Applications are closing for the Volta/CDL Investment Day pitching contest. The deadline is today, Thursday April 3, at 11.59 p.m. ADT.

Organizers are looking for early-stage founders seeking funding. The event will be held May 13 at Volta at 1800 Argyle St., Halifax. 

The contest offers founders the chance to:

• Pitch directly to active investors;
• Showcase their innovations in front of

St. John’s-based Weevva, a rental tech platform that uses AI to assist landlords and tenants, has launched in Newfoundland and Labrador and aims to be across the country by the end of the year with the goal of going global in 2026.

Weevva’s AI provides independent landlords with tenant verification, fraud protection, lease management tools, and guidance. It offers tenants a free and secure way

Shediac, NB-based Uresta, which makes a device to prevent bladder leakage, has closed a $3 million funding round, and is using the funds to launch its product in the United States.

The company said in a statement last week that BDC Capital led the round with a $1.5 million contribution. The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation said on social media it made a $500,000 follow-on investment in the

Alfred Burgesson has won the 2025 Emerging Leader Award from the Ottawa-based think tank Public Policy Forum. 

In a profile announcing the award, the Founder and CEO of Halifax-based Tribe Network said that the organization is on track to raise $20 million for its first venture capital fund, the next big project for the organization. The group has found a lead investor who contributed $2 million

Technology company Stellar Futures, which is based in Nova Scotia and Texas, has won the Commercial AI Pitch Competition hosted by AWS and PREDICTif Solutions for its work in artificial intelligence and digital transformation.

The company's core product is StellarAlerts.AI, a coastal safety solution designed to enhance real-time public messaging, impact-based forecasting, and emergency

The first cohort of Invest Nova Scotia Accelerate 2025-2026 has been selected. Now in its fifth year, Accelerate offers participating startups four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding.

The program is completely virtual and aimed at companies that have already established market opportunities for products based on science or engineering-related intellectual property

Moncton-based recruitment software company VidCruiter has given $20,000 worth of computers to the BGC Clubs (Boys and Girls Clubs) in Dieppe, Moncton, and Riverview, as well as $10,000 worth of computers to Youth Impact Jeunesse Moncton.

The donations are helping to bridge the digital divide, providing underprivileged youth with the tools they need for education, skill development, and career

Mulli Swing Solutions, which helps golfers improve their swings, captured the top prize in the Growth Category last week at the University of New Brunswick’s RBC Student Pitch Competition.

The Fredericton-based company has developed sensors that attach to the grip of a golf club, producing data that helps golfers and their coaches analyse the player’s grip and swing. Its co-founders are Brycen

Backed by a $5 million federal grant, a new 51,000-square-foot bioinnovation hub is opening in Dartmouth to offer badly needed lab and bio-manufacturing facilities to a range of customers.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency last week issued a press release unveiling the grant to Neptune BioInnovation Inc., a new non-profit that will oversea the facility. Neptune will take over an existing

Breakthru is returning to New Brunswick.

As it awarded a $50,000 investment at the Breakthru Accelerating Cleantech pitching event on Tuesday, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation unveiled its plans to resurrect the Breakthru brand, whose name was once given to its flagship competition.

The pitching competition winner, which received a $50,000 investment from NBIF, was AgroGene Solutions,