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Pelagos has signed its first customer purchase order for Vantage, a compact autonomous underwater vehicle. 🇨🇦
I spoke with co-founder and CEO Samuel Scrivens on @TheCadExplorers Live about the announcement and what comes next.
The startup’s ambition is to make underwater ISR as deployable as a quadcopter
Built in Waterloo, Ontario, @Pelagosfrontier's Vantage is designed to fit in a backpack and be rapidly deployed by a single operator, dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of maritime reconnaissance in coastal environments
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There is no other option but to build for Canada. 🇨🇦
Mike Nelson, CEO and Founder of TACTIQL.
Full interview: canadianexplorers.ca/p/tacti…
Canadian military data is often segmented and communicated through radio and manual entry.
After 13 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, Michael Nelson, a fourth-generation veteran, left to solve a problem that he couldn’t address in uniform.
TACTIQL was founded to make sensor data usable across different military systems.
“We cannot keep up with the pace of change in the modern battlespace.”
Read the 19th The Canadian Explorers Spotlight, “The Data Between the Machines”: canadianexplorers.ca/p/tacti…
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October’s Highlighted Startup Opportunities
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Strategy & Operations Co-op (Winter 2027) at Canada Rocket Company: ats.rippling.com/canada-rock…
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Engineering Intern (Labs) at @csmc_space: csmc.bamboohr.com/careers/51
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Electrical Engineering Co-op (May 2027) at @gx_space_: gx.space/careers/electrical-…
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Embedded Software Engineering Intern (January 2027) at Kepler Communications: jobs.lever.co/kepler/2ad02ce…
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Launch Systems Engineering Intern at @Nord_Space: secure.collage.co/jobs/nords…
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Mechanical Engineering Intern – Fluid Systems (Winter 2027) at @Reactiondyn: datocms-assets.com/166697/17…
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Product Manager at ANVIL: anvil.bamboohr.com/careers/8…
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Director, Business Development at Daedal Systems: careerspage.io/daedal-system…
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Mission Autonomy Development Engineer at @DominionDynamic: jobs.ashbyhq.com/Dominion%20…
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Project Manager at @NV_Dynamics: jobs.ashbyhq.com/northvector…
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See all 68 jobs in the full October roundup on The Canadian Explorers: canadianexplorers.ca/p/canad…
Which Canadian defence and deep-tech startups are hiring? 🇨🇦
@TheCadExplorers is highlighting openings across 24 of Canada’s most ambitious companies, including internships, co-ops and early-career opportunities.
canadianexplorers.ca/p/canad…
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Don't chase venture capital. Focus on the customer.
Despite investor interest, TACTIQL is willing to stay bootstrapped to protect its mission.
The startup was founded by a 4th-generation @CanadianForces veteran in 2022, before defence was cool.
Full interview on @TheCadExplorers: canadianexplorers.ca/p/tacti…
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Canadian military data is often segmented and communicated through radio and manual entry.
After 13 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, Michael Nelson, a fourth-generation veteran, left to solve a problem that he couldn’t address in uniform.
TACTIQL was founded to make sensor data usable across different military systems.
“We cannot keep up with the pace of change in the modern battlespace.”
Read the 19th The Canadian Explorers Spotlight, “The Data Between the Machines”: canadianexplorers.ca/p/tacti…
A Canadian 4th-generation veteran left the Canadian Armed Forces to bootstrap his own defence startup. 🇨🇦
Now, as a founder, he feels he serves just as much, if not more, than he did in the military.
Mike Nelson, founder and CEO of TACTIQL.
Full interview tomorrow on @TheCadExplorers.
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A Canadian 4th-generation veteran left the Canadian Armed Forces to bootstrap his own defence startup. 🇨🇦
Now, as a founder, he feels he serves just as much, if not more, than he did in the military.
Mike Nelson, founder and CEO of TACTIQL.
Full interview tomorrow on @TheCadExplorers.
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Today, @TheCadExplorers reached 500 subscribers on Substack.
The voice for the founders operating in Canada's most critical industries.
Thank you to everyone who has been supportive of the mission. Excited to see how far I can take it before the year is finished.
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Canada should be a manufacturing and production hub for the world.
The agreement will see @DominionDynamic manufacture Tencore’s TerMIT uncrewed ground vehicle in Canada and integrate its AuraNet command-and-control platform to Ukraine’s front lines.
betakit.com/dominion-dynamic…
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"If you can build in the frost in Calgary, Phoenix is going to be pretty darn simple." 🇨🇦
Reminds me of what @EliotPence said on @TheCadExplorers: "The reason we’re building in the Arctic is that we know it’s hard, and that was the moat."
