{"id":20139,"date":"2026-08-12T16:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=20139"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:38:46","slug":"why-canadian-tech-has-to-prove-itself-somewhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=20139","title":{"rendered":"Why Canadian tech has to prove itself somewhere else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Canadian company is acquired. They keep the office space, the engineers, and even continue growing. The team throws a baby shower for Megan from marketing, Brendan from IT always has afternoon coffee at 2:47, and someone keeps eating the intern\u2019s lunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite life going on post-acquisition, the company unfortunately gave away the authority to decide what the company does next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the scale-up gap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) released their latest report, <em>The Scale-Up Gap: From Value Creation to Value Retention<\/em>. It was developed by CCI in partnership with Impact Group, DataAngel Policy Research, Yvan Clermont, and LABmedia Consulting, and funded in part by the Government of Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study draws on interviews with 31 founders and senior executives from 30 Canadian companies acquired by foreign buyers. In 28 of those 30 cases, leadership and strategic control moved out of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian tech leaders, are your ears perking up? Because this study is probably more relevant to you than a typical founder\u2019s exit story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The companies in this report are the vendors on your shortlist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada has plenty of great companies. Anyone with at least a pinky on the pulse of the country\u2019s innovation landscape knows we can punch above our weight. The problem is the conditions that let them scale at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turns out, we\u2019re not so hot on that part. And the buying decisions that shape those conditions land at the feet of whoever is accountable for technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laurent Carbonneau, vice-president of policy and advocacy at CCI, said during yesterday\u2019s report launch that the organization recently asked its own members why they are scaling in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the answer was that they cared about being here, had connections here, and wanted to stay. You still need a commercial environment that makes it possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe theme of wanting to be Canadian is not enough, and we need a policy environment,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd a commercial environment that supports people scaling is really front of mind for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-after-product-market-fit\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">After product-market fit<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founders interviewed for the study all had companies that, at one point, were ready to scale. In these interviews, four problems stood out:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Risk<\/strong>: Companies often can\u2019t get the financing they need (either public or private), on the right timelines, once commercialization gets more expensive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Demand<\/strong>: Early Canadian customers can be hard to win, so companies often have to prove themselves elsewhere first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fragmentation<\/strong>: Support programs are there, but companies can end up starting over as they move between programs, investors, and stages of growth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Talent and infrastructure<\/strong>: Experienced leaders, specialized hires, and the facilities needed to grow can be hard to put in place in Canada, especially at a faster pace that\u2019s often needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While different companies experienced a combination of these factors, they all found their options in Canada started to narrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The founders in CCI\u2019s study already had real businesses, with products, customers, and revenue. But as those companies grew, they needed more money, quicker decisions and stronger support to keep up. Canada\u2019s system wasn\u2019t always set up to provide those things at the pace they needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s just at this point, once you hit product-market fit and you go, it\u2019s time to scale, that\u2019s when the wheels start coming off,\u201d said one founder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report calls this the \u201cscale conversion problem.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada funds early research and development well, and many founders credited programs like SR&amp;ED and IRAP with getting them off the ground. Early revenue is one thing, but it\u2019s often not enough to keep the momentum going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At commercialization, cheque sizes got bigger and domestic capital slowed or moved more cautiously. The problem, as one founder says in the report, is that the country, broadly speaking, runs out of steam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can start well in Canada,\u201d they said, \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re good at sustaining them in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For capital-heavy sectors the numbers get stark fast. One founder from the study needed \u201c$40 million to go from concept to product.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Timing became the primary issue, according to another of the study\u2019s founders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen it takes six to nine months for that investment to come in,\u201d they said, \u201cin a startup\u2019s life cycle, that\u2019s a killer to delay action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lindsay Borthwick, founder of LABmedia Consulting and the report\u2019s lead author, said founders also described a system with plenty of individual supports that didn\u2019t always connect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne founder put it this way. In Canada, you\u2019ve got to have a plan A, B, and C. In the States, you just get to raise,\u201d she said. \u201cSo the perception was that here you had to really be savvy about how to navigate all these different programs and potential opportunities. But there wasn\u2019t really a clear path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grants, loans, investors, accelerators, and government programs were available, but moving between them often meant new requirements, new timelines, and another round of administrative work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll of this added a lot of time drag and really dragged on the company\u2019s momentum, and brought along with it a lot of administrative burden,\u201d said Borthwick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When companies needed speed, they were repeatedly starting over.