Mark Dunn
This article showcases our top picks for the best British Columbia based Communities companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Communities industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top British Columbia Communities Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Two Hat Security
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Two Hat is the world’s leading AI-powered content moderation platform for organizations ranging from start-ups to enterprise levels.
ThoughtExchange
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ThoughtExchange is the essential enterprise tool leaders use to quickly gain unbiased, critical insights that inform decision making.
Social Nature
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Social Nature is a social product sampling community that helps people #trynatural.
ePACT Network
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ePACT Network improves emergency preparedness by connecting homes and organizations with shared information and resources.
GLENTEL
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Connecting People with Care through Wireless Communications
Mazu Family
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Social media is fundamentally broken. Mazu is the mobile solution. Social Media made safe, inspiring, inclusive and fun for families.
FLIK
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FLIK is a platform & community hub connecting female leaders and students across the world via meaningful apprenticeships.
Element Lifestyle Retirement
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Is in the business of providing specialized development expertise and flexible.
UEX Corporation
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A Canadian uranium exploration and development company
Velocity Learning
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Velocity is a relentless mission to bring our core technology for fast language fluency and career success to 2.1 billion humans worldwide
Elevation Outdoors
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Elevation’s mission is to enhance the lives of underprivileged youth via participation in specially designed outdoor sports programs.
Pug Pharm
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Pug Pharm Productions develops Picnic™ Customer Engagement Engine which is a platform designed to create community culture through gameplay.
IndigenEYEZ
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IndigenEYEZ is an workshop developing resilient people and healthy communities with connections across generations.
Farm Bound
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Farm Bound offers local and organic food delivery.
Binners’ Project
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Binners’ Project is a group of waste-pickers aided by support staff dedicated to improving their economic opportunities.
Hyper Hippo Games
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Hyper Hippo is a collection of passionate and creative people working to build fun digital games for everyon.
Poparide
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A rideshare platform that helps people fill empty seats in cars on intercity trips.
DIY Genius
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Develop your focus, creativity and self-motivation through deep work, meditation and flow psychology practices.
Cuppy
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Cuppy is an initiative to reduce single-use cup and lid waste in Metro Vancouver.
Okanagan School of the Arts (OSA)
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Okanagan School of the Arts offers a wide variety of performing and visual arts courses for students of all ages.
Concert
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Concert specializes in developing rental apartments, condominium homes and retirement communities, acquiring and developing commercial.
Weeve
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Weeve is a community platform connecting businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations together to generate positive social changes.
Utherverse Digital
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An online virtual world community where you can socialize and meet new people in real time, attend events and even start a business.
Moken
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A global hub for startups & founders, guiding through the journey of building a successful venture from ideation to scale.
Brave Technology Coop
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Co-designing digital overdose response tools to keep people safe while using drugs.
Concord Pacific
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Concord Pacific is a real estate development company that designs and builds urban communities.
Purppl
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Purppl (Purposeful People) accelerates social entrepreneurs who are taking on our toughest community challenges.
Shambhala Music Festival
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Shambhala Music Festival was born from a vision as grassroots as it gets.
Island Savings
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Island Savings,A Division Of First West Credit Union is a financial services banking company located in Duncan.
Jigsy
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Jigsy is a content management system and website builder that helps users build their own websites.
Vancouver Airport Authority
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Vancouver Airport Authority is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that manages Vancouver International Airport.
The John Howard Society
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The John Howard Society of Okanagan & Kootenay is a registered charity and social service agency operating in the Okanagan community.
The Bridge Youth & Family Services
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The Bridge focuses on youth and families in the Okanagan community by way of specialized programs and services.
Shear Minerals Ltd.
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Shear Minerals Ltd.’s Churchill Diamond Project is located on tidewater of Hudson Bay between the communities
Intracorp Homes
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Intracorp Homes with honesty, experience and a sound financial base deliver services such as homebuilding and community building.
Power Strata Systems
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Power Strata Systems they are passionate about taking action to solve problems.
TOIS
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TOIS offers a cloud-based hosted and remote surveillance for safe schools, cities, businesses, and communities.
Blackberry Creative
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Blackberry Creative is a an advertising, communications strategy & design company.
B-Digital Nomad
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B-Digital Nomad is a program for like-minded people who are interested in working remotely while traveling around the world.
Educational Service District 112
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Educational Service District 112 is an organization that provides equal educational opportunities for all communities.
Dogwood BC
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Dogwood BC brings together everyday British Columbians to reclaim decision-making power over their air, land and water.
BC Centre for Ability
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A nonprofit organization that provides community programs and services to children and adults with physical and mental disabilities.
Family Services of Greater Vancouver
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Family Services of Greater Vancouver is a community-based not-for-profit organization providing crucial social services to families.
RentColumn Communications
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RentColumn is an online rental marketplace for any reusable item, enabling renting, sharing and reusing by individuals and businesses.
Tri-City News
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The Tri-City News is your internet source of news, events and stories in the communities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam,
City of Victoria BC
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The City of Victoria is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, one of 13 municipalities that make up Greater Victoria.
Surrey
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Surrey is a community organisation that provides a free, fast and convenient way to stay on top of great savings opportunities.
