Ottawa has emerged as one of Canada’s leading hot spots for startups. The capital city is home to more than 1,800 tech companies and boasts a 12.3 percent tech-talent concentration, making it one of the most highly skilled regions in North America — even rivaling the San Francisco Bay Area. That depth of talent has helped Ottawa rank fourth among Canadian startup ecosystems, and place within the top 100 globally, producing homegrown success stories like Assent Inc. and MindBridge AI, which now compete worldwide in fields ranging from supply‑chain software to artificial intelligence.
The list below highlights several of these startup companies that contribute to the city’s evolving role in the global tech landscape.
Top Startup Companies in Ottawa to Know
- Assent Inc.
- MindBridge AI
- Solink
- Fullscript
- Klipfolio
Top Startup Companies in Ottawa
Founded: 2010
Industry: Supply Chain Management
Assent builds software that helps large companies understand and manage what’s happening across their global supply chains, from product compliance to environmental and labor risks. Its cloud platform gives businesses clearer insight into issues like forced labor, sustainability impact and fast-changing regulations, including the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Founded in 2010, Assent now works with multinational manufacturers, making it one of the city’s most influential SaaS companies.
Founded: 2015
Industry: Fintech; AI
MindBridge uses artificial intelligence to help auditors, accountants and finance teams detect anomalies, fraud and financial risk at scale. Its platform analyzes entire financial datasets rather than a few samples at a time, using machine learning to spot risky or unusual transactions during audits and investigations. Major accounting firms like Deloitte and KPMG use Mindbridge’s tech worldwide to improve financial oversight.
Founded: 2010
Industry: Security; AI
Solink is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that essentially “turns security cameras into AI assistants,” where captured footage can reveal actionable business insights. Used across retail, restaurants and multi-location enterprises, Solink combines AI-driven video analytics with POS and operational data to reduce theft, improve compliance and optimize operations. Since launching in 2009, the company has scaled beyond security into broader operational intelligence, with customers across North America and Europe.
Founded: 2015
Industry: Biotechnology
Spiderwort Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company developing plant-based biomaterials for regenerative medicine. Its core technology uses cellulose-derived scaffolds designed to support the repair and regeneration of living tissue, with applications spanning spinal cord injury treatment, tissue engineering and medical aesthetics. Through flagship products like CelluBridge, a spinal cord repair scaffold, and CelluJuve, a cellulose-based dermal filler aimed at facial tissue augmentation, Spiderwort is working to mainstream advanced biomaterials research from the lab into practical medical devices used in real-world clinical settings.
Founded: 2011
Industry: Healthtech
Fullscript is a digital health platform that helps healthcare practitioners deliver supplements and wellness products to their patients online. By managing fulfillment, compliance and educational support behind the scenes, it acts as a personalized dispensary that gives more than 125,000 subscribed practitioners the tools to create custom supplement plans while handling fulfillment, education and compliance behind the scenes. Today, Fullscript offers more than 20,000 products from 300 brands across North America.
Founded: 2015
Industry: Data Protection
Rewind builds backup and recovery tools designed specifically for cloud-based software in order to protect data that keeps businesses running. Its apps safeguard information across platforms like Shopify, GitHub and QuickBooks Online, so teams can quickly recover from mistakes, outages or security incidents. Founded in 2015, Rewind acts as a go-to safety net for now supports more than 25,000 customers across 100 countries, and continues to expand across the SaaS ecosystem.
Founded: 2021
Industry: Carbon Removal
Invert is a climate-tech startup that provides businesses with tools and services to support carbon elimination during operations. Founded in 2021, its platform can identify where emissions can be reduced along the supply chain, help businesses develop and finance carbon reduction projects while also managing carbon credits tied to those efforts. More than just a service to others, Invert has aligned its own operations with the Paris Agreements’ commitment to achieving a net-zero carbon future by 2050.
Founded: 2020
Industry: Fitness Tech
MyVeloFit uses AI and computer vision to help cyclists optimize their bike fit from home. By analyzing a 15-second video, the subscription-based platform delivers personalized fit recommendations adjusted to the rider’s upper and lower mobility that typically only gets assessed during in-person sessions. With more than 150,000 active users and 450,000 fits processed, the company has gained traction among amateur and competitive cyclists alike.
Founded: 2020
Industry: Digital Payments
Digital payments company UCanPay helps Canadian retailers accept and manage transactions both in-store and online. Its platform combines a smart point-of-sale system with a digital wallet, giving small and mid-sized merchants access to tools usually reserved for larger enterprises, along with insights to better understand customer behavior. Whether customers are scanning a QR code, paying via mobile or checking out in a brick-and-mortar store, UCanPay offers a seamless, unified way to handle each transaction.
Founded: 2020
Industry: Research and Development
Area X.O is a large-scale technology testing ground for autonomous systems, advanced communications and defense-related technologies. Operated by Invest Ottawa, the privately gated 1,866-acre facility offers real-world environments where startups, researchers and multinational firms can try out their latest prototypes in drones, connected and autonomous vehicles, robotics and sensor-based systems to accelerate their time to market. With a 16-kilometer test track and one of the world’s most advanced communications setups — including 5G and satellite connectivity — Area X.O acts as a practical proving ground for emerging technologies.
Founded: 2001
Industry: Business Intelligence
Klipfolio is a cloud-based platform that turns complex business data into live, user-friendly dashboards. By connecting to tools like Salesforce, Google Analytics, SQL databases and MailChimp, it gives teams across small and mid-sized businesses a single place to track KPIs and performance. Users can pull up dashboards on web browsers, TVs or mobile devices for easy sharing.
Founded: 2014
Industry: Battery Technology
Gbatteries develops next-generation batteries for the mass adoption of electric mobility. Founded in 2014, the Ottawa-born company has been using AI and advanced chemistry to let lithium-ion batteries charge up to 10 times faster without wearing out. These intelligent, high-energy-density storage packs have been used in everything from electric scooters and power tools to cars and even aircraft, offering longer range, faster charging and lower costs.
Founded: 2015
Industry: Construction; Engineering
Xradar provides advanced concrete scanning and non-destructive testing to help construction and engineering teams understand what lies beneath the surface. Using ground-penetrating radar and specialized imaging, the company can detect rebar, voids, cracks and other structural risks with millimeter-level precision. According to the company, its technology reduces scanning errors to less than one percent compared to the 25 percent industry standard average.
