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THE CANADA EDITION 2026

Canada’s
recruiting tech industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping recruiting tech in Canada. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Recruiting Tech illustration
Companies tracked 525Recruiting Tech ecosystem in Canada Disclosed funding $803.49M31 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 50With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 1151 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Canada’s recruiting tech leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Recruiting Tech company highlights in Canada, snapshot 2 September 2026
Company
When I Workwheniwork.com$224.01M—180—
Talent.comtalent.com$189.94M—399—
Certncertn.co$155.28M—500—
7shifts7shifts.com$130.89M5 roles403—
Crewcrew.co$18.31M—24—
Evoliaevolia.com$12.99M—44—
Plum.ioplum.io$12.07M—50—
MobSquadmobsquad.io$8.57M—50—
EightSix Network86network.com—8 roles——
Creative Nichecreativeniche.com—6 roles46—
Freelance.cafreelance.ca—6 roles——
Michael Pagemichaelpage.ca—6 roles——
Reelcruitreelcruit.com—6 roles——
Working Energyworkingenergy.ca—6 roles——
Ribbonribbon.ai—5 roles——
Andgoandgosystems.com——70—
Belocumbelocum.com——280—
Canada Job Bankcanadajobbank.org——189—
CareerBeaconcareerbeacon.com——17—
Conexis VMSconexisvmssoftware.com————
Job Bankjobbank.gc.ca————
Jobspressojobspresso.co————
Karma Castingkarmacasting.com——97—
TimeWellScheduledtimewellscheduled.com————
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Recruiting Tech industry KPIs in Canada

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

2 September 2026
Hiring participation9.5%

50 of 525 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation7.6%

40 of 525 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share70.8%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$3M

Midpoint of 58 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 70.8% of disclosed capital, while 92.4% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Canada recruiting tech has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Canada recruiting tech
$0$83.9M$167.81M$251.71M$335.61M2016: $17.88M20162017: $4.37M20172018: $12.56M20182019: $68.95M20192020: $51.08M20202021: $231.12M20212022: $294.4M20222023: $44.67M20232024: $8.8M20242025: $38M2025
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Annual recruiting tech funding and company formation in Canada
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$17.88M386
2017$4.37M355
2018$12.56M385
2019$68.95M467
2020$51.08M334
2021$231.12M366
2022$294.4M146
2023$44.67M476
2024$8.8M252
2025$38M72
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • When I Work27.9%
  • Talent.com23.6%
  • Certn19.3%
  • Other companies29.2%

Funding by stage

76 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel44 57.9%
Series A–B16 21.1%
Series C+ / PE6 7.9%
Grants, debt & other10 13.2%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Seed04/2026
Fairly —

Backed by Accelerate Fund.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

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Series C02/2022
7shifts7shifts.com$80M

Backed by Enlightened Hospitality Investments and Ten Coves Capital and others.

Series B04/2022
Certncertn.co$50M

Backed by Inovia Capital and Telstra Ventures and others.

Series A11/2020
Certncertn.co$27.8M

Backed by Inovia Capital and 01 Advisors and others.

Series B05/2021
7shifts7shifts.com$21.5M

Backed by Enlightened Hospitality Investments and Relay Ventures and others.

Series A01/2019
7shifts7shifts.com$10M

Backed by Napier Park Global Capital and Teamworthy Ventures and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

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Annual accounts availability

The measured Canada identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: world_filings_distributed exposes no reviewed Canadian national-ID key; none of the designated Canadian identities carried a CIK.; The measured Canada identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: world_filings_distributed exposes no reviewed Canadian national-ID key; none of the designated Canadian identities carried a CIK.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Canada companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

16 of the 525 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (3%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 407,470 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Talent.comtalent.com14,037,9085678.3%
Job Bankjobbank.gc.ca3,398,9796442.6%
When I Workwheniwork.com2,277,2134819.6%
We Work Remotelyweworkremotely.com2,091,8665340.8%
7shifts7shifts.com2,067,2814639.9%
RecStaffrecstaff.com852,8532297.5%
ytjobs.coytjobs.co777,6533932%
Elutaeluta.ca431,0585133.6%
Certncertn.co383,8833940.6%
Huntrhuntr.co327,4214052.6%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

61 of these companies (11.6%) publish at least one Android app — 85 apps in all, carrying 11M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
When I Work Team SchedulingWhen I Work4.1M4.8Business
7shifts: Employee Scheduling7shifts1.9M4.6Business
Canada Job BankCanada Job Bank1.2M3.8Business
Canadian Resume BuilderCanada Job Bank823.4K4.3Business
Job Bank – Job SearchJob Bank496.3K—Business
Agendrix Employee SchedulingAgendrix397.4K4.6Business
Synerion Mobile ProSynerion222.2K2.8Business
CRS Calculator - CanadaCanada Job Bank183.5K—Tools
Probuild (App for Contractors)Probuild154K4.6Productivity
Celayix Team XpressCelayix114.7K3.9Business

