Major employers in Kelowna

32 employers, 23 of them head offices: 14 worldwide, 0 national and 9 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

Kelowna — the /local page · Who owns Kelowna · Who represents Kelowna · Companies

Employers32
Worldwide HQ14
National HQ0
Regional HQ9
1

Employers, largest first

People employed at the site in this city where a source publishes it; head offices without a published count follow.

CompanyHereEmployees hereWorldwide HQJobs
UBC OkanaganEducation — universitypart of University of British ColumbiaMajor site2,0942025Vancouver, British ColumbiaCareers →
KF AerospaceAerospace — aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaulWorldwide HQglobal8002025Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Acro CommerceSoftware — B2B ecommerce development and digital strategyWorldwide HQglobal (B2B ecommerce software development for manufacturers and distributors)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Alpine AerotechAerospace — helicopter maintenance, repair and overhaulWorldwide HQglobal (rotorcraft MRO and manufacturing; second MRO in Abbotsford)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
CRWN.aiTechnology — AI and sensors for transmission-line failure and wildfire-ignition predictionWorldwide HQglobal (AI line-sensing for transmission grids)—Kelowna, British Columbia—
Decisive Dividend CorporationHolding company — acquisition-oriented owner of manufacturing businessesWorldwide HQglobal (acquirer and long-term owner of manufacturing companies)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
HappipadTechnology — home-sharing / affordable rental platformWorldwide HQCanada (home-sharing rental platform; programs in BC and Nova Scotia)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Magic Potion GamesSoftware — online games for children (Imagine Island)Worldwide HQglobal (game studio; Imagine Island)—Kelowna, British Columbia—
MingaSoftware — K-12 hall-pass, behaviour and campus management SaaSpart of Riverwood Capital (affiliated funds)Worldwide HQglobal (K-12 campus management software; customers mainly US school districts)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Mission GroupReal estate — residential and commercial developer and landlordWorldwide HQOkanagan (real estate development, rentals, commercial leasing; Kelowna and Penticton)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Pela (Lomi)Consumer products — compostable goods and food-waste appliancesWorldwide HQglobal (compostable consumer products and the Lomi countertop food recycler)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Simply BenefitsSoftware — digital employee benefits administration platformWorldwide HQCanada (digital employee-benefits platform / TPA; second office in Ayr, Ontario)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Summerhill Pyramid WineryWine and tourism — organic estate winery, restaurant and eventsWorldwide HQglobal (organic/biodynamic winery; exports)—Kelowna, British Columbia—
Summit Commercial SolutionsFinance — tech-enabled commercial insurance brokerageWorldwide HQCanada (national commercial insurance brokerage)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Waterplay SolutionsManufacturing — aquatic play and splash-pad equipmentpart of MAKR GroupWorldwide HQglobal (aquatic play equipment; Canada/US and Australia contacts)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Accuro (QHR Technologies)Technology — electronic medical records softwarepart of Loblaw Companies LimitedRegional HQQHR Technologies / Accuro electronic medical records business (Canada)—Brampton, OntarioCareers →
AEM (Anodyne Electronics Manufacturing)Aerospace — avionics manufacturingpart of Structural Monitoring Systems PlcRegional HQAEM avionics business (global)—not confirmed on a fetched page (Structural Monitoring Systems Plc)Careers →
Central Okanagan Public Schools (School District No. 23)Education — K-12 public school districtpart of Province of British ColumbiaRegional HQSchool District 23 (Kelowna, West Kelowna, Lake Country, Peachland)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
City of West KelownaPublic administration — municipal governmentRegional HQWest Kelowna (municipal government)—West Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Interior Health (incl. Kelowna General Hospital)Health care — regional health authority and teaching hospitalpart of Province of British ColumbiaRegional HQInterior Health (Southern Interior BC health authority)—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Regional District of Central OkanaganPublic administration — regional government (operates the COEDC)Regional HQCentral Okanagan—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
SKYTRAC SystemsAerospace — satellite communications and avionicspart of ACR Group (ACR Electronics)Regional HQSKYTRAC business unit (global; offices in Kelowna, Victoria, Ottawa)—Fort Lauderdale, FloridaCareers →
SunRypeManufacturing — fruit juice and snack foodpart of Lassonde IndustriesRegional HQSunRype business (fruit beverages and snacks; Canada and US)—Rougemont, QuebecCareers →
Westbank First NationPublic administration — First Nation governmentRegional HQWestbank First Nation self-government (reserve lands across Okanagan Lake from Kelowna)—Westbank First Nation lands, Central Okanagan, British ColumbiaCareers →
Beem Credit UnionFinance — credit unionMajor site—British Columbia (head office not confirmed on a fetched page)Careers →
Big White Ski ResortTourism — ski and mountain resortMajor site—Big White, British ColumbiaCareers →
CedarCreek Estate WineryWine and tourism — estate winery and restaurantMajor site—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
FortisBCUtilities — electricity and natural gaspart of Fortis Inc.Major site—St. John's, Newfoundland and LabradorCareers →
Mission Hill Family Estate WineryWine and tourism — estate winery, restaurant, concertsMajor site—West Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Okanagan CollegeEducation — college and trades trainingpart of Province of British ColumbiaMajor site—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Okanagan Regional LibraryPublic library systemMajor site—Okanagan region, British Columbia (head office not confirmed on a fetched page)Careers →
Quails' Gate Estate WineryWine and tourism — estate winery and restaurantMajor site—West Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
i

