Ranked by percentage growth in revenue between 2016 and 2020
Published August 30, 2021. Sources: Interviews with companies below and BIV research. Companies must have had $50,000 in sales in 2016 and $1 million in 2020 to qualify. Other companies may have ranked but did not respond to information requests by deadline. USD converted to CAD using Bank of Canada's average yearly rate depending on company's fiscal year-end.
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Rank '20 | Company | Top local executive(s) | Ownership | Product/service | Year founded | Worldwide staff '20/'16 | Revenue '20/'16 5-year growth |
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1
|
Equinox Gold Corp |
Christian Milau, CEO, Greg Smith, president |
TSX-V:EQX |
Gold mining |
1986 |
NP |
$1,130,223,140 (1) |
2
|
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc |
Peter Greenleaf, CEO |
TSX:AUP, Nasdaq:AUPH |
Biopharmaceuticals |
2013 |
265 |
$67,233,297 (1) |
3
|
Quadrogen Power Systems, Inc |
Alakh Prasad, president and CEO |
Privately held |
Designs, builds, and installs gas cleanup and upgrading systems for the renewable energy sector |
2007 |
19 |
$8,387,279 |
4
|
Periphery Digital |
Alex Wan, CEO & co-founder, Marjo Ruokamo, president & co-founder |
NP |
Bilingual digital marketing and media agency that works to help companies find new markets, strategies, and opportunities |
2015 |
12 |
$5,985,970 |
5
|
ETRO Construction Ltd |
Mike Maierle, principal |
Privately held |
Provides construction management and general contracting services |
2015 |
50 |
$47,015,249 |
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