British Columbia

Vancouver-based quantum software company (1QB Information Technologies) building design and benchmarking tools for utility-scale quantum computation, applied to optimization, finance and chemistry.

Vancouver-based builder of Cruz, an electric self-driving passenger pod that carries travellers with limited mobility through airport terminals using onboard sensors and autonomous navigation.

Vancouver-based clinical-stage biotechnology company that uses its in-house antibody discovery and characterization platform to find and develop antibody-based medicines.

North Vancouver designer and manufacturer of fibre-optic temperature sensors and edge controllers for semiconductor process equipment, AI data centres and high-voltage power systems, built on a proprietary photo-luminescent ceramic sensor material.

Vancouver company, registered as Apera AI Inc., whose 4D Vision software combines 3D vision with AI to give industrial robots human-like sight for bin picking, de-racking and assembly.

Saanichton, British Columbia ocean-technology company that manufactures acoustic instruments - the AZFP zooplankton and fish profiler and ice-profiling sonar - and builds satellite-based environmental monitoring tools.

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

Vancouver-based designer and manufacturer of long-range autonomous underwater vehicles for defence, energy and scientific subsea survey and security applications.

Builds annealing quantum computers (Advantage2) with cloud access via its Leap service. Founded in Burnaby, BC in 1999; now US-headquartered, with its quantum R&D and manufacturing centre still in Burnaby.

British Columbia operator of the Christina Lake data centre, a 75 MW hydro-powered site with its own substation, running bitcoin mining ASICs today while converting to AI colocation.

Vancouver silicon-photonics company spun out of UBC, supplying photonic IP, process design kits and photonic wire-bonding packaging for chip-to-fibre and laser integration, including quantum light sources.

Operates the EarthDaily Constellation of Earth-observation satellites and delivers calibrated daily satellite imagery plus geospatial analytics for agriculture, forestry, insurance, mining, maritime and government customers.

Metro Vancouver company building Earth-observation systems for aquatic and Arctic environments, combining AI, sensor fusion and satellite imaging; lead company on the Canadian Space Agency's smartWhales right whale monitoring stream.

British Columbia-incorporated operator of owned data centres in New Brunswick and Toronto and leased capacity in Quebec, selling NVIDIA GPU cloud capacity in Canada through its BUZZ HPC subsidiary.

Vancouver AI infrastructure company, formerly Consensus Core Technologies, running NVIDIA GPU clusters as a colocation tenant in a Montreal data centre and selling GPU-as-a-service to Canadian and international clients.

Vancouver-based financial technology company offering a spending account, prepaid Mastercard, interest earning and credit building products to Canadian consumers through a mobile app, while pursuing a federal banking licence.

Builds Clarity, an AI platform that turns hyperspectral and multispectral sensor data from satellites, aircraft, drones and industrial lines into material identification, change detection and emissions measurements.

Develops quantum reinforcement learning software for robotics, routing a robot's perception data to a quantum processor to select actions in real time in unstructured environments.

Vancouver company behind Perception-0, a vision model that finds objects, behaviours and events in video without collecting labelled data or training a task-specific model. Registered in BC under both OnDeck AI Inc. and its earlier name OnDeck Fisheries AI Inc.

Victoria-based builder of solar-powered uncrewed surface vehicles, the DataXplorer, that autonomously collect real-time ocean data for maritime security and environmental monitoring.

Burnaby, British Columbia manufacturer of high-performance frequency converters and RF components for satellite communications, including space-rated RF payloads and a K-band receiver for CubeSats and SmallSats.

Burnaby designer and manufacturer of fibre-optic temperature sensing and partial-discharge monitoring hardware, using optical fluorescence probes, transmitters and monitoring systems for switchgear, data centres, semiconductor fabs and life sciences.

Develops distributed quantum computing and networking systems based on photonically linked silicon spin qubits that emit at telecom wavelengths, letting modules connect over standard optical fiber.

Vancouver company selling on-device voice, language and vision AI SDKs — including Porcupine wake word, Cheetah and Leopard speech-to-text, Orca text-to-speech and picoLLM — that run locally on devices rather than calling a cloud API.

Vancouver-based cybersecurity services and solutions group whose subsidiaries Integra Networks and Aurora Systems Consulting hold Canadian, U.S. and NATO government contracting vehicles.

Burnaby fabless developer of optical MEMS chips — scanning, tilting and piston micromirrors, high-density mirror arrays and optical shutters — together with driver evaluation kits for optical switching, LiDAR and 3D sensing systems.

Vancouver software company, operating as Quandri Technologies Inc., whose AI platform automates insurance brokerage renewal work — policy analysis, remarketing and client outreach — inside agency management systems such as Applied Epic, Vertafore AMS360 and HawkSoft.

Develops post-quantum cryptographic communications systems for Canadian and allied defence networks, aimed at bandwidth-constrained links such as tactical radios and satellite.

Vancouver developer of photonic cryogenic input/output, replacing the coaxial cabling inside quantum computers to cut thermal load and wiring density as systems scale.

Vancouver post-quantum cybersecurity company selling quantum random number generator entropy, identity security, secure storage and cryptographic migration tooling. Renamed from Scope Technologies in December 2025.

Develops "Physical AI" control software and dexterous hand hardware for humanoid and industrial robots, aimed at automating complex manual tasks.

Vancouver-based provider of sensor-based pest, disease, irrigation and frost management technology and farm management software for growers of tree fruit, nuts and other permanent crops.

Burnaby-based designer and manufacturer of modular filter and rotary contactor systems that capture CO2 from industrial flue gas and from the air for storage or reuse.

Kelowna company, registered as Terra Sense Analytics Ltd., building MIST, AI middleware that fuses multi-sensor feeds from airborne and ground ISR platforms into real-time detection, recognition and tracking for defence users.

Vancouver company operating as Next Chapter Software, Inc., whose context engine ingests code, pull requests, docs, tickets and chat so AI coding agents can work with the full history of a codebase.

Vancouver drug discovery company whose Enki generative AI platform designs novel small molecules against pre-trained protein targets for biopharma partners. Work published to date is preclinical.

Vancouver company, registered as ViewsML Technologies Inc., training deep-learning models that predict biomarker staining from routine pathology slides instead of running physical immunohistochemistry.

Vancouver company developing closed-loop thermal-battery cooling for AI data centres — FRDGE hardware, the Thermint dispatch engine and TerraQuant verification. Pre-commercial: it was building a prototype at launch.

Vancouver-based operator of outpatient medical clinics across Canada that also supplies EMR, virtual care and practice management software to healthcare providers.

Burnaby-based neuroscience-focused biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing ion-channel-modulating therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Vancouver-headquartered biotechnology company developing multifunctional antibody-based biotherapeutics, including bispecifics and antibody-drug conjugates, and licensing them to partners.