Industry landscapes
Industry report

Funding and advertised pay are reported in USD; filed accounts retain their stated source currency and basis.

Exchange-rate basis

Indicative conversions use ECB reference rates dated 2026-09-14, applied consistently across all periods. They are not historical exchange rates. Indian rupees may use crore (1 crore = 10 million); other currencies use K, M and B. CSV downloads, source documents and quoted news headlines retain their original currencies.

THE VANCOUVER EDITION 2026

Vancouver’s
retail industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping retail in Vancouver. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

Snapshot: Funding in USD
Illustrated cover for Retail Industry Landscape of Vancouver
CA
COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Retail illustration
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Vancouver’s retail leaders

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

Expand panel +
Retail company highlights in Vancouver, snapshot 2 September 2026
Company
BuildDirectbuilddirect.com$157.09M—101—
Elastic Path Softwareelasticpath.com$156.67M—216—
Indochinoindochino.com$47.8M6 roles600—
Monosmonos.com$40M—78—
Cymax Businesscymax.com$25M—299—
Mobifymobify.com$25M—47—
ChopValuechopvalue.com$24.23M—35—
CRAiLAR Fiber Technologies Internationalcrailar-fti.com$19.82M———
Aritziaaritzia.com—10 roles8,300—
METRIEmetrie.com—10 roles922—
Skoahskoah.com—7 roles——
iQmetrixiqmetrix.com—7 roles408—
Primo Brands Incprimobrandsinc.com—6 roles——
ILIA Beautyiliabeauty.com—5 roles149—
Native Shoesnativeshoes.com—4 roles90—
Articlearticle.com——698—
Clearlyclearly.ca——241—
Cupshecupshe.com——101—
DTCdatablecorp.com——15—
Forte Seriesforteseries.com————
Grounded Peoplgroundedpeople.com————
Herbal Dispatchherbaldispatch.com————
Thinkificthinkific.com——354—
lululemonshop.lululemon.com——34,000—
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 ↗

Company discovery

Recorded evidence only

Explore the live startup set in Radar

No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.

Explore classified startups in Radar ↗
THE KEY SIGNALS

Retail industry KPIs in Vancouver

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

2 September 2026
Hiring participation6.6%

31 of 467 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation10.1%

47 of 467 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share58.1%

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

Median disclosed round$2M

Midpoint of 57 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 58.1% of disclosed capital, while 89.9% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

Explore the segments →
CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Vancouver retail has grown

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

Expand panel +
2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Vancouver retail
$0$38.22M$76.43M$114.65M$152.87M2016: $43.24M20162017: $18.64M20172018: $107.62M20182019: $23.16M20192020: $7.37M20202021: $20.32M20212022: $134.09M20222023: $15.2M20232024: $19.36M20242025: $5.64M2025
View the numbers
Annual retail funding and company formation in Vancouver
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$43.24M276
2017$18.64M263
2018$107.62M385
2019$23.16M335
2020$7.37M433
2021$20.32M415
2022$134.09M235
2023$15.2M95
2024$19.36M34
2025$5.64M23
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • BuildDirect25.3%
  • Elastic Path Software25.2%
  • Indochino7.7%
  • Other companies41.9%

Funding by stage

71 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel23 32.4%
Series A–B15 21.1%
Series C+ / PE6 8.5%
Grants, debt & other27 38.0%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
0 rounds

Swipe or scroll horizontally to browse.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

Swipe or scroll horizontally to browse.

Series B09/2022
Monosmonos.com$30M

Backed by venn growth partners and Strand Equity Partners and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Expand panel +

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.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

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

Busiest websites

19 of the 467 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (4.1%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 584,671 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Aritziaaritzia.com13,622,6636872.4%
Thinkificthinkific.com8,212,7995351.4%
Cupshecupshe.com4,354,2395483.6%
Makeshipmakeship.com2,575,8084764.6%
Articlearticle.com1,981,6575453.6%
MECmec.ca1,720,7146357.1%
Forte Seriesforteseries.com1,525,3585581.4%
Monosmonos.com929,4994979.4%
Vessivessi.com828,6814978.8%
OAK + FORToakandfort.com584,6714475.7%

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

Most-installed apps

21 of these companies (4.5%) publish at least one Android app — 35 apps in all, carrying 21.1M installs between them.

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 (2023Q1–2024Q3).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Horizontal E-Commerce217.6MShopSavvy - Barcode Scanner 17.3M
Fashion Tech42.7MCupshe - Swimwear & Clothing 2M
E-Commerce Enablers11538.5KThinkific 216.2K
Continued Learning6440.5KShahid University 212.7K
Pet Tech227KDoggy Logs - Track Your Pack! 24.4K
In Store Retail Tech618.4KmyRQ 9.4K
Enterprise Resource Planning510KDG1 395
Assistive Tech62.9Kdoze: goodnight mind for teens 1.3K

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.

