Top 10 Space startups in Canada

Mar 09, 2025 | By Boris Maslennikov

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Funding: CA$3.9M
Perceptive Space is building a space weather platform that provides space weather predictions for safe & reliable operations.
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Funding: $6.8M
Spaceium develops a spacecraft docking system to support interplanetary missions.
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Funding: $18.6M
The highest resolution hyperspectral imagery of Earth from space.
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Funding: $119.2M
NorthStar is revolutionary in its raw data capabilities & capacity for information processing via advanced software analytics.
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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,
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Funding: $3.9M
MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics, satellite systems, and geointelligence pioneer.
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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.
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Enabling the space economy through reimagined, autonomous, and safe spacecraft docking systems
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AllSeeing develops space radio and optics imaging systems
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Volta has built the LightGrid - an orbital architecture transferring power wirelessly to assets on the lunar surface.
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