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Top 25 Business financing and lending companies based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 213 business financing and lending companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 7,416 professional contacts across them, including 3,914 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers business financing and lending companies 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 business financing and lending companies based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,715 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Businesses of all types need a financial partner, one that serves as your trusted adviser in addition to structuring a loan or managing your cash flow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liquid Capital is an established international network of finance professionals, who specialize in providing clients with innovative solutions for business growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Driven is Canada's leading fintech dedicated to small businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're Essex Lease Financial, and for over 35 years, we've been the trusted alternative to big banks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2009, we've been providing Canada's small businesses with quick and easy access to working capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a team of entrepreneur-to-entrepreneur problem-solvers, experts with decades of experience crafting personalized lending solutions that drive profits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Journey Capital (formerly OnDeck Canada) provides online financing solutions to help small businesses reach their goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FINCAP role is to find our clients the best financing conditions available on the market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PRIME CAPITAL - helping Canadian Business become more profitable and productive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lantern Capital is an award-winning corporate finance advisory firm with a mission to democratize access to capital in commercial lending.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Tua we're blending humanity and technology to make affordable financial products accessible to all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kingsmen Capital Investments is a boutique financing and advisory firm dedicated to serving Canada's small businesses and middle-market firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alliance Financing Group, is a broad-based commercial finance institution, with an emphasis on products and services for growing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Not Just Funding Businesses-We’re Powering Possibilities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Commercial financing, equipment financing and leasing, equipment refinancing and working capital loans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Keen helps entrepreneurs and organizations manage and grow their business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a factoring and financing company specializing on small and medium-size companies with a requirement of financing of up to $5 Million monthly A/R equivalent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our focus is to support Small and Mid-Market businesses with a full range of commercial financing solutions inclusive of commercial mortgage financing, equipment leasing, asset…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are here to help you grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forward Funding is a Canadian FinTech business funding partner helping small and mid-sized companies access capital with clarity, speed, and confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tandem Equipment Finance has launched in Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alberta Business Loans Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uplend provides customized finance and leasing solutions for businesses across Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pillar Capital was incorporated in 2014 to fill a void by providing fast, flexible, short-term loans to companies requiring alternative debt financing.” 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: business financing and lending companies. 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 business financing and lending companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of business financing and lending companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name business financing and lending companies. 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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Business financing and lending companies 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 213 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 business financing and lending 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 “business financing and lending 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 business financing and lending 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 business financing and lending 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, 3,914 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.
Business financing and lending companies by metro
- Business financing and lending companies in Toronto42
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 business financing and lending companies, 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 business financing and lending companies are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 213 business financing and lending companies 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?
BDC, headquartered in Montreal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most business financing and lending companies?
Toronto leads with 42 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (22) and Mississauga (17).
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 3,914 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 213 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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