Asked for her priorities for 2023, Amélie Desrochers answered instantly: she wants to see more funding for bluetech startups in Quebec.

Desrochers is the Accelerator Head at Novarium, the blue economy support organization based in Rimouski, the city on the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, about 300 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. The organization has the mission of developing the ocean

Novarium, the Quebec bluetech support organization, has opened the first cohort of its Flots Pro accelerator, welcoming companies from across the province to the 12- to 18-month program.

Flots targets companies with a product in the market, helping them to navigate the early phases of scaling, such as gaining their first industrial clients. It aims to encourage successful strategies in companies

It’s often said that young people need to be able to see themselves represented before they can aspire to success in a particular field. Halifax-based artist and entrepreneur Jo Napier's new venture sees her painting successful women with that in mind. 

Napier’s Great Women Portrait Project invites business and industry leaders to use portrait art as a tool to promote diversity, equity and

Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which in 2021 raised $5.5 million in a round of equity and non-dilutive funding, has opened an office at the Dartmouth-Based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE.

Founded in 2015 by mechanical engineer Dragan Tutic, Oneka manufactures wave-powered seawater desalination systems housed inside autonomous buoys. The company started as a

Four ventures working in social innovation have been named 2023 regional champions at an event staged by Enactus Canada, a national charity and experiential learning platform for post-secondary students, which is part of a global network.

The winning ventures won The Scotiabank Climate Action Challenge and The TD Entrepreneurship Challenge at a snowed-in event in Halifax.  

The TD

Just a month after it raised an oversubscribed seed round that had originally been targeted at $4 million, Halifax’s Shoelace Learning is one of 20 edtech startups globally to have reached the finals of the prestigious GSV Cup.

To make it to the top 20, Shoelace beat out more than 900 other applicants, putting the company in the running for a $1 million prize pool.

The GSV Cup is organized by

The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund, the new female-focused angel investing group from the non-profit Atlantic Women’s Venture Foundation, is now accepting applicants from founders.

The angel group is the result of a partnership between the the Atlantic Women’s Venture Foundation and the Women’s Equity Lab, which was founded in Victoria, British Columbia in 2017 to address the "chronic and

As it launches the second generation of its flagship product, Halifax medical device maker FIVAMed has inked a distribution deal with Ontario-based industry incumbent Canadian Hospital Specialties, or CHS.

FIVAMed makes technology for alerting medical staff when IV bags (like those used in hospitals and veterinary clinics) run dry. The company’s second-generation product, FIVAFlow, also collects

Invest Nova Scotia has put out a call for applicants to its GreenShoots funding and mentorship program, which offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies up to $40,000 in grants.

The latest iteration of the program marks its first time being run by the recently created Invest Nova Scotia, under a partnership with industry groups Bioenterprise Canada and the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub, which

Leadership teams at mature startups might find a support program tailored to the unique needs of their larger enterprises in the form of the University of New Brunswick’s Scale Up Atlantic Canada program.

The six-month program, spearheaded by UNB’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship, is aimed specifically at fast-growing companies with between $1 million and $15