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Top 14 Photonic chip manufacturers based in Canada

RevenueBase identified 25 photonic chip manufacturers headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 528 professional contacts across them, including 260 with verified work emails. Ottawa is the largest hub.

This list covers photonic chip manufacturers 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
25Companies
528Contacts tracked
260Verified emails
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The 14 largest photonic chip manufacturers based in Canada

Ranked by team size
Top 14 of 25 photonic chip manufacturers 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 photonic chip manufacturers: 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
1Partial evidenceQuebec & Switzerland, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20092 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At indie (Nasdaq: INDI), we empower our customers with best-in-class semiconductor, photonics, software, and system-level technologies designed to drive their success.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
2Indirect evidenceOttawa, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20084 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The world-class team of scientist and engineers at Ranovus is comprised of professionals with a unique combination of decades of expertise in product development of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
3Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20056 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Enablence Technologies Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
4Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20052 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“POET Technologies (NASDAQ: POET) is a design and development company offering integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer™ a novel platform that allows the seamless…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
5Strong evidenceOttawa, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20044 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Inpho's mission is to lead the world in photonic chips for computing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
6Indirect evidenceSainte-foy, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20043 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
7Partial evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5030 contacts →

Partial evidence

Photonics in Motion Aeponyx develops advanced integrated photonics with MEMS products.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
8Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20021 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“À Montréal depuis 2014, Thorlabs Canada se concentre sur le développement et la production d'une vaste gamme de composants optiques à base de fibres pour les appareils d'imagerie…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
9Indirect evidenceGatineau, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ASP, Allied Scientific Pro a brand of ASP Laser Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
10Partial evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 20261-1014 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Our goal is to help our customers reach one Billion devices with integrated photonics.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11Partial evidenceEdmonton, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5012 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Welcome to Applied Nanotools Inc.(ANT), a pioneering nanofabrication company specializing in integrated photonics, EUV and X-ray optics.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
12Indirect evidenceQuebec, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-2007 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“TeraXion, an indie Semiconductor company (Nasdaq: INDI), is located in beautiful Quebec City, Canada.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
13Partial evidenceQuebec, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 20261-104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Syphos designs and delivers photonics integrated circuits (PIC) to components providers and systems integrators in advanced sensing and quantum applications, enabling more robust…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
14Strong evidenceBurnaby, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-2004 contacts →

Strong evidence

“KT Photonics specializes in the design, engineering, and production of semiconductor photonics devices such as VCSEL chips and LiDar modules as well as Optical Gas Imaging sensors…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026

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Photonic chip manufacturers based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026
49.2%Verified-email coverage
21.1Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
24.0%Largest-city concentration · Ottawa
Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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11-50
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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 25 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 photonic chip manufacturers, 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 “photonic chip manufacturers”. 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 photonic chip manufacturers), 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 photonic chip manufacturers, 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, 260 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.

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 photonic chip manufacturers, 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 photonic chip manufacturers are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 25 photonic chip manufacturers 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?

INDIE, headquartered in Quebec, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most photonic chip manufacturers?

Ottawa leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (4) and Quebec (3).

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 260 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 25 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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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.