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MetaLab

metalab.com · Victoria, BC, Canada

Source dates: 2026-08-31

Explore MetaLab's services, available pricing and client experience, then compare the details against your project. Use the source links to check the scope and date of reported results.

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  • Can you share a recent project with a similar scope, industry and budget to ours?
  • What does the quote include, who will deliver the work, and what costs extra?
  • Which outcomes will you measure, and when should we expect the first deliverables?
Category
Development & design studios — product design & development studio — nearshore-to-US (Canada HQ, remote-first global team)
SOURCE RECORDED
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
SOURCE RECORDED
Pricing
Pricing was not publicly available when we checked.
NOT VERIFIED
Founded
2006
SOURCE RECORDED
Team signal
distributed across 18+ countries (third-party profiles); headcount not published
SOURCE RECORDED
Named practitioners
  • Andrew Wilkinson — Founder (now co-founder of owner Tiny; MetaLab has own operating leadership, names not published on site)
SOURCE RECORDED
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
RESEARCH NOTE

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Dates below describe individual source checks. A profile update is not a fresh check of every field. Spot an error? Submit a correction — substantive corrections are recorded in our public log.

  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)