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This free sheet contains all the information about the existing 1,016 unicorns, including their valuation, HQ's location, founded year, name of founders, funding amount and number of employees.
This free sheet contains all the information about the existing 1,016 unicorns, including their valuation, HQ's location, founded year, name of founders, funding amount and number of employees.
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This free sheet contains 2,658 accelerators and incubators that you can apply to today, along with information about the industries and stages they generally invest in.
This free Notion document contains the best 100+ resources you need for building a successful startup, divided in 4 categories: Fundraising, People, Product, and Growth.
The number of successful companies run by founders from Toronto and worth more than $1 billion is becoming increasingly hard to ignore.
Particularly when a lot of these companies were only founded within the last 5 years or so.
That’s why we decided to put together this list of 6 companies from Toronto that have achieved the Unicorn status.
1Password is a password manager that is both secure and convenient for managing documents, credit card details, and addresses.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$6.80
B (
July 2021
)
Country:
Canada
City:
Toronto
Started in:
2005
Founders:
Dave Teare, Natalia Karimov, Roustem Karimov, Sara Teare
Industries:
Cyber Security, Network Security, Privacy, Software
Number of employees:
250-500
Funding Amount:
$920.14M
Number of funding rounds:
3
Number of investors:
28
Clearco is a lending platform for startups, that provides unique performance financing products and services specifically tailored for founders of all stages.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$2.00
B (
April 2021
)
Country:
Canada
City:
Toronto
Started in:
2015
Founders:
Andrew D'Souza, Ben Sanders, Charlie Feng, Ivan Gritsiniak, Michele Romanow, Olivier Grinda, Pavel Melnichuk, Tanay Delima
Industries:
E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, Internet, Venture Capital
Number of employees:
250-500
Funding Amount:
$935.01M
Number of funding rounds:
5
Number of investors:
29
Figment supports the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web 3 ecosystem.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$1.40
B (
December 2021
)
Country:
Canada
City:
Toronto
Started in:
2018
Founders:
Andrew Cronk, Lorien Gabel, Matt Harrop
Industries:
Blockchain, Computer, Cryptocurrency, Network Security, Software
Number of employees:
1-10
Funding Amount:
$163.84M
Number of funding rounds:
6
Number of investors:
31
ADA is a vertically integrated digital advertising company.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$1.20
B (
May 2021
)
Country:
Canada
City:
Toronto
Started in:
2016
Founders:
David Hariri, Mike Murchison
Industries:
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, SaaS, Software
Number of employees:
100-250
Funding Amount:
$190.73M
Number of funding rounds:
7
Number of investors:
17
FreshBooks is a software company that provides cloud-based accounting software for small and medium-sized businesses.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$1.00
B (
August 2021
)
Country:
Canada
City:
Toronto
Started in:
2004
Founders:
Levi Cooperman, Michael McDerment
Industries:
Accounting, FinTech, Payments, Small and Medium Businesses, Software
Number of employees:
250-500
Funding Amount:
$203.75M
Number of funding rounds:
7
Number of investors:
11
Tenstorrent is a computing company that develops processors designed to help in faster training and adaptability to future algorithms.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$1.00
B (
May 2021
)
Country:
Canada
City:
Toronto
Started in:
2016
Founders:
Ivan Hamer, Ljubisa Bajic, Milos Trajkovic
Industries:
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Hardware, Machine Learning
Number of employees:
100-250
Funding Amount:
$221.03M
Number of funding rounds:
6
Number of investors:
7
