β€˜Bottleneck Breakers’ Lead the Way at CEM Bermuda 2026

The Top 5 Picks at the 2026 CEM Bermuda Capital Event were companies working to ease some of the biggest chokepoints shaping the modern economy across energy, infrastructure, critical materials, and digital commerce.

In a market still dealing with volatile commodities and uneven equity flows, investors were drawn to these companies because each offered a practical answer to a real constraint, from uranium and helium supply to data-centre capacity and the digital systems brands need to reach consumers.

Each company came to Bermuda with a specific bottleneck it is trying to clear.

For investors, that translated into backing businesses tied to must-have systems such as power grids, chip manufacturing, medical imaging, brand distribution, and computing capacity.Β 

β€œInvestors in Bermuda were clear they wanted companies that are fixing shortages, not just telling macro stories,” said Ryan Iverson, CEM portfolio manager.

β€œIn this kind of market, being on the right side of a bottleneck gives you a better shot at a rerate when results show up,” added Iverson, who hosted the Investor Breakout Exchange that selected the Top Picks from 54 companies with market caps ranging from about $5 million to $1.5 billion.

Top Picks

Below is an early, exclusive look at the five companies that earned Top Pick status at CEM Bermuda 2026 and why they stood out in a market rewarding real assets, visible growth, and clear leverage to global constraints.

TSXV: UTWO

U92 Energy Corp.

U92 Energy continues to benefit from the renewed push for nuclear power as a low-carbon baseload option. Its Kurupung uranium project in Guyana gives investors direct exposure to a market where new scalable discoveries remain scarce and slow to bring online.

Unlike many greenfield juniors, U92 begins with a large historic resource base and about 129,000 metres of drilling. That gives investors a defined uranium system in a country already attracting multi-billion-dollar oil and mining investment.

Why It Was Picked

  • U92 gives investors exposure to an advanced uranium project with a historic resource estimate of 10.6 million pounds indicated and 10.0 million pounds inferred at Kurupung. The project is supported by 129,000 metres of historic drilling and 88,000 metres of core stored on site. Drilling has already outlined multiple shear-hosted ore shoots that remain open along strike and at depth, with more than 14,000 metres of additional high-grade intersections still sitting outside the historic resource model.

  • The near-term plan is focused on low-cost, targeted drilling rather than expensive step-outs. A 5,000-metre diamond program starting in 2026 is designed to update and expand the historic resource into a pit-constrained NI 43-101 estimate. That work will be guided by a clear geological model and historic discovery costs that management estimates at about 31 cents per pound of uranium. For investors, it provides a clearer path from a historic resource to a current resource without forcing the company to bet the balance sheet on speculative deep holes.

  • Kurupung’s 92.2-square-kilometre land package gives U92 room to grow. The property includes multiple untested or lightly drilled magnetic-low corridors and at least eight additional targets where past drilling has already hit uranium mineralization at surface. In a market where advanced uranium ounces in emerging jurisdictions are being re-rated, U92 offers scale, clear growth steps, and relatively low discovery costs. It gives investors a focused way to play the nuclear fuel cycle through a single asset.

TSXV: CCDS | OTCQB: CCDSF

Carrier Connect Data Solutions

Carrier Connect returned to the Top Pick line-up in Bermuda as investors again rewarded its roll-up of mid-tier data centres. The timing is important, with AI demand straining power, space, and connectivity across existing facilities.

The company buys smaller cash-flowing data centres from private owners or non-core vendors. It then brings those assets into a public platform that can fund upgrades, cross-sell services, and capture AI-led growth in co-location and network capacity.

With operating sites in Vancouver, Ottawa, Saint John, and Perth, plus a U.S. platform now in the works, Carrier offers investors a way to own picks-and-shovels infrastructure for AI, cloud, and video workloads without taking single-asset risk.

Why It Was Picked

  • Carrier has already assembled a multi-site portfolio with disclosed revenue potential and room to grow. Its June 2026 deck shows annualized revenue building from about $4.2 million in April to more than $10 million by year-end as utilization ramps across the portfolio. That points to meaningful operating leverage in the existing footprint. It also stood out in Bermuda, where investors wanted tangible assets and a clear line of sight to higher cash flow rather than broad AI infrastructure slogans.

  • Since earlier CEM events, the company has moved from letters of intent to execution. It completed the acquisition of Carbon60’s Saint John data centre in early 2026, signed a five-year co-location agreement with Ross Video for 30 kilowatts across eight racks in Ottawa starting April 2026, and closed the acquisition of network connectivity and delivery assets from Morewave. Those steps broaden the platform into recurring connectivity and last-mile services.

