Québec

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.

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.

Montréal company building and deploying AI software for workforce and operations planning — demand forecasting, scheduling and resource allocation — for hospitals, ambulance services, ports, logistics fleets and manufacturers, with an office in Dakar, Senegal.

Montreal company whose cloud platform runs home and community care operations end to end, with AlayaFlow adding AI agents for clinical work, intake, billing, scheduling and forms.

Designs and manufactures turnkey superconducting quantum computers — in-house qubit processors, cryogenics and control electronics — for government, HPC and research customers.

Rimouski, Quebec R&D company developing satellite Earth-observation tools and data products for aquatic and coastal environments, including ocean colour, satellite-derived bathymetry and near-real-time river-ice monitoring.

Montreal company building paraDOX, an Ethernet packet-switch architecture based on silicon-photonic optical logic, intended to remove optical transceivers and digital signal processing from data-centre and AI-cluster networks.

Saguenay, Québec company developing the B1, an eight-wheel-drive articulated electric all-terrain vehicle with a motorized rocker suspension, aimed at trail work, mountain transport, municipal and military use.

Montreal developer of cybersecurity products built on quantum-sourced entropy, including Q-Vault encryption and Q-Trash cryptographically verifiable data destruction.

Québec City deep-tech company building Oquli, an in-line optical instrument that measures the viscosity and gelation of industrial fluids in real time on a production line without contacting the product.

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.

Makes autonomous, deep-learning-based HVAC control software that predicts and optimizes commercial building energy use in real time. Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT).

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.

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.

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.

Provides an AI-powered SaaS platform — search, recommendations, generative AI and agentic experiences — for enterprise commerce, customer service, website and workplace use cases.

Montreal-based developer and operator of direct air capture facilities in Canada, integrating third-party DAC technologies with geologic CO2 storage and selling carbon removal credits.

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.

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.

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec company running an automated orchestration and matchmaking platform that deploys containerised game servers across a distributed edge computing network of more than 615 locations.

Montreal-headquartered, Canadian-owned carrier-neutral data centre operator running 15 colocation and AI-ready facilities in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.

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.

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.

Montreal-based threat exposure management company whose platform continuously scans the clear and dark web and threat actor communities for leaked credentials and other exposed organizational data.

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.

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

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.

Montreal-headquartered technology group founded in 1984, manufacturing HPC, AI and immersion-cooled servers and building high-density data centres for clients in over 80 countries.

Montreal builder of modular quantum networking hardware — entangled photon sources, fibre interferometers and link stabilisers — plus software to run quantum photonics over standard fibre and Ethernet.

Boisbriand-based designer and assembler of robotic arms and actuators for medical, research, industrial and assistive applications, including the KIMA clinical arm and the Gen3 and Link 6 collaborative arms.

Québec City builder of industrial laser machines for marking, cleaning, texturing and welding metal parts, sold as turnkey stations and OEM modules with its own branded pulsed and continuous-wave fibre laser lines.

Montreal-based provider of a cloud point-of-sale and payments platform for retail, hospitality and golf businesses, with customer locations in over 100 countries.

Québec City manufacturer of mid-infrared fibre lasers emitting between roughly 2,790 and 3,300 nm, built on fluoride optical fibre and fibre Bragg gratings for laser surgery, dermatology, material processing and sensing.

Montreal company that designs, manufactures and operates stratospheric balloon platforms carrying imaging payloads and onboard AI analytics, for wildfire detection, defence and mapping applications.

Montréal designer and manufacturer of MEMS sensor chips, including humidity, temperature, pressure, particulate-matter and ultrasound arrays, built on a platform that fabricates MEMS structures directly above CMOS using silicon-carbide films.

Quebec City IT and cloud provider running four Canadian data centres and a sovereign cloud platform, with infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity and AI services.

Pointe-Claire photonics manufacturer founded in 1977, building space-qualified optical amplifiers, ground-station amplifiers, laser guide star Raman fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers for satellite communications and astronomy.

Montreal developer of atomistic and quantum-modelling simulation software — NanoDCAL, RESCU, QTCAD and LatticeMind — used to predict the behaviour of materials and quantum and nanoelectronic devices.

Sherbrooke, Quebec developer of guidance, navigation and control software and artificial-vision systems for autonomous spacecraft, aircraft and ground vehicles, with flight heritage on European Space Agency missions.

Builds superconducting quantum computers using bosonic grid-state codes that embed error correction into each physical qubit, targeting a roughly 1:1 logical-to-physical qubit ratio.

Delivers commercial space situational awareness services, tracking and predicting the behaviour of objects in orbit from space- and ground-based sensors. Its go-public merger was approved by Viking shareholders in September 2026 and has not yet closed.

