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Top 25 Specialty pharmaceutical companies based in Canada

Name: Specialty pharmaceutical companies based in Canada
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 18, 2026 109 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 109 specialty pharmaceutical companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 14,770 professional contacts across them, including 3,887 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers specialty pharmaceutical 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 18, 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 18, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest specialty pharmaceutical companies based in Canada

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 109 specialty pharmaceutical companies based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 18, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to specialty pharmaceutical 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 18, 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 18, 2026
2	Pharmascience	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,697 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1983, Pharmascience Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
3	Shoppers Drug Mart Specialty Health Network	Indirect evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	501-1,000	713 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The SHN mission is simple – optimize healthcare for all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
4	Bioscript Solutions	Indirect evidence	Moncton, NB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	1,001-5,000	692 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “BioScript Solutions® is committed to helping patients with chronic health conditions and illnesses achieve the best possible health outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
5	Sentrex Health Solutions	Strong evidence	Markham, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	1,001-5,000	494 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Proudly Canadian, Sentrex is a patient support services provider, specialty pharmacy, and pharmaceutical distributor committed to simplifying access to care and improving…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
6	Knight Therapeutics	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	501-1,000	411 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Knight Therapeutics Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
7	Takeda Canada INC	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	201-500	154 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Better Health, Brighter Future Our way to better health for Canadians is through leading innovations in gastroenterology, oncology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
8	Teva Canada	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 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 18, 2026
9	Theratechnologies INC	Partial evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	107 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Theratechnologies is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization of innovative therapies that have the potential to redefine standards of care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
10	Eisai Canada	Indirect evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	11-50	88 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Eisai Canada, human health care (hhc) is our goal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
11	HLS Therapeutics INC	Strong evidence	Etobicoke, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	83 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Stewards of Trusted Brands HLS Therapeutics Inc.(TSX:HLS) specializes in the acquisition and commercialization of pharmaceuticals focused on addressing unmet needs in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
12	Duchesnay	Indirect evidence	Blainville, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	77 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The multinational Duchesnay with its affiliated companies is headquartered in Blainville, Quebec.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
13	Valeo Pharma	Partial evidence	Kirkland, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	74 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Valeo Pharma is a fast growing Canadian pharmaceutical company dedicated to the commercialization of innovative prescription products in Canada with a focus on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
14	Methapharm	Strong evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	71 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Methapharm is a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on the acquisition, licensing, partnering, and promotion of specialty pharmaceutical products in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
15	Purdue Pharma Canada	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	201-500	71 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Purdue Pharma (Canada), a privately held pharmaceutical company has been passionately committed to improving the health and quality of life of Canadians for over 60 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
16	Verity Pharmaceuticals	Strong evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	70 contacts →
	Strong 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 18, 2026
17	Lovell Drugs Limited	Partial evidence	Oshawa, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	69 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Lovell Drugs Limited is a pharmaceuticals company based out of ON, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
18	Elvium	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 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 18, 2026
19	Odan Laboratories LTD	Partial evidence	Pointe-claire, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 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 18, 2026
20	Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. TSX CPH Otcqx Cphrf	Strong evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	59 contacts →
	Strong 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 18, 2026
21	Searchlight Pharma INC	Partial evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	54 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Searchlight Pharma is a Montreal-based company with global reach that executes best-in-class search, acquisition, commercialization, and focused development of specialty…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
22	Pendopharm	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	51-200	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pendopharm, une société pharmaceutique canadienne spécialisée, s'engage à fournir aux patients des médicaments innovants qui répondent à des besoins médicaux non satisfaits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
23	Natco Pharma Canada INC	Indirect evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	11-50	48 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Natco Pharma (Canada) Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
24	Seaford Pharmaceuticals INC	Partial evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1991 by the Seales family, Seaford Pharmaceuticals Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026
25	KYE Pharmaceuticals	Strong evidence	Mississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 18, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Kye is a growth-stage Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company committed to bringing value to Canadians by identifying, licensing and commercializing novel prescription medicines…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 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: specialty pharmaceutical 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 specialty pharmaceutical companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of specialty pharmaceutical companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name specialty pharmaceutical 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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Specialty pharmaceutical companies based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 18, 2026

26.3%Verified-email coverage

135.5Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

18.3%Largest-city concentration · Toronto

Sep 18, 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 109 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 specialty pharmaceutical 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 “specialty pharmaceutical 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 specialty pharmaceutical 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 specialty pharmaceutical 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, 3,887 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 18, 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 specialty pharmaceutical 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 specialty pharmaceutical companies are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 109 specialty pharmaceutical 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 specialty pharmaceutical companies?

Toronto leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Mississauga (16) and Montreal (15).

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 3,887 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 109 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 18, 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.