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Latest · October 12, 2026
Stories tagged “Fredericton” — tech coverage from New Brunswick, Canada.
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.
Saint John VC TLT East Ventures joins NBIF, East Valley, Tall Grass and BDC in backing Fredericton agtech Picketa's real-time crop-nutrient platform.
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.
The Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity at UNB Fredericton is recruiting two postdoctoral fellows in post-quantum cryptography plus fully funded MSc and PhD students, backed by $600,000+ in NSERC Discovery and Mitacs funding.
The Fredericton accelerator announced support for a second national intake at DEFSEC Atlantic. The partners did not publish a dollar figure.
The national list names 40 companies. Fredericton is on it twice: Chinova in ingredients, Smart Skin in manufacturing technology.
Science dean Sanjeev Seahra will lead UNB's slice of Concordia's WxAlliance: using AI to sharpen cheap, low-resolution runs so Atlantic storms are not a blur.
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.
Partner View lets a channel shop schedule phishing and training across its whole book in one action. It is also Beauceron leaning harder on the sales motion that built the Fredericton company in the first place.
Ignite's municipal-startup matching program took EDAC's 2026 Regional and Community Collaboration Award at the association's Moncton conference.
The Rothesay-founded parachute-and-drone firm is one of six suppliers on Ottawa's initial Defence Drone Initiative contracts — a pot worth up to $50 million, not a cheque written to one company.
CBC filmed Sys-MoDEL's MARV, a one-fifth-scale research vehicle with independent steering, torque, and brakes. Kush Bubbar says the control tech could reach production ATVs within five years.
Amisha Parikh spoke at UNB's Aug. 20 cybersecurity summit, sat on a panel with CIC and the NRC, and walked the Mastercard-CIC IoT laboratory the company has backed since 2022.
Craig MacEachern takes the McCain- and FCC-backed chair with a brief to make precision ag work on New Brunswick's shallow-bedrock, irregularly shaped fields — starting with cold storage and abandoned farmland.
The Faculty of Computer Science wrapped two July weeks of Adventures in Computing for grades 6–8 — the same kids walking into Policy 311 classrooms this September.
Global Intelligence took more than $1.4 million in Canadian public support to build CyberCheck. Canadian police never used it. U.S. prosecutors later withdrew it from murder files after CBC and WIRED documented reports that could not be checked and testimony that did not hold.
Three InteractiveNB members are on the CIAIC mission in Cologne this week, and Fredericton's Spandrel Interactive is there looking for XR, AI, and real-time 3D partners.
The Fredericton-founded company put its Model Context Protocol server into general availability, so law, accounting, and consulting firms can query who-knows-whom from Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Harvey.
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 identity-security firm headquartered at Fredericton's Knowledge Park Cyber Centre passed an independent C3PAO assessment against 110 NIST 800-171 controls — six weeks after the Pentagon suspended the phase that would have made that assessment mandatory.
The province's tech awards return to Fredericton on November 26 with public nominations open through September 28 — and the Hall of Fame now carries the Codefather's name.
The summer alumni-magazine Q&A is sharpest on mimicry, chatbot liability, and the productivity paradox — and thinnest when it turns into a campus brochure.
The Fredericton managed-security firm says it is one of a select few Microsoft Security partners in Canada with the badge — a channel credential that now takes a third-party audit to hold, weeks after its CRN Fast Growth 150 nod.
A $97,026 Canada Foundation for Innovation award will help Scott Bateman's team build privacy-preserving synthetic health data — part of $397,026 across three UNB projects announced August 20.
Lucy Thompson and Catherine O'Connell-Cooper ran Curiosity's Canadian APXS instrument on a field of bright stones in Gale crater. The Science cover story: they are elemental sulfur, not sulfate.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster examines MCP, A2A, Agora, and ANP agent protocols end-to-end, showing how identity ambiguity could let an agent grab the right tool from the wrong provider.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster uses real TLS traffic data and system dependency maps to turn cryptographic discovery into a staged post-quantum migration plan.
Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity research pits PRG masking against RLWE homomorphic encoding for secure aggregation, finding post-quantum resilience and an 8x local encoding speedup — plus a client-side privacy trade-off.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster pairs specialized AI agents that read structure, semantics, and behaviour to catch anomalies in IEC 61850 substation traffic that single detectors miss.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster pairs adversarial training with a nine-expert Mixture-of-Experts architecture that holds up better than prior MoE defences against FGSM and PGD attacks.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster connects graph-neural-network malware verdicts to known benign and malicious behaviour patterns, keeping detection strong while making it interpretable.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster introduces quadratic separators based on invariant subspaces to cut redundant search in symmetric integer programming — the class of problem behind scheduling and logistics.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster proposes a per-response risk snapshot for enterprise LLM pipelines, flagging unreliable retrieval, sensitive-data exposure, risky tool use, and weak factual support.
PST Cybersecurity Summit 2026 brings speakers from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Public Safety Canada, DND/CAF Cyber Command, Scotiabank, TD and Mastercard to the Fredericton Convention Centre on Aug. 20 — alongside eight UNB research posters on adversarial AI, malware explainability, agent-protocol security and post-quantum migration.
