All-female venture capital fund Sandpiper Ventures has won Best Investment Innovator from this year's Canadian Business Innovation Awards, run by Canadian Business magazine.

Founded in 2020 by former Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Cathy Bennett, innovation economy veteran Rhiannon Davies and NATIONAL Public Relations partner Sarah Young, Sandpiper is the only venture capital group

Charcoal Marketing has announced that Mike Cyr, long a pillar of the organization, is its new Chief Operating Officer.

Cyr has been an integral part of the Charcoal team for five years. He is a specialist in digital media and played a key role in Charcoal’s addition and adoption of programmatic advertising. He also played an important role in the firm’s transition from project-based to

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has announced about $2.8 million worth of loans for a quartet of cleantech startups, including Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, which last month closed a $10.2 million series A funding round as it ramps up its international expansion.

GIT has developed coatings for ships' hulls and propellers, which improve fuel efficiency and reduce

Canada's Ocean Supercluster is asking for project proposals related to scalable renewable energy projects.

The Supercluster, which arranges joint funding agreements with private sector consortiums, is particularly interested in backing projects involving collaboration with existing players in the offshore energy industry, as well as cross-border partnerships.

“This call aims to increase the

Two years after Dartmouth construction technology startup CarbonCure won the internationally noted NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, another Atlantic Canadian company, Halifax’s Smallfood, is one of six finalists in the competition’s US$15 million foodtech edition, XPRIZE Feed The Next Billion.

Smallfood has teamed up with Toronto’s Terra Bio to form Team ProFillet, which was named one of six finalists

The Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which last fall held two pitching events on the province’s mainland, has announced its Cape Breton winners, both software companies: artificial intelligence bookkeeping startup Bank Scan Pro and festival logistics platform Apollo Festival.

Bank Scan, founded by Alison Gionvinetti, and Apollo, founded by Darcy Campbell, beat out four other shortlisted

A quartet of oceantech and computer vision startups, two each from Canada and England, will receive a combined $500,000 to develop sensor and decision-making technology for uncrewed marine vessels under a partnership between the Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia and Innovate UK.

St. John’s-based eSonar will work with Basingstoke, U.K.’s Aquatec Group, and Halifax’s Deep Vision will

Halifax startup hubs Volta and the Emera ideaHUB on May 23 will host a free seminar on media relations for startups, delivered by Entrevestor Co-Founder Peter Moreira.

Slated to be held at noon at the IdeaHUB on Dalhousie University's Sexton campus, the event will be a crash course for founders in how to build relationships with journalists and publications, as well as how to write press

St. John’s-based Mysa Smart Thermostats has bought the intellectual property of Zen Ecosystems, with plans to incorporate the Costa Mesa, Calif. startup’s offerings into its own product line and ramp up efforts to land commercial clients inside of a year.

Mysa said in a statement it will continue to support Zen’s existing customers. Before the deal, Mysa had four products, of which it has sold

The Sydney-based Verschuren Centre, which provides lab space to startups that need industrial fermentation and bioprocessing facilities, is receiving $926,500 from the Nova Scotia Forestry Innovation Transition Trust to help with the commercialization of forestry- or biomass preservation-related innovations.

The Trust operates a $50 million fund that will run until 2025 with a focus on backing