🚀 New craft beverage launch, Alumni updates, and FrontFundr website reveal

🔔 Your campaign updates feed

🍹Goodlife Brand Collective has launched

Goodlife Brand Collective is a Leading Canadian Craft Hospitality Brand & Beverage Company transforming from its roots as a community brewery into a multi-category alcohol portfolio with a national sales and distribution plan.

Invest in Goodlife Brand Collective | $792K Raised | 53% of target

🔔 Alumni updates

🌸 Blossom Social has turned early skepticism into growth, now with 600,000+ members, $4 M USD ARR, and a rapidly expanding U.S. user base. The company is gearing up for a Series A to fuel its next phase.

🏠 Boxabl will now change its name to BOXABL Inc. and trade under $BXBL following its merger with FGMC, with FGMC shares automatically converting and providing the company greater access to capital for growth.

🔵 joni leaves #CHFA2026 feeling grateful and energized. Highlights included great conversations, successful sampling, and connecting with passionate retailers and partners.

📝 From Our Desk

Meet the redesigned FrontFundr website built for investors and founders

FrontFundr has launched a completely redesigned website, making private markets simpler, faster, and more intuitive for both investors and founders. Highlights include:

• Faster discovery: Dynamic campaign cards, smart filters, and clear follow buttons make it easy to find and track opportunities.

• Clear guidance: Step-by-step pages show investors how to explore and invest confidently, and help founders get investor-ready.

• Trust and transparency: Case studies, funded campaign stories, press coverage, and ecosystem partnerships highlight credibility.

• Resources at your fingertips: Blogs, podcasts, and reports provide insights to support informed decisions.

“Our new site reflects FrontFundr’s growth from an equity crowdfunding platform into a modern private markets ecosystem. It’s cleaner, faster, and easier to navigate, showcasing case studies, press coverage, and partnerships,” says Peter-Paul Van Hoeken, CEO.

Explore the new website

🤔 What’s on our minds

🛃 Canada U.S. trade enters a pivotal moment

Trade tensions between Canada and the United States are back in focus as tariffs return to the center of economic negotiations. In an interview with CBC News, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said tariffs are likely to remain part of any future trade deal with Canada, even as both sides prepare for renewed discussions.

His comments follow a U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting certain presidential tariff authorities. Despite that ruling, the administration has introduced new import levies, including a 10 percent baseline tariff that could increase depending on the country and sector. With the scheduled review of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement approaching, tariffs appear poised to remain a negotiating tool rather than a temporary measure.

📌 U.S. direction

Greer told CBC that Canada should expect tariffs to be part of any broader framework, positioning them as tools to protect domestic industries and rebalance trade. Meanwhile, the United States House of Representatives passed legislation rebuking tariffs on Canada, highlighting growing bipartisan unease about economic fallout. Still, the administration maintains that trade enforcement remains a priority.

🇨🇦 Canada’s response

Canadian officials are keeping their own tariffs in place and say the U.S. must lift its tariffs before Canada will remove theirs.. Political leaders, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford, have publicly criticized the unpredictability of U.S. trade actions and emphasized the importance of defending Canadian industries.

Ottawa has also signaled that trade diversification remains part of its broader strategy, strengthening relationships with partners beyond the United States while continuing to engage discussion with Washington.

🌍 Broader context

The ripple effects extend beyond North America. The European Union has also expressed concern that renewed U.S. tariff measures could complicate trade engagement with Washington. Taken together, these developments suggest this is less about a short term dispute and more about a broader recalibration of trade policy, with tariffs likely to remain central to negotiations in the months ahead.

 🌐 Community Responses

Sharing some community responses from last week’s newsletter article on big tech social media to be made safer for youths.

🎙️ Hear from our founder feature

Collective Arts: Fusing innovative beverages with emerging artists with Matthew Johnson

Q: What inspired the creation of Collective Arts?

A: The idea really came from a belief that creativity makes the world better. In the beverage industry, creativity was always in the liquid but not on the outside. Most labels were generic, following the same rules. We wanted to flip that by pairing world-class drinks with emerging artists and musicians. 

Q: What makes Collective Arts stand out in a crowded beverage market?

A: Collective Arts is a creative, community-driven movement. We have encouraged artistic collaboration by receiving nearly 40,000 art submissions, paying over $1 million directly to artists while allowing them to retain ownership rights. Their brand appeals especially to Gen Z consumers who seek purpose and culture alongside products.

Q: Looking back, are there a few standout moments in Collective Arts’ journey?

A: The first was our launch party at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. We had over 600 people show up, the walls covered in art, and for the first time, we saw beer drinkers reacting to this crazy idea we’d been working on. 

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