Discover exceptional small businesses across Canada
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Meet our 2025
winners


Aaron Stevenson
Owner, Ashored Innovations
Derbert, NS
Ashored Innovations addresses a critical environmental issue, retrofitting existing lobster and crab traps with underwater buoys that can be propelled to the surface using acoustic release technology.

Alkarim Devani & Darlene Jehn
Owners, mddl
Calgary, AB
mddl is a real estate company empowering communities to build diverse, sustainable "missing middle" housing through education, technology, and policy advocacy, fostering a more equitable approach to development.

Victor Nicolov
Owner, Sepura Home Ltd.
Victoria, BC
Sepura Home Ltd. is transforming kitchen waste management with its IoT-enabled composting garbage disposal system.

Daniel Badiou & Katrina Jean-Laflamme
Owners, UKKÖ Robotics
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, MB
UKKÖ Robotics provides unique, solar-powered, autonomous barns for livestock pasture management, promoting regenerative agriculture and supporting small farmers.

William Woodstock, Dr. Devon Barnes, Dr. Lindsay Patterson & James Clague
Owners, Vets Around the Corner
Port Perry, ON
Vets Around the Corner demonstrates a strong commitment to community, innovation through their mobile clinic, and significant social impact through equitable access to pet care.

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Small businesses
Across Canada
These 20 incredible small businesses are all driving innovation and leveraging technology to scale, while giving back to their communities.
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