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Edmonton

Metro area · Canada · Pop. 1.3M

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$6.4B+13%
Combined startup EV
$107.2M
VC invested (last 12mo)
400
Tracked startups
#78/ 199
Unicorns per 1M people · cities rank
🦄 Unicorns
3
3 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
2
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Edmonton grew 3.1× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Edmonton that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $1.8B $3.5B $5.3B $7B Edmonton · $6.4B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent cities by EV

Startup funnel

Edmonton's power-law funnel

From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.

Pre-Seed
64
Seed
50
Series A
30
Series B
14
Series C
7
Unicorn
3

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Edmonton

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Unicorns $1B+ valuation 3
JobberUptakeAurinia Pharmaceuticals
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 2
Aurinia PharmaceuticalsJobber

Academia

Edmonton's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Edmonton.

University-linked startup formation
82
University spinouts
228
Total alumni-founded companies
164
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
50
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
14
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Edmonton stacks up

Peers chosen from the same country (Canada), sized closest to Edmonton by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$74.9B
$59.3B
$18B
Edmonton
$6.4B
$2B
$514.6M
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV

Top overview

Canada — top cities

Top cities in Canada ranked by combined EV. Edmonton's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 Ottawa–Gatineau $230B 49.9× 2 $85.6M 381
2 Toronto-Waterloo $142B 7.2× 32 $2.6B 3,531
3 Vancouver $74.9B 10.0× 20 $1.3B 1,686
4 Montréal $59.3B 3.5× 12 $552.2M 1,045
5 Calgary $18B 10.0× 5 $272.1M 697
6 Edmonton $6.4B 1.9× 3 $107.2M 400
7 Halifax $2B 5.9× 0 $132.4M 185
8 Laval $514.6M 0 $15M 43
9 Brampton $105.2M 3.5× 0 $0 22

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Sector breakdown
Where Edmonton's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Edmonton's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Edmonton's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Edmonton's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Edmonton
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Edmonton
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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