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Lazaridis ScaleUp Companies

Canada's most promising tech companies

The Lazaridis ScaleUp program is highly selective, accepting fewer than five per cent of companies applying to the year-long program. Cohort companies represent the best the Canadian tech ecosystem has to offer. Founders and executives become part of a tight-knit peer group which supports each other through the program and beyond.

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7shifts provides restaurant scheduling software for those who want to get 80% of their time back and save 1-4% on labour.

Acuity Insights' (formerly Altus Assessments) CASPer test helps admissions departments select holistically stronger students while increasing the efficiency of file review.

Acuity Insights

Advanced Symbolics Inc. is an artificial intelligence company focused on disrupting the way market research and behavioural research is done.

Advanced Symbolics

AgencyAnalytics' reporting platform helps digital marketing agencies automate their client reporting; saving time, boosting revenue, and providing live marketing dashboards.

AgencyAnalytics

Agendize is the leading provider of appointment booking and other digital customer engagements, with over 100,000 businesses using them worldwide.

Altrio's data-driven deal management platform, Origin, helps real estate investors and lenders harness proprietary and market data, along with process automation.

Applied Brain Research is the maker of Nengo, the award-winning neuromorphic compiler & runtime for the new generation of neuromorphic AI chips, such as Intel's Loihi.

Applied Brain Research

ARC4DIA protects more than $40 billion in assets globally for government agencies along with medium to large scale enterprises across a variety of sectors.

Aviron is a game-inspired interactive rowing machine that provides engaging full-body home workouts through games, coaching, and guided programs.

Aviron Interactive

Blue J Legal uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict legal outcomes.

BlueDot creates human and artificial intelligence to anticipate the spread of 150+ infectious diseases around the world.

BreatheSuite's FDA-approved connected device helps asthma and COPD patients live longer, healthier lives by tracking and training proper inhaler usage.

Brillist Better Projects is an AI-powered project optimization software.

Bus.com helps communities thrive by enabling groups to travel together effortlessly.

ChargeLab’s software makes EV chargers smarter by enabling billing, power management, and integrations through an open API.

Citylitics is the marketplace data and intelligence platform for Infrastructure Industries such as water, transportation, and energy.

CoLab builds software that helps engineering teams make better design decisions faster. They make designing and launching complex products faster, more effective, and more fun.

Connect&GO is a global leader in guest and attractions management technology with the most flexible and easy-to-use operations management platform for the attractions industry.

Conscia offers AI-powered content enrichment and discovery solutions.

DarwinAI's patented technology uses AI itself to observe and understand a neural network and then generates highly optimized and ‘explainable’ versions of that network.

DealMaker is an innovative cloud-based platform built for high-performance capital raising.

DistillerSR (formerly Evidence Partners) are the creators of the world’s leading literature review software for transparent, audit-ready evidence to inform critical health policy, and regulatory submissions.

Diva International Inc., maker of the DivaCup, revolutionized the menstrual care industry by being the first-to-market menstrual cup brand.

Diva International

DOZR offers an online marketplace for heavy equipment rentals, enabling business owners to earn revenue from their idle equipment and contractors to rent at an affordable rate.

Dream Payments' mobile commerce solutions allow businesses to accept payments anywhere.

Fellow is the top-rated meeting productivity software used by managers and their teams to collaborate on meeting agendas, track decisions, and foster a culture of accountability.

Fieldless Farms is a modern food and controlled environment agriculture company, replacing foreign products and complex supply chains with safe, sovereign, and more sustainable foods.

Fieldless Farms

FISPAN works with the largest global banks on their API and ERP integration capabilities.

Flashfood grocers sell surplus food through a mobile marketplace, reducing food waste, improving profits, and making high-quality, fresh food more affordable.

Flosonics Medical is a medical device company focused on developing non-invasive sensors to improve the management of critically ill patients.

Flosonics Medical

Flytographer captures the magic of travel by helping you book local photographers in 200+ cities around the world.

Freddie provides virtual care for the LGBTQ2S+ community, starting with PrEP, the once-a-day pill that reduces the risk of acquiring HIV by 99%.

Furnishr is a turnkey furnishing platform with beautifully furnished room designs to be delivered and assembled in a single day.

GoMaterials is a hassle-free B2B marketplace for landscape materials procurement.

Headversity is a mental health training technology that’s built for employers, which helps employees upskill resilience, behavioural health and psychological safety.

HiMama is an all-in-one childcare app to streamline operations, build stronger relationships and support children's learning and development.

Intellitix provides RFID Access Control and Cashless Payment systems that enhance the guest experience, increase revenues, and decrease costs for live event organizers.

Jane is software for healthcare practitioners running practices in allied health (physio, chiro, massage, ND, acupuncture, counsellors, etc.).

KA Imaging specializes in developing innovative X-ray imaging technologies and systems, providing solutions to the medical, veterinary, and non-destructive test industrial markets.

Level Access (formerly eSSENTIAL Accessibility) helps organizations create inclusive web, mobile, and product experiences through digital accessibility testing, evaluation and remediation.

