The Block One Incubator has opened in Saint John, providing the Port City with a facility offering programs and working space for growing startups.

Five companies are now working at the 2,735-square-foot facility at 40 King Street, in the former Scotiabank building on King’s Square. What’s special about Block One is it shares the Uptown premises with the University of New Brunswick Saint John

For the second year in a row, the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, has been named a finalist in the Outstanding Emerging Centre category of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers awards.

The GCEC held its annual conference late last month, and handed out 2020 awards in nine categories to recognize the best of university entrepreneurship worldwide. For the second time in

Airesun Global, a Cape Breton company that makes industrial oils, cleaners and lubricants out of seed oil, has signed two contracts worth a total of almost $160 million.

The Sydney-area company held a press conference Tuesday announcing it had signed a two-year, $150 million agreement under which Jolomi Engineering Services of Delta State, Nigeria, will adapt Airesun’s processor/extractor

Robel Berhane, Co-founder and CFO of Halifax-based Clean Catch Baits, has been named Global Student Entrepreneur for Atlantic Canada in the recent Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.    

Clean Catch is developing biodegradable, PVC-free soft bait fishing lures for the sport fishing market, aiming to replace plastic lures that can leach harmful micro-plastics into lakes, rivers and oceans. The

Halifax-based LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., which manufactures smart and low-energy street lighting, has been named a cleantech Export Star by Export Development Canada, or EDC.

Each year, EDC highlights the achievements of leading cleantech companies during its Cleantech Export Week conference. LED Roadway Lighting was recognized as a leader in the field that has succeeded in selling its products

The important activity in the Nova Scotia startup community in 2019 was in the development of the ecosystem rather than the performance of companies.

Certainly, many companies had highlights, which we’ve already cited. ABK Biomedical raised $40 million in a VC round. CarbonCure Technologies was named the 2020 North America Cleantech Company of the Year. Appili Therapeutics listed on the TSX

Nova Box, which sells gift boxes stuffed with goods made in Nova Scotia, is expanding across Atlantic Canada with the acquisition of The East Coast Box Company.

Allyson England, who started Halifax-based Nova Box four years ago, said the acquisition will allow her to work with producers in all four Atlantic Provinces, and distribute their goods to customers across Canada and in foreign

Charlottetown-based AffinityImmuno is looking for a larger partner to licence out its product that tests whether a person has antibodies that can ward off COVID-19.

The four-year-old company specializes in antibodies, which are proteins used by the human body’s immune system to search out “foreign invaders” like viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasites. Once the antibodies detect these invaders,

Our Job of the Week column this week features an opening for a Senior Full Stack Developer at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos.

The Job of the

The wheels are in motion to create an Atlantic Canadian angel funding group, but its effectiveness will be restricted by the lack of a pan-regional investment tax credit.

We’ve written before about the decline in angel funding in 2019, and the likelihood it will decline further in 2020. One solution is to institute an angel funding group that spans the region, and that will likely happen. In