UNB was the only Canadian university picked to help track Artemis II — the April mission that carried CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to fly to the Moon, farther from Earth than any human has ever travelled. Two UNB researchers also sit on the Curiosity rover science team.
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.
The Fredericton instrument maker’s new ATC accessory automates elevated-temperature thermal conductivity tests from room temperature to 300°C — part of a broader push into lab automation.
The Fredericton managed-security firm joins CRN's 2026 Fast Growth list after earlier MSP 500 and Solution Provider 500 nods — another marker for the province's services side of tech.
The UNB professor and founding director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity is one of ten New Brunswickers receiving the province’s highest honour in 2026.
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 fourth annual Ignite Summit hands every attendee wireless headphones and runs business, policy, place, and talent tracks simultaneously at the Fredericton Convention Centre — with Dragons' Den investor Manjit Minhas as keynote.
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.
Norm Couturier moves up from COO to CEO at the Fredericton NMR rock-core analysis firm while co-founder Derrick Green takes a newly created CTO role — a two-front bet on commercial growth and technology depth.
Launched Wednesday in Fredericton, the new vital statistics search platform arrives as citizenship-rule changes have quadrupled demand for the archives' historical birth, marriage and death records.
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.
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.
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.
The Fredericton instrument maker’s Arya Hakimian and Genesis Infante walk engineers through Trident and TIM Tester workflows for greases, gap pads, and liquid-cooling materials used in AI data centres and power electronics.
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.
The Fredericton workforce platform launched an enterprise AI that answers from SOPs and training docs — not the public web — for healthcare, manufacturing, and public-sector crews.
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.
Fredericton’s digital-health vendor — now a HEALWELL subsidiary — is the PHI layer inside New Brunswick’s patient records app, from labs and meds to a shareable Patient Summary.
Born in 1995 with modem banks in funeral home basements, BrunNet sold its ISP business to Bell Aliant, rebuilt from two employees, and now runs IT for organizations across Atlantic Canada.
After 33 years without outside capital, the Fredericton forestry-planning company took PE money in 2025 — then stacked Lim Geomatics, LOGR, and Brazil's INFLOR into one platform.
Safe Mail, SYNRAAH, Little Halo, and Creduman take the Wu Centre stage July 16 — cybersecurity, ergonomics hardware, newcomer childcare, and credit intelligence.
Tall Grass Ventures returns to lead, with BDC Seed Fund and Verdex Capital joining — and LENS now covers crops representing over 70% of North American acres.
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.
From Q1 Labs and Radian6 to today's cybersecurity and industrial-tech clusters, a tour of how a small province built an outsized tech story — and where it goes next.
From NBTel's first-in-North-America digital network and McKenna's information highway to IBM's Q1 Labs acquisition and UNB's Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity — how a university city became one of Canada's security clusters.
Founded in 2012 by Jody Glidden and Stewart Walchli, Introhive grew from a Knowledge Park startup into one of Atlantic Canada's most-funded software companies.
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 identity-security firm raised a round led by BDC Capital's new StrongNorth Fund to bring its U.S.-proven, quantum-resilient platform home to Canadian critical infrastructure.
The department that helped wire the province — and staff its phone company, its security cluster, and its startup pipeline — marks a hundred years of graduates.
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.
David Shipley's Fredericton company built a business on measuring and reducing human cyber risk — and became one of the security cluster's steadiest exporters.
Six years after the Royal Canadian Navy first adopted RemoteSpark for vessel maintenance, the Fredericton company's secure mixed reality keeps finding military and industrial work.
Launched in 2021 with $5 million from the former premier and a plan to raise $50 million more, UNB's McKenna Institute has grown into the province's most ambitious bet on digital skills — reaching from kindergarten classrooms to research chairs.
The UNB-born startup pairs cold-climate heat pumps with phase-change thermal storage, letting homes heat through peak hours without stressing the grid.
The Fredericton machine-vision company closed a fresh equity round with backing that includes TLT East Ventures, pushing its total raised past $14 million.
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.
Three decades after its founding, the geotechnical instrument maker's ShapeArray sensors monitor deformation in dams, tunnels, and rail lines worldwide — now as part of Terra Insights.
The digital-health interoperability company behind provincial patient-access software joined TSX-listed HEALWELL AI in July 2024 — $19.6M upfront plus an earn-out of up to $4.9M.
The UNB spinoff's Quantifeel 'sensor drones' ride through high-speed packaging lines, mapping every pressure point that breaks bottles and jams production.
The security platform born as Q1 Labs is changing hands in a deal reported at roughly US$500 million — a strange milestone for the city that built it.
The Fredericton company's software reads the ground ahead of an off-road vehicle and adjusts suspension, driveline, and chassis settings before the wheels get there.
The Fredericton microbial-testing company that supplied half a million COVID tests a week to Ottawa is applying its pandemic-scale muscles to its original market.
The province's marquee cybersecurity association shut down abruptly in February 2022 when funding ran out. The industry it promoted has kept growing without it.
The Fredericton crop-analytics company that once raised a $14M Series B from McCain Foods and Monsanto Growth Ventures has been formally dissolved. The lessons are worth keeping.
Since Lee Blakemore took the CEO chair in January 2023, the Fredericton-founded scale-up has refocused on professional services and shipped a rebuilt client-intelligence platform.