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q2–2026Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Hrtech8410.9MWhen I Work Team Scheduling 4.1M
Product Management Tools34.3MTime Clock Terminal 107.5K
Food Tech42M7shifts: Employee Scheduling 1.9M
Gig Employer It6311.6KSynerion Mobile Pro 222.2K
Field Force Automation7139KVeriClock 76.9K
Artificial Intelligence227.9KHuntr: Job Search Browser 27K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2022Q4: 12022Q4: 02022Q42023Q2: 22023Q2: 02023Q22023Q3: 32023Q3: 12023Q32023Q4: 22023Q4: 02023Q42024Q1: 22024Q1: 12024Q12024Q2: 12024Q2: 12024Q22024Q4: 12024Q4: 12024Q42025Q1: 12025Q1: 22025Q12025Q2: 22025Q2: 12025Q22025Q3: 12025Q3: 102025Q3

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 74 of 85 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2025Q3, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Canada recruiting tech market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Enterprise tech480
Consumer digital336
B2c e-commerce335
Future of work172
Hr saas164
Saas164
Enterprise software152
Deskless workforce110
Marketplaces67
Sharing economy46
Native ai in human resources18
Artificial intelligence18

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Enterprise tech

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

480companies
10.0%have hiring activity

48 companies hiring · $646.34M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription445
Commission on transaction182
Advertising178
E-commerce - service73
Fee-for-service45
Freemium15
Affiliate marketing4
Sponsorship2
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 9 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsprobuild.app ↗

Jackson pointed to the company’s evolution following its 2015 acquisition of ProBuild.

Funding roundscrew.co ↗

Crew, the Lehi-based fintech founded by former Divvy product leaders, has raised a $3.8 million seed round co-led by Capital Eleven and Kickstart Fund to accelerate growth of its proactive budgeting and high-yield banking platform.

Mergers & acquisitionsfaberconnect.com ↗

Faber Connect, an industry innovator that connects tradespeople directly to construction companies through its technology offerings, today announced the successful acquisition of Prime Staffing, a construction staffing company in Edmonton.

Mergers & acquisitionshellopocketed.io ↗

Deloitte Canada has announced the acquisition of Pocketed, a Vancouver-based startup known for its AI-driven platform that helps businesses identify and secure funding opportunities.

Funding roundscertn.co ↗

Certn raised $30 million from BDC Capital’s Growth Venture Fund.

Mergers & acquisitionssynerion.com ↗

In other M&A moves in 2024, cloud-based workforce management software provider Synerion USA Inc. acquired cloud-based video surveillance and access control solutions platform Qumulex Inc.

Funding roundstrustii.co ↗

Montréal-based startup Trustii has raised a $2.8-million CAD seed round to grow its risk management software, which combines automated background checks with personalized risk scoring.

New productsconexisvmssoftware.com ↗

Conexis VMS, a leader in Vendor Management Software, is excited to announce the launch of its first artificial intelligence feature “Nexi AI”, an AI agent designed to transform and elevate how customers engage with the Conexis platform.

Leadership movestalent.com ↗

Canada-based job site Talent.com has appointed Navya Rehani Gupta as chief product officer (CPO).

Full recorded event mix

Top 6 categories among 16 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Funding rounds
5
Mergers & acquisitions
4
Leadership moves
2
Capital infusions
2
New products
2
Fundraising
1

Leadership moves

1 tracked people moves

Crew ↗
Adam McGraw

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
builders firstsource→Probuild ↗Completed2026-03-19Not stated in snapshot
Faber→prime staffingAnnounced2025-09-11Not stated in snapshot
deloitte canada→Pocketed ↗Completed2025-03-11Not stated in snapshot
Synerion→qumulexAnnounced2025-01-06Not stated in snapshot
tourmaline oil→Crew ↗Announced2024-08-12Not stated in snapshot
citation→Agendrix ↗Announced2024-06-20Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

1,340 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 5,033-posting snapshot covers 41 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Bartender30
Business Analyst27
Server26
Project Manager25
Product Director – Canadian Operations23
Line Cook / Chef De Partie18
0 internship postings

29 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

1,398 postings specify a level.

unspecified
3,635
manager
766
senior
352
lead
199
entry
64
intern
17

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 5,033 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Hubspot
2
Linkedin Sales Navigator
2
6Sense
2
Zoominfo
2
Terraform
1
Roi Models
1
Rest Apis
1
Infrastructure As Code
1
Sprint Planning
1
Authentication/Authorization
1
ADVERTISED PAY$56.6K/ year

Median across 908 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

manager$74.3K/ year344 postings
senior$67.6K/ year53 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

183 founders and chief executives across 140 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

27 profiles with education records.

University of Toronto
11
York University
4
Harvard Business School
3
Harvard University
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1
University of Western Australia Business School
1
Kellogg School of Management
1
The University of Sydney
1

Prior employers

3 profiles with prior-work records.

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT

Where companies are based

Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.

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UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Recruiting Tech in Canada: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

KEEP EXPLORING

Put Canada in context

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Company ecosystem snapshot: 2 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.

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