Latest · October 12, 2026
New companies, funding rounds, and the programs that get them started.
Fredericton EdTech company Floresh has added event-fee tracking to its school platform, letting schools attach fees to calendar events and track lunch and field-trip orders and payments in one place.
Fredericton startup hub Planet Hatch has opened a Media Creation Room — a professional studio with podcast gear, lighting, a teleprompter and an editing workstation — with 50% off for members and 30% off for non-members through October 31.
Moncton's Venn Innovation hosted AgroGene Solutions CEO Dr. Pascale Michaud for an open founder conversation on Oct. 7, walking through four startup wins stacked in two years — from NBIF's $50k Breakthru prize to Startupfest's $100k Best of the Fest.
The Fredericton accelerator announced support for a second national intake at DEFSEC Atlantic. The partners did not publish a dollar figure.
The nonprofit accelerator that already puts founders in front of soldiers at Gagetown is adding Toronto's MaRS capital program as a financing lane — not a new fund.
Applications run through November 9 for a four-month program that ends on a March 2027 stage. The three investment tickets are $150,000, $100,000, and $50,000 — if diligence clears.
The public-markets reconciliation startup debuted at Montreal's ALL IN conference with paid issuer pilots, an undisclosed MaxWave cheque, and UNB's Dhirendra Shukla as chief science officer.
Ignite's municipal-startup matching program took EDAC's 2026 Regional and Community Collaboration Award at the association's Moncton conference.
Matthew and Roger Harrington built Floresh after watching family run a school across too many apps. The product now combines learning, records, billing, and family messaging — and a school leader just flagged its latest features.
The Fredericton Indigenous software firm beat more than a dozen proposers for Town of Oromocto RFP 010 — a risk-based municipal asset condition and capital-planning tool.
A new deal with national nonprofit TICAN will match MTME students and postdocs to New Brunswick companies in mobility, biomanufacturing, clean growth, microelectronics, and ICT.
Planet Hatch MERGE is funding Cloudboids' first live municipal pilot: Bimsta checks permit drawings against city bylaws and the National Building Code, flagging violations with a citation to the exact rule.
The UNB-rooted startup is piloting seaweed biochar with the City of Fredericton through Planet Hatch's MERGE program — testing whether ocean minerals and better moisture retention can cut municipal watering.
The new Network for Entrepreneurship and Innovation puts seven campus programs under one roof, with Dhirendra Shukla as inaugural executive director and a claimed $125.5M spinoff impact.
ATS 2026 (Dartmouth and Saint John, Nov 18) is selling early-stage startups a $500 showcase to ask the room for capital, co-founders, or their first ten customers.
The Fredericton-founded agtech, an early NBIF bet, puts in-line milk optics and AI on North American parlors and was named to SVG Ventures’ THRIVE Canada Accelerator V cohort.
The southeast’s innovation hub packed The Bunker on July 22 with F1 racing sims, a lounge bar, and the usual founder networking — a playful reset for the city’s startup social circuit.
Atlantic Canada’s tech accelerator added the Fredericton industrial-sensing CTO and PEI BioAlliance’s Jason Cleaversmith as directors — a founder-operator refresh after Pond’s era.
Maryjoe Udochi and Daniel Ifebueme’s credit-intelligence startup won the July 16 demo day as Safe Mail, SYNRAAH, and Little Halo also launched from the Wu Centre stage.
Yash Pandya’s free civic dashboard — weather, Wolastoq levels, transit, gas, ED waits, and more — now spans Fredericton, Moncton, and Saint John, with room for local restaurants too.
Bridge weigh-in-motion won the $100K grand prize; a programmable AI-agent platform and a golf-grip sensor tied for $50K — three Fredericton-area companies with live product sites.
Pascal McCarthy's Fredericton startup reads mobility from phones and CCTV — no wearables — and is hunting long-term care partners after a five-digit sales year.
After a $1.85M seed and a CuriosityStream partnership, the Saint John startup is indexing video libraries — and digging old tape — for model trainers who need provenance, not scraped scraps.
The Université de Moncton spinout beat 275 pitches in Montréal with hive-monitoring tech that catches bee pathogens before symptoms show.
Safe Mail, SYNRAAH, Little Halo, and Creduman take the Wu Centre stage July 16 — cybersecurity, ergonomics hardware, newcomer childcare, and credit intelligence.
From the J. Herbert Smith Centre and Energia Ventures to Picketa Systems and Potential Motors, the University of New Brunswick has quietly become one of Canada's most productive campus startup factories.
NBIF leads a still-open round for the St. Andrews aquaculture tech firm whose fish-loading system is running full-time on a Norwegian harvest vessel serving the world's largest salmon producer.
Kognitiv Spark's mixed-reality remote assistance and Eigen Innovations' machine-vision quality inspection show a second identity for NB tech beyond cybersecurity.
The Fredericton startup automating clinic booking and patient admin — co-founded by Scott MacIntosh and Dr. Hanif Chatur — closed a pre-seed co-led by NBIF's $200K cheque and TLT East Ventures.
The student venture fund's 2025 picks show where the next UNB startup vintage is pointing — spatial tech, financial planning software, and diagnostics.
Born inside UNB's TME centre in 2019, the startup applies AI to blockchain analytics so banks and exchanges can spot criminal money before it touches them.
The UNB-born startup pairs cold-climate heat pumps with phase-change thermal storage, letting homes heat through peak hours without stressing the grid.
Founded by a UNB biochemistry grad, the Fredericton company extracts chitosan from white button mushrooms to replace artificial preservatives — and has raised over $8M doing it.
The Fredericton agtech startup's real-time plant-tissue analysis crossed the border this growing season, putting its technology in front of the continent's biggest farm markets.
The Saint John AI-security startup adds Flying Fish-led seed capital and Lee Weiner as it scales enterprise red-teaming and runtime defence.