2023Q1: 12023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 32023Q2: 02023Q22023Q4: 12023Q4: 02023Q42024Q1: 12024Q1: 12024Q12024Q3: 32024Q3: 32024Q3

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 33 of 35 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2024Q3, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Vancouver retail market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

Expand panel +

Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital253
B2c e-commerce238
Internet first brands128
B2c fashion e-commerce99
Enterprise tech93
Internet first fashion brands67
Commerce enablers63
Enterprise software59
Saas43
Retail saas37
Marketplaces36
E-commerce saas32

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

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

253companies
7.1%have hiring activity

18 companies hiring · $159.18M disclosed funding

Explore in Radar

How companies make money

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

E-commerce - product322
Subscription114
E-commerce - service75
Physical commerce57
Advertising48
Commission on transaction47
Fee-for-service14
Sponsorship4
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

Expand panel +
Recent corporate headlines 9 dated reports
Funding roundsfreshline.io ↗

"$150M in capital builds on a previous $60M, bringing the total financial support for FreshLine to north of US$200M."

Mergers & acquisitionsaritzia.com ↗

Fashion retailer Aritzia (Vancouver, B.C.) has acquired Fred Segal’s famed Los Angeles boutique, report a variety of news sources, including Business of Fashion.

Funding roundsgroundedpeople.com ↗

Grounded People Apparel Inc. ("Grounded" or the "Company"(CSE:SHOE.X)(OTC PINK:GPAIF)(Frankfurt:K1G, WKN: A3DVB1) announces that it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") of up to 10,000,000 units (the "Units") at a price of $0.10 per Unit, for gross proceeds of up to $1,000,000.

Mergers & acquisitionsshop.lululemon.com ↗

Allstate Corp acquired a new stake in shares of lululemon athletica inc. (NASDAQ:LULU – Free Report) during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Funding roundsdoubl.ca ↗

Okanagan Woman Angel Funds this month unveiled a pre-seed level investment in Canadian startup DOUBL.

Mergers & acquisitionsomnicart.tech ↗

Philadelphia-based dlivrd Technologies has acquired Vancouver startup Omnicart’s proprietary platform to accelerate the growth of its off‑premise technology built for managing complex, high-value delivery operations.

Funding roundsherbaldispatch.com ↗

Herbal Dispatch Inc. (CSE: HERB) (“Herbal Dispatch” or the “Company”) announces that it has completed a debt financing for gross proceeds of $600,000 to support the Company’s growth initiatives (the “Debt Financing”).

Funding roundsshiptop.com ↗

The B.C. startup secured capital primarily from investors Dino Verbrugge and Jared Vegosen, co-founders of DV Trading Company, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm.

Earningsthinkific.com ↗

Thinkific Labs Inc. (THNC-T) reported first-quarter revenue and profit that was in line with expectations.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 272 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Earnings
100
Leadership moves
86
Company announcements
21
Lawsuit
16
New products
16
Board Updates
10
Funding rounds
7
Mergers & acquisitions
4
Contracts
4
Buyback
2
5 activity cards

Swipe or scroll horizontally to browse.

Leadership moves

27 tracked people moves

lululemon ↗
Esi Eggleston Bracey

Appointment Director

lululemon ↗
Heidi O’Neill

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

lululemon ↗
Shane Grant

Departure Previously Director

Thinkific ↗
Ryan Donovan

Resignation

Thinkific ↗
Greg Smith

Promotion Chief Executive Officer

Thinkific ↗
Brandon Nussey

Retirement Previously Chair of the Audit Committee

James Connell

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

lululemon ↗
Breezethrough leggings

Leggings

lululemon ↗
"Get Low"

Workout line

Aritzia ↗
latest flagship store

Retail store

Aritzia ↗
first app

Mobile application

Elastic Path’s composable commerce platform

Composable Commerce Platform

Workforce actions

1 companies with reported reductions

lululemon ↗

150 rolescost reduction

Regulatory events

2 recorded events

Aritzia ↗

trading haltedCIRO

Aritzia ↗

trading resumedCIRO

Litigation

13 tracked suits

Company
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton v Lululemon Athletica

forever chemicals investigation in apparelRegulatory · Ongoing

Company
Nike Inc. v Lululemon Athletica

Flyknit patent claimsPatent · Appeal

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

5companies
109period observations
9.1%median reported growth

Median across 87 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

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

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Aritzia→fred segalAnnounced2026-02-20Not stated in snapshot
allstate→lululemon ↗2026-01-23$721.0K
elliott management→lululemon ↗Announced2025-12-18$1.0B
dlivrd Technologies→OmniCart ↗Announced2025-09-16Not stated in snapshot
rokt→AfterSell ↗Announced2025-01-16Not stated in snapshot
onerail→Orderbot ↗Announced2024-10-06Not stated in snapshot

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

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

995 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 1,707-posting snapshot covers 39 employers.