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-you-are-the-reference-customer-they-can-t-find\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">You are the reference customer they can\u2019t find<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s play a weird, not-quite-right version of <em>Family Feud<\/em>. Guess the common word that came up again and again with all 30 of the companies studied for CCI\u2019s report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers. And the hardest ones to win were the Canadian ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public and regulated buyers, like health care, often require proof of previous deployment on a larger scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It makes sense when you\u2019re using public funds and having to answer to a board for purchases of this scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You wouldn\u2019t hire the first contractor you find on a Google search for extensive home renovations without looking at reviews or asking others for recommendations. Heck, some people take six months to research a water bottle purchase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeffrey Crelinsten, CEO of The Impact Group and project lead for the study, said there is another problem inside some of those organizations. The person using the technology, and seeing its value, may not be the person allowed to buy it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSome of the founders who were interviewed pointed out that the buyer and the user within a potential customer isn\u2019t always the same person,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that despite the fact that a user may want a new technology or a new service, the buyer won\u2019t do it, and [the] user won\u2019t have influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem is that a startup or emerging company can\u2019t bring receipts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They can\u2019t point to evidence of large-scale deployment. As a result, the first real contracts come from abroad, and often the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign validation is now an entry ticket back home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou almost have to win in the U.S. first,\u201d one founder said in the report. Another pointed to the paradox, and quite frankly, the absurdity of the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been recognized globally, yet I can\u2019t get my [provincial] government to meet with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A third said that access to the table is \u201calmost impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyle Briggs knows what that looks like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As co-founder of SAIL Fund and entrepreneur in residence for the University of Ottawa\u2019s Faculty of Science, he spun deep-tech startup Northern Nanopore Instruments from his PhD research in March 2020, on the first day of the COVID lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company had revenue from the beginning and built a customer base across Europe, the U.S., and parts of Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe definitely ran into issues where early investors, angel investors, wanted to see milestones before investing that would be inaccessible without investment to get to that point,\u201d Briggs explained. \u201cBut we were able to operate on sales, and through that we were able to access some non dilutive capital as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Briggs said the company bootstrapped for four years, but when it needed to expand and scale its single-molecule sensing technology, it couldn\u2019t secure the investment it needed from Canadian sources. Northern Nanopore was sold to a U.K.-based DNA sequencing company in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He spun these challenges into advocacy work around early-stage research commercialization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[I\u2019m] trying to shine a light on some of the challenges in the hopes that we can find ways to make it easier for the next generation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What would change this, according to the report, is under the tech leader\u2019s job description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among its recommendations is encouraging large Canadian firms and institutional buyers to act as early reference customers for scaling domestic companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, a CIO deciding whether to run a real pilot with the Canadian vendor or default to the incumbent because the incumbent is \u201csafer\u201d to defend to the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s well-worn territory for both CCI and myself. I\u2019ve reported this pattern before in health care, where promising tools die in pilot limbo for want of a pathway to a real contract, and in Atlantic Canada, where a first domestic client is what unlocks the global ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe best investment you can get is a customer buying your product,\u201d said a founder in the report. \u201cWe all just want customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-control-leaves-before-the-company-does\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Control leaves before the company does<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the 30 firms studied, 19 maintained a clear operational presence in Canada after being acquired. Another nine kept a partial presence. Only two fully exited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of the companies studied retained fully Canadian leadership. Half had mixed post-acquisition outcomes, with some growth at the same time as reductions or restructuring. Nine of 30 expanded or experienced positive growth, and four experienced reduced activity or hollowing out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Briggs\u2019 Northern Nanopore was acquired, the buyer established a Canadian subsidiary, most of the team stayed, and research on the technology continued in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Canadian presence