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Top 25 Biopharmaceutical companies based in Canada

The Canada biopharmaceutical companies directory lists 454 companies developing and commercializing medicines based on biological products. It includes 30,818 business contacts and 12,553 email addresses for organizations in the category, with Toronto as the single most-represented city among the companies on the list. The directory was updated in September 2026.

Biopharmaceutical companies discover, develop, manufacture, or commercialize medicines made from biological sources, including proteins, antibodies, vaccines, and cell or gene therapies. This list covers companies whose primary business includes the research, development, manufacturing, or commercialization of biopharmaceutical products. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 6, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 6, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
454Companies
30,818Contacts tracked
12,553Verified emails
3,443Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest biopharmaceutical companies based in Canada

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 454 biopharmaceutical companies based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to biopharmaceutical companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 20265,001-10,0005,940 contacts →

“At Apotex, we are a global team empowering everyone to achieve better health.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLaval, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 20265,001-10,0002,488 contacts →

“Bausch Health Companies Inc.(NYSE/TSX: BHC) is a global, diversified health care company that develops, manufactures and markets a range of products, primarily in…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3Indirect evidenceSt-laurent, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 20265,001-10,0002,100 contacts →

“At McKesson Canada, our vision is to improve care in every setting, one product, one partner, one patient at a time.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,0001,818 contacts →

“STEMCELL Technologies is a Canadian biotechnology company that helps power leading-edge life science research around the world.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLaval, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,0001,759 contacts →

“Outsourcing made easy with a one-stop solution to early-phase drug development.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,0001,745 contacts →

“Today's most complex therapies in oncology, rare disease, and specialty biologics have evidence journeys that are long and stakeholders that are sophisticated.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,0001,697 contacts →

“Founded in 1983, Pharmascience Inc.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Indirect evidenceCharlottetown, PE, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000628 contacts →

“Expertise in both microbial fermentation and chemical synthesis allows us to tackle today’s development pipeline’s increasingly complex molecules.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000596 contacts →

“AbCellera is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing antibody-based medicines in the areas of endocrinology, women’s health, immunology, and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000411 contacts →

“Knight Therapeutics Inc.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500324 contacts →

“Zymeworks is a global biotechnology company developing and managing a portfolio of differentiated biotherapeutics to improve the standard of care for patients with…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000279 contacts →

“IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500266 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000211 contacts →

“At Sygnature Discovery, a global drug discovery CRO, we create exceptional scientific outcomes.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15Indirect evidenceMississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500195 contacts →

“Eurofins CDMO Alphora Inc.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000187 contacts →

“Fresenius Kabi Canada is a diverse pharmaceutical company committed to supplying high quality, cost-effective pharmaceutical products and services to Canadians.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17Indirect evidenceOakville, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200169 contacts →

“SteriMax is a privately held, wholly-owned Canadian pharmaceutical company located in Oakville, Ontario.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200167 contacts →

“Dalton is a contract pharmaceutical manufacturer which provides integrated chemistry, development, and manufacturing to biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients around the world.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Indirect evidenceCambridge, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500160 contacts →

“Novocol Pharma is a CDMO based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500154 contacts →

“Better Health, Brighter Future Our way to better health for Canadians is through leading innovations in gastroenterology, oncology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000130 contacts →

“Teva Canada, located in Toronto and Montreal, has provided medicines to Canadians for 50+ years.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Indirect evidenceMississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200117 contacts →

“Microbix Biosystems Inc.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23Strong evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200107 contacts →

“Theratechnologies is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization of innovative therapies that have the potential to redefine standards of care.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24Indirect evidenceSaint-hubert, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200104 contacts →

“Since 1997, KABS has offered a broad range of product development services to the bio-pharmaceutical industry, worldwide.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25Strong evidenceMississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500103 contacts →

“Therapure is an integrated Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) that helps develop and manufacture therapeutic proteins for biopharmaceutical companies of…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Biopharmaceutical companies based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
40.7%Verified-email coverage
11.2%Mobile-number coverage
67.9Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
17.4%Largest-city concentration · Toronto
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
187
11-50
153
51-200
77
201-500
15
501-1,000
10
1,001-5,000
5
5,001-10,000
3

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails on this list were verified

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How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among biopharmaceutical companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “biopharmaceutical companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names biopharmaceutical companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among biopharmaceutical companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 12,553 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Frequently asked

How many biopharmaceutical companies are in the directory?

The directory contains 454 biopharmaceutical companies based in Canada.

Where are most of the biopharmaceutical companies located?

Toronto is the single most-represented city among the biopharmaceutical companies on the list.

What contact data is available for biopharmaceutical companies?

The directory includes 30,818 business contacts and 12,553 email addresses for the listed biopharmaceutical companies.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.