Onix Named to Canada's Top 100 AI Startups for a Second Year

Onix has been named to Canada’s Top 100 AI Startups for 2026, our second consecutive year on the list. ALL IN selected this year’s cohort from a record field of more than 330 applicants, and we’ll be presenting at the event’s Startup Zone in Montréal on September 16 and 17.

Most AI is assembled from the internet’s average answer and refined by watching how people use it. We build the opposite: private, expert-led intelligence systems trained on a single expert’s licensed work, with conversations end-to-end encrypted and stored on the user’s own device rather than centrally logged.

Here’s how I framed it in the announcement:

The bottleneck in AI stopped being compute and became consent and trust. A model built to know everything answers with the average of everything. We built the opposite: one expert per model, and an ecosystem of them to call on.

That’s the bet behind Personal Intelligence®: specificity and privacy, not scale alone, are what make guidance worth trusting. We launched in health and wellness with a founding cohort of physicians and researchers, on the premise that the best knowledge was never online to scrape in the first place, and that experts only bring it where they own what they build.

Montréal in September

ALL IN is Canada’s largest AI and technology event, now in its fourth edition, bringing together 7,500 participants from more than 40 countries. This year’s list spans healthcare, manufacturing, energy, financial services, cybersecurity, mobility, and education, a cross-section of where AI is moving from pilot to daily practice across the Canadian economy.

Returning to the list a second year is a reflection of the team and of Montréal’s ecosystem. If you’re at ALL IN this September, come find us in the Startup Zone.

The full announcement is available at onix.life/press/onix-top-100-all-in-2026/.