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 that builds open source components and container images from source, monitors them for vulnerabilities and republishes patched versions under remediation SLAs, delivering them to development teams through a private, policy-governed catalog.

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 contact-capable industrial inspection drones that perform ultrasonic and thickness non-destructive testing, navigating GPS-denied spaces with 3D LiDAR-SLAM, plus the AveSoft reporting software.

Vancouver semiconductor company designing RF, mixed-signal and digital circuits for edge AI, including its Edge-AI Controller (eAIC), which optimizes RF power amplifiers in real time for 5G/6G, Wi-Fi and LEO satellite communications.

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

Vancouver company that buys and runs small carrier-neutral colocation data centres. It owns the equipment and fit-out in leased space in Vancouver, Ottawa (two sites), Saint John, Rochester (New York) and Perth (Australia).

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

Designs, builds and certifies fixed-wing airtanker conversions with its own retardant delivery systems, develops aerial-firefighting flight training devices, and operates an airtanker fleet.

Vancouver developer of COMPRO and RAVEN process-simulation software, the CIRT inspection reporting tool and COHO leak-detection hardware, used to model and control composites manufacturing processes.

Designs and manufactures aerial-firefighting retardant delivery tank systems and night-firefighting mission equipment, converts large aircraft into airtankers, and operates the resulting fleet.

Vancouver company developing privileged access management and help-desk identity verification software for managed service providers and IT service desks, covering just-in-time admin access, credential rotation and end-user verification.

Vancouver remote patient-monitoring company for Type 2 diabetes, pairing a patient app and clinician dashboard with its own AI Adaptive Behaviour Change Engine trained on the company's real-world patient data to drive coaching and clinical escalation.

Vancouver company developing Morpheus, an AI security operations (SOC) platform that ingests alerts from a customer's security tools, investigates and triages them, and generates response playbooks, in place of a legacy SOAR system.

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.

Port Coquitlam designer and manufacturer of high-speed 10, 25, 50 and 100 GigE industrial cameras, matching network interface cards and machine-vision software used for production inspection and metrology.

Vancouver company behind Fabric, an agentic coding platform built on its own codebase-embedding model and a directed-acyclic-graph task orchestrator that splits a request into dependency-tracked tasks and runs independent ones in parallel.

Develops autonomous coordination software, machine-learning algorithms and fire-mission kits that direct swarms of heavy-lift uncrewed aircraft for wildfire detection and suppression.

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.

Vancouver company whose platform verifies an online user's physical location and detects location spoofing (VPNs, proxies, GPS spoofing, emulators, tampered devices) plus device and identity fraud, mainly for regulated online gaming, streaming and financial services.

Seaplane airline whose group also holds a Transport Canada Design Approval Organization and sells its own STC kits for de Havilland aircraft, and which is converting the DHC-2 Beaver to all-electric propulsion.

Vancouver company developing BullzAI, a platform that monitors payment-network transactions in real time and uses a transaction firewall with self-learning models to block card testing, BIN attacks, malware, account takeover and other payment fraud before authorization.

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.

Designs and manufactures certified aircraft potable-water equipment - UV treatment units, pumps, tankless water heaters, touchless faucets and a water-quantity control system that reduces onboard water weight.

Holds the Convair type certificate and its own supplemental type certificates, designs and manufactures aircraft parts and modifications, leases aircraft, and delivers defence aircrew training through the SkyAlyne joint venture.

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.

Vancouver-based AI R&D lab building a model-agnostic reasoning and knowledge-graph layer — rxMaps, ReX and rxOrchestrator — that adds auditable, evidence-first reasoning on top of an enterprise's existing LLM or AI stack.

Vancouver company developing software that monitors data-centre energy use against real-time grid and market signals and automatically curtails or shifts compute, plus CLōD, an API that routes AI inference requests to lower-cost data centres.

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.

Burnaby process-technology company developing and licensing its patented One-Pot and M2CAM methods for producing lithium-ion battery cathode active materials, and operating an LFP cathode plant in Candiac, Quebec.

Vancouver company operating a content delivery network for streaming video and live sports, placing caches inside internet service provider networks close to viewers and adding global capacity through software points of presence.

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.

Burnaby builder of collaborative pipe-welding robots, including the Spool Welding Robot, and NovAI computer-vision software that adds perception and adaptive control to arc-welding robots.

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.

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.

Vancouver company building real-time perception and anomaly detection for large mining shovels, monitoring bucket position, cycle timing, dig effort and vibration signatures across telemetry to augment operators and work toward autonomous excavation.

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

Designs, certifies and manufactures aircraft modification kits and parts for the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, repairs light aircraft and helicopters, and is developing a RED A03 diesel repower of the Beaver.

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.

Designs and manufactures helicopter bubble windows, sliding windows and other thermoplastic components and assemblies for rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft, including reverse-engineered replacements.

Vancouver company developing a digital risk protection platform that monitors brands, executives, the dark web and third-party vendors for external threats, with analysts who verify findings and file takedowns of phishing sites, lookalike domains and impersonating accounts.

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.

Kamloops company that develops, owns and manages data centres in British Columbia's Interior: the operating 6.5 MW Mission Flats facility in Kamloops, a Merritt facility it last listed as under construction, and a Bell AI Fabric data centre under construction on Thompson Rivers University land.

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. Early commercialization; no named customer deployments yet.

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.

Designs, manufactures and operates the ZenaDrone family of uncrewed aircraft, including a multirotor inspection platform and an indoor autonomous hovering series.

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