Notes on this record

  • The COEDC 2025 Economic Profile has no ranked top-employers table. It gives only scattered figures (UBCO 2,094 staff; Okanagan College 1,200+ college-wide; manufacturing sector 6,000+). No COEDC top-employers list was found in its sitemaps.
  • City of Kelowna (kelowna.ca): robots.txt and home page both returned a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' 403 — BLOCKED, so the City is not listed as a row.
  • Okanagan College: curl followed a redirect from okanagan.bc.ca onto okanagancollege.ca before that host's robots.txt had been read. Only the home page was loaded.
  • DEEPENED 2026-10-29: 5 -> 20 rows. Target of ~25 not fully met; no ranked local employer list exists to fill it from.
  • Interior Health head office CONFIRMED in Kelowna (BC Government health-authority page) — row changed from major-site to regional.
  • Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is NOT a row: ylw.kelowna.ca returned a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' 403 on robots.txt (same block as kelowna.ca), so its website could not be opened. Facts kept from Tourism Kelowna's report of the YLW 2024 Economic Impact Study (data from 96 commercial firms and government agencies): YLW 'supported 9,210 full-time jobs' (total, direct+indirect), $2.076 billion output, 2.13 million passengers in 2024. A search lead gives 2,298 direct airport-site employees — not on a fetched page, not recorded. YLW is owned and operated by the City of Kelowna.
  • Skipped: Gorman Bros. Lumber (West Kelowna) — gormanbros.com robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, not fetched. FINTECH — site shows a Tampa HQ and no Kelowna office. Bardel — home page rendered nothing without JavaScript. bctree.com did not answer. BCFSA (bcfsa.ca) 403 on robots.txt.
  • Process slips: sunrype.ca, enseigner.makeafuture.ca, markanthony.com and accelerateokanagan.com were reached by redirect (or directly) before that exact host's robots.txt was read; robots.txt was read on www.sunrype.ca/sunrype.ca, www.makeafuture.ca, www.markanthony.com/markanthony.com and www.accelerateokanagan.com, none naming ClaudeBot. No rows rely on accelerateokanagan.com or markanthony.com.
  • Wineries and WFN rows outside city limits (West Kelowna, WFN lands) are included as Central Okanagan employers and say so in hqOf.
  • City of Kelowna remains unlisted (kelowna.ca Cloudflare 403). Accelerate Okanagan's 2024 figures (787 Okanagan tech companies, 32,645 jobs) are a sector total from search results only, not recorded per company.
  • DEEPENED 2026-10-30 (careers/funding/software pass): 20 -> 32 rows. careersUrl added to every row whose own site links a careers page (each opened, loads, is that company's). software: true on 7 rows. funding on 5 rows.
  • Funded Kelowna companies that could NOT be rows because their own site could not be opened: RainStick Shower (rainstickshower.com — TLS handshake refused for this client on robots.txt; BetaKit 16 Jul 2024: C$2.6M seed-plus led by Raven Indigenous Capital Partners with BDC Thrive Lab and BuildTech VC, total C$4.5M); Croptimistic (croptimistic.com — same TLS refusal; Techcouver: $9.1M Series B led by Forage Capital Partners, Feb 2023, 'new office based in Kelowna'); INCA Renewable Technologies (incarenewtech.com robots.txt 403; Techcouver: $55M Series B funding commitment, 2023); Hyper Hippo Entertainment (hyperhippo.com robots.txt 403; Techcouver 2023: founded in Kelowna 2012, 130 employees across BC and Washington). Facts kept here; add rows if their sites open later.
  • Minga: a Castanet article on Riverwood Capital's investment in Minga returned 403 (castanet.net article pages block this UA), so the amount reported in search snippets is not recorded; only the acquisition statement on minga.io is used.
  • Blocked/skipped this pass: bctechnology.com robots.txt names ClaudeBot (disallowed) — not fetched beyond robots.txt; bardel.ca 403; castanet.net article 403; Accelerate Okanagan member directory renders by JavaScript (no list readable). Staffbase (merged with Kelowna's Bananatag) no longer lists a Kelowna office (its careers FAQ names Chemnitz, New York, Berlin, London, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Sydney), so not a row. GetintheLoop and Trellis (both called Kelowna-based in older BetaKit items) do not state Kelowna on their own sites, and GetintheLoop's Trakstar board 404s — not rows. District of Lake Country: no careers page found from its home page; not added.
  • Process slip 2026-10-30: one diagnostic request for www.rainstickshower.com/robots.txt was made with Node's default User-Agent (it failed at the TLS handshake; no content received).
  • COEDC headcounts: the 2025 Economic Profile publishes only the figures already recorded (UBCO 2,094; Okanagan College 1,200+ college-wide); no further COEDC headcounts exist to add.
s

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-30. Each headcount links to the page it is read from; each company to its own site or its /company page.