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LinkedIn Releases its List of Top Canadian Startups for 2022 (Three BC Tech Companies Included)
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Vancouver, BC, September 29, 2022--(T-Net)--LinkedIn has published its 2022 "Top Startups" list of the 15 emerging Canadian companies gaining the most attention, according to unique LinkedIn data measuring different elements of growth and demand.
Three BC technology companies made the list: Certn (Victoria), Dapper Labs (Vancouver), and Klue (Vancouver) - see below.
LinkedIn's 5th annual Top Startups list is a resource to find startups to pay attention to right now, and features 15 Canadian companies that are rising to the challenges of the moment and continuing to innovate and gain attention in 2022.
To compile the list, LinkedIn says it looked at data across four pillars: employee growth; jobseeker interest; member engagement within the company and its employees; and how well these startups pulled talent from their flagship LinkedIn Top Companies list.
Here are this year's 15 Top Startups in Canada (including three from BC).
Full-time headcount: 700 | Headquarters: Calgary and Winnipeg | Year founded: 2019 | Most common skills: Leadership, Digital Literacy, Communication | Largest job functions: Customer Success and Support, Engineering, Sales | What they do: The tech company aims to simplify the way Canadians manage their spending, saving and rewards. Neo Financial recently expanded into investing with a new wealth management product.
Full-time headcount: 500 | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2016 | Most common skills: Leadership, Digital Literacy, Communication | Largest job functions: Sales, Engineering, Information Technology | What they do: The chatbot provider helps companies interact more smoothly with customers and employees across a range of media channels; its clients include Meta, Shopify and Verizon.
Full-time headcount: 50 | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2018 | Most common skills: Leadership, Web Development, Digital Literacy | Largest job functions: Engineering, Business Development, Sales | What they do: Fable works with businesses and organizations to make their digital products more accessible to people with disabilities. The startup has a team of testers with a range of disabilities — from visual impairments to mobility issues — who can provide feedback on products as they're being developed.
Full-time headcount: 110 | Headquarters: Montreal | Year founded: 2015 | Most common skills: Digital Literacy, Leadership, Data Science | Largest job functions: Customer Success and Support, Engineering, Finance | What they do: Shakepay is a Montreal-based technology company that allows Canadians to buy and sell bitcoin quickly and easily. Shakepay's platform allows Canadians from all walks of life to connect with the digital economy
Full-time headcount: 1,500 | Headquarters: Kitchener | Year founded: 2015 | Most common skills: Digital Literacy, Leadership, Communication | Largest job functions: Information Technology, Engineering, Customer Success and Support | What they do: The educational tech company helps international students seeking higher education in the U.S., U.K, Canada, Ireland, and Australia. More than 300,000 students have so far used the platform to complete study abroad applications.
Full-time headcount: 320 | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2015 | Most common skills: Data Science, Development Tools, Leadership | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Research | What they do: The biomedical company uses artificial intelligence to make drug development faster and cheaper, deploying machine learning to sort through data points in research papers and then generate searchable results.
Full-time headcount: 70* | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2019 | Most common skills: Development Tools, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence | Largest job functions: Engineering, Human Resources, Business Development | What they do: Cohere's natural language processing software teaches computers to better understand human speech and text — including hard-to-measure factors such as tone and sentiment. Its platform can be used to moderate content, analyze customer comments and write copy for target audiences.
Full-time headcount: 400 | Headquarters: Victoria | Year founded: 2016 | Most common skills: Leadership, Digital Literacy, Development Tools | Largest job functions: Engineering, Customer Success and Support, Information Technology | What they do: Certn conducts real-time background checks and ongoing risk monitoring on job candidates, tenants and employees. Some 2,800 businesses around the world use Certn's platform, including staffing firms and property management companies.
Full-time headcount: 110 | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2015 | Most common skills: Leadership, Data Science, Development Tools | Largest job functions: Engineering, Marketing, Sales | What they do: The personalized commerce platform matches consumers with brands through a mobile app, letting users earn points for purchases that can be redeemed for rewards.
Full-time headcount: 630 | Headquarters: Vancouver, BC | Year founded: 2018 | Most common skills: Development Tools, Web Development, Leadership | Largest job functions: Engineering, Customer Success and Support, Arts and Design | What they do: The non-fungible token (NFT) pioneer was the firm behind NBA Top Shot, a digital marketplace where sports fans can buy and sell basketball clips. More recently, Dapper Labs teamed up with Ticketmaster to issue NFT tickets for live events.
Full-time headcount: 200 | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2016 | Most common skills: Data Science, Development Tools, Leadership | Largest job functions: Engineering, Operations, Information Technology | What they do: The mobile commerce platform uses AI to connect consumers with the best deals online. Its flagship product, Snaptravel, lets users find and book flights and hotels through messaging apps such as Whatsapp and Messenger.
Full-time headcount: 60 | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2015 | Most common skills: Business Management, Leadership, Communication | Largest job functions: Business Development, Sales, Marketing | What they do: The cleantech startup has built software to help businesses and organizations navigate climate-related risks and opportunities and to integrate climate-science into their decision making.
Full-time headcount: 100 | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2017 | Most common skills: Leadership, Communication, Data Science | Largest job functions: Sales, Engineering, Research | What they do: This capital market-focused fintech has created an AI-driven platform that can be used by public companies to closely monitor buying and selling activity by shareholders, making it easier to identify and connect with potential investors.
Full-time headcount: 150 | Headquarters: Toronto | Year founded: 2015 | Most common skills: Leadership,Data Science, Development Tools | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Sales | What they do: TealBook uses AI and machine learning to harvest and analyze supply chain data from millions of sources, supplying companies with real-time information to guide their procurement decisions.
Full-time headcount: 200 | Headquarters: Vancouver | Year founded: 2015 | Most common skills: Leadership, Communication, Digital Literacy | Largest job functions: Customer Success and Support, Sales, Engineering | What they do: The AI-powered platform from this market intelligence startup lets companies collect, manage and share insights and data on competitors. Initially focused on B2B tech companies and sales teams, Klue recently expanded to product, strategy, customer service, and talent acquisition.
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