Gerry Pond, the former telecom executive who championed the startup movement in Atlantic Canada, passed away peacefully on Wednesday. He was 82 years old.

A former CEO of New Brunswick Telecom, Pond was the driving force behind the startup movement in New Brunswick and was an early investor in Radian6 and Q1 Labs, two of the region’s most successful startups. He was the founding CEO of Mariner

Four enterprises will be on display Thursday when the J. Herbert Smith Centre hosts MTME: NEXT, the demo day for the Master of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program at UNB.

The two-hour event will allow the latest cohort of MTME students to launch their startups.

It will be held at the Wu Conference Centre on the University of New Brunswick campus on Thursday, July 16 at 1 p.m.

East Coast Innovation Inc. has raised more than $550,000 so far in its first institutional financing round, as the company gains traction with its fish-loading technology for the global salmon farming industry.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation issued a press release Wednesday saying it has committed $350,000 as lead investor in the funding round, which hasn’t closed yet. TLT Ventures is

Maritime Launch Services has signed a 10-year facilities usage agreement with German launch company Isar Aerospace to develop a dedicated launch complex for the Spectrum rocket at Spaceport Nova Scotia near Canso.

The agreement advances plans for commercial orbital launches from Canada's first licensed commercial orbital spaceport, with construction of the new facilities expected to begin this

Fredericton-based Climative has partnered with Wawanesa Insurance to pilot a digital platform that provides homeowners with personalized assessments of their wildfire risk and recommendations to reduce it.

Announced last month, the pilot offers Canadian homeowners free access to an AI-powered tool that combines property-specific data with user information to generate wildfire risk scores, energy

Fredericton-based Picketa Systems has raised C$2.1 million in an oversubscribed financing round to expand its real-time crop nutrition platform across North America and add support for more crop types.

The round was led by Tall Grass Ventures of Calgary. New investors, the company said in a blog, included BDC Seed Fund, Verdex Capital and Skull Diamond & Heart Capital. Existing investors New

[Editor's note: This is the latest in a series of articles highlighting segments of our Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report.]

Florian Villaumé, then the CEO of TechNL, posted in January 2026 that Newfoundland and Labrador is on track to become the No. 2 jurisdiction in the world for billion-dollar startups (or unicorns) per million people.

“That might sound bold — but the data and trajectory

Halifax-based ZEMÎ Technologies has secured its first commercial contract, signing an agreement with Tudor Gold Corp. to provide AI-assisted analysis for the company's Treaty Creek gold project in British Columbia.

Under the contract, ZEMÎ will assess the Treaty Creek property, located in British Columbia's Golden Triangle mining district, near the Alaskan border. The results will be used to

Halifax-based Floqer has closed a $2 million pre-seed funding round to expand development of its artificial intelligence platform for sales and marketing teams.

The company said the funding will support the development of an autonomous customer knowledge base, a system designed to combine information from public and private data sources to help companies identify potential customers and improve

Sanjay Dubey of Memorial University has won the $80,000 second prize in the 2026 Student Entrepreneur Climate Solutions Prize for his work developing seaweed-based alternatives to conventional plastics.

The award recognizes Dubey as a Co-Founder of St. John’s-based BioLabMate Composite Inc., a startup he co-founded with CEO Dr. Sarika Kumari. Although the prize was presented to him personally,