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Top 25 Economic development organizations based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 895 economic development organizations headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 22,351 professional contacts across them, including 8,961 with verified work emails. Montreal is the largest hub.
This list covers economic development organizations 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 19, 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 economic development organizations based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Do your best work here.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,634 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Halton is one of the fastest-growing communities in Canada and is home to four distinct municipalities: the City of Burlington, the Town of Halton Hills, the Town of Milton, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,513 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Markham, Ontario is one of the most culturally diverse and fast growing cities in the Greater Toronto Region with a population of over people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Investissement Québec is the go-to partner for foreign and Québec-based businesses seeking to make a go of it in the province.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 728 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The City of Oshawa is situated on lands and waters within the Williams Treaties Territory, home to seven First Nation communities of the Michi Saagiig and Chippewa Anishinaabeg…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 495 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Situated in the midst of the bustling Greater Vancouver region, New Westminster’s residents enjoy a wealth of urban services, a thriving economy, and a tightknit community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 356 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “City of Abbotsford is a vibrant, diverse and growing community in BC’s Fraser Valley.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) is one of Canada’s leading providers of applied research, development and demonstration (RD & D) and technology commercialization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MEDA is an international economic development organization whose mission is to create business solutions to poverty.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 306 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade | Ministère du Développement économique, de la Création d’emplois et du Commerce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Parkland County is a growing municipality located immediately west of the city of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Invest Ontario is an agency of the Government of Ontario that helps businesses and investors discover what others from around the province and globe already know, that Ontario is…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 227 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “County of Grande Prairie - Bringing our communities and region closer together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Invest Ottawa, is Ottawa’s leading economic development agency for fostering the advancement of the region's globally competitive knowledge-based institutions and industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1992, The UK Business Financing Centre has been a partner in bridging the gap between Government funding programmes and Entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Située au sud-ouest de l'Île de Montréal sur les rives du lac Saint-Louis, la Cité de Dorval couvre un territoire de près de 21 km carrés sillonné par deux voies ferrées et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Québec International's mission is to contribute to economic development in the Quebec City metropolitan region and enhance its international status.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PME MTL, le réseau de soutien aux entreprises de la Ville de Montréal, a pour mission d’anticiper et de soutenir le développement socioéconomique de nos collectivités, de manière…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Victoriaville est une ville d’environ 48 habitants qui se distingue par son côté entrepreneurial très fort et sa volonté de placer le développement durable et la santé globale au…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1987, IC Canada has been helping companies across Canada achieve their business objectives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Invest Nova Scotia is the business development agency of Nova Scotia, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Calgary Economic Development works with business, government and community partners to achieve economic success, embrace shared prosperity and build a strong community for Calgary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Opportunities NB is the lead business development agency for New Brunswick.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Momentum is a change-making organization that combines social and economic strategies to reduce poverty.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: economic development organizations. 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 economic development organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of economic development organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name economic development organizations. 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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Economic development organizations based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 895 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 economic development organizations, 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 “economic development organizations”. 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 economic development organizations), 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 economic development organizations, 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, 8,961 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 19, 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.
Economic development organizations by metro
- Economic development organizations in Montreal48
- Economic development organizations in Toronto48
- Economic development organizations in Calgary25
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 economic development organizations, 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 economic development organizations are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 895 economic development organizations 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?
City Of Vancouver, headquartered in Vancouver, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most economic development organizations?
Montreal leads with 48 headquartered companies, followed by Toronto (48) and Calgary (25).
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 8,961 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 895 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 19, 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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