Spark Technologies Inc
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Community-Based Roadside Assistance
The Network Hub
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The Network Hub provides work spaces for businesses that help entrepreneurs connect, create, and collaborate on opportunities.
Knowledge Network
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Knowledge Network is an independent provincial public educational broadcaster that operates a television channel and streaming platform.
CBI Monarch House Autism Centre
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CBI Monarch House Autism Centre are specialists in Autism & Developmental Disorders based in Burnaby.
Nufloors Flooring
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Each Nufloors location is operated by a member of their local community who is committed to providing the latest designs and fashions in nam
UFCW Local 1518
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UFCW 1518 is a community that improves the quality of life for all British Columbians by standing together to fight for fairness.
Nyle DiMarco Foundation
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A non-profit organization working to improve the lives of every Deaf person in the world.
Hoovie
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Hoovie makes it easy for anyone, anywhere to bring people together for unique, social cinema experiences in unexpected spaces.
Columbia Basin Trust
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Columbia Basin Trust supports the ideas and efforts of the people of the Columbia Basin.
PlayAlchemist
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PlayAlchemist is a nonprofit organization that designs and develops initiatives for impact, insight and fun for the community people.
Victory Gardens
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Victory Gardens designs & builds gardens for residential clients, institutions, community organizations, restaurants, and other businesses.
Panoro Minerals
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Panoro Minerals Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration company with a strategic focus on exploring and advancing.
THRIVE Art Studio
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THRIVE Art Studio is a place for female artists and creatives to create art together.
Christian Life Assembly
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Christian Life Assembly is a Pentecostal church which shares the vision of the Lord.
WJS Canada
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WJS Canada helps individuals and families facing difficulties with personalized support and programs across Canada.
Base Technology Limited
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Base Wireless delivers private LTE networks with licensed spectrum in BC for rural communities and remote industrial applications
Autism Community Training
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Autism Community Training that supports individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
North Shore Disability Resource Centre
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North Shore Disability Resource Centre is a group of parents, professionals & advocates who wants to create services to ensure that people.
Kootenay Direct Airlines
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Kootenay Direct Airlines is an easy to understand and useful airlines and airport information for general public.
Memory Leaf Media
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Memory Leaf Media is an online portal that offers an online funeral service experience.
Up Your eGame
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Up Your eGame builds connection to players, builds team, and builds brand.
Neighbour Lab
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Neighbour Lab is a design and urban planning studio that aims to develop neighbourhood-level resilience through creativity and co-creation.
ScrnShots
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ScrnShots is a community for designers to share screenshots. Upload as many screenshots as you want, embed them in your blog and discuss
Darelle
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Darelle is an online marketplace that enables its users to buy and sell products with others.
Abc Recycling
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BC Recycling is a Canadian family enterprise with a 107-year heritage of serving and supporting communities.
Fortius Sport & Health
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Fortius Sport & Health is an integrated athlete development centre strengthened through philanthropy and focused.
Wayblaze
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Wayblaze is a crowdfunding platform that focused on raising funds for community projects and businesses.
Decentral Vancouver
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Decentral Vancouver Is A Disruptive Community Incubator Powered By The Ideas Behind Bitcoin
Women’s Enterprise Centre of BC
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Women’s Enterprise Centre is the leading business resource for existing and aspiring BC women entrepreneurs.
Habitat For Humanity Okanagan
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Habitat for Humanity Okanagan is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity Canada, working towards a world where everyone has safe place to live.
Hives for Humanity
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H4H is a nonprofit society that creates opportunities for connection to community, through nature, bees and the culture of the hive.
ESL Coin
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ESL Coin is a cryptocurrency made for the ESL community by experts in both fields.
Burrard Strategy
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Burrard Strategy is a boutique full service Public Affairs and Digital Advocacy firm
United Way Of Greater Victoria
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United Way of Greater Victoria is a registered charity that connects people and resources throughout their community to identify.
HTI Foundation.
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HTI is a non-profit foundation that provides on-site presence embedded within the clinical environment.
Ecojustice
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Ecojustice is an environmental law charity based in Canada.
Taunt Media
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Web development & community management specialists.
Ecotrust Canada
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Ecotrust Canada focuses on forestry, GIS, planning, community economic development and more.
Kamloops Food Policy Council
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Kamloops Food Policy Council (KFPC) has been pollinating projects, developing partnerships, and contributing to public policy since 1995.
Community Futures Strathconar
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Community Futures Strathcona is a financial service firm.
Interface Health
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Interface Health is a platform and community that cares about innovators, the future of health and about making a difference in the world.
School District No. 27
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School District No. 27 is a non-profit district school and educational institution.
S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
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S.U.C.C.E.S.S. specializes in civic & social, youth, housing, and community services.
GiveMeaning.com
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GiveMeaning.com is a website owned and operated by GiveMeaning Foundation, a public charitable foundation based in Vancouver, BC., Canada.
Narrative Communications
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Narrative Communications is a brand storytelling studio that harnesses the power of mythology to create meaningful content.
TEDxVancouver
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TEDxVancouver is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED like experience.
Bootup Entrepreneurial Society
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Founded and managed by entrepreneurs, the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society (BES) is a community and mentor driven non-profit organization
Island Timberlands
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Island Timberlands is a Paper & Forest Products company.
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