can survive an acquisition long after strategic control has moved. A vendor can still be headquartered and staffed in Canada while its roadmap, pricing, and data decisions get made in Silicon Valley, Boston, or London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here comes the sovereignty question again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tech leaders have long had to answer where their data lives. Now, it\u2019s a question of who controls the company that\u2019s holding it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A founder interviewed for the study faced a choice between a \u201cMade in Canada\u201d path they would \u201ccobble together with whatever connections we could tap into\u201d and a foreign buyer offering an operation that was \u201cfully resourced, fully funded, with the proper infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When scaling means building new infrastructure or facilities, onboarding specialized talent, and accessing capital, wouldn\u2019t you take the direct, more immediate path?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Briggs cautioned against treating every foreign acquisition as a failure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat determines whether the bad outcome is a positive or a negative thing for Canada really comes down to what happens to the talent after the acquisition, what happens to the capital that comes in as a result of the acquisition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where the founders go, where the capital goes, and whether the experience gained from building the company gets reused can determine how much value stays in the country.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-experience-doesn-t-come-back-around\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The experience doesn\u2019t come back around<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people who scale a company learn things no one can teach from the outside, and Canada struggles to pass all that \u201cinside baseball\u201d to the founders coming up behind them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founders in the study described running dry on specialized talent, turning their recruitment efforts beyond Canada to keep going.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carbonneau connected the shortage of experienced executives to what happens after Canadian companies are acquired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt kind of makes me think like we\u2019re exactly losing the kind of feedstock or seed corn for precisely those capabilities that are really scarce in Canada,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Approximately one-third of the founders ended up building another company or continuing building. Others stayed with the acquirer, moved into investor or advisory roles, or left the ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report\u2019s Atlantic Canada appendix shows the same arc, but amplified. Regional founders leaned hard on public programs to get going, with one crediting Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency financing that came with 0% interest and no personal guarantees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the time comes to look for growth capital and those critical first customers, many end up outside the region or outside the country. \u201cThey didn\u2019t care about us until we expanded into Ontario,\u201d said an East Coast founder from the study. \u201cIt was almost like, just because it was built here, it wasn\u2019t very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-what-s-a-tech-buyer-to-do\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s a tech buyer to do?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across most of the firms studied, the decision to sell was shaped by domestic options narrowing when scaling got expensive and urgent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borthwick said the majority of founders she interviewed had no other choice but to sell to a foreign acquirer. Some looked for Canadian buyers, but there were often few or none that made sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said nearly all wished they could have remained in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many stayed with their acquiring companies after the sale, sometimes for years, though the arrangements didn\u2019t always play out as expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOften it led to disappointment in the long run as that acquirer\u2019s priorities changed,\u201d she said. \u201cI think many of the founders looked back with regret, and felt like what they\u2019d hoped would materialize did not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada has proven it can build the companies. The open question is whether it builds the conditions that let them stay Canadian and grow, and a real share of those conditions is demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CCI\u2019s recommendations spread the responsibility around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report calls for faster financing when companies are trying to commercialize, procurement rules that let pilots turn into real contracts, less starting over every time a company moves between support programs, easier access to specialized talent and infrastructure, and more Canadian investors willing to lead big rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capital markets, immigration policy, and funding structures aren\u2019t the responsibility of tech leaders. They are, however, at the helm of the purchase order, and as a result, the willingness to be the first serious Canadian customer for a company that can\u2019t yet show the scale your procurement process asks for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnless public and private sector leaders and decision-makers make a concerted effort to coordinate support for our scaling companies, Canada will be doomed to be a farm team for other countries,\u201d said Crelinsten.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-final-shots\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final shots<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add ownership and strategic control to vendor due diligence, especially if sovereignty is a priority. A Canadian office doesn\u2019t necessarily mean Canadian decisions about product, pricing, or future investment.<\/li>\n<li>Look hard at procurement rules that require proof of scale before an emerging supplier can qualify. The report shows how that pushes Canadian companies to find their first customers elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Treat a successful pilot as a decision point. 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