This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada based Life Science companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Life Science industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Canada Life Science Startups
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BenchSci
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BenchSci uses AI to empower scientists to run more successful experiments to accelerate drug discovery.
Sierra Oncology
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Sierra Oncology is a clinical-stage drug development company advancing targeted therapeutics for the treatment of patients with cancer.
Aspect Biosystems
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Biotech company combining the power of microfluidics & 3D bioprinting to fuel medical research and development of bioprinted therapeutics
ACTO
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ACTO is an Omnichannel Education platform for life sciences companies.
SaNOtize
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SaNOtize is a biotech company using a platform technology for topical to treat upper respiratory and dermal infections.
STEMCELL Technologies
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Tools to Isolate, Culture and Assay Cells
Neptune Wellness Solutions
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Neptune Wellness Solutions is a health and wellness company focuses on extraction, formulation, and packaging of legal cannabis product.
Geneseeq
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Geneseeq uses NGS technologies to help physicians make meaningful decisions for cancer treatment.
Pond Technologies
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Pond captures industrial emissions and grows algae off it. Algae are processed into nutraceuticals, animal feed, or petroleum derivatives.
ZYUS
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ZYUS is a biopharmaceutical company that offers patients cannabinoid and other phyto-therapeutic medical solutions.
My Intelligent Machines
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My Intelligent Machines is an AI-powered Systems biology SAAS platform.
PHEMI Systems Corp.
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PHEMI has developed a proprietary data privacy & governance platform that enables health organizations to unlock their data for innovation.
Meta
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Meta is an intelligent system that can read, understand, and reason over scientific and technical literature.
Lexaria Bioscience
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Lexaria Bioscience Is developes it’s DehydraTECH technology that promotes healthy administration methods.
Giiant Pharma
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Giiant Pharma is a preclinical-stage biotech company.
Edesa Biotech
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Edesa develops treatments for dermatological and anorectal diseases. Edesa merged with Stellar Biotechnologies in 2019.
Pacylex
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Pacylex Pharmaceuticals develops a precision medicine solution for multiple common cancers.
Nanology Labs
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Nanology Labs is a pharmaceutical company that harnesses advanced nanotechnology to detect and treat cancers at the early stages.
Cardiol Therapeutics
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Cardiol Therapeutics develops innovative cannabidiol medicines for heart disease.
Abdera Therapeutics
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Abdera is an oncology company developing targeted alpha therapies (TATs) for patients with relapsed, refractory, and metastatic cancers.
MYND Life Sciences
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MYND Life Sciences is a life sciences company focused on novel psychedelic drug development and pharmaceuticals.
Coloursmith Labs Inc.
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Coloursmith develops breakthrough optical filtering technologies in ophthalmic devices.
SeeO2 Energy
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SeeO2 Energy is a converting carbon dioxide into marketable and clean value-added fuels and chemicals using reversible fuel technology.
Rakovina Therapeutics
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Publicly traded (RKV.V) company focused on the development of new cancer treatments based on novel DNA-damage response technologies.
Vasomune Inc
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Vasomune Therapeutics is a biotechnology company, developing therapies for blood vessel diseases – vascular dysfunction and destabilization.
BioHarvest Sciences
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BioHarvest Sciences produces and sells a food-based nutraceutical product called ViniaTM.
Spartan Bioscience
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Spartan Bioscience designs and manufactures sample-to-result DNA testing systems.
TerraVerdae BioWorks
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TerraVerdae BioWorks is an innovative green materials and chemicals company dedicated to the development of sustainable products.
Microdermics
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Unlocking continuous biochemical data for clinically relevant insights.
Neomed Institute
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NEOMED Institute is a not-for-profit R&D organization building an innovation ecosystem in Montréal.
Natrix Separations
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Natrix Separations delivers multi-cycle disposable chromatography products to the life science, food, beverage and water markets.
Keyleaf
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Keyleaf offering process development, analytical, and custom processing services for the bioprocessing industries.
Creatus Biosciences
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Creatus Biosciences is a green chemical production using proprietary bio-based industrial platform.
Liberty Gold
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Liberty Gold is an exploration-stage company that engages in the exploration, production, and development of gold and precious metals.
HAnalytics Solutions Inc.
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HAnalytics Solutions is a digital theraputics company. Patients can use our health analytics platform to support thier clinical decision.
Propellon Therapeutics
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Propellon Therapeutics is developing and commercializing novel cancer therapies targeting the WDR5 protein.
Shift Health
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Shift Health is a healthcare strategy consultancy for Healthcare & Life Sciences Leaders.
NEXT Integrative Minds Life Sciences Ltd.
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NEXT is a personal performance improvement system that works by training users to self-direct their neuroplasticity .
Somru Bioscience
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Somru Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology company dedicated to developing breakthrough antibody technology for research.
PlantExt
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PlantExt develops medical cannabis products intended to provide anti-inflammatory remedies.
Entheon Biomedical
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Entheon is a addiction recovery solution that harnesses and optimizes the therapeutic potential of the DMT molecule.
GeneYouIn
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GeneYouIn (GYI), a Canadian personalized medicine company, has developed a genome analytics and reporting platform called Pillcheck
Phycus Biotechnologies
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Phycus Biotechnologies provides a bio-conversion platform intended to convert CO2 and diverting GHG emissions from large scale emitters.
Mitomics
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Mitomics develops mitochondrial genome-based molecular tests to improve clinical insight and therapeutic decisions that affect patients.
MetaMixis
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Their founding team possesses a unique combination of expertise in synthetic biology, environmental genomics, and bioinformatics.
Solid State Pharma Inc.
