This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada based Retail companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Retail 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
Top Canada Retail Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
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Creative Destruction Lab delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.
SoleSavy
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SoleSavy is a step into a genuine collective of sneaker culture.
Tulip Retail
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Tulip Retail is a mobile app platform built exclusively for next generation store associates to offer a world-class omnichannel experience.
INDOCHINO
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Indochino is a global leader in made to measure apparel, offering custom suits, shirts, chinos and outerwear online and in showrooms.
Sensibill
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Sensibill is a digital receipts ecosystem that allows customers to access receipts directly from bank accounts.
Flipp
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Flipp is a free app that delivers your favorite weekly ads to your fingertips.
Avison Young
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Avison Young is a commercial real estate services firm.
Salesfloor
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Salesfloor is a mobile platform designed for store associates to connect with customers-beyond the store.
Hubba
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Hubba is a software company that uses a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match brands with buyers.
RenoRun
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RenoRun is building the world’s largest single source platform for general contractors to purchase materials.
Hudson’s Bay Company
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Hudson’s Bay Company is a retail business group.
BlackCart
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BlackCart is a try-before-you-buy platform for eCommerce stores.
Fire & Flower
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We’re Canada’s cannabis shop, bringing you a guided and informed experience in locations across the country.
Lightspeed POS
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Lightspeed is a provider of easy-to-use POS solutions for retailers and restaurateurs.
Statflo
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Statflo builds a profitable customer relationships with a leading 1:1 outreach solution for wireless and tech retail.
Bonsai
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Bonsai allows users to transact natively within the content that’s inspiring them to buy.
Frank & Oak
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Frank & Oak is an online menswear retailer and subscription service startup offering members a limited feed of clothing and accessories.
Solink
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Solink is a provider of video security and business analytics solutions for restaurants, retailers, and financial organizations.
Rubikloud
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Rubikloud uses AI to deliver intelligent decision automation to enterprise retailers through its cloud-native platform.
Foko Retail
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Foko Retail is the mobile-first task management and communication software used by some of the world’s leading retailers.
Mappedin
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Mappedin is powering digital mapping experiences for world-class venues.
Smile.io
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Smile is the world’s largest provider of ecommerce loyalty programs.
Fresh Prep Foods
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Fresh Prep Foods is a weeknight dinner solution providing meal kit delivery service for busy people.
Echosec Systems Ltd.
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The Echosec Systems Platform gathers critical information from hidden online sources to deliver threat intelligence and risk mitigation
Wiivv
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Transforming footwear, apparel, and wearables for every human body, so you can move and live your best.
C2RO
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Privacy-aware video analytics using proprietary edge-cloud AI for Physical Retail, Mall, Smart City and Enterprise Market.
Give and Go
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A manufacturer of baked goods based in Toronto
NOBAL Technologies
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NOBAL creates innovative and intuitive digital interfaces to enhance customer experience.
MetaVRse
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The MetaVRse Engine is a universal 3D/XR creation and deployment platform.
Aislelabs
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Aislelabs is a technology firm assisting retailers to achieve better and increased sales using the big data analytics.
New Look Vision Group
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New Look Vision Group is a provider of eye care products and services in Eastern Canada.
Unata
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Unata is a platform that provides Omni-commerce for retailers, connecting digital touchpoints to personalize shoppers’ experiences.
CENTR
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CENTR is a beverage lifestyle brand that produces and distributes sparkling CBD beverages.
triMirror
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3D virtual fitting room that uses real-time cloth simulation and animation. Try it online, in-store, on mobile, and for 3D garment design.
NewLeaf Cannabis
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NewLeaf Cannabis is a cannabis growth and research company providing a safe, inclusive, and educational cannabis experience.
Rebelstork
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Rebelstork is enabling the buying and selling of overstock, open-boxed, and used baby gear at a reduced price.
QuoteMachine
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QuoteMachine is a cloud software to help local retailers turn any in-store conversation into an online sale.
Inner Spirit Holdings
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Inner Spirit Holdings is a company that builds amazing brands with substance.
Askuity
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Askuity connects retailers and product suppliers with insight and analytics for improved collaboration, planning and retail execution.
Xumi
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Break-though digital technologies to make payment, simpler, safer and more affordable.
PiinPoint
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PiinPoint is a location analytics company that helps businesses find the best locations for worldwide expansion.
Fruit d’Or inc
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Fruit d’Or inc. is Canada’s leading producer and processor of organic cranberries and blueberries
Dose Juice
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Dose Juices creates and markets cold pressed juices, organic smoothies and nut milks
CGI
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CGI is a canada-based information technology consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company.
SHOP.CA
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SHOP.CA, a Canadian multi-merchant marketplace, offers brands, products and services from trusted retailers, manufacturers and providers
360pi Corp.
