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 a phone interview and discussed the evolution of the innovation hub over the past 12 months. The changes have come about as the advent of artificial

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 included about  75 delegates representing the region’s entrepreneurs, investors, accelerators and innovation leaders at two of Canada’s premier technology

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, CoLab makes collaboration software for 3D modelling and in June launched its first AI agent, which it calls AutoReview. Since then, more than 47,000

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 experience in sectors including construction, manufacturing, human resources, food service, industrial supply, and real estate. A former New Brunswick

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, MaplePT was developed using CanXP’s distributed, low-energy training framework. The company says the system matches competitive reasoning and alignment

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, marketing, and customer validation skills to companies making positive social and environmental impacts. 

The three-month accelerator offers

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 largest cleantech innovation and adoption accelerator, released the list of 50 leading Canadian cleantech startups earlier this week. In a report

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 from 2017 to 2022. He succeeds Ed Martin, who last year left the centre to become the CEO of Genesis, the main innovation hub in Newfoundland and

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 validation skills to companies making positive social and environmental impacts. 

The three-month accelerator offers founders more than $6,000 for living

As it opened its new headquarters in downtown St. John’s on Monday, PolyUnity Tech announced a series of partnerships aimed at advancing healthcare innovation across Canada.

The company said Monday that it will collaborate with Fonemed, Polyamyna Nanotech, and the Genesis AI Garage, all based in St. John’s, to combine expertise in virtual care, antimicrobial materials, and artificial