  • Carrier’s current catalyst stack now extends the story beyond Canada and Australia. A non-binding LOI is in place to acquire the principal assets of Rochester Colo in the U.S., which would establish Carrier’s first American platform. Management is also lining up a sixth and seventh data centre and upgrades in Vancouver, Perth, and Ottawa. Together, those moves give investors a clearer path from a four-site regional operator to a cross-border digital infrastructure platform with both real-estate and network economics.

CSE: FRG | OTCQB: FRGGF

Forge Resources Corp.

Forge Resources made its debut on the Top Pick list in Bermuda with a two-part story. The company’s coal development in Colombia is weeks from production alongside a growing copper-gold porphyry opportunity in Yukon.

Its Alotta project sits in the Dawson Range gold belt of Yukon, roughly 45 kilometres from Western Copper and Gold’s Casino deposit. Its La Estrella coal project is a fully permitted thermal and metallurgical coal asset in Santander, Colombia.

That mix gives investors exploration upside and a pathway to potential cash flow from a development-stage coal mine.

Why It Was Picked

  • At Alotta, Forge is moving from proof of concept to scale testing. Earlier programs delivered long mineralized intervals, including 211.65 metres grading 0.46 grams per tonne gold with higher-grade sub-intervals. The 2026 drill campaign is set to complete about 2,500 metres of diamond drilling across newly defined targets at the Payoff, Severance, and Commission zones. Within a four-kilometre by one-kilometre gold-copper-molybdenum anomaly in a proven belt, Alotta offers leveraged exposure to a potential district-scale porphyry system.

  • La Estrella helps balance that exploration risk by anchoring the company with a fully permitted coal project. Forge and partner Aion have completed portal construction and advanced underground development. The mine plan targets a planned 20,000-tonne bulk sample as a first step toward production in a market where coal prices remain supportive. For Bermuda investors, this combination of drilling catalysts and near-term development progress helped Forge stand apart from single-asset early-stage explorers.

  • The bigger appeal is a more coherent capital-markets story. Management can point to a Yukon copper-gold target with growing scale potential and a Colombian coal asset that may generate cash flow. That gives investors two different paths for value creation in one small-cap vehicle. The clearer narrative helped Forge claim a Top Pick slot on its first appearance at CEM Bermuda.

TSXV: PLSR | OTCQB: PSRHF

Pulsar Helium

Pulsar Helium claimed a Top Pick in Bermuda as a direct way to play tightening helium supply. The market has been hit by major disruptions in Qatar and Russia, while helium has become increasingly important for chipmaking, space, MRI machines, and advanced energy.

The company’s Topaz project in Minnesota has delivered some of the highest publicly reported helium-4 grades in a terrestrial gas stream, along with a rare helium-3 discovery. Its Tunu project in Greenland targets helium-rich geothermal brines with integrated renewable power potential.

Why It Was Picked

  • Helium-4 demand is expected to nearly double by 2035 while supply has struggled to keep up. The squeeze has been made worse by outages at Qatar’s Ras Laffan complex and export controls at Russia’s Amur plant, which together have taken roughly 45% of freely traded supply off the market. Spot prices have already jumped from about US$330 per thousand cubic feet before the recent crisis to the US$600 to US$900 range. Some forecasts point to US$2,000 dollars if disruptions persist.

  • Against that backdrop, Pulsar’s Topaz project has produced unusually strong helium results. At Jetstream-1, testing showed an average helium-4 concentration of 8.1%, with some readings as high as 14.5%. Jetstream-2 averaged about 5.6%. By comparison, many commercial helium projects operate at grades of just 0.3% to 1.0%. An independent estimate for Jetstream-1 alone outlined about 0.4 billion cubic feet of potentially recoverable helium-4 before adding results from the other wells.

    Lab tests have also confirmed helium-3 at an average of 10.2 parts per billion. That is a rare form of helium with potential uses in advanced technologies, and it can command very high prices.

  • Pulsar is using its recent drilling success to move toward production readiness. The company has signed a limited-notice-to-proceed agreement with Chart Industries to engineer an integrated helium recovery and COβ‚‚ liquefaction facility. It has also begun ordering long-lead equipment and secured a funding stack that includes roughly US$10 million of equity financing, a US$4 million project credit facility and a non-binding expression of interest for up to US$12.5 million of plant financing. With seven of seven wells encountering gas, new helium-specific legislation in Minnesota, and about 65,000 gross acres under lease at Topaz, Bermuda investors saw Pulsar as a timely way to back a new domestic helium source when the market most needs it.

