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Montréal

Metro area · Canada · Pop. 4.3M

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$59.3B+28%
Combined startup EV
$552.2M
VC invested (last 12mo)
1,045
Tracked startups
#72/ 199
Unicorns per 1M people · cities rank
🦄 Unicorns
12
12 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
14
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Montréal grew 7.1× since 2015

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

0 $17.5B $35B $52.5B $70B Montréal · $60.8B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent cities by EV

Startup funnel

Montréal'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
191
Seed
207
Series A
165
Series B
89
Series C
40
Unicorn
12

* 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 Montréal

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 12
Lion ElectricSonderAppDirectVICE MediaLightspeedBlockstreamClementia PharmaceuticalsSSENSEBitfarmsHopperPaperNuvei
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 12
NuveiLightspeedKnight TherapeuticsLion ElectricBitfarmsMedexus PharmaceuticalsHaivisionGoodfoodHopperSonderRepare TherapeuticsAppDirectVICE MediaWorkleap

Academia

Montréal's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
91
University spinouts
1,328
Total alumni-founded companies
851
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
372
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
105
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Montréal stacks up

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

Combined enterprise value
$74.9B
Montréal
$59.3B
$18B
$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. Montréal'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 Montréal's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Montréal'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
Montréal'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 Montréal'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 Montréal
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Montréal
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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