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101 Most Innovative Market Research Startups & Companies (Canada)

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This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada based Market Research companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Market Research 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 Canada Market Research Startups

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POTLOC

POTLOC

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Potloc is a hybrid software and services research platform that uses social networks for geo-targeted consumer surveys.

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Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology.

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Estated

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Access over 140 million properties, nationwide. Power your business with comprehensive property data delivered via API or bulk exports.

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Brizo Data

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SaaS, Market Intelligence, Data Science, Data, Analytics, Restaurant Industry, Food Service Industry

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ResponseTek

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ResponseTek Networks provides on-demand customer experience management software solutions for businesses.

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Cohesys

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Cohesys develops novel biocompatible adhesives for surgical applications.

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Information Mediary Corp

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Information Mediary Corp offers innovative adherence data tools to improve clinical trials, reduce costs and speed up market introduction

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RIFO Holding Group

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RIFO – Real Innovation For Home Realty

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Strainprint Technologies

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Strainprint is a unique software technology enabling patients to use cannabis more effectively.

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TSX

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The Toronto Stock Exchange is a public venture marketplace for early-stage companies across a diverse range of sectors.

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MetricWire

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MetricWire gives researchers complete creative control over the design of their study.

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Info-Tech Research Group

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Info-Tech Research Group is an information technology research and advisory company.

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PigeonLine

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We want you to stop wasting time building reports, so we built a platform that automates report building while respecting your data privacy.

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New Wave

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New Wave is engaged in the research and development of mushroom products, including psychedelic substances.

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Lanla

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Lanla transforms the power of customer experience into a driving force for the largest Canadian companies.

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Cometrics.io

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Business Intelligence service focused on deciphering, filtering and normalizing corporate communications across specific ESG Themes.

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Integra 3D Research LP

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Accelerating Adoption of Additive Manufacturing in industry.

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Bond Brand Loyalty

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Bond is a global customer engagement agency that specializes in building brand loyalty for the world’s most influential and valuable brands.

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Saintrino Technologies Inc

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Canadian company founded in 2010 with specialties in Brain Computer Interfaces, Bio-Technology, Neuro Ergonomy and User Interface Usability.

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TMX Group

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TMX Group companies provide listing venues, trading markets, clearing facilities, data products services to the global financial community.

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JustGotThat! Inc.

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JustGotThat! is a services marketplace that brings together service demand and supply in an intuitive platform

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Tactii

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Rapid MachineLearning Prototyping for small companies

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Houston

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Houston helps startups tap into their pre-launch email lists for valuable feedback, before launching their products.

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KASI Insight

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KASI Insight empower business leaders with reliable data and actionable insights from Africa

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M Square Media (MSM)

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M Square Media is a service company that provides marketing, administrative and student recruitment support to educational institutions.

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iperceptions

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iperceptions is a global leader in Voice of the Customer (VoC) solutions.

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Trend Hunter

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Trend Hunter is the #1 largest trend website, host of Future Festival & an AI-driven innovation consultancy

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Recollective

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Recollective is a software platform for market researchers to conduct their research projects.

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Dig Insights

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Dig Insights is a market research consultancy.

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Borealis AI

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Borealis AI is an RBC Institute for Research.

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Condos.ca

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Toronto’s Best Condominium Guide

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Lootbag Inc.

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Lootbag is a mobile app that gives away free samples and collects consumer insights for brands.

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DNA Genotek

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DNA Genotek Inc. provides biological sample collection, stabilization, and preparation products for health research institutes.

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FeaturePoints

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Launched in 2012, FeaturePoints is a premier rewards platform that has paid out over $5.6 million to our millions of users.

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Advanced Symbolics

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A market research firm that uses AI to analyze social media to monitor brand health while predicting trends and consumer behavior

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Torfac

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Torfac offers end-to-end market research solutions, intelligent insights, inventive technology and a personalized approach.

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The Quantum Insider

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The leading provider of market intelligence on the Quantum Technology industry

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Hotspex Media

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Unified digital advertising for brands and agencies.

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Daily Goods Design Labs

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Daily Goods Design Labs is a design, research and innovation company that consults and educates on human centred design processes.

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Quest Mindshare

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Quest Mindshare includes one of the industry’s most versatile and comprehensive group of online panel assets.

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InputHealth

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InputHealth empowers healthcare practices to efficiently collect data from patients utilizing mobile devices. No more clipboards.

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XpertVR

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A SaaS portal for consumer behaviour and academic researchers

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MuseFind Technologies

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MuseFind is the Platform to organize and manage your influencer marketing.

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Heartbeat Ai

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Heartbeat reveals fine-grained emotions so you can truly understand people.

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Paymi

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Paymi is a financial services company located in Toronto.

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HatchTank

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HatchTank is an online/mobile qualitative research platform.

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Instar

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Instar provides global research, mobile enablement, message testing services.

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MDB Insight

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MDB Insight is Canada’s premiere economic development, workforce development, and market research consultancy.

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Inspirapps

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Inspirapps offers polltogo, an application that enables its users to get instant feedback from friends, clients, and others.

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The Logit Group

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Logit Group is a data collection firm that specializes in consumer studies, market research, B2B and executive research.

