GameStrat
Year Founded: 2015
Founder(s)/CEO: Tunch Akkaya (CEO), Elijah Wu (CTO)
(Sponsored)
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Number of Employees: 11
Office Location: Ottawa (hybrid)
Product Description: Real-time video replay software for coaching, training and performance analysis across sports and tactical training, including close-quarters combat and scenario-based training.
Target Customers: High school and collegiate football programs, along with elite tactical units and defence organizations conducting scenario-based or close-quarters combat training.
Competitive Differentiator: GameStrat’s system operates fully offline, providing portable, wireless, multi-angle replay with reliability in environments without internet access.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Trusted by more than 850 football programs across the U.S. and collaborating with early adopters and strategic partners within the law enforcement and SOF community.
H2 Analytics
Year Founded: 2017
Founder(s)/CEO: Hugo Hodgett (founder and CEO)
Number of Employees: 26
Office Location: 1400 Blair Towers Place, Ottawa
Product Description: EASE is a software platform that lets users create and deliver realistic, data-rich training exercises reflecting modern operational tempo.
Target Customers: Military, intelligence, law enforcement and public safety organizations modernizing tabletop, computer-assisted, command post and field training through scenario-driven exercises.
Competitive Differentiator: Combines deep operational expertise with AI and simulation integration to create realistic, complex intelligence training environments. This replaces traditional, labour-intensive methods with scalable automation.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Ranked 12th in Deloitte’s 2025 Technology Fast 50 Companies-to-Watch list (2025); ranked ninth in Ottawa Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Companies list (2025); winner of the Ottawa Bootstrap Awards Disruptor Category (2025); supported the CAF, national security agencies and allied partners with over 50 training exercises since 2017; expanded into the U.S. and Middle East in 2024.
Metropolitan Technologies
Year Founded: 2022
Founder(s)/CEO: Daly Brown, co-founder and CEO; Nick Foubert, co-founder and CTO.
Number of Employees: Two and growing
Office Location: Fully remote
Product Description: A decentralized connectivity, IoT/OT cybersecurity and data mesh platform to connect and protect critical infrastructure assets in extremely challenging environments.
Target Customers: System integrators delivering digital transformation solutions to energy and utilities, cities, transportation, mining, industry 4.0 and defence and security end users.
Competitive Differentiator: The solution is compliant-by-design, specifically for asset management, network segmentation and data protection, while simultaneously adding value via connectivity and data management features.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Secured $550,000 in non-dilutive funding; $2 million in the pipeline, expecting to close about $1 million this year; multiple ongoing pilots; launched the base tier of the platform; partnerships with multiple multinational defence primes; developed an IP strategy.
Quantropi
Year Founded: 2018
Founder(s)/CEO: James Nguyen, co-founder and CEO; Randy Kuang, co-founder and chief scientist
Number of Employees: 18
Office Location: 1545 Carling Ave., Ottawa
Product Description: Quantropi’s QiSpace platform delivers quantum-secure cryptographic solutions that protect defence, enterprise communications, IoT and embedded markets against quantum and AI-enabled cybersecurity attacks.
Target Customers: Defence and government agencies, critical infrastructure operators, product and device manufacturers and commercial enterprises that require scalable, lightweight, quantum-secure protection for data, network and applications.
Competitive Differentiator: Quantropi’s QiSpace platform provides all three prerequisites for end-to-end quantum security – trust, uncertainty and entropy — ensuring next-generation cryptographic agility without hardware dependencies or performance compromises.
Traction or Notable Milestone: 2025 NATO DIANA Accelerator Program; performance benchmarked by Deutsche Telekom and Siemens Research; commercial partnerships with ST Micro, Renesas, Palo Alto Networks and Himera.
Tactiql
Year Founded: 2022
Founder(s)/CEO: Michael Nelson
Number of Employees: 15
Office Location: 593 Rowers Way, Ottawa (fully remote) or Area X.O.
Product Description: Tactiql’s software, Fulcrum, conditions remote, multi-modal sensor data to enable universal interoperability with military command, control and intelligence software.
Target Customers: DND/CAF, FVEY (The Five Eyes) and NATO.
Competitive Differentiator: The ability to leverage software to automate the conditioning and therefore compatibility of remote, multi-modal sensor data.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Bootstrapped; CAF veteran founded and owned; sold into DND/CAF; one of 15 companies selected for NATO DIANA Phase II from among more than 2,600 applicants from 32 nations.
