Cape Breton Capital Opens Its Doors
A group of 26 Cape Breton investors have pooled $1.3 million of their personal money to form the island’s first venture capital fund, Cape Breton Capital Group. General Partner Todd Mercer, who runs...
View ArticleCarbonCure, Precision Honoured by Halifax Chamber
Medtech company Precision BioLogic and cleantech star CarbonCure Technologies have been honoured at the Halifax Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 Halifax Business Awards. CarbonCure won Innovative Business of...
View ArticleNBIF Funds 3 AI Projects
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced $1 million of investments in a trio of artificial intelligence research and development projects via its Strategic Acceleration program for ongoing...
View ArticleCEO Casey To Leave Volta
Volta CEO Martha Casey will step down this month after almost two years in the role, rejoining former collaborator Richard Florizone at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, or IISD,...
View ArticleVillaumé Named New CEO of TechNL
After six years leading the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, Florian Villaumé has been selected as the new CEO for techNL, the Newfoundland and Labrador association for digital industries. The...
View ArticleHarbr, Introhive Find International Partners
Two Atlantic Canadian startups have inked collaboration deals with foreign companies: Halifax construction fintech specialist Harbr and Fredericton- and Miami-based sales software-maker Introhive....
View ArticleInnovatia Sells Accelerator Unit
Saint John-based Innovatia Accelerator, which makes software for information management and communication in industrial settings, has been acquired by Swedish automation and remote monitoring giant...
View ArticleDal, UPEI in Protein Supercluster deal
The industry group Eastern Canada Oilseed Development Alliance, or ECODA, and supercluster Protein Industries Canada have inked a deal with Dalhousie University and the University of Prince Edward...
View ArticleB-Line Joins REACH Accelerator
On the back of launching its living lab at the Port of Halifax’s Pier innovation centre, B-Line Analytics has been accepted into the National Association of Realtors’ REACH scale-up program in the U.S....
View ArticleHalifax Eyes Worker Influx
Halifax Regional Municipality’s new economic growth strategy is gunning for a 100,000-person population increase in the next five years, as the city looks to solve the skilled labour crunch that has...
View ArticleLockhart on How To Cope with Talent Shortage
The most significant effect of the technology sector labour shortage for startups is not problems accessing talent, but rather the price of workers and its knock-on effects for capital raises,...
View ArticleFeds Offer Digital Grant
A new program from the federal government is offering small- and medium-sized businesses grants to pay for digital technology. The Canadian Digital Adoption Program, or CDAP, offers grants up to $2,400...
View ArticleGoodLeaf, Adastra Partner on Plant Growth Tech
Guelph, Ont.- and Bible Hill, NS-based vertical farming startup GoodLeaf Farms has inked a $2.5 million deal with data analytics firm Adastra to develop an artificial intelligence system for...
View ArticleUNB, Mastercard Ink $1.75M Cyber Deal
Mastercard will sponsor the University of New Brunswick’s Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, or CIC, to the tune of $1.75 million, with the money going towards establishing a security research chair...
View ArticleMillennia Tea Signs with Lobllaws
When Saint John-based Millennia Tea brought its frozen tea products to market in the depths of the pandemic, CEO Tracy Bell had a problem: how to entice potential buyers in a world where the usual...
View ArticleSmart Energy Event Seeks Pitches
The annual Smart Energy conference has opened applications for its startup competition, the Smart Energy Pitch Challenge. The winner of the competition, which is presented by OKR Financial, will bag a...
View ArticleCeltx Acquired by Backlight
St. John’s-based Celtx, which makes scriptwriting and project management software for the film and video game industries, has been acquired by media holding company Backlight in a buyout funded by...
View ArticleResqunit Bags 30K-Unit Order
Norwegian oceantech company Resqunit A/S, which maintains an office in Halifax via subsidiary Resqunit Canada Inc., has announced a “breakthrough order” from Shippagan, New Brunswick-based Entreprises...
View ArticleVolta Calls for Pitches
Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for companies to participate in its next quarterly Pitch Competition. The competitions offer budding entrepreneurs the chance to practice giving a three-minute...
View ArticleFarmers’ Truck Sales on a Tear
Moncton social venture The Farmers’ Truck nearly doubled its sales last year as pandemic-related economic woes increased food insecurity in some parts of the United States. CEO Fredéric Laforge said in...
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