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94 companies for cold email outreach

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LLM Platform — Toronto

Enterprise AI platform building frontier LLMs for business. Secure, private AI.

$1.54B total raised. 842 employees
Aidan Gomez (CEO, co-author of Transformer paper)Ivan ZhangNick Frosst (ex-Hinton lab)

Waabi

Autonomous Driving — Toronto

Physical AI for autonomous driving. Self-driving trucks + robotaxis with Uber. Largest Canadian tech fundraise.

$1B+ total (Khosla, NVIDIA, Volvo). 250 employees

Tenstorrent

AI Hardware — Toronto

AI chip startup building next-gen processors. Led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller.

VC-backed. 40+ open roles
Ljubisa Bajic (Co-Founder)Jim Keller (CEO, ex-Apple/AMD/Tesla/Intel)

Sanctuary AI

Robotics — Vancouver

General-purpose humanoid robots with human-like AI intelligence.

$147M total. 163 employees
Geordie Rose (Co-Founder, also founded D-Wave)Suzanne Gildert

Ada

Enterprise AI — Toronto

AI-powered customer service platform. 5B+ interactions for Square, YETI, monday.com. Unicorn.

$200M total. Unicorn. 650 employees
Mike Murchison (CEO)David Hariri

Coveo

AI Search — Quebec City

AI-powered search, personalization, and recommendations for enterprises. Public (TSX: CVO).

$358M total. Public. 823 employees
Laurent Simoneau (Co-Founder/CTO)Richard Tessier

Shopify (AI/ML)

E-commerce + AI — Ottawa/Toronto

E-commerce giant with major AI/ML investment — GenAI agents, ML infra, applied ML across products.

Public (NYSE: SHOP). $100B+ market cap
Tobias Lutke (CEO)

Lightspeed Commerce

Commerce + AI — Montreal

Cloud POS and e-commerce platform with AI features for retail and hospitality.

Public (NYSE/TSX: LSPD). ~160 open roles
Dax Dasilva (Founder)

Hopper

Travel AI — Montreal

AI-powered travel platform predicting airfare/hotel prices using big data and ML. Unicorn.

$700M+ total. Unicorn
Frederic Lalonde (CEO)Joost Ouwerkerk

MindBridge

Financial AI — Ottawa

AI-powered financial risk intelligence. Detects anomalies and prevents fraud. Deloitte Fast 50.

VC-backed
Eli Fathi (CEO)Solon Angel

Dialogue

Health AI — Montreal

Canada's leading virtual healthcare and wellness platform. AI-enhanced telemedicine.

Public (TSX: CARE)
Cherif Habib (CEO)Alexis Smirnov (CTO)

Klue

Competitive Intel AI — Vancouver

AI-powered competitive intelligence platform. Automates competitor and market data collection.

VC-backed
Jason Smith (CEO)Saroop Sievert

Borealis AI (RBC)

Finance AI Research — Toronto/Montreal

Royal Bank of Canada's AI research lab. New AI private cloud with Red Hat and NVIDIA.

RBC subsidiary

Google DeepMind Canada

AI Research — Toronto/Montreal

Google's AI research labs with significant Toronto and Montreal presence.

Google subsidiary

Microsoft Research Montreal

AI Research — Montreal

NLP and 'common sense' AI research. Born from acquisition of Maluuba (2017).

Microsoft subsidiary

Untether AI

AI Hardware — Toronto

At-memory computing for AI inference. Neural net processors for power-constrained edge devices.

VC-backed

D-Wave

Quantum Computing — Vancouver

Quantum computing pioneer. Quantum-AI applications. Public (NYSE: QBTS).

Public (NYSE: QBTS)
Geordie Rose (also co-founded Sanctuary AI)

Mila Institute

AI Research Institute — Montreal

World's largest academic AI research center. Founded by Yoshua Bengio. Raising $100M VC fund.

$100M fund with Inovia Capital
Yoshua Bengio (Founder, Turing Award laureate)

Meta AI (FAIR Montreal)

AI Research — Montreal

Fundamental AI research lab. One of the largest corporate AI labs in Montreal.

Meta subsidiary

Samsung AI Centre

AI Research — Toronto/Montreal

AI research focused on computer vision and NLP.

Samsung subsidiary