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Semiconductors & PhotonicsSpace

Montréal producer of ultra-high-purity specialty semiconductor compounds and wafers — cadmium telluride, cadmium zinc telluride and indium antimonide — plus multi-junction space solar cells, bismuth chemicals and low-melting-point alloys.

Link verified Sep 15, 2026

AEPONYX

QuantumSemiconductors & Photonics

Designs silicon-nitride photonic integrated circuits with integrated MEMS optical switches, used for tunable lasers, filtering and switching in telecom, sensing and quantum systems. A Pasqal subsidiary since 2025.

Link verified Sep 6, 2026

Applied Brain Research

Semiconductors & PhotonicsAI

Waterloo developer of state-space-model AI for edge devices, licensing speech-to-text and text-to-speech software and selling the TSP1 accelerator ASIC for low-power on-device voice and sensor inference.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026

Applied Nanotools

QuantumSemiconductors & Photonics

Edmonton nanofabrication foundry using 100 keV electron-beam lithography to make X-ray and EUV optics, metalenses, gratings and silicon-photonic circuits. An enabling supplier to quantum photonics research, not a quantum computing developer.

Link verified Sep 6, 2026

Avalon Holographics

Semiconductors & PhotonicsDefence

St. John's developer of glasses-free light-field holographic displays, building its own OLED microcavity pixel architectures and optical metasurfaces alongside the rendering stack, for defence, simulation and 3D visualization.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026

Lethbridge, Alberta company that builds custom far-infrared and terahertz spectrometers and cryogenic laser metrology instruments, and processes and analyses data for space astronomy missions.

Link verified Sep 17, 2026

Blumind

Semiconductors & PhotonicsAI

Ottawa developer of all-analog neural signal processor chips and licensable IP cores built in standard CMOS, aimed at always-on audio, vision and sensor AI inference at the edge with very low power and latency.

Link verified Sep 15, 2026

Boréas Technologies

Semiconductors & Photonics

Bromont fabless semiconductor company designing ultra-low-power high-voltage piezoelectric driver integrated circuits on its CapDrive platform, for haptic feedback and piezo micropumps in consumer, automotive and industrial devices.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026

Brilliant Matters

Semiconductors & Photonics

Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures developer and supplier of organic semiconductor materials and related intellectual property, working with manufacturers to combine organic semiconductors with printed electronics.

Link verified Sep 17, 2026

BTQ Technologies

QuantumSemiconductors & Photonics

Builds post-quantum cryptographic infrastructure for financial and defence networks, including the QCIM security chip, quantum-safe blockchain tooling and quantum emulation software.

Link verified Sep 6, 2026

Castor Optics

Semiconductors & Photonics

Saint-Laurent designer and manufacturer of low-loss fused fibre-optic components, including couplers, mode converters, multiplexers and assemblies, for biomedical imaging, aerospace, defence, quantum and remote sensing.

Link verified Sep 17, 2026

CorActive High-Tech

Semiconductors & Photonics

Quebec City designer and manufacturer of specialty active and passive optical fibres, including in-house glass preform production and fibre drawing, for industrial lasers, telecom, LiDAR, medical and scientific markets.

Link verified Sep 17, 2026

Diffraction Limited

Semiconductors & Photonics

Ottawa designer and manufacturer of scientific imaging systems — high-sensitivity CCD and CMOS cameras, filter wheels, adaptive optics and observatory automation equipment — for scientific, industrial, aerospace and OEM applications.

Link verified Sep 17, 2026

Digitho Technologies

Semiconductors & Photonics

Bromont company developing reprogrammable photomasks for semiconductor photolithography, together with a microchip serialization platform and software that gives unit-level traceability of individual dies through the chip supply chain.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026

Québec City manufacturer of precision optical components and neurophotonics hardware, including optogenetics light sources, fibre photometry systems, miniature fluorescence microscopes and fibre-optic rotary joints, plus photonics contract manufacturing.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026

Edgewater Wireless Systems

Semiconductors & Photonics

Ottawa fabless semiconductor company selling Wi-Fi silicon and licensable IP built on its patented Spectrum Slicing architecture, which runs multiple concurrent channels in a single band, delivered as the PrismIQ product family and reference designs.

Link verified Sep 17, 2026

Enablence Technologies

Semiconductors & PhotonicsCloud & Digital Infrastructure

Ottawa designer and manufacturer of planar lightwave circuit (PLC) optical chips on silicon — CWDM, DWDM and LWDM multiplexers, switching fabrics and star couplers — sold to transceiver makers serving data centre, telecom and AI markets.

Link verified Sep 15, 2026

EXFO

Semiconductors & PhotonicsCloud & Digital Infrastructure

Quebec City-based builder of test, measurement and monitoring instruments and software for fibre-optic and mobile networks, sold to network operators, hyperscalers and equipment manufacturers.

Link verified Sep 7, 2026

Femtum

Semiconductors & Photonics

Quebec City builder of pulsed mid-infrared fibre lasers and laser process tools for semiconductor and photonics manufacturing, including wafer-level trimming and photonic-integrated-circuit cleaning.

Link verified Sep 17, 2026

FiberTech Optica

Semiconductors & Photonics

Kitchener designer and manufacturer of specialty fibre-optic assemblies, bundles, linear and v-groove fibre arrays, probes and hermetic vacuum feedthroughs for spectroscopy, astronomy, LiDAR and biomedical instrumentation.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026

Gentec Electro-Optics

Semiconductors & Photonics

Québec City manufacturer of laser beam measurement instruments, including thermopile and pyroelectric detectors, power and energy meters, high-energy calorimeters, beam profilers and terahertz power meters.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026

GHGSat

SpaceSemiconductors & Photonics

Operates a commercial constellation of high-resolution satellites and aircraft sensors that detect and measure methane and CO2 emissions from individual industrial facilities.

Link verified Sep 6, 2026

HaiLa Technologies

Semiconductors & Photonics

Montreal fabless semiconductor and software company developing hyper power-efficient wireless communications system-on-chip solutions, including Wi-Fi-compatible backscatter radios for battery-free and microwatt IoT sensing.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026

Huron Technologies

Semiconductors & PhotonicsDigital Health & HealthTech

St. Jacobs maker of whole-slide pathology scanners, pairing scanning laser imaging technology commercialized from the University of Waterloo with image-management and AI-assisted analysis software for clinical and research labs.

Link verified Sep 16, 2026