Export Development Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Federal Crown corporation providing financing, insurance, bonding and market knowledge to support Canadian trade and international business growth.
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Ottawa, Ontario
Federal Crown corporation providing financing, insurance, bonding and market knowledge to support Canadian trade and international business growth.
Montréal, QC
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An editorial cluster of published Atlantic Canadian organizations working in ocean sensing, sonar, and autonomous maritime systems.
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Explore this clusterAn editorial cluster of published Ontario organizations contributing space-based awareness and mission visualization.
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LawZero is a Montréal nonprofit developing safe-by-design AI through fundamental research and technical experimentation. Its Scientist AI approach aims to produce transparent, evidence-based predictions without giving the predictor independent goals. The organization’s role is research and the development of potential assurance tools, including guardrails for other AI systems and scientific-reasoning assistance. It is not presented as an operational defence system or an independently proven safety certification service.
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Explore Scientist AI prediction and assurance researchSherbrooke, Quebec
ACET is a Sherbrooke technology-company accelerator that provides individual coaching, commercialization support, entrepreneur development, market intelligence and access to financing for research and technology ventures.
Montreal, Quebec
Canadian fintech-focused venture-capital fund investing in early-stage companies that modernize financial services through software, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, payments, insurance technology, and applied artificial intelligence.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Spring Activator is a Vancouver-rooted impact accelerator and investor-learning platform that designs programs for purpose-driven founders, investment readiness and values-aligned capital networks.
Toronto, Ontario
Creative Destruction Lab is a nonprofit science and technology venture program founded at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, with Toronto streams spanning defence, artificial intelligence, quantum and space technologies.
Repentigny, Quebec
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems–Canada operates Quebec facilities for energetic materials, ammunition integration, metal forming, ballistic engineering and proof testing.
Waterloo, Ontario
BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian public software company with QNX and Secure Communications businesses. It supplies embedded operating systems and virtualization, encrypted voice and messaging, incident coordination, managed endpoints, asset monitoring and device-identity services. Its former Cylance endpoint-security assets were sold to Arctic Wolf in February 2025.
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Explore SecuSUITE secure voice, messaging and file sharingHalifax, Nova Scotia
Give Atlantic Canadian technology founders an early-stage capital partner close to home. Build Ventures invests from Halifax and works with companies as they move from initial traction toward scale.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Design the ship around the missions it may need tomorrow. Vard Marine provides naval architecture and marine engineering for naval, security, offshore, icebreaking, research, and specialized vessels, including flexible mission bays and deck arrangements that accept standard ISO containers and containerized payloads without dedicating the platform to one role.
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Explore Container-Ready Naval Mission-Bay DesignSaint-Laurent, Quebec
Bring safety-critical aircraft software and electronics to certification with Canadian engineering support. MANNARINO covers airborne software, hardware, systems engineering, simulation, and compliance from Quebec.
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Exonetik is a Sherbrooke advanced-motion company developing magnetorheological actuators and control systems for haptics, robotics, aerospace and space applications.
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An editorial cluster of published British Columbia organizations developing autonomous maritime and undersea platforms.
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