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7 Fathoms Makes a Splash on Dragons’ Den

  • Nov 13, 2025
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CVCA Says Region Booked $35M in VC in Q3

  • Nov 12, 2025
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Templar Targets Electric Boat Market

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7 Fathoms Makes a Splash on Dragons’ Den

  • Nov 13, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Grates Cove-based skincare company 7 Fathoms recently appeared on CBC’s Dragons’ Den, where they successfully pitched their business to one of the show’s investors.

The company is making skin and hair products incorporating the bioactives found in

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CVCA Says Region Booked $35M in VC in Q3

  • Nov 12, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canadian startups raised about $35 million in venture capital in the third quarter of 2025, says Canada’s main VC body, which is small change compared to the total coming for the fourth quarter.

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private

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Templar Targets Electric Boat Market

  • Nov 12, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

A new company on Nova Scotia’s South Shore is setting out to electrify transportation on the water.

Based in Pleasantville, Templar Marine will produce a range of fully electric boats — from commercial craft and tour boats to water taxis — all

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Martin ‘Tweaks” Genesis Programs in Year 1

  • Nov 11, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Sitting at the centre of the region’s hottest startup market, Genesis has undergone changes in the last year that the guy in charge says are really a few “tweaks”.

Just after his first anniversary as Genesis CEO, Ed Martin spoke with Entrevestor in

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Startup Atlantic Exhibits at Elevate and SaaS North

  • Nov 11, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Startup Atlantic, a network that unites the entrepreneurial ecosystem across the four Atlantic Provinces, has been travelling with a two-stop national showcase of Atlantic Canada’s innovation economy.

The Startup Atlantic Fall Tech Roadshow

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CoLab Closes US$72M Series C Round

  • Nov 10, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based CoLab Software on Monday announced the closing of a US$72 million (C$100.9 million) Series C funding round, the largest VC financing in the region in the past two years.

Founded by CEO Adam Keating and CTO Jeremy Andrew in 2017,

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Bennett To Headline InnovateNB Gala

  • Nov 10, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Sandpiper Ventures Founding and Managing Partner Cathy Bennett will deliver the keynote address at this year’s InnovateNB Awards, scheduled for Nov. 27 at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre.

Bennett brings more than three decades of

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CanXP AI Launches Canadian-Trained SLM

  • Nov 09, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

CanXP AI has launched MaplePT, a small language model (SLM) trained entirely in Canada, marking what the company calls a step toward “sustainable, sovereign AI” that is accessible to all Canadians.

Built and hosted exclusively within Canada,

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UNB’s Summer Institute Celebrates Six New Ventures

  • Nov 09, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The six companies that comprise the 2025 Summer Institute Cohort presented their work to the public last Friday, illustrating a range of new technologies.  

Now in its 12th year, University of New Brunswick's Summer Institute program teaches sales,

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Six East Coast Startups Make Foresight 50

  • Nov 06, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Six Atlantic Canadian cleantech ventures have been named to the 2025 edition of the Foresight 50, an annual exercise to find the most investible cleantech companies in the country.

Calgary-based Foresight Canada, which bills itself as Canada’s

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Jason Trask Named New MCE Director

  • Nov 06, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Jason Trask has been appointed Director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship (MCE) at Memorial University.

Trask, a longtime entrepreneur with ties to the St. John’s startup community, previously served as MCE’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence

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UNB’s Summer Institute Demo Day Approaches

  • Nov 05, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The six companies that comprise University of New Brunswick's 2025 Summer Institute Cohort will present their work to the public this Friday, November 7.

Now in its 12th year, the Summer Institute program teaches sales, marketing, and customer

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