On Friday, we began collecting tributes to the late Gerry Pond, the investor and former Chair of Mariner Partners, with the hopes of presenting them on a single page.

There has been an outpouring of personal remembrances of Pond on social media – far too many for us to collate. So here is a selection of just a few of the tributes:

Susan Holt

Premier of New Brunswick

Gerry Pond was a pioneer

I first saw Gerry Pond in action on Feb. 19, 2015, at a post-secondary education conference hosted by the Association of Atlantic Universities.

I’d met Gerry before. In fact, I was lucky enough to chat with him often over the last fifteen years, and was one of the legion of friends and admirers saddened last week to learn he had died at the age of 82. His impact was felt more in the Maritime

Three Atlantic Canadian startups walked away with $325,000 – more than one-third of the prize money on offer – at Startupfest in Montreal last week.

AgroGene Solutions of Moncton, Finleaf Technologies of Brooklyn, NS, and 3dBioFibR of Halifax all captured six-figure prizes at the annual tech and entrepreneurship festival. The three-day event, which attracts startups from across Canada and

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