The index ranks Vancouver area start-ups based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic rankings. Criteria and other details are available on the Start-up Index page.
If you have any suggestions for companies to add to the index, please post them in the comments for this post.
| Rank | + | /- | Name | Alexa | Compete | Average | |||
| 1 | N | Metrolyrics | 779 | 362 | 571 | ||||
| 2 | Plentyoffish | 805 |  |
524 |  |
665 | |
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| 3 | Suite101 | 6,486 | |
676 | |
3,581 | |
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| 4 | NowPublic | 12,071 | |
7,759 | |
9,915 | |
||
| 5 | clubZone | 16,601 | |
14,357 | |
15,479 | |
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| 6 | Yotophoto | 32,425 | |
68,683 | |
50,554 | |
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| 7 | everystockphoto | 47,989 | |
121,183 | |
84,586 | |
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| 8 | |
2 | CounterPath | 55,129 | |
174,607 | |
114,868 | |
| 9 | |
1 | DabbleDB | 102,229 | |
149,920 | |
126,075 | |
| 10 | |
1 | Eqo | 29,455 | |
233,114 | |
131,285 | |
| 11 | Techvibes | 122,962 | |
147,806 | |
135,384 | |
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| 12 | Babe vs. Babe | 113,624 | |
159,433 | |
136,529 | |
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| 13 | |
5 | Bryght | 178,158 | |
226,135 | |
202,147 | |
| 14 | |
1 | Protagonize | 151,836 | |
255,734 | |
203,785 | |
| 15 | |
1 | Project Opus | 267,742 | |
207,134 | |
237,438 | |
| 16 | Scribblewiki | 184,534 | |
417,296 | |
300,915 | |
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| 17 | |
2 | GiveMeaning | 369,162 | |
265,371 | |
317,267 | |
| 18 | |
1 | Qumana | 239,205 | |
407,536 | |
323,371 | |
| 19 | |
2 | LingQ | 241,137 | |
518,010 | |
379,574 | |
| 20 | |
3 | Ubertor | 330,489 | |
465,733 | |
398,111 | |
| 21 | |
1 | Gimme20 | 406,667 | |
410,835 | |
408,751 | |
| 22 | |
20 | Lypp | 700,793 | |
272,957 | |
486,875 | |
| 23 | |
5 | MovieSet | 667,319 | |
372,952 | |
520,136 | |
| 24 | |
3 | Sxip | 630,369 | |
474,166 | |
552,268 | |
| 25 | |
5 | Widerfunnel | 607,988 | |
567,892 | |
587,940 | |
| 26 | |
1 | HerFabLife | 861,467 | |
504,616 | |
683,042 | |
| 27 | |
16 | Fit Brains | 2,270,710 | |
581,197 | |
1,425,954 | |
| 28 | |
9 | FanYard | 351,792 | |
- | 351,792 | |
|
| 29 | |
7 | People Vancouver | 467,955 | |
- | 467,955 | |
|
| 30 | |
6 | MyThankYou | 531,880 | |
- | 531,880 | |
|
| 31 | |
2 | Strutta | 586,499 | |
- | 586,499 | |
|
| 32 | |
1 | MailChannels | 889,440 | |
- | 889,440 | |
|
| 33 | |
1 | Jiibe | 907,249 | |
- | |
907,249 | |
| 34 | |
1 | Scrapboy | 917,220 | |
- | 917,220 | |
|
| 35 | |
5 | SomethingSimpler | 969,794 | |
- | 969,794 | |
|
| 36 | |
2 | Vacant Ready | 980,181 | |
- | 980,181 | |
|
| 37 | |
2 | Audiobaba | 993,066 | |
- | 993,066 | |
|
| 38 | |
3 | MyRealPlace | 1,133,431 | |
- | 1,133,431 | |
|
| 39 | |
4 | Kinzin | 1,157,829 | |
- | |
1,157,829 | |
| 40 | |
4 | Vintage Pixels | 1,204,160 | |
- | |
1,204,160 | |
| 41 | |
3 | Thoughtfarmer | 1,247,719 | |
- | |
1,247,719 | |
| 42 | |
5 | Sitemasher | 1,302,405 | |
- | |
1,302,405 | |
| 43 | |
2 | Mixx Maker | 1,387,250 | |
- | 1,387,250 | |
|
| 44 | |
18 | NetHooks | 1,499,290 | |
- | 1,499,290 | |
|
| 45 | |
1 | QuickMobile | 1,555,496 | |
- | 1,555,496 | |
|
| 46 | |
4 | AdHack | 1,563,441 | |
- | 1,563,441 | |
|
| 47 | |
1 | Taglocity | 2,022,145 | |
- | 2,022,145 | |
|
| 48 | |
1 | StrangeLoop Networks | 2,060,198 | |
- | 2,060,198 | |
|
| 49 | |
1 | xMedia Jobs | 2,375,567 | |
- | 2,375,567 | |
|
| 50 | |
1 | LiveVote | 2,618,256 | |
- | 2,618,256 | |
|
| 51 | |
1 | Smart Love | 2,712,302 | |
- | 2,712,302 | |
|
| 52 | |
1 | Industry Blender | 2,959,755 | |
- | 2,959,755 | |
|
| 53 | N | Gnomz Software | 4,298,279 | - | |||||
| 54 | |
1 | Wurldtech | 7,152,768 | |
- | |
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| 55 | N | Mployr | 7,464,170 | - |
Greg Andrews
Greg Andrews is a Writer and Web Developer and for Techvibes. Born and raised in Edmonton, Greg was blogging about his high school drama long before it was fashionable. In the Spring of 2007, half a year out of school, Greg moved to Vancouver in search of interesting technology and the Canadian dream. His personal sites are gregcorp.com and miscellani.ca.
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