About · Methodology
767 organizations
Edmonton's innovation ecosystem, in one place
Edmonton Startup Map is a public, community-owned map and directory of the innovative and tech companies in the Edmonton Metro Region and the organizations that support them. Edmonton Tech Wednesdays hosts it; it serves the whole community.
- Organizations
- 767
- Listed today
- Companies
- 645
- Startups to scaleups, and the exits
- Support organizations
- 122
- Accelerators, investors, hubs, research, programs, groups
- Municipalities
- 12
- Across the metro region
Scope
Who's included
Any innovative or tech company based in the region, at any age: startups, scaleups and the acquired or closed companies that shaped the ecosystem (they stay listed, tagged as such). Support organizations get their own layers: accelerators and incubators, investors, coworking spaces and hubs, universities and research institutes, government and non-profit programs, and community groups.
Service businesses (agencies, consultancies, IT services), consumer brands without a technology product, and multinationals that only have employees here are left out. Every exclusion is written down with its reason.
Sources
How the data is collected
- 01
Public sources only
Program cohorts and portfolios, ecosystem directories, local news and each organization's own website. Every fact on a profile links to the page it came from, with the date it was read: open Sources on any profile.
- 02
Quotes checked word for word
Text is reused only after it's matched against the page it cites. Fields stay empty when no source states them.
- 03
Polite crawling
Our crawler identifies itself, follows robots.txt, waits between requests and never touches sites whose terms forbid automated access. LinkedIn and Crunchbase are never scraped; a profile may link to them, nothing more.
“A thin, true entry beats a rich, invented one.”
Locations
Locations and privacy
A pin marks an office only when the address is public and the City of Edmonton's property records show it isn't a home: its zoning, or where the zoning doesn't say, its property assessment. When in doubt, it counts as a home.
Otherwise the location is approximate: a neighbourhood, or just the municipality. Outside Edmonton, offices are placed by municipality for now. Organizations that only name their city appear in that city's group on the map instead of as a pin.
A home address is never pinned, even when it's public.
Verification
What “verified” means
- i
Unverified
Compiled from public sources and not yet confirmed by the organization. Most profiles start here.
- ii
Community checked
Reviewed by a community moderator against its sources.
- iii
Claimed
The organization proved control through an email address on its own domain, and can keep the profile current.
- iv
Verified
Checked by the map's maintainers.
Corrections
Corrections, claims and removal
Every profile links to three forms. Suggest an edit sends a field-level change to the review queue. Claim this profile lets people who work there take it over: an email address on the organization's own domain verifies them at once, and other addresses are checked by a person. Request removal covers the logo, the location or the whole listing; a logo disappears the moment it's requested, and other requests are reviewed by a person.
Missing from the map? Submit a company or organization. Every submission is reviewed before it appears.
Our crawler's contact page is techwednesdays.ca/.
Licence
Licences and credits
The code is MIT-licensed. The compiled dataset is available under CC BY 4.0; credit it as “Edmonton Startup Map, hosted by Edmonton Tech Wednesdays”. Logos are trademarks of their owners, shown for identification, and quoted descriptions remain their authors' work: neither is covered by the licence.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, served by OpenFreeMap with OpenMapTiles. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Edmonton and the Open Government Licence – Canada.