Top 10 Space startups in Canada

Aug 15, 2025
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1
NorthStar
Funding: $119.2M
NorthStar is revolutionary in its raw data capabilities & capacity for information processing via advanced software analytics.
2
Spaceium
Funding: $6.8M
Spaceium develops a spacecraft docking system to support interplanetary missions.
3
MDA
Funding: $3.9M
MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics, satellite systems, and geointelligence pioneer. MDA is developing the Canadarm3, an iconic, next-generation AI-enabled robotic system. Also MDA supports humanity’s long-term return to the lunar surface,
4
MDA Space
Funding: $3.9M
MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics, satellite systems, and geointelligence pioneer.
5
Perceptive Space
Funding: CA$3.9M
Perceptive Space is building a space weather platform that provides space weather predictions for safe & reliable operations.
6
Qoherent
Funding: $173.7K
Qoherent is accelerating the pace of AI signal processing for radio. Qoherent's AI can improve reliability of space communcations by switching to more resilient waveforms, another part of the spectrum, or another path in the constellation.
7
Obruta Space Solutions
Enabling the space economy through reimagined, autonomous, and safe spacecraft docking systems
8
AllSeeing
AllSeeing develops space radio and optics imaging systems
9
Volta Space
Volta has built the LightGrid - an orbital architecture transferring power wirelessly to assets on the lunar surface.
10
Space Launch Technologies
Space Launch Technologies Inc. is committed to bringing a novel orbital launch air cannon (OLAC) to market to reduce orbital space launch costs by 40-50%.
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com