Ranked by percentage growth in revenue between 2017 and 2021
Published August 22, 2022. Sources: Interviews with companies below and BIV research. Companies must have had $50,000 in sales in 2016 and $1 million in 2021 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 '21 | 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
|
Certn Holdings Inc |
Andrew McLeod, co-founder and CEO, Evan Dalton, co-founder, Owen Madrick, co-founder and CFO |
NP |
Online background checks technology |
2016 |
168 |
$18,549,685 |
2
|
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc |
Peter Greenleaf, president and CEO |
Nasdaq:AUPH |
Biopharmaceuticals |
2013 |
300 |
$57,165,868 (1) |
3
|
Equinox Gold Corp |
Christian Milau, CEO, Greg Smith, president |
TSX-V:EQX |
Gold mining |
1986 |
NP |
$1,356,645,501 (1) |
4
|
Fresh Prep |
Becky Brauer, co-founder and co-CEO, Dhruv Sood, co-founder, Husein Rahemtulla, co-founder |
Privately held |
A local, convenient and sustainable meal kit delivery service |
2015 |
307 |
$38,003,377 |
5
|
Herbaland Naturals Inc |
Musharaf Syed, co-founder, president, Aisha Yang, co-founder, sales and marketing director |
Privately held |
Manufacturing and worldwide distribution of healthy nutritional gummies |
2009 |
210 |
$48,782,928 |
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