Expand panel +

Most advertised job titles

Retail Associate31
Retail Associate Oshawa21
Associate Boutique Manager Crossiron Mills12
Food & Beverage Barista, A Ok Café (Front Of House)12
Supply Chain Senior Director/ Director, Supply Chain Engineering12
Style Advisor12
4 internship postings

3 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

746 postings specify a level.

unspecified
961
senior
366
manager
263
lead
93
entry
19
intern
5

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 1,707 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Ecommerce
4
Supply Chain
1
Affiliate
1
Programmatic
1
Omnichannel
1
Google Ads
1
Powerpoint
1
Microservices
1
.Net Core
1
Monitoring
1
ADVERTISED PAY$47.8K/ year

Median across 236 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

senior$90.2K/ year71 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

185 founders and chief executives across 149 companies.

Expand panel +
12 profiles

Swipe or scroll horizontally to browse.

Education networks

16 profiles with education records.

The University of British Columbia
5
Queen's University
2
Harvard University
1
Harvard Business School
1
INSEAD
1
Cornell University
1
Stanford University
1
McGill University
1

Prior employers

3 profiles with prior-work records.

Google
1
eBay
1
Amazon
1

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

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

30,387 articles in the measured 12-month window.

Expand panel +
30,387articles in the measured year
8,924articles in 2026Q1
76.7%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Retail coverage tagged Vancouver · articles per complete quarter

02,8835,7678,65011,5332021Q2: 6,1962021Q22021Q3: 6,5952021Q4: 4,7532022Q1: 6,0992022Q2: 5,6122022Q22022Q3: 4,8272022Q4: 6,7882023Q1: 5,5172023Q2: 6,0382023Q22023Q3: 6,4522023Q4: 6,7632024Q1: 7,2262024Q2: 8,6592024Q22024Q3: 7,0612024Q4: 8,9402025Q1: 10,0292025Q2: 7,2542025Q22025Q3: 7,3342025Q4: 7,7102026Q1: 8,9242026Q1
View quarterly article counts
QuarterArticles
2021Q26,196
2021Q36,595
2021Q44,753
2022Q16,099
2022Q25,612
2022Q34,827
2022Q46,788
2023Q15,517
2023Q26,038
2023Q36,452
2023Q46,763
2024Q17,226
2024Q28,659
2024Q37,061
2024Q48,940
2025Q110,029
2025Q27,254
2025Q37,334
2025Q47,710
2026Q18,924

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
14,626 positive · 204 neutral · 4,158 negative
2022
18,173 positive · 729 neutral · 4,395 negative
2023
19,070 positive · 275 neutral · 5,396 negative
2024
24,704 positive · 460 neutral · 6,671 negative
2025
24,776 positive · 589 neutral · 6,932 negative

Leading coverage topics

Retail coverage tagged Vancouver · ranked by full-period article count.

Administrative And Political Subdivisions4,196,209 articles in the full recorded period
899,080 recent · 769,874 prior
Geographic Naming Conventions And Etymology81,545 articles in the full recorded period
44,908 recent · 8,623 prior
International Sports Competitions39,501 articles in the full recorded period
9,997 recent · 9,774 prior
Trade Policies And Agreements34,454 articles in the full recorded period
10,491 recent · 20,185 prior
International Political Relations29,060 articles in the full recorded period
9,213 recent · 7,831 prior
Olympic Games Coverage23,102 articles in the full recorded period
5,736 recent · 5,891 prior
Sports Broadcast Rights Updates17,337 articles in the full recorded period
2,175 recent · 3,378 prior
Security And Defense Policies16,798 articles in the full recorded period
4,765 recent · 4,241 prior
Professional League Updates16,453 articles in the full recorded period
2,502 recent · 2,652 prior
Sports Governance And Policy Changes16,301 articles in the full recorded period
3,002 recent · 3,148 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

Canada comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
multilateral diplomacy1,06872448%
angel investors1,034387167%
ice sports881228286%
international cups81857343%
wto rulings75639492%
investment deal75444071%
national security strategy62438861%
share price62343344%
public offering60041246%
cannabis policy reform discussions57236457%
tariff negotiations6,30015,313-59%
free trade deals3,1306,389-51%
trade dispute mechanisms2,9294,672-37%
bilateral trade1,9193,519-45%
preferential tariff1,2853,321-61%

Event and signal lenses

Canada comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

561,752 classified articles

tariff negotiations, free trade deals, trade dispute mechanisms

36.0% critical · 35.3% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

151,178 classified articles

angel investors, investment deal, trade deficits fx

28.0% critical · 42.7% positive
Rising

Growth

224,025 classified articles

league expansion news, earnings report, quarterly financials

26.5% critical · 46.7% positive

Retail coverage tagged Vancouver. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Retail in Vancouver: 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.

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.

Canonical landscape ↗
Coming soon