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 Mobile 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.
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
Tim Fimmers
EVP & CTO of AdPerfect
Skills Online Advertising, Digital MediaProject Management, Product Management, Product Development, Account Management, Web Development, Information Technology, Business Strategy, Business Process, Business Planning, Strategic Partnerships, User Experience, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Technology Solutions, IT, SEO, Sales, Advertising, Publishing, Email Marketing, Newspaper, E-commerce, Data Integration
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About AdPerfect: Self-serve advertising, Digital & print classifieds, Web-based technology, Obituaries, Mobile-Responsive Marketplace
Shawn Stapleton
Founder, Board Member & CTO of Dali Wireless
Shawn is a luminary in wireless communications. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. Shawn founded PulseWave RF, TRL Microwave Technology and Seron Technologies. He has acted as an external partner for Hewlett Packard and later Agilent Technologies where he developed the majority of the ADS software design guides and the ADS Digital Predistorter Connected Solution. In addition, he delivered seminars on Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifiers around the globe. Shawn has held positions at Scientific Atlanta, GigaOptix (iTerra Communications), and Canadian Astronautics Limited. Shawn received his B.Eng, M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Carleton/Ottawa University. He has over 200 international patents, and has published approximately 200 scholarly publications in the areas of RFICs, Digital Signal Processing, Mobile Communications and Power Amplifications.
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About Dali Wireless: Dali Wireless designs and develops software configurable radio systems for broadband applications.
Shawn Stapleton
Founder, Board Member & CTO of Dali Wireless
Shawn is a luminary in wireless communications. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. Shawn founded PulseWave RF, TRL Microwave Technology and Seron Technologies. He has acted as an external partner for Hewlett Packard and later Agilent Technologies where he developed the majority of the ADS software design guides and the ADS Digital Predistorter Connected Solution. In addition, he delivered seminars on Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifiers around the globe. Shawn has held positions at Scientific Atlanta, GigaOptix (iTerra Communications), and Canadian Astronautics Limited. Shawn received his B.Eng, M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Carleton/Ottawa University. He has over 200 international patents, and has published approximately 200 scholarly publications in the areas of RFICs, Digital Signal Processing, Mobile Communications and Power Amplifications.
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About Dali Wireless: Dali Wireless designs and develops software configurable radio systems for broadband applications.
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
Tyler Eastman
CTO of Lightship Works
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About Lightship Works: Lightship is an application that connects everything on your worksite: your employee mobile devices, sensors, and safety systems.
Andrey Chudnovskiy
Co-founder, CTO of Simple Matters
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About Simple Matters: Simple Matters attempts to find new solutions to old problems by removing complexity from every day life and make it simpler
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.
Ehab Samy
Chief Technology Officer of Yocale
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About BBTV, Yocale: Yocale is a local appointment engine that brings consumers and businesses together in every neighbourhood.
Joerg Beekmann
CTO of Transactive Systems
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About Transactive Systems: Transactive Systems develops transaction processing software that enables single-source access to diverse payment systems.
Ting Sun
CTO of Spacio
CTO of Spacio.
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About Spacio: Spacio: The Paperless Open House
Ting Sun
CTO of Spacio
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About Spacio: Spacio: The Paperless Open House
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