These are the top SaaS companies in Canada. In todays day and age its possible to launch a company from anywhere. We wanted to show some love for Canada by featuring these 1,579 companies with combined revenues of $13.2B.
Together, Canada SaaS companies employ over 111K employees, have raised $12.6B capital, and serve over 3B customers around the world.
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Latka gets data on SaaS companies by interviewing the founders directly. Over 3,000 interviews organized in excel.
Top SaaS Companies with $0 - $1M ARR
Top SaaS Companies with $1 - $5M ARR
Top SaaS Companies with $5 - $10M ARR
Top SaaS Companies with $10M+ ARR
Enterprise Software
Constellation Software is a provider of software and services. It serves both in the public and private sectors. It was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company acquires, manages and builds industry specific software businesses which provide specialized, mission-critical software solutions that address the particular needs of customers.
E-Commerce Software
Shopify is a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses.
Implementation Services Providers
OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms.
Distribution Software
The Descartes Systems Group Inc. Descartes is perhaps best known for its abrupt and unexpected turnaround in the mid-2000s after coming close to bankruptcy in the wake of the dot-com bubble collapse.
Talent Management Software
An applicant tracking system hosted, developed and supported in Canada. Njoyn is a leading ATS that automates and simplifies your recruitment processes.
Supply Chain & Logistics Software
Kinaxis Inc is a Canada-based provider of software solutions for sales and operations planning (S&OP) and supply chain management. The firm's flagship RapidResponse product is offered on the cloud. Its capabilities include consequence evaluation and alerting, responsibility-based collaboration, high-speed analytics, and scenario simulation. Kinaxis's S&OP solution capabilities include supply and demand planning, capacity and inventory planning, and inventory management. The firm has operations in the North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions.
Advertising Software
LoyaltyOne, Inc. is a global provider of loyalty marketing and programs to enterprises in the retail, financial services
Information Technology Software
Provider of an SaaS-based global talent acquisition and management platform intended to meet the recruiting challenges of clients. The company's SaaS-based global talent acquisition and management platform automates HR initiatives and offers talent engagement, onboarding, campus and events management, enabling clients to drive productivity and improve performance.
Digital Advertising Platforms
Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008..Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008.
Healthcare Software
PointClickCare helps LTPAC providers gain the confidence they need to navigate the new realities of value-based healthcare.
What are the fastest growing companies doing?
83 of the fastest growing companies that also have the most revenue have a clear expansion revenue strategy. On average, sales reps are selling plans where starting contract value is $4,606.
Those same companies employ 1,678 sales reps that carry a quota. The most common compensation plan used by these companies is a 1:5 ratio of sales rep on target earnings (OTE) to quota. Meaning if a rep can earn $200k in base and commissions, quota target for that year is set at 5x, or $1m in new ARR closed.
If you’re going to build a high growth SaaS company, you need to figure out how to scale with quota carrying sales reps.
Which CEO’s are the most efficient capital allocators?
We can measure this a variety of ways. Which company has the most revenue per employee? What about dollars in revenue compared to dollars raised? What about time, which founder went from $0 to $10m the fastest?
Looking deeper at dollars in revenue compared to dollars raised, bootstrappers take the cake because they self fund (denominator zero). When we look at companies that have raised at least $1m, Actito is the clear winner generating $21m in revenue, growing 100% yoy, on just 1m raised ($.05 dollars raised for every $1 of revenue).
Omnisend comes in a close second with $.08 dollars raised for every dollar of revenue. Doing $19m as of December 2020. Proposify gets honorable mention with $0.46 dollars raised (3.25m) for every dollar of revenue ($7m).
The worst performers here are companies like YayPay with $3.68 dollars raised ($14m) per dollar of revenue ($3.8m). Many of the worst performers just did a round of funding and haven’t had a chance to deploy to drive growth yet. That makes this data less valuable but still illustrative.