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We’re proud to bring you The 2022 Rocketships List.
This list was compiled by Founders, Angels, Entrepreneurs and Canadian Tech Community Members. More than 300 names were submitted, and these were the final selections.
Joining a category-defining technology start-up can accelerate your career. It does this by increasing your knowledge and skills, providing a strong network and potentially creating enough wealth to start your own company.
Historically there has been no more than one such company in Canada (e.g. Shopify, Blackberry, Nortel) at any time. With the rapid growth of our ecosystem, there are more potential category-defining start-ups than ever before. The question is which one should you join? TechTO worked with leading venture capitalists and angels to identify the rocketship companies that have the potential to accelerate your career.
Company stages
Startup: company pre exhibited product market fit
Emerging: post product market fit and just started to scale
Growth: later stage company with significant revenue or customers but still large opportunity to grow
Joining a category-defining technology start-up can accelerate your career. It does this by increasing your knowledge and skills, providing a strong network and potentially creating enough wealth to start your own company.
Historically there has been no more than one such company in Canada (e.g. Shopify, Blackberry, Nortel) at any time. With the rapid growth of our ecosystem, there are more potential category-defining start-ups than ever before. The question is which one should you join? TechTO worked with leading venture capitalists and angels to identify the rocketship companies that have the potential to accelerate your career.
Company stages
Startup: Companies with pre-exhibited product market fit
Emerging: Post product market fit companies just starting to scale
Growth: Later stage companies with significant revenue or customers, but still a large opportunity to grow
2012
Adam Rumanek and Jessie Behan
No
2005
Dave Teare, Natalia Karimov, Roustem Karimov, and Sara Teare
No
2020
Logan Underwood, Tina Haertel, Varun D. Sharma
Yes
2014
Mike Murchison, David Hariri
No
2020
Jon Simpson, Raj Singh
Yes
2019
David Dyck, Drew Green, Jeff McCann, Justin Hamade
No
2016
Adrian Camara, Mark Tinana, Shane Fast
Yes
2015
Jacques LaPointe, Rob Cowley, Scott Gravelle, Tony Woolf
No
2015
David Qixiang Chen, Elvis Wianda, Liran Belenzon, Tom Leung
Yes
2020
Peter Edge
No
2007
Robert Niven
No
2016
Andrew McLeod, Evan Dalton, Owen Madrick
No
2015
Andrew D'Souza, Ben Sanders, Charlie Feng, Ivan Gritsiniak, Michele Romanow, Olivier Grinda, Pavel Melnichuk, Tanay Delima
Yes, and Female Founder
2016
Stephen Seibel
No
2021
Brody Berson, Reid Robinson
No
Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst
Yes
2020
Apoorv Gupta, Noble Sahota
Yes
2018
Dieter Shirley, Mack Flavelle, Roham Gharegozlou
Yes
2018
Andrew Peek, Cameron Westland, Clifton van der Linden, Jonathan Briggs
No
2020
Candice Faktor, Chris Sukornyk
No
2012
Dr. Gregory Zhang
Yes
2017
Daniele Perito, Jeffrey Kolovson, Lauren Cooks Levitan, Marcelo Cortes, Max Rhodes
Female Founder
2021
Mehdi Nayebi, Mehrshad Pezeshk
Yes
2019
Griffin Keglevich, Rob Khazzam, Ruslan Nikolaev
Yes
2016
Nabeil Alazzam
No
2006
Nicolas Beique
No
2013
Alana Frome, Ron Spreeuwenberg
Female Founder
2007
Frederic Lalonde, Joost Ouwerkerk
No
2021
Alex Wilkinson
No
2015
Jason Smith, Sarathy Naicker
Yes
2014
Michael Serbinis
No
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2018
Adam Reeds, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo
No
2019
Andrew Chau, Jeff Adamson, Kris Read
Yes
2014
Philip A. Cutler, Roberto Cipriani
No
2019
Brock Battochio, Greg Rau, Mike Kelland
No
2017
Christopher Ing, Lucas Siow, Mark Fingerhuth, Tomas Babej
No
2019
Amaan Banwait, Husein Moloo, Pete MacLeod
Yes
2020
Derek Manuge, Ron Benegbi, Sohaib Zahid
Yes
2016
Devlin McDougall Chartand, Eamonn O'Rourke, James Collom, Joelle Chartrand
No, Female Founder
2018
Kuljeev Singh
Yes
2021
Yevgeniy Vahlis
No
2019
Maggie Adhami-Boynton
Female Founder
2015
Alexey Indeev, Josh Andrews, Kristoffer Vik Hansen
No
2016
Hanif Joshaghani, Tiffany Kaminsky
Yes
2016
Ivan Hamer, Ljubisa Bajic, Milos Trajkovic
Yes
2010
Karn Manhas
Yes
2008
Allan Wolinski, Brendan King, Ches Hagen, Guy Kelsey, Jeff Tomlin
No
2019
Emiel Bril
No
2019
Logan Yergens, Mike Hibberd, Ray Johannsson
2016
Christian Weedbrook
No
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