MUN Project To Aid Startups
Memorial University of Newfoundland has launched a pilot project that will help graduate commerce students work with startups on business development. The Supporting the Local Innovation and...
View ArticleCommercializing Fertilizer Research
Sponsored Content For Dalhousie PhD student Raphael Ofoe, participating in Dal Innovate’s Lab2Market program was not just a path to creating a viable business, it was a way to accelerate his work on...
View ArticleSandpiper Backs DeNova
Sandpiper Ventures, Atlantic Canada’s female-led investment fund, announced Thursday it has made its first investment -- in Halifax-based DeNova. The early-stage venture capital fund, which is managed...
View ArticleONSIDE Forms Regional Teams
ONSIDE, the Nova Scotian organization that works to develop the startup ecosystem, has established five regional groups to bring the teachings of the MIT REAP program to communities across Nova Scotia....
View ArticleDear Life Aims to Modernize Mourning
The funeral industry ranks among the most staid bastions of the traditional economy, with practices that have changed little in centuries. To one Halifax startup, it looks ripe for disruption. Dear...
View ArticleIGNITE Readies Investment Platform
With funding for many small-town startups languishing in the doldrums, rural innovation hub IGNITE is testing a new platform to match companies with investors, in hopes of making more capital available...
View ArticleBlack Entrepreneurship Loan Fund Opens
The Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund is now open to applicants, and will provide loans up to $250,000 to Black business owners and entrepreneurs across the country. On Monday, the federal government...
View ArticleHabit Forming Tech raises $500k
Halifax behavioural modification startup Habit Forming Technologies has raised just shy of $500,000 in an unplanned round of investment and is preparing for a second, more structured raise in the low...
View ArticleEnergia Seeks Autumn Applications
The Energia Ventures accelerator is calling for applicants for its fall cohort, which will be its second program held this year. The accelerator is part of University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert...
View ArticleRemote Staff Essential for Renderator
Though remote work has become commonplace in the innovation economy in the past year, a distributed team had already become essential for the business model of one Halifax startup before the pandemic....
View ArticleSmart Skin Closes $10.7M Round
Fredericton-based Smart Skin Technologies has closed a $10.7 million round of funding led by BDC Capital, and intends to double its staff with the new financing. BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation...
View ArticleAnessa Closes Funding Round
Fredericton-based Anessa Biogas Software has finished a capital raise from a roster of investors that includes Halifax’s Concrete Ventures, Toronto’s GreenSky Capital, the New Brunswick Innovation...
View ArticleRIDDL Unveils $1.3M Raise
Software startup RIDDL has closed a $1.3 million funding round with investors that include Gerry Pond’s East Valley Ventures, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, and at least one angel. The Nova...
View ArticleIlilli: A Social Network for ‘Talk’
A team in Halifax has completed the soft launch of a new social media network focused on "talk", and hopes it will become the next big thing in online interactions. Watzan, a Halifax-based content...
View ArticleAurea Launching Shine on Kickstarter
Halifax’s Aurea Technologies is launching a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday to fund its first consumer product, a portable wind turbine called Shine. The turbine is a portable power generator designed...
View ArticleTalkatoo Bags VMX Win
Halifax’s Talkatoo, which sells transcription software for veterinarians, has won a major pitch competition hosted by the North American Veterinary Community, or NAVC, industry group. Talkatoo beat out...
View ArticleBlue Accelerators Around the World
One of the biggest changes in the ocean innovation space in the last five years is the explosion of bluetech accelerators around the world. Five years ago, an entrepreneur with an ocean-focused venture...
View ArticleLaunching Global Oceans Coverage
Today, on World Oceans Day, we’re launching our first global coverage of the oceantech space. On our new Oceantech page, we’ve published an article on the explosion in bluetech accelerators around the...
View ArticleWe Remain Committed to Entrevestor
We would like to take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to Entrevestor, and to providing the Atlantic Canadian startup community with news and data. On Tuesday, we marked World Oceans Day with...
View ArticleGreen Power Readies Joint Project
Dartmouth’s Green Power Labs, which makes predictive analytics software for electrical grids and solar power plants, is launching a joint project with Calgary- and Houston-based MR Control Systems...
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