Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics has inked a US$10 million (C$12.67 million) deal with the United States Department of Defence to test a vaccine against tularemia — a highly contagious infection that can be deadly when introduced into the lungs and is well-suited to use as a bioweapon.

The vaccine technology grew out of research and development work by the National Research

The Dal Innovates Sandboxes — groups at Dalhousie University designed to facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration — have announced a Health Innovation Sprint event to encourage innovation in the healthcare field.

The sprint will last just over two weeks, with six work sessions, and require participants to identify a problem in healthcare and then develop a technological solution.

The sprint

Tribe Network has opened applications and nominations for its Black Entrepreneurship Program, which provides support for Black entrepreneurs and business owners in Atlantic Canada.

Founded in 2021 by CEO Alfred Burgesson, Tribe Network, has developed a platform that allows entrepreneurs from BIPOC – Black, Indigenous and People of Colour – communities to accelerate their growth by linking with

Applicants are being sought for the third oceans cohort of the Lab2Market technology accelerator, which helps researchers commercialize their work.

Hosted by Dalhousie, Ryerson, Memorial and University of Manitoba, Lab2Market provides training and support to teams looking to start businesses based on research from Canadian universities. The oceans stream of Lab2Market is hosted by Memorial

Today we are launching our survey to capture data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2021, and we’re asking all founders in the region to take a few minutes to complete the 13-question survey.

We know how busy people are, so we have kept it as brief as possible. Filling it in creates three benefits.

First, it helps to produce meaningful metrics on the startup community, which results

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to its Volta Cohort accelerator and pitch competition, which is held twice a year.

Applicants will pitch their early stage technology companies to a panel of judges, and up to five winners will receive $25,000, along with mentorship from CEOs and founders of Volta’s resident and alumni companies and access to Volta’s office space.

Volta

Fredericton’s PLATO Testing, an indigenous-led IT services and training company, has bought Saskatchewan-based Information Technology Consultants, or ITC, with the aim of expanding its presence in the prairie provinces.

Founded 25 years ago and already active in Saskatchewan, PLATO and sister company PQA Testing use a “train-and-employ” business model. The PLATO branding was introduced in 2015,

The University of New Brunswick’s National Cybersecurity Consortium, or NCC, will head up the newly created Cyber Security Innovation Network in a deal worth at least $160 million.

The NCC has already secured commitments of $80 million from the private sector — including cash and in-kind contributions from UNB itself worth $19.4 million — and the federal government will match the private funding

Industry group Natural Products Canada, or NPC has announced that two Atlantic Canadian companies are among those receiving a total $2.8 million of funding for product commercialization.

The two Nova Scotia companies are Dartmouth’s Impactful Health R&D and Halifax’s Smallfood. Impactful Health is developing packaging for fish that prolongs its shelf life via antibacterial properties, and

About two decades ago, a young venture capital investor named Tony Van Bommel was attending an event in Fredericton showcasing technology developed at the University of New Brunswick, when something caught his eye.

Having just joined the VC team at Business Development Bank of Canada, Van Bommel was on the lookout for opportunities, and one booth featured a new cybersecurity product that battled