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Solid State Pharma Inc. is a leader in the delivery of crystallization engineering services
Klick Health
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Klick Health is the world’s largest Life sciences commercialization partner
eNUVIO
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eNUVIO designs and produces new cutting-edge tools for the life science research, drug discovery, and safety assessment markets.
IgY Immune Technologies & Life Sciences
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IgY Immune Technologies Life Sciences engages in the extraction of polyclonal antibodies for nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications.
Diamond Therapeutics
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Diamond Therapeutics is a psychedelic drug development company.
Scispot.io
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No code fully configurable digital operating platform for biotech and life science SMEs
RegenaStem
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RegenaStem is a Stem Cell Solutions company based out of Canada.
Orion Nutraceuticals
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Orion Nutraceuticals is a manufacturer and distributor of cannabinoid oil and extracts for the sports medicine market.
Atrium Innovations
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Atrium Innovations specializes in the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of innovative,
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Ontario Brain Institute
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OBI promotes the commercialization of early stage neurotechnologies
Awakn Life Sciences
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Building an ecosystem for psychedelic-based treatments and integrating them into the mental healthcare practice.
PhenoTips
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PhenoTips is a computer software company that provides solution for clinical genetics, phenotyping, and human phenotype ontology.
Macadamian Technologies
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Macadamian is a custom UX design and Software Development firm specialized in Healthcare for Cloud, Web and Mobile technologies.
Ceragen
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Ceragen is a biotechnology company that aims to help farmers increase their crop yields through plant microbiome engineering.
Applied Biological Materials
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Applied Biological Materials provides research reagents and custom services at low prices.
Pacgen Life Science Corp.
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Pacgen Life Science Corporation (formerly Pacgen Biopharmaceuticals Corporation) is a life science technology company.
Impetus Digital
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Impetus Digital provides the most robust interactive meeting, event tools, and services on the market offering life sciences companies.
Norgen Biotek
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Norgen Biotek is an innovative biotechnology company providing RNA, DNA and protein purification kits of exceptional quality, ease-of-use.
Phyton Biotech
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Phyton Biotech is the world’s leader in pharmaceutical plant cell fermentation technology.
Solabs
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Solabs Provides compliance solutions to the life sciences industry.
SignalChem Lifesciences
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SignalChem Lifesciences Corporation (SLC) consists of two business divisions, a bioreagent division and a drug discovery division.
Augmenta AI
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Augmenta is motivated by the belief that generative methods are in place to enable a revolution in the way people function and approach.
Biotech Square
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AI-powered regulatory intelligence for drug development teams
Notogen
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Notogen is a biotechnology company creating regenerative therapeutics for spine, orthopedic and sports medicine related conditions.
InnScience Labs Inc.
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A research and development (R&D) collaboration platform
Pegasus Biotech
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Our mission at Pegasus Biotech is to work with our clients to bring cutting edge innovation to the global human and animal health markets.
HealthTech Connex
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HealthTech Connex focuses on technology-based innovations for health improvements and outcomes.
Molecular Forecaster
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Molecular Forecaster builds software for drug discovery, metabolism prediction, library design & small molecule asymmetric catalyst design.
Dawn
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Dawn help people find great therapists and help therapists fill their book of business.
Biotein
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Biotein is a company in the field of longevity and biotechnology that aims to provide a novel way to eradicate senescent cells.
Bio Basic
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Bio Basic is a research-support company that specializes in manufacturing life science products and providing lab services.
MedView Technologies
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MedView is also actively engaged in collaborative & partnership ventures with companies and higher education research institutions.
AgGene
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AgGene is a agricultural biotechnology company that specializes in the development of plant traits to address crop production challenges.
Coastal Genomics
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Coastal Genomics develops and markets automated solutions to address sample preparation needs across the medical diagnostics sector.
TATUM bioscience
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TATUM Bioscience develops synthetic live biotherapeutics
Dicentra
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Dicentra renders clinical trial monitoring, compliance auditing, food safety, labeling, consulting training and toxicology support services.
MangoGen Pharma
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MangoGen is a biotechnology company that engages in the research and development of gene delivering cardiac stents and wound healing creams.
SinoVeda Canada
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SinoVeda Canada develops high quality nutraceuticals and prescription pharmaceuticals from botanical sources.
Paradox Immunotherapeutics Inc.
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Paradox Immunotherapeutics is a pharmaceutical company that develops treatments for patients suffering from rare amyloid diseases.
CarePros
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CarePros provides medical and behavioral care services that provides in-home and out-of-home care to families with disabilities.
Nanotechnology World Network
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Nanotechnology World Network is a nanotechnology association company located in CONCORD.
Fermentas International
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With origins dating back to the 1970s, Fermentas produced molecular biology products for scientific research.
Andau Medical
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Andau Medical is a Medical and Dental device company specializing on providing the market with Regulatory and quality products.
Illucidx
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Illucidx creates ultra sensitive disease diagnostic tools for developed countries to deploy in low and middle-income countries.
Bridge Genomics
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Bridge Genomics brings together world leaders in genome and computational biology.
D-Mark Biosciences
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D-Mark Biosciences is a life science biopharma company located in Toronto.
Scientus Pharma
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Scientus Pharma is focused on developing and commercializing pharmaceutical-grade cannabis derivative products.
Kairos Therapeutics
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Kairos Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company with a proprietary next-generation antibody-drug conjugate platform.
TheraPten Biosciences
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TheraPten Biosciences is a Canadian preclinical biotechnology company.
AlgaeCan Biotech
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AlgaeCan Biotech Ltd., located in Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada is one of the first companies.
Creative Protein Solutions
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Creative Protein Solutions is a real-time portable diagnostic technology, with a current focus on diagnosing farm animal diseases.
StressGen Biotechnologies
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Stressgen Bioreagents Corp., a British Columbia-based maker of antibody and protein kits for life science research.
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