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Quebec

State · Canada · Pop. 8.9M · #44 region by EV

A public taster of the full Quebec ecosystem on Dealroom — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and the full cap table for every company below.

🦄 New unicorns by year
0
Annual $1B+ outcomes, unsmoothed
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
13
Company revenue history, 2016-2025
Enterprise value
$73B
Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Quebec

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Quebec-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Quebec - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Quebec-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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Top sub-locations

Inside Quebec: top 3 metros

Metros inside Quebec ranked by combined enterprise value, paired with their 5-year growth multiplier.

By enterprise value
2 Montréal $59.3B
3 Laval $514.6M
By 5-yr EV growth
2 Montréal 3.5×

Startup funnel

Quebec'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
259
Seed
264
Series A
213
Series B
109
Series C
49
Unicorn
14

* 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.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Quebec

VC investment into Quebec-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Quebec

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 14
SSENSEBitfarmsSonderPaperHopperCoveoClementia PharmaceuticalsInversago PharmaVICE MediaNuveiLightspeedLion ElectricBlockstreamAppDirect
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 13
NuveiLightspeedKnight TherapeuticsLion ElectricBitfarmsCoveoMedexus PharmaceuticalsHaivisionGoodfoodHopperSonderRepare TherapeuticsAppDirectVICE MediaWorkleap

Academia

Quebec's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
120
University spinouts
1,557
Total alumni-founded companies
1,018
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
422
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
117
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Quebec stacks up

Compare Quebec with peers from the same country (Canada) — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

$379B
Quebec
$70.6B
$24.8B
$1.4B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Quebec dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown
Where Quebec's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Quebec'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
Quebec'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 Quebec'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 Quebec
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Quebec
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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