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Top 25 Biotech accelerators based in Canada

RevenueBase identified 210 biotech accelerators headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 2,948 professional contacts across them, including 891 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers biotech accelerators headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 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 16, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
210Companies
2,948Contacts tracked
891Verified emails
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The 25 largest biotech accelerators based in Canada

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 210 biotech accelerators based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to biotech accelerators: 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 16, 202651-200515 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
2Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-500266 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
3Indirect evidenceKitchener, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-200134 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Communitech helps founders start, grow and succeed.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
4Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-50115 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le Centech est un incubateur de calibre mondial dédié aux entreprises de haute technologie (deeptech) à fort potentiel de croissance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
5Indirect evidenceCanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5084 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Make science your business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
6Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5065 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“District 3, Concordia University’s startup incubator in downtown Montreal, has supported over 1,400 startups in the past decade.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
7Partial evidenceHamilton, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5053 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Innovation Factory is a not-for-profit business accelerator, located in Hamilton and Halton, Ontario, committed to building the province’s innovation community and helping…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
8Partial evidenceWaterloo, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5052 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Among the World's Top 5 Private Business Accelerators Since 2017.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
9Partial evidenceBrampton, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 2026n/a46 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Altitude Accelerator supports technology entrepreneurs that want to smart-track their business in the areas of advanced manufacturing, cleantech and the Internet of Things.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
10Partial evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5045 contacts →

Partial evidence

“NEXT AI is a leading national accelerator and founder development program for early-stage AI-powered startups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
11Indirect evidenceSherbrooke, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5044 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“L’Accélérateur de création d'entreprises technologiques (ACET) est un incubateur-accélérateur d’entreprises spécialisées en haute technologie.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
12Indirect evidenceSt John’s, NL, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5044 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We help ambitious founders build world-class companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
13Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-50043 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Envisioned by Dr.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
14Indirect evidenceEdmonton, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5040 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Future Fields is pioneering the next generation of biomanufacturing-using nature’s most efficient bioreactor to lead the way in complex protein expression.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
15Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5033 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Cycle Momentum is an international acceleration and innovation platform whose mission since 2015 has been to identify and support the development of cutting-edge technologies to…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
16Indirect evidenceHamilton, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-1030 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Forge is an entrepreneurial hub backed by McMaster University, catering to startups in the Hamilton, Greater Toronto, and Niagara Regions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
17Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-1029 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“SFU VentureLabs accelerates high-growth-potential technology-based companies in Vancouver and across British Columbia.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
18Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5028 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Are you a founder building a software product and aren't sure where to start?”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
19Indirect evidenceQuébec, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-1027 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“LE CAMP est un lieu vivant et animé où grandissent les idées et naissent les succès d’affaires.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
20Partial evidenceQuébec, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5025 contacts →

Partial evidence

“TransBIOTech is a center for research and transfer of biotechnology for companies working in life sciences and biotechnology.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
21Partial evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-1025 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Nanofacile's develops a technology platform that allows formulation scientists & biotech innovators to encapsulate and prove their therapy works in days instead of weeks.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
22Indirect evidenceEdmonton, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 2017, 48Hour Discovery (48HD) has a powerful technology platform for peptide-based drug discovery.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
23Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5023 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Empowered Startups is an innovative startup incubator and foundry focused on innovation and transnational migration.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
24Indirect evidenceShawinigan, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le Centre National en Électrochimie et en Technologies Environnementales (CNETE) est un centre collégial de transfert technologique (CCTT) et un chef de file canadien en recherche…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
25Indirect evidenceBurlington, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“n!Biomachines makes biomanufacturing run in real time.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026

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Biotech accelerators based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 16, 2026
30.2%Verified-email coverage
14.0Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
19.5%Largest-city concentration · Toronto
Sep 16, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
127
11-50
72
51-200
6
201-500
4
1,001-5,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 210 companies.

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 biotech accelerators, 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 “biotech accelerators”. 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 biotech accelerators), 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 biotech accelerators, 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, 891 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 16, 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.

Biotech accelerators by metro

  • Biotech accelerators in Toronto41
  • Biotech accelerators in Montreal35

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its 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 the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names biotech accelerators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many biotech accelerators are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 210 biotech accelerators headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Creative Destruction LAB, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most biotech accelerators?

Toronto leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (35) and Vancouver (24).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 891 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 210 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.

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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.