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Top 25 Biotech incubators and accelerators based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 188 biotech incubators and accelerators headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 3,145 professional contacts across them, including 787 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers biotech incubators and 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.
The 25 largest biotech incubators and accelerators based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 515 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Communitech helps founders start, grow and succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “You have a technological innovation and are looking for help to launch and grow your company?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 115 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help bridge the gap between discovery and innovation operating as the technology transfer and business-incubation centre for the University of Calgary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The strategic gateway for global expansion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Make science your business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 53 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Among the World's Top 5 Private Business Accelerators Since 2017.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Volta is Canada's East Coast Startup Hub and Co-Working Space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to North Forge.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 46 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 44 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help ambitious founders build world-class companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Sault Ste.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “2 Degrés est le premier et seul incubateur au Québec voué à accompagner de nouvelles entreprises en technologies propres.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 30 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SFU VentureLabs accelerates high-growth-potential technology-based companies in Vancouver and across British Columbia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 27 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 25 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Empowered Startups is an innovative startup incubator and foundry focused on innovation and transnational migration.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PROPULSER L'AGRICULTURE DE DEMAIN Un zone où les scientifiques, startups, innovateurs, étudiants, investisseurs et entreprises agtech désirent évoluer pour le développement des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “V1 Studio is a non-profit organisation founded at Concordia university, providing a safe space for researchers to explore entrepreneurship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BIOTECanada is the national industry association voice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: biotech incubators and accelerators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names biotech incubators and accelerators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of biotech incubators and accelerators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name biotech incubators and accelerators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Biotech incubators and accelerators based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
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 188 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 incubators and 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 incubators and 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 incubators and 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 incubators and 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, 787 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 incubators and accelerators by metro
- Biotech incubators and accelerators in Toronto34
- Biotech incubators and accelerators in Montreal28
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 incubators and 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 incubators and accelerators are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 188 biotech incubators and 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 incubators and accelerators?
Toronto leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (28) and Vancouver (20).
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 787 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 188 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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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.
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