East of Montreal

About East of Montreal

East of Montreal, your go-to source for the latest in innovation and entrepreneurship across Atlantic Canada. Hosted by Allan Gates, co-founder of Huddle.Today and featuring regular panel discussions with the founding general partners of Tidal Venture Partners—Chris Crowell, Kevin Springer, Alex McCallum, and Ian Whytock—this podcast shines a spotlight on the people, companies, and organizations driving success through innovation. With episodes released twice a month, you'll hear from high-potential founder building world-class companies, as well as creative minds across all sectors of the economy.

Publisher

Allan Gates

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jan 2025

Latest episode

22 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Apr 2026

   Marc Almon Leads The Charge

   Marc Almon is a Halifax-based, award-winning film and television producer, arts advocate, and social entrepreneur dedicated to community-driven ventures. He realized that too many investment dollars leave the Maritimes and end up in Toronto or New York. So he set out to solve that problem with Backr, a new digital investment platform that makes it easier to keep Nova Scotia investment dollars working at home. Marc's audacious goal? Build Canada's leading impact investment platform, starting in Nova Scotia, to diversify and accelerate local growth.

2. 

   27 Jan 2026

   Laura Richard Battles Dragons

   Hot on the heels of her Dragon's Den appearance, Dr. Laura Richard sits down to discuss her journey from Oxford to Procter & Gamble to co-founding Fredericton-based Saltwinds Coffee, what she's learned, and why she walked away from a million-dollar offer.

3. 

   16 Dec 2025

   East of Montreal Holiday Gift Guide

   Happy holidays! East of Montreal offers its first Gift Guide for all you last minute shoppers, with quick discussions with some great East Coast brands including Educated Beards, BIBLIOnomics, BeBe Apple Cider Vinegar Drinks, Saltwinds Coffee, La Belle Cabane and Halifax Tides FC. Put something local under the tree this year.

Who has been a guest on East of Montreal

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ray Gracewood
• Matthew Murphy
• Dr Louis Beaubien

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 9 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

5

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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