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At Best Startup Canada we track over 100,000 Canadian startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Alberta based CEO’ operating in the Internet space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.ca.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Arth Tyagi
CEO of ConnectDome
Arth Tyagi is the Co-Founder and CEO of ConnectDome, a startup that solves networking for developers. He is also the Founder of an open-source and free coding platform called DomeCode.
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About ConnectDome: Network, build, and ship.
Joshua Littlejohn
Founder and CEO of Norgress
Joshua Littlejohn is an entrepreneur, writer, marketer and author. In January of 2017, he launched Norgress, an Edmonton-based technology company where he currently serves as the chief executive officer.
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About Get Ready World, Norgress, The Joshua Littlejohn Report, Tire Needs On Wheels: Canadian-based technology company.
Mike Allan
President & CEO of Routeique
Mike has been building and running successful technology companies since he was a wee lad. Now a little older and wiser, he’s figured out how to surround himself with great people and get out of their way.
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About Routeique: Routeique is a logistics and supply chain company that aligns partners to enable data and product to flow and improve profitability.
Mike Owens
CEO of Absorb LMS
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About Absorb LMS, Absorb LMS: Absorb LMS is an software firm that provides eLearning software and support system for businesses.
Matt Lowe
Co-founder & CEO of ZeroKey
Matt is a Canadian-born tech entrepreneur who founded ZeroKey, an IIoT hardware startup. Formerly, Matt worked as the head of IT (North American subsidiaries) of Wilo, a major manufacturing company with global revenue of over $2 billion USD. Prior to working at Wilo, Matt operated a successful consultancy focused on product development for major companies in the tech industry. Over the course of a 15+ year career in tech, Matt has contributed to several mega projects including Linux and Arduino. Linux is used by over 2 billion devices worldwide including all Android smartphones, and Arduino is the world-leading hardware prototyping platform. As the original inventor behind ZeroKey, Matt has taken a back-of-the-napkin idea and scaled a successful business around it to the current size of 30 employees. Matt’s original concept for ZeroKey’s technology has now spawned over 22 patents filed across the globe and is active use at 6 of the top 10 global automotive OEM’s.
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About ZeroKey: ZeroKey is a hardware-startup offering IIoT products based on its breakthrough hyper-accurate 3D localization technology, Smart Space.
Ismail Attitalla
CEO & Founder of Stashii
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About Stashii: Stashii is a peer-to-peer storage and parking marketplace that connects people who have space, with people who need space.
Dan McEleney
CEO & Co-Founder of Gfycat
Dan is one of our co-founders and manages operations at Gfycat. He has extensive experience in project management in the technology sector, including medtech company Haemonetics. An avid redditor, Dan noticed the advent of the GIF on reddit in lieu of videos. His frustration with the low-quality, slow-loading GIFs he saw led to the creation of Gfycat. His engagement with the Reddit community led to Gfycat’s viral adoption among redditors, leading to Gfycat’s organic growth to 90 million monthly active users.
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About Gfycat: Gfycat is GIF hosting platform that allows users to create, discover, and share GIFs through their mobile phones and computers.
Gregg Oldring
CEO of Zept
Gregg Oldring is a web entrepreneur. Gregg Oldring is in the midst of a new startup, Inkdit. Inkdit a web app that applies the social networking model to signing, sharing and storing contracts. This is be Gregg’s third web app, catapulting off of the success of previous endeavours GSNet (founded 1995, sold in 1998 to trader.com) and Mailout (founded 2001).
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About Zept: Zept is a grade matching service for international students and universities.
Stephen Wensley
CEO & Founder of Acuspire
Stephen has over 10 years of experience in building software to streamline business processes. He has delivered more than 125 projects and led his team to a first place win at the Calgary Region Hackathon in 2017. He successfully raised investment to launch Acuspire, a tech startup with a mission of “A Future Without Job Search”, which reached placement as a Top 20 Startup for Calgary in 2017 and placement as a Top 20 Startup at Startup Grind Global Conference 2018. He takes pride in delivering cost-effective technology solutions to increase efficiency for customers and make the world a better place.
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About Acuspire: Acuspire is an AI-powered job search and recruiting platform that connects employers with qualified jobseekers within seconds.
Peter Ng
Founder and CEO of GrouperDeal Inc.
Peter Ng, CEO of GrouperDeal has been a business entrepreneur in Calgary for over 15 years and has been actively involved in the areas of real estate sales, marketing, investments, development, home building and technology. Over this time, he has established himself as a trusted real estate professional specializing from condo pre-sales to investment properties. Peter Ng brings real value to every person he works with through his strong reputation, investment knowledge, and marketing expertise. Peter is also an online marketing specialist with experience with search engine optimization, search engine marketing, social media marketing, inbound marketing, client relationship management software, marketing automation software and website development. Being a technology advocate, Peter also served as a Committee Member on the Technology Standing Committee for the Calgary Real Estate Board which was directly responsible for the research, selection and beta testing of all software and technology provided to over 5,000 Realtors. For these reasons, Peter is uniquely positioned as a real estate technologist who can take GrouperDeal to market success.
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About GrouperDeal Inc.: GrouperDeal Inc. is a marketplace where purchasers can group together to increase their bargaining power and negotiate discounts.
Thenuka Karunaratne
CEO of AdMark Technologies
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About AdMark Technologies: Owns a variety of blogs, and other web properties that generate revenue through affiliate partnerships.
Sahr Saffa
CEO of Cappsule
Sahr Saffa is the founder, chief experience officer, and chairperson of the Canadian-based arts, music, and innovation festival C-Tribe. In 2017 after a failed attempt at raising money for his software startup in New York, Sahr returned to Canada with the mission of growing the innovation ecosystem. The event has grown from a 150 person local festival to become one of Alberta’s leading innovation festivals. Outside of C-Tribe, Sahr is also a member of the Global Shapers Edmonton hub initiated by the World Economic Forum, and the CXO for a software startup he created called Cappsule.
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About C-Tribe, Cappsule: A marketplace for seekers and sharers of local experiences
Rod Schatz
CEO / Co-founder of SafeContact
Rod Schatz is the CEO and co-founder of SafeContact Solutions Inc.
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About SafeContact: SafeContact is solving the Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) epidemic plaguing its global healthcare facilities.
Tom Groenland
President & CEO, Founder & Director of mcThings
Tom started and operated a successful electronics manufacturing business serving companies in the medical, consumer, energy and communications sectors. He has extensive experience in advanced manufacturing processes and low-power hardware design.
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About mcThings: mcThings is a measurement and control platform for the Internet of Things.
Ash Nabavi
CEO of First Available
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Neil Hamarneh
Founder & CEO of Impress Eats
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Neil Hamarneh
Founder & CEO of Impress Eats
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