Explorer Spotlights

Canada’s Self-Flying Airplanes | Jeremy Wang, Ribbit — Explorer Spotlight #21

Jeremy Wang on autonomous aircraft, remote communities, defence and building Ribbit in Canada.

Nov 5 • Ethan Marcoux

Building Canada’s Quantum Future | Christian Weedbrook, Xanadu — Explorer Spotlight #20

Christian Weedbrook on computing with light, the manufacturing race, and building a global company from Canada.

Oct 22 • Ethan Marcoux

The Data Between the Machines | Michael Nelson, TACTIQL — Explorer Spotlight #19

A veteran founder on military data, bootstrapping and continuing to serve Canada.

Oct 15 • Ethan Marcoux

Power Beyond the Dock | Meiz Majdoub Jr., Mostar Labs — Explorer Spotlight #18

Mostar Labs is building modular floating power and sensing infrastructure for electric vessels, remote coastal operations and maritime surveillance.

Oct 8 • Ethan Marcoux

The Software Defending Airspace | Bashir Khan, AirMatrix — Explorer Spotlight #17

AirMatrix is building a hardware-agnostic operating system to help governments manage and protect low-altitude airspace.

Sep 24 • Ethan Marcoux

Space Launch Built for Speed | Bachar Elzein, Reaction Dynamics — Explorer Spotlight #16

Reaction Dynamics is building containerized, storable rockets designed to give Canada fast, sovereign and responsive access to orbit.

Sep 17 • Ethan Marcoux

Building Canada’s Drone Stack | Josh Ogden, AVSS — Explorer Spotlight #15

AVSS has spent nearly a decade building sovereign Canadian robotic systems from the ground up, without licensing technology or reselling foreign…

Sep 10 • Ethan Marcoux

Building the Rails to Space | Hugh Kolias, Canada Rocket Company — Explorer Spotlight #14

Canada Rocket Company is assembling the talent, capital and infrastructure to build a reusable Falcon 9-class launch vehicle in Canada.

Sep 3 • Ethan Marcoux

Powering the Arctic and the Moon | Daniel Sax, CSMC — Explorer Spotlight #13

Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation is developing portable nuclear microreactors for Arctic defence, remote communities and space exploration.

Aug 27 • Ethan Marcoux

Defending the Dominion | Eliot Pence, Dominion Dynamics — Explorer Spotlight #12

Dominion Dynamics has raised C$169 million in just over a year to build sovereign command-and-control, sensing and autonomous systems for Canada’s…

Aug 20 • Ethan Marcoux

Detecting the Invisible from Space | Chris Robson, Wyvern — Explorer Spotlight #11

Wyvern is building Canadian hyperspectral intelligence to identify vessels, monitor crops and strengthen sovereign space capability.

Aug 13 • Ethan Marcoux

Launching Canada Into Space | Rahul Goel, NordSpace — Explorer Spotlight #10

NordSpace is building Canada's sovereign access to orbit.

Aug 6 • Ethan Marcoux

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