Scale Up Canada has named Caseway to the 2026 Vancouver50, a list of fifty companies in the Greater Vancouver region judged to have Canada-made innovation with global export potential. The list is the Vancouver arm of Scale Up Canada’s Canada250 program, which assembles regional cohorts across Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, and Edmonton, with Waterloo arriving next.
Selection is free, open application, and judged by an outside panel. The 2026 Vancouver jury included Klue co-founder Jason Smith, Michael Lints of Golden Gate Ventures, Jen Holmstrom of Notable Capital, and Bigbang Angels’ Byung Sun Hwang, among others.
The 2026 cohort is good company. Hydra Energy, MetaOptima, Vsblty, LifeBooster, HTuO Biosciences, Butterfly Legal, and Divvi Health are all on it. Maninder Dhaliwal chairs Scale Up Canada, a not-for-profit. Its jury applied three straightforward criteria. Canadian innovation with global potential, measurable positive impact, and a contribution to the local economy. Caseway clears all three. We measure ourselves by one test: does what we build help people the legal system has priced out?
A quick word on the path here, because it was not a straight one.
The Story Behind Caseway
Seven years in the Canadian Army, including JTF2 pre-selection, taught me how to decide under incomplete information and live with the result. Five years inside divorce law taught me what the system actually feels like for the people inside it: expensive, slow, and indifferent to anyone who cannot afford $400 an hour to be heard. Ten years on the board of The Last Post Fund taught me what showing up for people after the institutions have moved on looks like. All three observations are in the product.
Before Caseway, there were two other companies. Jusu is a plant-based wellness brand with roughly 60,000 customers, which I reacquired in 2025 and still operate.
Clearway became the largest lawyer review site in Canada and the UK, with around 200,000 monthly users at peak. Clearway proved that consumer-facing legal information scales as a distribution problem more than a content problem. Caseway answers a different question: what does the legal workflow look like if research and paperwork are no longer done by a human?
Scale Up Canada 2026 Vancouver50
That is the bet. Casey handles research and drafting. CaseForm automates court and regulatory forms and is now live inside MyCase via 8am and AffiniPay. Synthium is the enterprise version of the same data brain, industry-agnostic by design and already moving outside legal.
The work is being validated where it should be. UBC’s Dr. Vered Shwartz and her group are running a two-year NSERC-funded study on our retrieval engine.
SFU’s School of Computing Science announced a parallel collaboration in January on whether searchable case law improves outcomes for self-represented litigants.
Business in Vancouver covered why our hallucination rate is where it is.
Our integrations and partnerships are listed publicly.
Vancouver50 is a marker, not a finish. Vancouver has produced Clio, AbCellera, Trulioo, Klue, and Visier in roughly the same window. The bar is set and we intend to clear it.