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DelphX

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DelphX is a capital market company that offers fixed income solutions through the global bond market segment.

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TC Scientific

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TC Scientific is a research and development company that specializing in the synthetic chemistry

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Tellwut Corp.

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Tellwut’s community and proprietary online survey & reward site provide a platform to conduct online market research for actionable Insights

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Adbloom

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Partner driven growth marketing for leading startups & fortune 500’s

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Secdev

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SecDev builds value through strategic foresight, data science on demand and intelligence as a service.

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Grant Advance Solutions

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Grant Advance Solutions is a British Columbia-based software company that partners with non-profit societies across Canada.

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Scalepath.io

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Scalepath helps B2B companies understand their market size, growth dynamics, and best opportunities to accelerate growth.

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Whitespark

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Whitespark builds tools and provides services that help businesses and agencies with local search marketing.

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talkAItive

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Sentiment Analysis, Social Commerce, Social Engagement

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Methodify

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Methodify is an automated market research platform.

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TRIUMF

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Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science.

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Firmwater

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Firmwater provides a hosted learning management system (LMS) built specifically for training companies.

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Nexxt Intelligence

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Nexxt Intelligence is a Toronto-based insight-technology company and AI-powered insight platform.

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Fundamental Research Corp

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Fundamental Research Corp. provides everyone with institutional-quality investment research previously only available to large investors.

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MD Analytics

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MD Analytics is a global provider of health and pharmaceutical market research solutions.

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Toronto Global

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Toronto Global is a non-profit investment attraction agency that supports the expansion of foreign-owned businesses to the Toronto Region.

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BC Research

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BC Research is a leading innovation centre, specializing in the incubation and commercialization of upcoming technologies

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Explorer Research

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Explorer Research uses conscious and non-conscious research methods to understand, predict and help marketers influence shopper behavior.

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Bayesian Labs

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Develop FinTech software and research for Digital Assets

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iData Research

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iData Research is an international market research and consulting firm.

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Opinion Capital

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Opinion Capital provides website monetization services.

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RetouchMe

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RetouchMe turns any photo of any female into photo of a model who is 90-60-90 in just 7 minutes!

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Ramius

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Ramius Corporation is an enterprise software company focused on the development of cloud-based social software for engagement and research.

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Elemental Data Collection

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Elemental Data Collecting is a market research data-gathering company that specializes in phone and internet data acquisition.

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CCNB

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The Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB) is a post-secondary training institution founded in 1970.

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Insightrix

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Insightrix is a full-service market research firm offering services such as education analysis, omnibus analysis and media monitoring.

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R.A. Malatest & Associates

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R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. is a proactive, dynamic, progressive evaluation and market research organization.

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Research On Investment

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Research On Investment is an economic development consulting firm.

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Maru/Blue

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Maru/Blue provides reliable global data connections for agencies, brands, and market research firms.

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SmartPoint Research

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SmartPoint Research is a company that provides qualitative and quantitative market research services.

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Forum Research

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Forum Research is a leading Canadian-based market research firm committed to providing effective & comprehensive market analysis.

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Fidelio Works

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Fidelio Works is a consulting firm focusing on the unmet product management and product marketing.

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CRC Research

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CRC Research is a Gold Seal Certified marketing research company.

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Northstar Research Partners

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Northstar is your market research partner to generate ideas from a place where curiosity, insight and passion for research meet.

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movmi

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movmi is a boutique agency specialized in Shared Mobility Architecture providing services of car-sharing or bike-sharing.

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Demand Metric

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Agile project management software built for Marketers powered by 1,000+ practical tools & resources.

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Syndesis

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Syndesis is the market leader in the creation and activation of converged services for the new public network.

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RSG

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RESEARCH STRATEGY GROUP is a Canadian company specializing in technical & scientific translations, revision, editing & DTP Services.

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Ontario Centre of Innovation

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Ontario Centre of Innovation provides a preeminent research-to-commercialization vehicle in Ontario

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PharmaComm

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PharmaComm offers healthcare consulting, quantitative research, customer surveys, ethnography, secondary data and e-detailing services.

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Decision Point Research

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Decision Point is a market research company with a wide variety of data collection approaches, offering both B2B & B2C to the clients.

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Factor-Based

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Factor-Based specializes in financial research, portfolio management, model portfolio strategies and investment advisory services.

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SOM

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SOM is a research firm specializing in data collection, data analysis and data visualization.

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People Analytics

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People Analytics: Where ground-truthed knowledge, scientific approach, and practical experience intersect to produce evidence-based insight.

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Lavin Media

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Lavin Media provides digital marketing consultation and data analysis services.

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a research institute that specializes in issues of social, economic and environmental justice.

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Canop

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Canop is a renewable energy market research company located in Vancouver.

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Inbe

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Inbe evaluates design parameters and consumer responses, and offers new products with reduced risk of failures.

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Kai Analytics

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SaasS, Consulting, Natural Language Processing, Market Research

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Brandish Agency

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Brandish Agency is a diverse group of thinkers, makers and doers working to bridge the gap between people and brands.

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Sentis Market Research

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Sentis is a full-service consulting firm, owned by professionals who use analysis to build strategies and produce successful results.

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