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360pi derives profitable insights from product and pricing big data to help leading omnichannel retailers and brands compete and win.
Storytap
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StoryTap is humanizing the online shopping experience with customer video reviews.
High Tide
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High Tide is a retail-focused cannabis corporation.
Export Development Canada
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Export Development Canada supports Canada’s export trade by helping companies react to international business openings.
Matagora
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Matagora is a delivering pop-up physical storefronts for online brands
Northern Reflections
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Northern Reflections is a online retail clothing store.
Herve Edibles
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Herve Edibles produces exquisite desserts, macarons, candies and chocolates that combine contemporary design with spectacular flavors.
SSENSE
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SSENSE is an online platform that offers a range of luxury designer clothing for men and women.
luxxee
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luxury search engine, luxury watch search engine, luxury watch aggregator, luxury aggregator
OrderEase
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OrderEase’s highly scalable wholesale ordering solution interconnects and automates wholesale ordering for industries.
Alcanna
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Alcanna is a retailer of highly-regulated controlled substances and we recognize this responsibility with every transaction.
Greenline POS
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Canada’s leading cannabis retail point-of-sale system
TAKU Retail
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TAKU is the most flexible and cost-effective all-in-one commerce platform for established or growing retailers.
Rockwell Razors
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Rockwell Razor makes eco-friendly shaving and personal grooming products.
Browze
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Browze is a marketplace that curates low-cost products from factories overseas without having to compromise on quality.
Teabot
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Teabot is creating a retail platform for customized grab-and go tea.
PUDO
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PUDO is developing North America’s only carrier-neutral parcel pick-up/drop-off technology and logistics Network.
Vanhawks
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Vanhawks making the smart carbon fibre commuting bike and platform for smart bikes.
eMotors Direct
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We are an online Marketplace of electro-mechanical products, our drop ship model can pull from any one of 30 warehouses
ForeverSpin
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ForeverSpin is a Canadian company dedicated to making the world’s finest tops.
Leav
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Leav is a Montreal-based PayTech company offering cloud-based checkout automation solutions for small and medium retailers.
Sampler
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The Leader in Direct-To-Consumer Product Sampling
SMRT1 Technologies Ltd
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Technology company that specializes in interactive touchscreens and kiosk solutions, specialized in the vending space
Cove Kombucha
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Cove Kombucha is a food and beverage company that specializes in kombucha, a fermented tea beverage.
krippit
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Krippit is a 3D Printing FashionTech company for Women High Heel Accessories
Verda
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Verda is a company that connects retailers and couriers with legal cannabis to connect customers for easily accessible products.
Rent frock Repeat
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Rent frock Repeat delivers high-end fashion from the runway to your wardrobe.
Dispension Industries
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Dispension is a platform that provides health tools to educate consumers and make distribution of regulated products simple and responsible.
Ribitt
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Ribitt is a mobile rewards application that discovers local shops in every neighborhood.
QUEST Corp Solutions
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Quest Corp Solutions aims to transform the retail space for vaping products.
Datenight Babysitting
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Connecting Parents with Experienced, Local Babysitters
Primo Water Corporation
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Primo Water Corporation (PRMW) is a producers of beverages on behalf of retailers, brand owners and distributors.
Unique Solutions Design
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Unique Solutions Design is a Canada-based developer of innovative body fit solutions and technologies.
Digital Retail Apps
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Digital Retail Apps is a mobile application that enables users to scan, view, and purchase items through their smartphones.
Korsall.com
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Korsall.com is a proprietary Ecommerce technology platform that connects fashion designers to consumers from around the world.
Go Oil Canada Inc
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Mobile oil change, franchise system, tech company
Boro
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Boro offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for women to list, discover, and borrow clothing.
Simplista
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Simplista is a listing service that gets products from supplier to shelf in one tenth of the time.
SmartPay Me
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White-Label Mobile Instant Checkout (EMV/SCA/PSD2/PISP/TISP) solution with Biometry for banks & retailers, disrupting payments cards rails
Taynton Bay Spirits
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Taynton Bay Spirits have created a line of spirits that are distilled in Invermere BC from locally grown wheat.
Best Buy Canada
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Best Buy Canada operates as a specialty retailer and e-tailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, and entertainment software.
Prairie Soil Services
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Full Service Ag Retail in North East Saskatchewan. Committed to advancing Ag for our local customers and Western Canada.
iQmetrix
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iQmetrix is an IT and service company that provides retail solutions.
Canadian Tire Corp.
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Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which sells a wide range of automotive, sports goods.
Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc.
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Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. operates and licenses convenience stores.
Warranty Life
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Warranty Life tracks product purchases and offers a system that stores receipts and tracks warranty and extended warranty data.