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MetaLab

metalab.com · Victoria, BC, Canada

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Category
Development & design studios — product design & development studio — nearshore-to-US (Canada HQ, remote-first global team)
PRIMARY SOURCE
Services
Product design, interface design, product development — 'design, build, and ship' digital products for startups and established brands; strong AI-native product work per recent industry coverage
PRIMARY SOURCE
Pricing
Pricing was not publicly available when we checked.
NOT VERIFIED
Founded
2006
PRIMARY SOURCE
Team signal
distributed across 18+ countries (third-party profiles); headcount not published
PRIMARY SOURCE
Named practitioners
  • Andrew Wilkinson — Founder (now co-founder of owner Tiny; MetaLab has own operating leadership, names not published on site)
PRIMARY SOURCE
Named clients
Slack · Coinbase · Uber · Google · Walmart
PROVIDER REPORTED
Case-study claims
  • Designed Slack's earliest interface (provider-claimed, echoed by owner Tiny)
  • Designed Coinbase's first consumer app and Uber's early rider experience (provider-claimed via Tiny)
PROVIDER REPORTEDnumbers are the provider’s own; not independently verified
Lab note
M&A flag: owned by Tiny (public holding co), operated inside Tiny's 'Beam' services group; profitability historically funded Tiny's acquisitions
LAB VERIFIED

Source register

All sources accessed 2026-08-31. Spot an error? Submit a correction — reviewed by a human, logged publicly.

  1. https://www.metalab.com/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  2. https://tiny.com/companies/metalab — ownership, client history, Beam group (accessed 2026-08-31)
  3. https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/02/16/inside-metalab-silicon-valleys-best-kept-design-secret/ (accessed 2026-08-31, via search)