Maple is a virtual care technology platform that tackles meaningful issues in healthcare, starting with timely and convenient access to doctors and other healthcare providers.

Mysa provides smart technology helping homeowners and organizations reduce energy consumption. Smart Thermostats make energy savings simple and controllable for everyone.

Nanoleaf is a technology and IoT company changing the world with innovative smart home solutions, taking ordinary experiences and making them extraordinary.

Needls. is the easiest and most effective way to advertise online – their ad platform allows businesses to automatically create, target, and optimize digital ads.

NoviFlow is a networking software company specializing in scaling cybersecurity.

Oculys Health Informatics (acquired 2019 by VitalHub) provides an operational management system for hospitals, helping generate efficiencies and reduce patient-care bottlenecks.

PolicyMe is a digital life insurance solution built to make financial protection for families easy and affordable. Get a quote and apply for insurance in 20 minutes or less.

PostBeyond (acquired 2021 by Influitive) is an employee advocacy and social selling platform enabling global enterprises and their employees to find and share relevant content with their social networks.

ProteinQure combines molecular simulations, machine learning and high-performance computing algorithms to perform structure-based drug design.

QRA Corp's software product QVScribe helps engineers catch vulnerabilities and undesirable behaviour in early-stage systems before they generate cost overruns and project delays.

Questor designs, manufactures and services high efficiency waste gas combustion systems, power generation systems and water treatment solutions, utilizing waste heat.

Reveal Surgical (formerly ODS Medical) is a medical technology company specializing in tissue characterization, helping surgeons see the unseen.

Reveal Surgical

RVEzy is North America's top-rated RV rental marketplace, providing outdoor enthusiasts with a safe and affordable way to rent unique and authentic RVs from private owners.

The SAVVYY platform is a modern, cloud-native, and API-friendly end-to-end mortgage underwriting solution for lenders.

Sheertex is a relentlessly inventive and transparent apparel company redefining wearable knit technology – because they believe you deserve a wardrobe as unbreakable as you are.

sherpa˚ is a travel agent platform and your guide to get the right travel documentation and understanding up-to-date travel requirements.

Showpass powers amazing events, venues, concerts and festivals across Canada.

SkyHive applies artificial intelligence to deliver real-time, skill-level insights into workforces and labour markets, identify emerging skills, and facilitate reskilling.

Sofdesk (acquired 2021 by Enphase Energy) is a leading sales accelerator platform for small and medium-sized contractors.

Spring Loaded Technology created the world’s first bionic knee brace to enhance strength, mobility and performance.

Spring Loaded Technology

StackAdapt is a self-serve advertising platform that specializes in multi-channel solutions including native, display, video, connected TV and audio ads.

Stathletes is a sports analytics company, focused on providing detailed and accurate near-time data and statistics in hockey – and beyond.

StoryTap is a video solution that turns real customers into influencers, by automating the collection and distribution of star-rated video reviews at scale.

Symend transforms the consumer experience of debt resolution by offering a white-labeled solution that provides more productive and cost-efficient recoveries.

Tehama is the fastest, easiest, most secure way to deploy a virtual workforce, with cloud-based virtual offices, rooms, and desktops anywhere in the world.

Terramera is dedicated to providing highly effective, safe, organic pest control products as alternatives to conventional chemical pesticides.

The Better Software Company provides franchisors and franchisees with the tools and insights they need to run and grow their business in one affordable system.

The Better Software Company

Three Ships Beauty makes effective, natural, and affordable beauty products with a transparency and sustainable guarantee.

TinyEYE is a global leader in online speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and mental health services.

Tulip Retail works with some of world’s largest retailers, empowering their associates with in-store mobile devices to engage customers in meaningful and relevant ways.

Unata (acquired 2018 by Instacart) is powering the future of 1-to-1 omni-commerce, delivering seamless and intuitive customer experiences that are more inter-connected, engaging and personal.

Upchain (acquired 2021 by AutoDesk) is a Cloud Product Lifecycle Management software that integrates engineering data up and down the value chain to drive collaboration, innovation, and growth.

Uvaro is a career success platform that offers education, job matching, and mentorship for professionals, from hired to retired. They support both employers and institutions.

Validere empowers oil and gas companies throughout the value chain to know their true product quality in real-time and optimize logistics and trading.

VanHack is a network of the world's top software engineering, design, and digital marketing talent - available on demand to relocate to help companies grow.

Vendasta is a white-label business-in-a-box platform for any company that provides advertising or marketing services to local businesses.

Vive’s patented Allosperse Delivery System improves the effectiveness of products designed to protect crops, to produce high quality food efficiently.

Vive Crop Protection

Voices is the largest online marketplace in the world for voiceover products and services.

VueReal is developing and commercializing technology platforms that enable efficient, practical, and scalable production and printing of millions of micro- and nano-devices.

Workhub (formerly SafetySync) provides compliance software and recognition programs that help organizations create and maintain safe, aligned, and diligent workplaces.

wrnch is AI that enables software developers to quickly and easily add to their applications the ability to digitize human movement and behaviour from any camera source.

ZayZoon empowers employees to instantly access their earned wages on-demand along with free budgeting and educational tools.