Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is launching a mentorship program aimed at helping underrepresented groups find employment opportunities in the ocean economy.

The Supercluster, whose five-year mandate ends next year, is best known for funding partnerships on oceans-related research and development projects, though it also supports ecosystem projects aimed at improving the sustainablity and diversity

Entrevestor journalists Peter Moreira and Avery Mullen will share findings from our 2021 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report in a live event at the Cyber Centre in Fredericton’s Knowledge Park July 14.

Our report is the benchmark source of data about the Atlantic Canadian startup community. Our proprietary database — which we use to write the report, presenting the data only in aggregate to

Avanade, the Seattle company that helps enterprise clients upgrade and manage their computer systems using Microsoft technology and infrastructure, plans to hire 300 people in Halifax over the next two years.

Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Microsoft and Irish-American service company Accenture — still its parent company — Avanade now employs about 56,000 people, with offices in 26

The University of New Brunswick’s TME team will host three events in the next two weeks that will showcase a range of companies going through its programs.

The TME group – whose official name is the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship – oversees a host of entrepreneurship programs at UNB. Between July 13 and 20, it will be holding demo day-style events for its

Halifax’s MARS VR Lab, which is developing a virtual reality hardware and software suite that gamifies the process of teaching children how to operate motorized wheelchairs, has joined the council that will set industry standards for the metaverse.

Founded last month, The Metaverse Standards Forum is meant to serve as an international working group setting technical standards for the

The University of New Brunswick is looking to double the number of students in its Faculty of Computer Science by 2026, spurred partly by the information technology labour shortage and partly by its goal of improving tech sector opportunities for minority groups.

Dean Luigi Benedicenti said in an interview that to support an expanded student body, the computer science faculty plans to also

Nova Scotia life sciences industry group BioNova is looking for startups to compete in its twelfth annual BioInnovation Challenge pitch competition, or BIC, to be held in-person this year after temporarily going virtual.

The region's premier life sciences pitching event will feature a first prize worth $55,000, made up of funding and in-kind services.

“With recent reports indicating trends in

Halifax’s vLife, an online advertising platform for local businesses, has seen its customer count nearly double during the pandemic, thanks partly to a deal with the Halifax Partnership.

VLife Chief Executive Melanie Little said in an interview that feedback from businesses using vLife has been positive, and with the success of the Halifax Partnership project, she hopes to sign similar

There are just three days left to apply for the second annual cohort of ocean-focused startups in the StartBlue accelerator, being offered in Southern California.  

StartBlue is a bluetech accelerator led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. It helps teams that are developing a new business around a science and engineering solution to an ocean

Oceantech startups are invited to apply to the Gulf Blue Navigator, a new accelerator recently launched by SeaAhead and the University of Southern Mississippi Research Foundation. 

The Gulf Blue Navigator is for global post-pilot companies seeking to benefit from direct access to the Gulf of Mexico, organizers said in a statement.  Participants will have the opportunity for testing, validation,