🚀 Canadian Rocketships is going cross-country

Canada's fastest-growing tech companies are going on tour. Vancouver is stop one.

Every year we ask Canada's top VCs and the local startup community one question: who's taking off? They call out the companies scaling fastest, solving the hardest problems, and taking careers to the moon. The ones doubling revenue year over year. The ones hiring faster than they can print business cards. The ones you wish you'd bet on three rounds ago.

That's Rocketships.

Here's how it works. At each tour stop, leading Canadian VCs take the stage for 60 seconds to introduce their nominated fastest-growing portfolio company. Then the founder takes the mic for three minutes. Real stories, real traction, real asks. No pitch competition theatre.

Here's who's made the list before. The 2024 class put Wealthsimple, 1Password, Cohere, Waabi, and BioRender on the same stage as Spellbook, Float, Clutch, and Neo Financial. The 2025 list added Turbopuffer (the vector database powering Cursor and Notion), Solink (35,000 locations across 60 countries), and Stay22 coming back with 187% YoY growth.

Here's where the 2026 tour lands.

May 11: Vancouver kickoff (Web Summit week, D/6 Bar & Lounge)  
Then: Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Waterloo, Atlantic Canada, Calgary 
December 1: Toronto City Hall finale. We reveal the full 2026 Canadian Rocketships List.

Every company featured on the tour lands on the shortlist for the annual list. It's the roundup Canada reads when it wants to know who's building what's next.

→ RSVP: Vancouver Rocketships and  Web Summit Social (May 11)

→  Know a company doubling year over year? Fill out this form

→ VCs nominating a portfolio company, or partners supporting the tour: [email protected]

🛠️ The day before the stage

Every startup starts the same way. One weekend. One laptop. One stubborn idea.

TechTO × Althra Hackathon. Sunday, May 10. Vancouver

Ten hours. One room. Builders, operators, and founders shipping something real before Web Summit opens its doors. Mentors on the floor all day. A live judge panel to close it out.

We're running this with Althra, Vancouver's early-stage incubator and our co-host for the weekend.

Builders on the floor get hands-on access to the Backboard.io API for the day, so if you're building anything agentic, come test it on real infrastructure.

If Monday is where Canada's fastest-growing companies get seen, Sunday is where the next ones get started. Come build. We'll look for you on the Rocketships stage next year.

Three moves from the TechTO Canadian Rocketships 2025 list worth paying attention to right now.

🚀 Wealthsimple │ Toronto, ON

In March, Wealthsimple became the first Canadian fintech - and only the second non-bank in the world, to join the Swift global financial messaging network, used by 11,000+ institutions across 200 countries. International money transfers are coming for clients this spring, with end-to-end tracking built in. This is the same company that doubled its assets under administration to $100B last year, raised $750M at a $10B valuation, and was named 2026 CIX Innovator of the Year. The gap between Wealthsimple and the Big Six keeps closing.

🚀 Clio │ Burnaby, BC

Two major product moves in 30 days. In March, Clio launched Clio Operate at Legalweek New York, a platform built for large law firms managing hundreds of users across multiple jurisdictions. Then in April, they shipped agentic capabilities into Clio Work, letting the platform complete multi-step legal tasks from a single natural-language prompt. For context: Clio is the $5B legaltech company that completed the largest acquisition in legal tech history last year with the $1B purchase of vLex.

🚀 1Password │ Toronto, ON

1Password crossed $400M ARR, and has been making its move on the AI-agent era ever since. In February, the company expanded its global partner program to help organizations secure access not just for employees but for machines and autonomous AI agents. In March, they launched Unified Access, a new platform for discovering and securing credentials across human users, AI agents, and machine identities. Trusted by 180,000+ businesses, 1Password is building the trust layer for how modern work actually happens.

🇨🇦 Before we fly west, we're home all month

Before we take the tour cross-country, we're running seven events in Toronto this April. The city is where TechTO started, and the month is packed: Best Of, Past Zero, Commerce Toronto, Sales Toronto, Scale & Secure, and more! 

The one we want you locked in for: Sales Toronto, April 22.

Sales Toronto has been one of the most consistent rooms in the city for years. Founders. Sales leaders. CS heads. The operators actually moving pipeline across the line. It's the event where the conversations keep going after the mics come off, and the reason most people come back is the people standing next to them in the room.

This edition is shaping up to the most ambitious one we've run.

The presenting partner is Vasco, the revenue intelligence platform built for GTM teams that want a single source of truth across sales, marketing, and CS. Vasco's whole thesis is that revenue is a team sport and most companies are still scoring it like an individual one. 

For the first time, we're putting an entire revenue org on the stage instead of a row of sales leaders.

Five minutes each. A CRO, a CMO, a Sales Leader, a CS Lead. Four functions, four vantage points on the same question: what does it actually take to build a revenue org where every function is moving in the same direction, and what does it quietly cost when one of them isn't.

On stage:

• Justin Hudon , Head of Sales & CS, Vasco. Ran GTM at Lightspeed. Knows what misalignment costs at scale because he's had to fix it live.

• Miru Gunarajah, Head of Revenue Acceleration & Operations, Glia. Fifteen years inside Qualtrics and Microsoft. Turns ambitious revenue targets into systems that actually run.

• Bobby Green, Head of GTM & Strategy, Astrus. Built growth motions across medtech, a $30M marketplace, and now AI. Three businesses, three sets of constraints, one discipline that carries through all of them.

• Candy Lee, three-time tech CMO and the person behind Super Bowl campaigns at Anheuser-Busch. Her take on brand as an underused growth lever is the one most sales leaders in the room won't have heard before.

Doors at 6pm. Program at 6:45.

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