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CoLab Closes US$72M Series C Round

  • Nov 10, 2025
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Profitual Opens Second No-Pitch Competition

  • Nov 03, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Following on the success of its first No-Pitch Competition, Fredericton fintech company Profitual is once again hosting the contest that assesses founders’ business models rather than their public speaking skills.

Entries for the company’s second

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Hadamard AI Bags $31,500 at Genesis Pitch

  • Nov 02, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Hadamard AI, founded by brothers Nathaniel and Thomas Roberts, was named the Genesis Pitch Champion last week, earning $30,000 and a place on the Pitcher Plant trophy.

Hadamard AI develops artificial intelligence-driven legal research tools, which

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Tribe Impact Report Highlights Further Growth

  • Nov 02, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based hub that supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) entrepreneurs, has released its 2024–2025 Impact Report which highlights another year of expanding influence in the country’s innovation economy.

The

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NBIF’s Breakthru Returns

  • Oct 30, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The New Brunswick innovation Foundation is bringing back Breakthru, its legacy startup competition.

Organizers are offering $200,000 in equity investment and in-kind support to help entrepreneurs turn ideas into ventures.  The Grand Prize will

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LeBrun Named to InnovateNB Hall of Fame

  • Oct 30, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Entrepreneur and social innovator Marcel LeBrun has been named the 2025 inductee to the InnovateNB Hall of Fame in recognition of his decades-long impact on New Brunswick’s technology and innovation sectors.

The honour will be presented during the

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Laberge’s New Company Closes US$10.5M Round

  • Oct 28, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Fifteen months after exiting his first Halifax-based company, Zach Laberge has closed a US$10.5 million (C$14.7 million) seed funding round for his new startup Omen, which uses AI in the maintenance of heavy machinery.

The surprising thing about

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EDC Backs Growth of Maritime Launch

  • Oct 28, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Maritime Launch Services has secured a $10 million senior credit facility from Export Development Canada to support the continued development of Spaceport Nova Scotia in Canso and advance toward its first orbital launch.

The financing agreement

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Five Startups Compete at The Genesis Pitch

  • Oct 27, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Five Newfoundland and Labrador startups will compete for more than $45,000 in prizes at The Genesis Pitch, taking place Oct. 29 at the St. John’s Convention Centre.

Organized by Genesis, the province’s technology incubator, the event marks the

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NACO Calls for National Investment Strategy

  • Oct 27, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

NACO Canada has released a new report urging a coordinated national approach to mobilize up to $15 billion in private investment and strengthen Canada’s innovation economy.

Titled A Unified Capital Strategy for a Sovereign Innovation Economy, the

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NBIF, TLT Invest in ClinicGlide

  • Oct 26, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based ClinicGlide Technologies, which uses artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in healthcare, has raised six figures of funding from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and TLT East Ventures.

NBIF said on LinkedIn last

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Site 20/20 No. 6 in Deloitte’s Fast 50

  • Oct 23, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based Site 20/20 has landed on Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 50 list of Canada’s fastest-growing startups for the third straight year after accelerating its revenue growth.

The global accounting firm announced its 2025 list of

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Ashored Wins $200K in TELUS Competition

  • Oct 22, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Ocean technology company Ashored Innovation has been named one of five grand prize winners in the national TELUS #StandWithOwners competition, receiving a $200,000 prize package in cash and in-kind services.

The Debert, NS-based company was

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