Female-focused venture capital  fund Sandpiper Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount in Halifax-based QuickFacts, a customizable software platform for insurance brokers that promises to be more user-friendly than competing software.

The QuickFacts platform lets brokers view insurance packages from competing companies side by side for easy comparison, which the company says can reduce the

Kraken Robotics, the St. John’s maker of underwater drones, was the top performing technology sector company on the TSX Venture in 2022, according to the exchange’s yearly Venture 50 rankings, which consider movements in businesses’ share prices, market capitalizations and trading volumes.

Shares in Kraken rose 52 percent over the course of the year to end at 56 cents, and have since rallied

Halifax-based Scient is soft launching its technology for analyzing mining core samples by setting up its equipment for a limited time at a facility in the town of Stellarton, NS.

The Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources Core Library stores rock cores collected by geologists — long tubes of rock that mining companies drill to gauge the location of mineral reserves.

The provincially owned

Almost two-thirds of the entrepreneurs supported by Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch last year were new immigrants, a little under 40 percent were female and just over 10 percent were Indigenous, according to the organization’s annual Diversity Report.

The report surveyed 246 founders of 148 companies that had dealings with Planet Hatch between Oct. 2021 and Sept. 2022 on a range of

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $230 million in venture capital in 2022, showing greater resilience than other parts of Canada amid the global slowdown, according to data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

In releasing its annual report on the VC market, the national association for private capital investors showed the Atlantic Canadian VC totals declined 10

Fredericton-based Kognitiv Spark has launched a sweeping revision of its main product offering that it says includes more robust spatial computing abilities, referring to the process of visualizing a digitally rendered object in a real-world environment.

RemoteSpark, as Kognitiv dubs its software, uses augmented reality and mixed reality to help remote workers use complicated equipment. If a

Jennifer Wager, formerly the president of Dartmouth cleantech star CarbonCure Technologies, has a new role as a fellow at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a VC firm led by such business titans as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg.

Wagner, who lives in P.E.I., is tasked with offering support and guidance to startups working on cleantech for sectors with emissions that are particularly

Halifax-based Tribe Network is inviting Black founders aiming to bring a basic product to market to apply to its BUILD program, which begins mid-March.

Founded in 2021 by social entrepreneur Alfred Burgesson, Tribe offers support and training services for Black-owned companies. One of its initiatives is the Black Start-Up Project, which aims to foster Black founders through such programs as

Nevada-based Movella, which makes motion-tracking technology and bought Halifax’s Kinduct in 2020, has gone public on the Nasdaq stock exchange via a reverse acquisition.

Movella, at the time called mCube, bought Kinduct and its health data technology for an undisclosed price. Kinduct CEO Travis McDonough told Entrevestor at the time the deal was worth more than the $70 million sale of GoInstant

Halifax business consultancy Imaginal Ventures and British Columbia-based national cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada are collaborating to launch Foresight’s eight-month accelerator program in the Atlantic Provinces.

Participating companies in the Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge will compete for the chance to be one of five to pitch to a mix of accredited and