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Top 25 Pharmaceutical development companies based in Canada

Name: Pharmaceutical development companies based in Canada
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026 224 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 224 pharmaceutical development companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 17,702 professional contacts across them, including 5,558 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers pharmaceutical development 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 17, 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 17, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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17,702Contacts tracked

5,558Verified emails

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The 25 largest pharmaceutical development companies based in Canada

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 224 pharmaceutical development companies based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to pharmaceutical development 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Apotex INC	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	5,001-10,000	5,940 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Apotex, we are a global team empowering everyone to achieve better health.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
2	Altasciences	Partial evidence	Laval, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,759 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Outsourcing made easy with a one-stop solution to early-phase drug development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
3	Pharmascience	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,697 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1983, Pharmascience Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
4	Biovectra	Partial evidence	Charlottetown, PE, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	628 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Expertise in both microbial fermentation and chemical synthesis allows us to tackle today’s development pipeline’s increasingly complex molecules.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
5	Apotex Pharmachem INC	Indirect evidence	Brantford, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	547 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Apotex Pharmachem is a global fully integrated API R&D and manufacturing organization with its headquarters located in Brantford, Ontario, Canada and is a member of the Apotex…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
6	Paraza Pharma INC	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	266 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
7	Contract Pharmaceuticals Limited	Partial evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	218 contacts →
	Partial evidence “CPL is a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that provides development, manufacturing, packaging, and testing of non-sterile liquid and semi-solid…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
8	Trillium Health Care Products	Partial evidence	Brockville, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	214 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Trillium Health Care Products is a North American contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in the formulation, manufacturing, and packaging of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
9	Eurofins Cdmo Alphora	Indirect evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	195 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Eurofins CDMO Alphora Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
10	Dalton Pharma Services	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	167 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Dalton is a contract pharmaceutical manufacturer which provides integrated chemistry, development, and manufacturing to biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11	Novocol Pharma, A Septodont Company	Indirect evidence	Cambridge, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	160 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Novocol Pharma is a CDMO based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
12	Teva Canada	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	130 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Teva Canada, located in Toronto and Montreal, has provided medicines to Canadians for 50+ years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
13	Pillar5 Pharma INC	Indirect evidence	Arnprior, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	129 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 2009, Pillar5 Pharma Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
14	Kabs Laboratories INC	Strong evidence	Saint-hubert, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	104 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Since 1997, KABS has offered a broad range of product development services to the bio-pharmaceutical industry, worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
15	Therapure Biopharma INC	Partial evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	103 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Therapure is an integrated Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) that helps develop and manufacture therapeutic proteins for biopharmaceutical companies of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
16	Nucro-Technics INC	Partial evidence	Scarborough, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	89 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Since 1970, NUCRO-TECHNICS, a Pharmaceutical Contract Support Organization has been a partner to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies located all over the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
17	Eisai Canada	Indirect evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	88 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Eisai Canada, human health care (hhc) is our goal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
18	Genvion Corporation	Indirect evidence	Winnipeg, MB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	83 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Genvion Corporation is an FDA approved CDMO, specialized in solid dosage and fully equipped to handle highly toxic API materials such as safe bridge level 4.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
19	Groupe Parima	Partial evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	73 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Groupe PARIMA is a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization founded in 1994.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
20	Verity Pharmaceuticals	Partial evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	70 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Verity Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on commercializing therapeutically relevant prescription medicines that are in short supply or absent…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
21	Elvium	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	67 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Elvium Life Sciences, patients are at the centre of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
22	Odan Laboratories LTD	Partial evidence	Pointe-claire, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	65 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1974 in Montreal, Odan is a 100% privately owned Canadian pharmaceutical company with fully integrated infrastructures for R&D, manufacturing, distribution and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
23	Laboratoire Riva INC	Indirect evidence	Blainville, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	61 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fondée il y a plus de 30 ans, l’entreprise québécoise est depuis longtemps un chef de file dans la production de molécules génériques.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
24	Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. TSX CPH Otcqx Cphrf	Partial evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	59 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Cipher Pharmaceuticals (TSX: CPH)(OTCQX:CPHRF) is a specialty pharmaceutical company with a diversified portfolio of commercial and early to late-stage products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
25	Halo Pharmaceutical Canada	Partial evidence	Mirabel, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	59 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Noramco acquires the Cambrex Drug Product Business Unit previously known as Halo Pharmaceuticals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026

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: pharmaceutical development 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 pharmaceutical development companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of pharmaceutical development companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name pharmaceutical development 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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Pharmaceutical development companies based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026

31.4%Verified-email coverage

79.0Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

15.2%Largest-city concentration · Toronto

Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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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 224 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 pharmaceutical development 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 “pharmaceutical development 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 pharmaceutical development 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 pharmaceutical development 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, 5,558 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 17, 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.

Pharmaceutical development companies by metro

Pharmaceutical development companies in Toronto34
Pharmaceutical development companies 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 pharmaceutical development 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 pharmaceutical development companies are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 224 pharmaceutical development 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?

Apotex INC, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most pharmaceutical development companies?

Toronto leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (28) and Mississauga (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 5,558 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 224 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 17, 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.