Fredericton has spent the last decade quietly becoming one of Canada's more interesting places to run a business. Between 2017 and 2024, the city posted the third-fastest employment growth of any city in Canada, and homegrown software company Introhive backed that momentum with a $100-million USD Series C round in 2021 — still the largest funding round in New Brunswick's history. That growth runs through Knowledge Park, Atlantic Canada's largest research and technology park, where six buildings house 40 companies and more than 800 employees inside an Innovation District with over 60 R&D organizations within two kilometres.
Global Maple System builds custom software, websites and AI-driven automation for the businesses working alongside that growth — whether you're based inside Knowledge Park and the Cyber Centre, running a shop or practice along Regent Street and Prospect Street in Uptown, operating out of the Queen, King and York Street core downtown, or manufacturing and distributing out of Vanier Industrial Park. We work across government and public administration, information technology and cybersecurity, healthcare, post-secondary education, and retail and professional services — sectors anchored locally by employers and institutions like the Government of New Brunswick, the University of New Brunswick, Horizon Health Network, Introhive, St. Thomas University, NBCC and the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce.
We also hear what's making the job harder. Chronic labour shortages and difficulty retaining post-secondary graduates mean many Fredericton employers are being asked to do more with fewer people. WorkSafeNB premiums have nearly doubled in two years, layered on top of minimum wage, property tax, HST and carbon tax increases that are squeezing margins across the board. Downtown and Uptown retail and hospitality businesses are contending with parking shortages, construction disruption and a string of closures that have cut into foot traffic, while regional chambers are pushing for shared digital compliance systems to ease regulatory complexity and interprovincial trade friction. Meanwhile, the rapid growth of the local cybersecurity and tech cluster around the Cyber Centre and companies like Introhive is raising the bar for what smaller local firms are expected to deliver on IT, security and software.
That's the gap we build for. Global Maple System pairs custom software and web development with practical, AI-first automation so Fredericton businesses can offset labour shortages, control rising costs, and meet the higher technology expectations their industry now sets — without needing to build an in-house engineering team to do it.