Two New Brunswick startups have merged and are now offering their products under a new company name.

BrewHopper, a craft beer tourism tech company and ReadyPass, a smart software company for transit agencies, are now being run by a new company called Expedition Connect. The new owners say this means more growth for both products.

Expedition Connect was started by Al Sturgeon and Mike Legere, the founders of BrewHopper. Sturgeon says they decided to gain ownership of ReadyPass through a friendly acquisition in May 2017. At the time, he says BrewHopper was already working with ReadyPass to use its technology.

“We partnered with ReadyPass to expand what they were doing on transit, but to build for BrewHopper,” says Sturgeon. “In 2017 we started to roll out our [BrewHopper] pilot in Fredericton where we were using the same tech but to do hop-on-hop-off  [craft beer] tours around Fredericton.” . . . 

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