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6 companies the city treats as billion-dollar gravity — still headquartered, or heavily staffed, here: Wealthsimple, Cohere, 1Password, ApplyBoard, Tenstorrent, Shopify Toronto.

Financial District

WE

Wealthsimple

Investing, taxes, and cash for the rest of us.

FintechFinancial DistrictUnicornHiring

King West

CO

Cohere

Frontier language models, shipped from Toronto.

AIKing WestUnicornHiring

Waterfront

1P

1Password

The password manager that became infrastructure.

SecurityWaterfrontUnicornHiring

Waterloo

AP

ApplyBoard

Education without the border.

EdtechWaterlooUnicornHiring

North York

TE

Tenstorrent

AI chips from the city that used to make phones.

HardwareNorth YorkUnicornHiring

King West

SH

Shopify Toronto

The Ottawa giant’s second city.

CommerceKing WestUnicornHiring