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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 British Columbia based CTO’ operating in the Apps space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Dieter Shirley
Founder & CTO of CryptoKitties
CTO and co-creator of CryptoKitties. A proud member of the Axiom Zen family!
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About CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs, Flow Blockchain: CryptoKitties is a game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain.
Adrian Unger
CTO of Ecquire, Inc.
CTO at Ecquire, Inc.
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About Ecquire, Inc.: Ecquire is a sales productivity tool that allows its users to transfer data to their CRM.
Abhinav Gupta
Founder, CTO, and Chairman of PocketPills
Abhinav Gupta is a Co-Founder of :PocketPills. He also co-founded Rocket Fuel, a provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions. Prior to that, he was an engineering director at Yahoo!, where he led the development of their next-generation behavior-targeting platform.As a founding member of the behavioral targeting group at Yahoo!, he helped cultivate a start-up environment, building the team and platform from scratch. He holds a B. Tech in computer science from the IIT Delhi, and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. He has co-authored almost twenty patents in the areas of database queries and optimization, behavioral targeting, and web-based user analytics.
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About PocketPills, Pravega Ventures: Pocketpills is Canada’s leading online pharmacy, delivers medication by the dose, straight to customer’s door.
Alexey Indeev
CTO & Co Founder of Spare
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About Spare: Our mission is to accelerate the shift to efficient and autonomous mobility
Christian Sander
CTO of FundRazr
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About ConnectionPoint, FundRazr: World’s leading enterprise-class crowdfunding platform
Guru Atlu
CTO / Co-founder of Finn AI
Guru Atlu is a co-founder at Finn AI, currently serves the company as a CTO and a software engineer.
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About Finn AI, Finn AI: Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance.
Erik Tillberg
Chief Technology Officer of iMerciv
Erik was previously a software developer at Thicket Labs and co-founder of KAE Guys. Erik joined iMerciv on a part-time basis to develop MapinHood (www.mapinhood.com) and is now working full-time as CTO heading up the technical team who are building out the product/platform.
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About iMerciv, The Happenin Company: iMerciv leverages crowd sourcing and AI to empower pedestrians with personalized navigation and actionable data in real time.
Craig Ford
Chief Technology Officer of Expression
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About Expression: XPR is developer platform that lets you build anything online and works as your digital OS to connect the digital world for your customers
Craig Ford
Chief Technology Officer of Expression
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About Expression: XPR is developer platform that lets you build anything online and works as your digital OS to connect the digital world for your customers
Patrick Young
Chief Technology Officer of Scan & Shop
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About Scan & Shop: Scan & Shop is a Marketplace that brings together Consumers, Merchants, Suppliers & Delivery Logistics in one consolidated Mobile Platform.
Dave Brennan
Co-Founder and CTO of Deposify
Dave has specialised in gaming technology for +10 years and has worked on 9 of the 10 biggest global games titles. Dave is taking gaming innovation, from security and backend to micro-financial transactions and applying these to Deposify and Fintech. With responsibility for our tech stack, Dave ensures that we work to bank level security and infrastructure when handling our users funds and data.
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About Deposify: Deposify offers pay and hold rental deposits services.
Yossarian King
CTO of Blackbird Interactive
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About Blackbird Interactive: Blackbird is a private, independent game studio headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Yuri Chernikov
CTO of Boomerang Parental Control
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About Boomerang Parental Control: Our team of three dads are passionate about kids, education and technology. Helping guide parents with their family technology use.
Dhruv Adhia
Co-Founder and CTO of H+ Technology
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About H+ Technology: H+ Technology is a digital display solutions company that develops customizable, gesture-based systems, and 3D projection displays.
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