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Startups, scaleups and selected public or acquired companies with local product-building teams. Teams across Canada, including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary. Curated by Cosign and listed alphabetically.
Secure credentials and access for people, machines, and AI agents.
Now giving AI agents narrowly scoped credentials, tackling a dangerous shortcut: handing autonomous software the same keys that unlock entire companies.
Cosign Chef-prepared meals delivered weekly
Forty-three million meals from eight kitchens show chef-made food can reach people far beyond a restaurant’s tables.
Cosign Authentic video from everyday creators, licensed on demand
A working creator-to-buyer market makes everyday footage available to teams that need real-world video, not staged substitutes.
Cosign Distributed quantum computing built around optical connections.
New memory research attacks a central quantum problem: keeping fragile information intact long enough to connect useful machines.
Cosign Bioprinted tissue therapies designed to restore biological function.
More Novo Nordisk technology and responsibility brings its goal of replacing lost biological function with living tissue closer.
Cosign Consumer products for a world of digital ownership.
Beyond NBA collectibles, Peak Money takes it into consumer finance—testing whether crypto infrastructure can become something ordinary people use every day.
Cosign AI image generation with typography, editing, and creative control.
Open weights and layout control give developers more ownership over image generation, including how results are composed.
Cosign Robotic homebuilding from design files through installation.
Robots are producing homes for Mattamy, tackling the construction bottleneck between housing demand and enough buildings people can move into.
Cosign Carbon mineralization technology for concrete producers
Customers already put captured carbon into concrete, turning an enormous building-material market into a potential home for emissions.
Cosign Carbon-removal infrastructure connecting capture technologies with permanent storage.
Certified removal credits issued for Microsoft and RBC turn captured carbon into something buyers can verify.
Cosign An orbital network for spacecraft communications and computing.
Its optical relay service is live, giving spacecraft a way to move data without waiting only for their own ground contact.
Cosign Physical operations, made safer and smarter with AI.
Its new AI coach speaks with drivers during risky moments, pushing fleet safety from reviewing yesterday’s footage toward preventing the next crash.
Cosign AI for Empowerment: Your freedom. Your focus.
Its planned Aleph Alpha merger takes the fight for AI independence across Canada and Europe—giving governments more control over critical models and data.
Cosign Connected defense systems for Arctic and allied operations.
An Arctic military deployment tests whether forces can stay connected in places ordinary infrastructure barely reaches.
Cosign Mining safety and productivity systems built for dust, glare and darkness.
Already at eight active mines, tackling autonomy where dust, darkness and heavy machinery make ordinary robotics break down.
Cosign Physical AI and dexterous robotics for complex industrial work.
Its robot met an automotive supplier’s wire-plugging pace, taking on dexterous work that has resisted traditional factory automation.
Cosign The Everything Exchange: crypto, stocks, and more, building a new financial system.
Stocks, prediction markets and AI trading agents now sit alongside crypto. The ambition: replace the separate apps people use to manage their money.
Cosign Faire is the platform connecting thousands of brands and retailers worldwide.
Nearly 3 million new brand–retailer relationships last year. Now it’s using AI to make stocking an independent shop less of a guessing game.
Cosign Spatial intelligence for live sports
Working with Toronto teams, it is turning live play into spatial data that could change how sports are analyzed and presented.
Cosign AI drafting and review for transactional lawyers
Four thousand legal teams use it, testing whether contract work can grow without every additional page requiring proportional lawyer time.
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