Private | Reserved Ticker NYSE: SUPE

SuperOrdinary Inc.

SuperOrdinary joined the Top Pick list in Bermuda as the only private company in the group. It brought a different kind of bottleneck story, focused on helping Western brands and creators reach consumers in markets and channels that are difficult to crack.

The Los Angeles-based brand accelerator works behind the scenes to get beauty and lifestyle labels onto platforms like Tmall, Amazon, Douyin, and TikTok Shop. It also connects brands with creators through its Fanfix platform and broader creator-commerce stack.

Why It Was Picked

  • SuperOrdinary tackles the distribution bottleneck many brands face as commerce shifts toward marketplaces and live streaming. Since its founding in 2018, the firm has helped partners in China sell more than 1.1 million orders and generate over US$500 million in sales across some 57,000 hours of livestreaming. It works with tens of thousands of creators and a portfolio that includes names like Olaplex, Milk Makeup, Herbivore, and Supergoop. Its role as an official TikTok Shop service provider in the U.S. and as a long-time operator on Chinese platforms positions it as infrastructure for the shift to creator-led commerce, rather than just another consumer brand.

  • The company brings scale and capital to what is still a fragmented niche. SuperOrdinary reported about US$244 million of revenue in 2025, with an estimated US$300 million and roughly 41% gross margin projected for 2026. It has raised US$58 million in Series B funding at a valuation near US$800 million to expand live-shopping capabilities and Amazon account-management services. Strategic deals, including the acquisition of creator platform Fanfix and a US$25-million investment into Southeast Asian partner Crea, extend its reach across China and North America.

  • For investors and founders at CEM, SuperOrdinary represented the rails for global consumer demand. It gives brands a way to plug into cross-border e-commerce, social video, and the 100-billion-dollar creator economy without each company rebuilding that infrastructure itself. In a Top 5 otherwise focused on hard assets and physical supply constraints, SuperOrdinary rounded out the bottleneck theme by tackling the digital distribution and attention bottlenecks that increasingly decide which consumer brands win.

Outstanding Performers

These five companies rounded out the field of 10 that drew the most attention at the Investor Breakout Exchange in Bermuda, joining the Top Picks as the standouts from last weekend’s event.

  1. Midnight Sun Mining Corp. (TSXV: MMA | OTCQX: MDNGF)

  2. Brazil Potash Corp. (NYSEA: GRO)

  3. Trident Resources Corp. (TSXV: ROCK | OTCQB: TRDTF)

  4. BluEnergies Ltd. (TSXV: BLU | OTCQX: BLUGF)

  5. Illumisoft Lighting Corp. (TSXV: UVC)

Honourable Mentions

These companies did not make the final Top 10 in Bermuda, but they were recognized for strong execution, solid progress and the positive momentum they brought into the conference.

01 Quantum

LithiumBank Resources

Aftermath Silver

Nanalysis Scientific

BriaCell Therapeutics

Ocumetics Technology

BTCS

Omega Pacific Resources

Casa Minerals

Paragon Advanced Labs

Centauri Minerals

Pelican AI

Conavi Medical

Red Canyon Resources

Deep Sea Minerals

Rise Nano Optics

Diamond Therapeutics

Rocket Doctor AI

Dryden Gold

Roxmore Resources

Edge Total Intelligence

Secur3D

Ekometall

Strikepoint Gold

FireFly Metals

Talisker Resources

First Phosphate

TempraMed Technologies

FUTR

TenX Protocols

GH Power

Total Metals

Humanaut Health

Visionary Copper & Gold Mines

ICG Silver & Gold

Vortex Metals

Kingfisher Metals

Voyageur Pharmaceuticals

Lahontan Gold

Yocale.ai

Libra Energy Materials

Zeus North America Mining

Next Stop

The 7th Annual TSX Venture Growth Capital Event will take place July 17–19, 2026, at the Delta Grand Okanagan Resort in Kelowna, British Columbia. This gathering will mark another milestone for CEM as it stages its 100th Capital Event. Built around curated one-on-one meetings, high-value networking, and relaxed relationship-building through golf and wine tours, the event creates a focused setting for companies to tell their story, build investor interest and open new conversations.

Warm Regards and Happy Investing,

Fabian Dawson

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