British Columbia is one of the largest AI hubs in the country. The Canadian government is committed to making BC— home to a thriving tech ecosystem, top universities and educated talent — a destination for AI and machine learning technology and applications. Vancouver’s AI companies are part of a burgeoning Canadian market that takes advantage of its proximity to the United States for importing and exporting purposes. These are the ones to watch.
AI Companies in Vancouver
- Motive
- Persistent Systems
- SAP
- Thales
- Grammarly
AI Companies in Vancouver to Know
Motive is an IoT company that makes products for fleet vehicles and fleet management. Its mission is to reduce accidents, which is achieved through a layered strategy of IoT equipment monitoring and driver safety tools like GPS tracking devices, smart dash cams and logs for vehicle maintenance. Motive uses AI automation to power each of these devices. Motive says that its AI is up to four times as accurate in identifying risky driver behavior as its competitors.
Persistent Systems is a technology services company that focuses on cloud computing, IoT and digital transformations. The company designs custom AI services to client specifications using its proprietary Peristent.AI. The AI’s conversational interface can instantly provide nuanced content in response to queries — a process that can be embedded into digital assets built for clients.
SAP is a software firm that makes products for enterprise resource planning and customer relations. SAP is a German company and the largest company of its type in the world. The SAP Business AI innovates standard business processes like finance, supply chain and human resources to improve efficiency. SAP client companies report up to a 75 percent decrease in time spent on manually recording expenses since onboarding SAP Business AI.
Defense company Thales makes drones and avionics and provides training and simulation programs for pilots and aerospace ground staff. Its avionic equipment relies on artificial intelligence to augment the power of its sensors. When the sonar, radar, radio and optronic sensors that are used in avionics equipment are powered by AI, they radically increase precision and efficiency in locating and identifying targets or threats.
Dropbox makes cloud-based file storage, sharing and collaboration solutions with uses for industries ranging from media to construction. Its product offerings include Reclaim, an AI-powered calendar tool designed to help users optimize scheduling and improve their productivity. The company has remote job opportunities available in certain Canadian provinces, including British Columbia.
Rokt is a digital marketing company that makes e-commerce software for customer interactions at digital checkouts. Its software is embedded with AI and ML functions that serve customers targeted ads and product recommendations at specific stages of the digital checkout process. This process aims to take advantage of checkout-optimization data with the goal of increasing the customer’s overall spend.
Grammarly is a software company that offers a product for editing and proofreading written materials. As its name implies, its primary function is dialing in grammar issues to polish written communications. Grammarly’s AI “writing partner” analyzes content and offers corrections almost instantly. The Grammarly AI also offers suggestions on syntax, tone, and other nuanced elements of writing.
Apera AI is a computer vision and artificial intelligence company that makes “4D Vision” technologies for robotics applications. Its engineering priorities are in equipping factory robots with the ability to “see” as well as human workers. This “sight” can look like a robotic arm making autonomous decisions about which parts to select on a conveyor belt, performing assembly and conducting quality control processes.
LetHub is an AI company that serves the real estate sector. It offers a platform that uses artificial intelligence to manage residential property leases, using high levels of automation to offer a program that is low-touch for the user but feels high-touch to the customer. The LetHub AI Leasing Agent is designed to support property managers through every step of the rental process, from scheduling walk throughs to overseeing moveout documentation.
Owl.co is an artificial intelligence company that uses AI technology to provide claims intelligence to clients in the insurance industry. It offers three distinct SaaS products, OwlSense, OwlVision and OwlSignal, which respectively pull external data into claims analysis, process claim documents into usable data and extract insights from internal datasets.
