Calgary is an opportunity-rich city. Built by entrepreneurs, it's a place where big ideas can turn into billion-dollar businesses.
We are the city of choice in Canada for the world's best entrepreneurs embracing technology to solve global challenges. Home to a highly skilled STEM workforce, world-class post-secondary and research institutions, attractive tax and cost of doing business advantages, and an unparalleled quality of life, Calgary is an ideal city for a company looking to grow and prosper.
In its annual list of the most livable cities in the world, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranks Calgary fifth globally and number one in North America with top marks in education, healthcare and stability.
Investment into Calgary
A vibrant, multicultural city of 1.5 million people, our strengths are rooted in our values - innovative, entrepreneurial, and inclusive. Home to diverse industries, we are a city that embraces change and change-makers. Whether it's feeding, fueling, healing, or moving, Calgary is helping solve the world's problems through the adoption of transformative technologies. For any company embracing digital transformation, Calgary is the ideal city to grow your business.
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Aerospace
As an emerging centre of excellence and innovation in the global aerospace industry, Calgary is moving the world. With expertise in autonomous systems, geospatial data, navigation and communication equipment manufacturing, custom software development and hardware, and manufacturing, maintenance, repair and overhaul (MMRO).
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Agribusiness
Calgary is a centre for agribusiness, driving the sector forward with technical talent, the application of agricultural technologies and financial and business know-how.
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Creative Industries
Calgary is the home of creators, storytellers and innovators. Creative Industries is defined as cycles of creation, production, and distribution of goods and services that use creativity and intellectual capital as primary inputs for creative content, economic value and market objectives.
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Energy & Environment
Calgary has long been known as an energy city and today is being recognized as a leader in the global energy transition. Alberta is Canada’s largest oil and natural gas producer. The province also boasts some of Canada’s best wind, solar, bioenergy and geothermal resources.
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Financial Services
Calgary’s strong financial sector is a catalyst driving growth of fintech firms across the city. The city is an attractive market for firms in the financial services sector due to the concentration of capital-intensive companies, high-deal velocity, large deal size, foreign investments and individual wealth.
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Digital Media & Entertainment
Calgary provides the right conditions for you to increase your global footprint. It’s projected that Calgary’s creative industries sector will spend $566 million on digital transformation from 2022 to 2024, making way for gaming, esports, immersive technologies, animation, and visual effects to be key engines of growth.
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Life Sciences
Calgary is leading research and innovation to solve global health issues. Alberta is home to Canada’s largest and only province-wide, fully integrated healthcare system, serving a diverse population of nearly 4.3 million patients. This unified system allows for streamlined access to high quality, robust patient data.
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Technology
Calgary businesses are spending billions on digital transformation in every sector. From software to hardware and services, digital transformation is quickly becoming the largest driver of new solutions and technology investments among Calgary businesses.
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Transportation & Logistics
Calgary reaches millions of consumers locally and internationally every day as home to one of Canada’s busiest and best-connected airports, major highways north-south and east-west, two of North America’s Class 1 railroads, and efficient access to ocean ports.
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Investment in the Tech Ecosystem
Calgary companies will lead the $20 billion spend on digital transformation in Alberta from 2021 to 2024. The data from IDC Canada forecasts an estimated 13 per cent year-over-year growth in DX spending across all industries in the province. Calgary represents 37 per cent of the total DX spend throughout the province, the highest percentage of all municipalities in Alberta.
Explore the Calgary Advantage
There's no question Calgary is the place to put your pen down.
Our advantages include the lowest corporate tax rate of any province in Canada (8 per cent), no payroll tax, no health-care premiums, and no provincial sales tax. Energy costs, including renewable power, are among the lowest in Canada and premium office space and operating costs are 76 per cent more affordable than Toronto, or Vancouver on average.
Along with one of the youngest most ethnically diverse populations in Canada, Calgary has the highest concentration of STEM degree completions of any Canadian city. We have a proven ability to attract and retain the brightest minds from around the world.
Bring your idea, business or investment to Calgary, and we'll see that it prospers.
Opportunity awaits.