Breeding Unicorns on The Rock

[Editor's note: This is the latest in a series of articles highlighting segments of our Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report.] Florian Villaumé, then the CEO of TechNL, posted in January 2026 that Newfoundland and Labrador is on track to become the No. 2 jurisdiction in the world for billion-dollar startups (or unicorns) per million people. “That might sound bold — but the data and trajectory are real,” wrote Villaumé, who has since been succeeded in the CEO's post by Andrea King. H