The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has committed $2.2 million to support the growth of the emerging biotechnology sector at the Verschuren Centre in Sydney, Cape Breton.

The funding is being provided to the Centre and to four companies which are conducting R&D and commercialization of technologies that will produce more environmentally-friendly products and high-quality food.

The

Eight teams will vie for a $1,500 first prize at Genesis’s next Pitch & Pick competition, which will be held Tuesday, April 13, at 3 pm NST.

Pitch & Pick is the demo day for the eight top teams in the Evolution Program, the eight-week program at Genesis for idea-stage or early-revenue companies. The winner receives a $1,500 prize and gains entry into the Enterprise program for scaling companies.

When QOMPLX of Virginia acquired Hyperion Gray of North Carolina last month in a union of cybersecurity companies, it had some impact in Nova Scotia due to remote working.

Hyperion Gray’s Chief Technology Officer was Haligonian Jason Hopper, and he is now the Director of Internet Research at QOMPLX, a job he’s really enjoying.

Hopper’s experience illustrates a growing trend in Atlantic Canada

Sackville-N.B.-based Community Forests International is launching and seeking investors for its aggregated family forest carbon offsets project which allows individual forest landowners to pool their lands and join carbon markets. 

The charity believes the project is the first of its kind in Canada, allowing individual citizens to pool their lands and achieve the economies of scale necessary to

An advisory body with a mandate to grow the post-pandemic economy has been set up by the Nova Scotian government and features some of the province's most influential entrepreneurs and innovators.

The new 10-member council will be headed by Scott Brison, a former member of Parliament, whose current roles include chancellor of Dalhousie University. 

“The council is designed to serve as a resource

Dartmouth-based oceantech company Sedna Technologies has released Sensor Globe, a piece of hardware that can gather real-time data on live seafood in tanks, fish farm pens or other environments.

The three-year-old company is dedicated to monitoring the conditions of live seafood as it moves through the supply chain. Its Sensor Globe is immersed in water with the fish or shellfish to give

Two regional companies have made the top 20 ventures entered into the inaugural Canada-wide Impact Investor Challenge. Run by Vancouver-based Spring Activator, the contest offers the chance to win $100,000 in impact investment.

The Farmers’ Truck, based in Edmundston, NB, is the first regional contender. The Farmers’ Truck provides affordable mobile market trucks for organizations to serve food

A new website that allows the renting of personal property such as sports equipment is being launched by young Halifax entrepreneur Zachary Laberge.

Laberge, 15, has raised $70,000 and is taking his site, frenter, through the Propel program, all while working through Grade 10 at École Secondaire du Sommet.

Frenter facilitates processes like online payment, insurance, and marketing.  Laberge

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Marketing Manager at New Glasgow, NS-based eLearning company Velsoft Training Materials.

Velsoft’s product turns written training materials into interactive, industry-compliant eLearning. The company exports to more than 160 countries and includes many global brands among its clients. The company has grown from 10 employees in 2010 to

At a time when Atlantic Canada in general is attracting innovation-driven companies from other parts of Canada and the wider world, no city has attracted more startups than Sydney, which is establishing a thriving life sciences cluster.

At least seven companies from outside the region have established operations in Sydney in the last year, attracted by the facilites at the Verschuren Centre,