Montreal builds quiet giants. The kind that do not chase headlines but change how an entire system breathes. In 2014, Adrian Schauer started AlayaCare Inc. with a clear thesis: if home and community care is the future, then the software behind it cannot look like it was built when flip phones were king. Fast forward and the cloud has a new landlord in care delivery.
Now CIBC Innovation Banking steps in with a $50M growth capital facility. Not equity confetti. Not hype. Real growth capital. The kind that says, we have studied the balance sheet, the customers, the churn, the engine, and we like what we see. That vote of confidence is earned, not tweeted.
AlayaCare Inc. is not dabbling. The platform powers home, community, disability, aged, and residential care providers across Canada, the United States, and ANZ. More than 700 global customers. Over 1 billion scheduled visits flowing through its system. 30+ integration partners plugged in. That is not a pilot program. That is infrastructure.
Credit to Adrian Schauer, Founder and CEO, for building with patience instead of noise. And to Andrew McDonald, CPTO, who brings the product and engineering discipline needed to scale a modern cloud stack in a sector that has historically been allergic to modern anything. Also to Jean-Francois Gailleur, SVP, Engineering and Information Security, and Manuela Paoletta, SVP, People and Culture, because scale without security and culture is just speed toward a wall. Annette Hili driving ANZ reminds us this is not a local story.
The play here is simple and sophisticated at the same time. Home care is expanding. Populations are aging. Providers are under pressure to do more with less. If your scheduling, data, and outcomes live in spreadsheets and legacy systems, you are already behind. AlayaCare Inc. sells clarity in a market drowning in complexity. When 1 billion visits run through your pipes, you start seeing patterns others miss.
The $50M facility fuels strategic mergers and acquisitions and continued global expansion. Translation: they are not just defending turf. They are mapping the next one. CIBC Innovation Banking does not write checks for vibes. They back velocity with visibility.
There is a lesson for founders here. Build for the operators. Earn the trust of the capital. Stack real metrics. When the mission is improving care in homes and communities, the impact compounds quietly until it is impossible to ignore.
AlayaCare Inc. is not just managing care. It is calibrating it. And in a world where healthcare systems strain under their own weight, calibration might be the most valuable feature of all.
