Market map · Canada

Technology & software in Canada_

As of 4 November 2026, 37,422 technology & software companies are based in Canada: 627 with 51+ employees, 521 hiring right now, led by web hosting & domains and Toronto.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
37,422
51+ employees
627 · 2%
Hiring now
521 · 125 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Web hosting & domains · 11,659
Top city
Toronto · 1,412
Running cold outbound
180
37,422technology & software companies in Canada
627with 51+ employees
521hiring on their own career site today
125opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Technology & software in Canada, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Web hosting & domains
11,659 · 2
B2B SaaS platforms
10,188 · 195
Software dev AI agencies
7,932 · 171
Managed IT services
7,112 · 183
Consumer software & mobile apps
3,138 · 20
Developer apis & data infrastructure
960 · 24
Health technology & life sciences
827 · 18
Tracking & fleet software
577 · 13
Hospitality software
501 · 6
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
26,211 · 23
2-10 employees
7,053 · 134
11-50 employees
3,531 · 218
51-200 employees
511 · 107
201-500 employees
75 · 22
501-1000 employees
24 · 12
1001-5000 employees
11 · 3
5001-10000 employees
1 · 0
10,001+ employees
5 · 2
By city
companiesshare
Toronto
1,4124%
Montréal
1,2073%
Québec
6082%
Calgary
4631%
Vancouver
4491%
Ottawa
3791%
Edmonton
2071%
Vancouver (NE Downtown / Harbour Centre / Gastown / Yaletown)
2031%
Markham Outer Southwest
1961%
Downtown Toronto (Richmond / Adelaide / King)
1770%
Mississauga
1580%
Calgary (City Centre / Calgary Tower)
1530%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest technology & software companies in Canada

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

OpenTextDocument management automation · Waterloo South10,001+ employeesTELUS DigitalCustom software development agencies · Vancouver (NE Downtown / Harbour Centre / Gastown / Yaletown)10,001+ employeesGeotabGPS fleet tracking telematics · Oakville North1001-5000 employeesAltus GroupBusiness intelligence analytics software · Downtown Toronto (Berczy Park)1001-5000 employeesSculpture HospitalityHospitality software general · Toronto1001-5000 employeesZafinAI agent automation platforms · Vancouver (NE Downtown / Harbour Centre / Gastown / Yaletown)501-1000 employeesMicroserveSME managed IT services · Burnaby (Cascade-Schou / Douglas-Gilpin)501-1000 employeesEsri CanadaGovtech public sector software · La Cañada501-1000 employeesWBM TechnologiesSME managed IT services · Saskatoon North501-1000 employeesNearsourceCustom software development agencies · Central Toronto (Lawrence Park East)501-1000 employeesSolaceAI agent automation platforms · Ottawa501-1000 employeesCorityHR management software · Downtown Toronto (Richmond / Adelaide / King)501-1000 employeesVaricentOther B2B SaaS platforms · Toronto501-1000 employeesProphixBusiness intelligence analytics software · Mississauga (West Cooksville / Fairview / City Centre / East Creditview)501-1000 employeesGuestTekHospitality software general · Okotoks501-1000 employeesElastic PathEcommerce platform software · Vancouver (Bentall Centre)201-500 employeesWorkleapHR management software · Québec201-500 employeesTheAppLabbMobile app development agencies · London201-500 employeesKlueBusiness intelligence analytics software · Vancouver (SW Downtown)201-500 employeesMEDFARClinic practice management software · Downtown Montreal East201-500 employees
37,422 technology & software companies in Canada; 521 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of technology & software in Canada

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37,422 technology & software companies are based in Canada: 627 with 51 or more employees, 521 hiring right now (125 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by web hosting & domains and Toronto. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/technology_software/canada)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Technology & software in Canada: questions

How many technology & software companies are there in Canada?

37,422 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 627 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to technology & software?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which technology & software companies in Canada are hiring?

521 have an open role on their own career site today and 125 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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