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Small Business of the Year
The highest honour within The Canada Small Business 100, this award recognizes a business that exemplifies the very best of Canadian entrepreneurship. Celebrating exceptional leadership, innovation, resilience, and sustained impact, it is presented to the company that has not only achieved remarkable success but has helped strengthen its community, industry, and the broader small business landscape.
Mini Tipi
Gatineau, Quebec
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Innovation
This award recognizes a small business that has demonstrated exceptional creativity, ingenuity, and forward thinking to solve challenges, seize opportunities, and drive growth through innovative pathways to success.
Willful
Wellington, Ontario
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Social Impact and Sustainability
Awarded to a business demonstrating exceptional leadership in sustainability and social responsibility, this honour recognizes organizations creating lasting impact through ethical practices, community investment, and/or environmental stewardship. It celebrates businesses proving that doing good is also good business.
Knead Technologies
Calgary, Alberta
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Tech Trailblazer
This award recognizes a small business that has embraced digital tools, emerging technologies, or innovative solutions to drive growth, enhance customer experiences, improve operations, or unlock new opportunities. The Tech Trailblazer award celebrates forward-thinking leaders who are not just adapting to change, but shaping the future of business through technology.
Harvest
Toronto, Ontario
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Rising Star
This award recognizes an emerging business (under three years since founding) that is demonstrating strong growth, bold ambition, and exceptional potential to become a future leader in its field.
July Health
Toronto, Ontario
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Storyteller
The Storyteller Award celebrates the nominee that tells it best. Awarded exclusively to nominees who participate in the CSB100 social-first nomination pathway, this honour recognizes the small business with the most creative, compelling, and authentic social media-driven nomination.
Comeback Snacks
Etobicoke, Ontario
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