and connects to a companion app. Users can put their finger on the end of the device to get blood oxygen level readings. The app will also offer a predictive score that can alert a pregnant women as to whether she is is at risk for complications because of high blood pressure.
- Mar 2014Grant (prize money)$1M
- Mar 2014Angel$1M
#7
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2007$1Mraised▾
Developer of drug delivery device to inject glucagon and treat severe hypoglycemia. The company is developing, GlucaPen, a pen-shaped drug delivery device that will inject glucagon to treat Severe Hypoglycemia which is a potentially life-threatening medical emergency that occurs in insulin using Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics.
- Sep 2009Conventional Debt$1M
#8
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2015$120Kraised▾
BioInteractive Technologies has developed a wrist-worn device that can be used for controlling connected devices using hand gestures. The device detects the hand gestures using the inertial sensor and communicates with other connected device using Bluetooth. The device can be used for AR, VR, Home automation and industrial automation applications.
- 2018Seed—
- 2018Seed$120K
#9
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2012 · 4 employees$181.4Kraised▾
Focused on connecting the real objects to the cloud. Part hardware, part smartphone app and part cloud technology, the innovative Linquet is designed to prevent the loss or theft of phones and other valuables. Linquet gives people an effortless way to keep tabs on everything important to them by allowing them to link their valuables to their smartphones.
- Feb 2014Seed$181.4K
#10
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2013 · 2 employees$85Kraised▾
Provider of fashion-focused headphones. It offers different styles of on-ear, in-ear, and over-ear headphones from premium lines, such as Friends, Urbanears, Molami, and WeSC. Its customers can try it on with the exception of earbuds.
- Nov 2013Seed$40K
- Sep 2013Seed$45K
#11
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2011 · 39 employees—raised▾
Provider of a wearable device to predict and prevent accidents in the workplace. The company provides a smart system that includes a set of wearable wireless sensors combined with a cloud-based, risk analytic engine to provide early indicators of musculoskeletal disorders. It analyses body posture and movements and helps in risk assessment for injury and musculoskeletal disorders. The system claims to assist health and safety professionals with site-specific risk assessments. It will highlight which worksites cause the most injuries, which actions are at high risk of injury, and which job classifications have the highest risk of repetitive stress and musculoskeletal injuries.
- Aug 2021Seed—
#12
Funding Raised · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2015 · 8 employees—raised▾
Reveal is a wearable device that measures and tracks body's response to anxiety in real time to understand behaviour and predict behaviour meltdowns for people suffering from autism. Reveal provides a quantified measure of anxiety by measuring physiological signals. Trying to raise money through their campaign on kickstarter.
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Wearable Technology coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Wearable Health Tech is moving in Canada
A read on the academic research around Wearable Health Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 248 Canada-affiliated papers.
- York University21
- McGill University19
- Ministry of Health16
- University of Toronto15
- McGill University Health Centre14
- Continuous glucose monitoring1→8
- Insulin1→5
- Continuous glucose monitoring16→39
- Diabetes mellitus18→38
- Type 2 diabetes6→24
- Glycemic11→25
- Type 1 diabetes8→20
- Diabetes mellitus12→22
- Continuous glucose monitoring10→19
- Type 1 diabetes5→12
- Insulin3→8
- Pregnancy1→5
Where wearable health 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 wearable health patents in Canada
Canada wearable health patent filing is steady — 23 filings from 11 assignees (2016–2025), led by SALU Design Group, Mindfull Solutions, Philips Electronics; annual filings 3→3.
- SALU Design Group6
- Mindfull Solutions3
- Philips Electronics3
- Tarkett Sports Canada3
- UNIV Kingston2
- Health Gauge2
- Deloitte LLP1
- WANG SHAN1
Common questions
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