Dollard-Des-Ormeaux maker of non-contact 3D metrology systems based on low-coherence interferometry, using fibre-based scanning probes to measure bores, tubes, surfaces, edges and thickness, plus OCT systems for biomedical imaging.

Saint-Laurent developer of a silicon aroma chip, a 64-element MEMS sensor array of chemically sensitive nano-composite thin films, paired with AI models to read volatile organic compound signatures in exhaled breath.

Montreal-based payments technology company providing payment acceptance, payouts, card issuing, banking, and risk and fraud management services to businesses internationally.

Montreal maker of EMCCD and CCD cameras and controllers for photon-counting imaging in near-total darkness, including the space-qualified nuSpace platform for nanosatellites and qubit-readout cameras for quantum computing.

Montreal maritime intelligence company, formerly Global Spatial Technology Solutions, whose OCIANA platform fuses satellite AIS, radar and optical data with other sensor feeds for vessel tracking, port optimisation and defence users.

Montreal developer of a wafer platform and patented delamination technology that grows III-V semiconductor layers on large-format silicon wafers and separates thin-film circuits from rigid carriers, for microLED, silicon photonics and flexible electronics.

Montreal fabless integrated-optics sensor company building photonic inertial measurement units, including on-chip optical gyroscopes, accelerometers and vibrometers, for navigation where satellite positioning is unavailable.

Lachine designer and manufacturer of laser modules, line and pattern projectors and structured-light illuminators for machine vision, bioinstrumentation, industrial inspection, entertainment and rail security applications.

Montréal designer and manufacturer of hyperspectral and infrared imaging instruments — SWIR and eSWIR scientific cameras, tunable Bragg-grating optical filters, hyperspectral microscopes and NIR-II preclinical in-vivo imagers.

Lévis, Quebec operator of high-density AI and HPC colocation campuses powered by Quebec hydroelectricity, using liquid and air cooling with waste-heat recovery.

Builds quantum-safe cybersecurity products around a patented high-throughput quantum random number generator, spanning entropy hardware (eCore-Q) and post-quantum cryptography software.

Sherbrooke maker of cryogenic KI-TWPA superconducting amplifiers that read out superconducting qubits with minimal added heat, spun out of Institut Quantique and Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing.

Develops Aurora, a hybrid-propulsion small-satellite launch vehicle using patented solid fuel pellets with hydrogen peroxide, plus green in-space propulsion systems, from its Longueuil, Quebec facility.

Levis-based maker of grippers, force-torque sensors, vision systems and software for collaborative robots, plus pre-engineered palletizing, machine-tending and screwdriving workcells.

Develops nitrogen-vacancy diamond quantum magnetometers and magnetic mapping software for navigation in GPS-denied environments, defence, public safety and Earth magnetic field survey.

Sherbrooke developer of microwave-to-optical quantum transducers and a quantum LAN architecture for networking superconducting quantum processors across separate cryostats.

Montreal-based maker of dynamic full-spectrum LED grow-light systems that let commercial greenhouse growers digitally control the light spectrum delivered to their crops.

Montreal designer of directional MEMS microphones, a single-chip device that captures sound from a chosen direction, replacing multi-microphone arrays in laptops, hearing aids, conferencing and AR/VR hardware.

Saint-Laurent, Quebec designer and manufacturer of satellite ground-network equipment - VSAT hubs and terminals, SCPC and broadcast modems - for geostationary and non-geostationary satellite communications networks.

Montreal fabless semiconductor company designing ultra-wideband wireless transceiver integrated circuits for low-latency, low-power short-range links in gaming peripherals, audio, IoT and industrial systems.

Montréal fabless semiconductor company replacing quartz crystals with MEMS-based silicon timing devices, built on patented true dual-mode MEMS resonators and temperature compensation, for wearables, industrial, datacentre and IoT products.

Québec designer of thin-film lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits, supplied as chips, packaged modules and licensable IP blocks for sensing, laser and quantum applications.

Montreal-based operator of a cloud platform combining engineering software and modular hardware that lets manufacturers design, order and deploy robot cells and automated equipment, including cobot and palletizing applications.

TSX-listed aerospace and defence company with a manufacturing facility in Mirabel, Québec and an operations centre in Vaughan, Ontario. It builds proprietary uncrewed systems and software, flies drone-services missions, and also distributes third-party drones as a value-added reseller.

Québec City applied-AI firm delivering AI projects, data engineering, custom software development and cybersecurity services, and selling Morphe, its own conversational AI product that captures employee expertise into a queryable knowledge base.

Quebec City developer of silicon-photonic integrated circuits and optical-interconnect chiplets for data-centre and AI-cluster links, aiming at multi-terabit optical transmission at lower power per bit.

Montreal software company, legally Zetane Systems Inc., selling a cloud platform of agentic AI workflows for document-heavy enterprise processes — RFP and tender responses, contract review, compliance checking and data extraction — with source-cited outputs.