Open North/Nord Ouvert
Q&A with Merlin Chatwin, Executive Director What’s your company’s origin story? What brought your team together? Open North was founded in 2011 in Montreal as a not-for-profit dedicated to making data and technology serve the common good. Our team comes together around a shared dedication to pursuing open, transparent, and inclusive digital practices that can […]
Privacy-Safe
Q&A with Pierre-Louis Bourbon, Growth Hacker What’s your company’s origin story? What brought your team together? Privacy-Safe was created when our founders realized that most Canadian small and medium-sized businesses struggled with new privacy and data protection requirements. For many, compliance feels out of reach: too complex, too expensive, or “something only big companies worry […]
PrivID, Inc.
Q&A with Jiri Fiala, Founder/CEO Pitch your company to us as if we’re an individual or organization that thinks cybercrime is “someone else’s problem.” The problem we solve is that exact one: too many organisations think cybercrime is “someone else’s problem.” It’s a belief that holds until the day it does not, which is: the […]
Nexodata Inc.
Q&A with Francis Pun, Co-founder and CEO What’s your company’s origin story? What brought your team together? Nexodata was formed in a serendipitous collision between our unique expertise in ransomware protection and funding from prominent Canadian deep-tech angels and advisors. We’re a recent immigrant team that is on-shoring our research process, while launching our game-changing […]
What we learned talking to Canadian cyber companies
In the face of rising U.S. tariffs and increasing global cyber threats, the Catalyst partnered with In-Sec-M to launch a Canadian-focused directory for cyber companies called Buy Canadian Cyber. The initiative is already a great success: we’ve listed over 200 Canadian cybersecurity companies in the Buy Canadian Cyber directory, making it easier than ever for […]
Myntex
Q&A with Lorissa Dong, Myntex’s Marketing Director What’s your company’s origin story? What brought your team together? Myntex began in 2011 with two Canadians, Geoff Green and Chantel Duplantie, with $500 in hand, a couple of second-hand servers, and an air conditioner from Canadian Tire. Their mission: make mobile privacy accessible to everyone. From offering […]
F12.net
Q&A with Kate Mitchell, F12’s Head of Marketing What’s your company’s origin story? What brought your team together? The F12 key used to do nothing. We changed that. F12 started in a basement — not as a product of venture funding or hype, but out of a real-world need: businesses struggling to keep IT working, […]
VerveDelight
Q&A with Deepak Kumar, VerveDelight’s Director Pitch your company to us as if we’re an individual or organization that thinks cybercrime is “someone else’s problem.” VerveDelight (Canada) was founded by a diverse team of cybersecurity experts, educators, and AI innovators who saw a critical gap in how cybersecurity was delivered to small and mid-sized organizations […]
Metropolitan Technologies
Q&A with Daly Brown, Metropolitan’s Co-Founder and CEO What’s your company’s origin story? What brought your team together? Both myself and my co-founder have a background in aerospace and defence, where we worked for many years building mission-critical applications for airborne platforms. We left that industry and founded Metropolitan Technologies to build reliable and secure […]
BlueImpact Risk Intelligence
Q&A with Hunter Zhu, BlueImpact’s CEO Pitch your company to us as if we’re an individual or organization that thinks cybercrime is “someone else’s problem.” Our team brings over 25 years of experience in information security, and has supported the protection of hundreds of Canadian organizations. We believe every organization should continuously assess its risk […]
