Venture Capital

MESH/diversity: Creating Inclusive and Safe Workplaces

MESH/diversity is a Saint John-based start-up that recently closed a $750,000 funding round to accelerate its growth, led by NBIF and our friends at Concrete Ventures. MESH/diversity uses behavioral metrics to help organizations create more diverse and inclusive workplaces. We recently caught up wit...

September 23, 2020
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5 Myths of a Start-up

If you watch television news, read a newspaper or spend any time on Twitter, you might have run into David Shipley, CEO of Fredericton-based Beauceron Security. Beauceron focuses on the human factors of cybersecurity, and David has become a go-to resource for journalists and others trying to un...

August 25, 2020
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Gray Wolf Analytics is Taking Bitcoin Mainstream

Fredericton’s Gray Wolf Analytics makes a strong case for the link between academia, innovation, and economic prosperity. They are a start-up company that is a spin-out from UNB’s Technology Management and Entrepreneurship Center (TME). Center lead Dr. Dhirendra Shukla pitched the conc...

A look at N.B. Venture Capital 2020

Exciting things are on deck in New Brunswick. CVCA recently released its Q1 report, featuring a heat map of where the investments were happening across Canada. If you look at New Brunswick, it showed six deals and $2 million invested. If you look at the rest of Atlantic Canada, there wasn’t a ...

A big future for New Brunswick automotive company

Big future for New Brunswick automotive company Whether they interest you or they don’t, electric vehicles (EVs) are here to stay. And the reason goes far beyond reducing the carbon footprint of our cars, trucks, and SUVs. Consider it this way, EVs represent an opportunity to rethink how we ...