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Procedureflow Unveils AI Products

  • Dec 08, 2025
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NL Again Leads Region in Funding

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Martin ‘Tweaks” Genesis Programs in Year 1

  • Nov 11, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Startup Atlantic Exhibits at Elevate and SaaS North

  • Nov 11, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

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

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CoLab Closes US$72M Series C Round

  • Nov 10, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

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,

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Bennett To Headline InnovateNB Gala

  • Nov 10, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

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

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CanXP AI Launches Canadian-Trained SLM

  • Nov 09, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

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,

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UNB’s Summer Institute Celebrates Six New Ventures

  • Nov 09, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

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,

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Six East Coast Startups Make Foresight 50

  • Nov 06, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Jason Trask Named New MCE Director

  • Nov 06, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

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

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UNB’s Summer Institute Demo Day Approaches

  • Nov 05, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

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

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PolyUnity Partners with 3 St.John’s Groups

  • Nov 05, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Maple Acquires NB’s Beyond ADHD

  • Nov 05, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Toronto-based virtual care company Maple has acquired Beyond ADHD, a New Brunswick–based provider of virtual assessment and treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Maple announced the acquisition in a press release Tuesday, but did

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Bright Breaks Exits

  • Nov 04, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Bright Breaks, which streams wellness videos for its customers’ employees, has been acquired by Wellable of Boston for an undisclosed price.

The exit, announced Monday, will reward several local investors and is the latest chapter in

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