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There are 81 active roles across 16 companies in Newfoundland and Labrador’s tech sector.

More than half of that hiring sits with just four: Kraken Robotics, CoLab Software, Spellbook, and trophi.ai.

Hiring in Newfoundland and Labrador’s tech sector is concentrated but not narrow. Future issues will track whether hiring broadens or remains concentrated.

Snapshot

  • 81 active roles  

  • 16 companies hiring  

  • 4 companies driving ~52% of openings  

  • Median hiring company: 5 roles  

This snapshot sets the baseline. The next issue will show whether hiring begins to broaden or become more concentrated.

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Full Analysis

Concentration

Kraken Robotics (13 roles), CoLab Software (11), Spellbook (9), and trophi.ai (9) account for 42 of the 81 live roles, making up just over half of the market.

Sector Shape

Software roles dominate, but this is not a pure SaaS market.

Hiring spans ocean technology, industrial systems, fintech, and applied operational environments. This is a broader mix than a typical software-led market.

Experience Level

Hiring is skewed toward experience:

  • 38 senior roles

  • 39 mid-level roles

  • 3 executive roles 

  • 1 junior role

Entry-level hiring is minimal. This is a constraint worth watching.

Local Anchoring

Despite distributed teams and satellite offices, a significant portion of available roles are tied to Newfoundland and Labrador.

Kraken Robotics, Avalon Holographics, Solace Power, Verafin Nasdaq, Verlo Finance, Vision33, Compusult, Big Land Networks, SmartICE, and trophi.ai all have current roles tied directly to Newfoundland and Labrador or to hybrid work anchored in the province.

Company Insights

  • Kraken Robotics - Broadest hiring footprint, spanning engineering, geoscience, operations, and offshore work.

  • CoLab Software and Vish Limited - Clear scaling across engineering, design, customer success, marketing, sales, and revenue operations.

  • Spellbook and trophi.ai - Strongest startup-intensity signals in the list. Both are still in the 1-10 employee band, and each has 9 roles, which is outsized relative to their current size.

  • Avalon Holographics - The openings are unusually cross-functional for a company of its size: technical operations and compliance, IP, finance, sales engineering, and sales leadership are all live at once.

  • Verafin Nasdaq - Hiring across customer success, sales, project management, and legal/compliance.

  • Vision33 - Current openings are operational and consulting-heavy rather than pure product engineering.

  • Big Land Networks and Compusult - Adding infrastructure and operational roles

Engineering remains the dominant hiring function, with 18 explicitly defined roles and additional demand across R&D.

Commercial and customer-facing hiring is also significant, with roughly 22 roles across sales, customer success, business development, marketing, revenue operations, and sales engineering.

This indicates companies are scaling revenue and delivery functions alongside product and engineering.

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Full Roles List

Avalon Holographics

Big Land Networks Ltd

BreatheSuite

CoLab Software

Compusult Limited

Kraken Robotics

Pingram.io

SmartICE Monitoring & Information Inc.

Solace Power Inc.

Spellbook

Verafin Nasdaq Canada Inc.

Verlo Finance

Virtual Marine Inc.

Vish Limited

Vision33 Inc.

trophi.ai

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