11 Top Tech Companies in Montreal

These companies are helping to boost Montreal’s tech workforce.

Written by Rose Velazquez
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Margo Steines | Nov 04, 2024

The tech industry is vast, and many of its largest and most influential names aim to broaden their customer base and talent pool by doing business internationally. Montreal is one of multiple Canadian cities that have seen a thriving tech workforce. With tech workers flocking to the country and the city’s universities providing education and training for new job candidates, the following are some of the top tech companies in Montreal.

Top Tech Companies in Montreal

  • Pax8
  • The HEICO Companies, LLC
  • Dropbox
  • SharkNinja
  • Morgan Stanley
  • ADP
  • CGI

 

Top Tech Companies in Montreal

CGI brings consulting services and tech solutions to businesses in several industries, including banking, utilities, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing and transportation. Its offerings are designed to help businesses solve challenges, embrace a changing digital landscape and implement operational practices that drive success. CGI’s workforce of more than 90,000 consultants operates in hundreds of different locations across the globe.

 

Dropbox’s products and services make it easy for its customers to share large files and collaborate on projects. The Dropbox Capture function allows users to take and share screenshots and screen recordings, for example, and Dropbox Sign lets them virtually collect and keep track of legally-binding signatures.

 

The HEICO Companies, LLC is a network of businesses in the manufacturing, construction and industrial services spaces. It operates the Industrial Technologies Group and the Canada Metal Processing Group, which includes three businesses across six sites in Québec and Ontario that employ roughly 1,500 team members.

 

Trading firm DRW specializes in technology and research that supports activity on a range of financial markets and exchanges around the world. The company provides its Montreal employees with benefits like a tuition reimbursement program, monthly wellness plan and daycare subsidy.

 

Morgan Stanley provides services like investment banking and market research to entrepreneurs, CEOs, corporations, hedge funds, individual investors, governments and other institutions. Founded in the 1930s, the company employs over 80,000 professionals who are spread across operations in more than three dozen countries. 

 

SharkNinja works to deliver quality consumer goods to market at top speed. Its product line includes vacuums, hair dryers, blenders, air fryers and ice cream makers. The company has more than 3,000 patents and does business through over 150 retailers worldwide.

 

Pax8 is a marketplace for enterprise software. The platform gathers some of the best productivity and operations tools including Bitdefender, Liongard and AWS, and simplifies the buying process for clients. Through Pax8, clients can group software into a consolidated billing experience. The company also provides educational courses, events and professional services through its marketplace. 

 

Upgrade is a fintech that aims to provide affordable credit to mainstream consumers through personal loans, credit cards and financial services. It offers short-term fixed-rate loans for purposes such as auto refinancing and home repairs, as well as credit monitoring, checking and savings accounts. The U.S. company has a presence in Montreal.

 

People management teams of all sizes use ADP’s cloud-based tools and solutions for handling activities such as payroll processing and screening potential new hires. The company offers an array of products capable of integrating with other popular software for HR and finance functions, and its app marketplace gives customers a library of options to fit their business needs.

 

2K owns an array of well-known video game franchises, including Borderlands, Lego 2K Drive, XCOM and NBA 2K. It hires a variety of video game developers and professionals, including engineers and artists. The company has several Canadian offices. 

 

Warner Bros. Discovery is an international company responsible for several well-known media and entertainment brands, ranging from streaming service Max to production studio New Line Cinema. Its Quebec-based game studio Warner Bros. Games Montreal created the Gotham Knights and Batman: Arkham Origins titles.

 

Abel Rodriguez, Ana Gore and Sara B.T. Thiel contributed reporting to this story.

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