Who Will Be Canada’s Hot Startups in 2012? | | Mark Evans TechMark Evans Tech

The flurry of high-tech deals last year saw a bunch of promising startups snapped up – Zite, Rypple, PostRank, PushLife, Tungle and Five Mobile to name a few.

The encouraging part of the Canadian landscape is the growing number of high-quality startups being created and, thankfully, funded. It means that rather than having M&A activity “hollow” things out, there are more startups ready to step into the spotlight.

So, who are the Canadian startups that warrant our attention in 2012? (Note: I’ve updated the list, and will continue to do so)

Who’s going to grow in a major way, attract a significant number of users and customers, launch exciting initiatives, or be acquired. Granted, it’s a subjective list but it is an interesting way to speculate on companies that will capture the spotlight this year. If you leave a comment, I’ll update the list.

To get the ball rolling, here are some of my choices for the “Hot Startup” list:

- ScribbleLive, the world’s leading real-time content creation and publishing company whose clients include Reuters, AP and FA.
- WineAlign, which cracked the 100,000 unique visitor mark for the first time in December
- 500px, one of the leading places to display and share beautiful photography
- Pressly, whose technology is helping publishers create mobile Web sites that embrace the “swipe and read” functionality of apps
- QuickMobile, one of the leading event and conference mobile application developers
- Atomic Reach, which makes it easier for brand to discover, publish and market content
- Wave Accounting, which recently raised $5-million to drive growth of its free online accounting service
- Keek, which offers a video-based social network
- Fixmo, a mobile security company that recently raised $23-million
- TribeHR, which develops human resources service for small and medium businesses
- GoInstant, which is creating technology that lets people co-browse a Web site at the same time.
- Vidyard, which has created online video platform for business
- Unbounce, which makes it easy to create customized landing pages.
- Plastic Mobile, a fast-growing mobile agency that specializes in UX and design.

Note: ScribbleLive and Atomic Reach are digital marketing clients of my company, ME Consulting.

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http://www.itbusiness.ca CHRISTINE WONG

Great listing of who to watch in the New Year. Here’s another take on some of the notable startup trends of 2011: http://myi.tw/arX
http://thesamplebank.com Sammy

As you pointed out, I too am encouraged by the Canadian landscape with flourishing high-quality startups. There’s lots of funding and innovation and ideas, across this great land. It’s a good time to set up a start up.

I’d like to add The SampleBank to this list. We’re slow out the gate, still in beta but we’re on online music store with a 2 revenue stream model. Gotta do something big or else ladies remain unimpressed.
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http://Geonet.ME/Weeklyz Jim Semple

We purchased Weeklyz.com with the intent of creating an iPhone app with a listing of the days of the week and the weekly specials and events at the places near you by starting to load everything that’s cool on our Geonet social map and we could really use the local grassroots support if anyone is interested in helping out!