If you can make it in Canada, you'll make it anywhere.
@PromiseRobotics
Toronto construction tech startup @PromiseRobotics will open a 16,000-square-foot factory in Phoenix after landing its first US customer: the nation's largest homebulider, @DRHorton.
betakit.com/promise-robotics…
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Which Canadian defence and deep-tech startups are hiring? 🇨🇦
@TheCadExplorers is highlighting openings across 24 of Canada’s most ambitious companies, including internships, co-ops and early-career opportunities.
canadianexplorers.ca/p/canad…
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“A lot of people are chasing the Arctic, and that’s fantastic, but we’re not an Arctic planet. We’re an ocean planet. We think about archipelagos. If you can prove it in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, you’ve pretty much proven it for most of the planet.”
Meiz Majdoub Jr., founder of Mostar Labs. canadianexplorers.ca/p/mosta…
Canada has the longest coastline in the world. Uncrewed platforms are needed to monitor and protect it. 🇨🇦
Mostar Labs is building Lilypad, a modular floating platform designed to charge electric vessels, power remote equipment and support maritime surveillance. The platform can be deployed as a standalone unit or scaled “like LEGO” depending on demand.
Founder and CEO Meiz Majdoub Jr. spent 26 years as a naval engineering officer in the Royal Canadian Navy and founded the Navy’s technology management program. Now, he is building to address the gaps that he saw during service.
“I found it difficult as a veteran to watch from the sidelines. I wanted to contribute where I could.”
Bootstrapped since 2022, Mostar Labs is now preparing for its first capital raise. Read the 18th Explorer Spotlight, “Power Beyond the Dock”: canadianexplorers.ca/p/mosta…
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YC F26 founders with country ties per 10 million residents:
Canada: 11.6
UK: 5.3
France: 5.1
Germany: 3.6
India: 0.4
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The Canadian Explorers is bragging about startups being built in Canada’s most critical industries.
CanadianExplorers.ca
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Today, Reaction Dynamics announced that it has completed 50 tests in its new liquid-fueled engine development program as it advances toward its planned medium-lift launch vehicle, Borealis. 🇨🇦
RDX is now phasing out hybrid propulsion in favour of liquid propulsion, while maintaining its focus on storability.
The company targets an orbital launch from Canadian soil in Q4 2028.
It seems Reaction Dynamics and Canada Rocket Company are going to be attacking the same target of becoming Canada’s alternative to Falcon 9.
I previously spoke with CEO Bachar Elzein about building Canada’s sovereign launch capability for The Canadian Explorers:
canadianexplorers.ca/p/react…
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Canada has the longest coastline in the world. Uncrewed platforms are needed to monitor and protect it. 🇨🇦
Mostar Labs is building Lilypad, a modular floating platform designed to charge electric vessels, power remote equipment and support maritime surveillance. The platform can be deployed as a standalone unit or scaled “like LEGO” depending on demand.
Founder and CEO Meiz Majdoub Jr. spent 26 years as a naval engineering officer in the Royal Canadian Navy and founded the Navy’s technology management program. Now, he is building to address the gaps that he saw during service.
“I found it difficult as a veteran to watch from the sidelines. I wanted to contribute where I could.”
Bootstrapped since 2022, Mostar Labs is now preparing for its first capital raise. Read the 18th Explorer Spotlight, “Power Beyond the Dock”: canadianexplorers.ca/p/mosta…
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Today, ENVGO and @OceanRobotics signed an MOU at DEFSEC Atlantic in Halifax to advance Canadian uncrewed maritime surveillance. 🇨🇦
The collaboration will connect ENVGO’s high-speed hydrofoiling vessels and Open Ocean Robotics’ long-endurance, solar-powered vessels through XplorerView, a shared command-and-control platform.
I previously spoke with ENVGO CEO Dr. Mike Peasgood for The Canadian Explorers:
Flying Sea Drones | Dr. Mike Peasgood, ENVGO — Explorer Spotlight #5
canadianexplorers.ca/p/envgo…
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Ethan retweeted
Thanks @EthanJMarcoux for hosting me on @TheCadExplorers! Hopefully the first of many.
youtu.be/m7qIvSYgAbk?si=ZiXe…
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