VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Profit Magazine is out with its list of Canada’s 500 fastest-growing companies and the top spot belongs to a local firm.

In fact, BC-based businesses occupy 80 of the spots on the annual rankings.

Senior Editor Deborah Aarts says there are none better than Vancouver’s Avigilon Corp.

“What they do is they design and manufacture these super hi-tech, super high-def security and surveillance cameras. So, these cameras are used in airports and at large venues,” she explains.

“The company has developed such proprietary software and storage techniques where the data that they capture and the actual hardware — the cameras themselves — it’s so advanced that their revenue growth has grown by almost 50,000 per cent over five years, which is just blisteringly fast.”

Other names on the list you may know include Vision Critical Communications, Dominion Lending Centres, and Clearly Contacts.

Click here to find the full list of 500 companies.