Atlantic Canadian startups raised $57 million in venture capital through 13 deals in the first quarter – a respectable performance given the decline in venture capital elsewhere in the county.

Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, or CVCA, released its first quarter data report on Thursday, showing that Canadian startups raised $1.3 billion in the first quarter. It was a drop

The first quarter of 2023 saw a rare downturn in startup jobs on the East Coast, with total employment in the sector dropping to levels comparable to the worst days of the pandemic, according to data from early stage venture capital fund Concrete Ventures.

The Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem shrank by 521 jobs in the first quarter of 2023, with just 18 percent of startups adding staff and 30

If there was a singular achievement of Canada’s oceantech startup community in 2022, it was that it truly became a national community.

Today, we are releasing our 2022 Canadian Oceantech Data Report, our second analysis of the country’s bluetech startups. We were struck by two things while producing this work. First, the developments in the ecosystem have been astonishing in one year, creating a

Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute this week officially opened the long-awaited marine research lab The Launch in an oceanside location in Holyrood, about 50 kilometers from St. John’s.

The Launch -- formerly known as the Holyrood Marine Institute -- was first opened in 2010 and experienced multiple phases of development throughout the decade. This new space allows students and

Virtual startup incubator Propel has bagged $1.05 million of funding from the Nova Scotia government over three years, with CEO Kathryn Lockhart saying some of the money will go to expanding the organization’s five-person coaching staff.

She said Propel may also add programming to bridge the gap between its Vision & Validation course for very early-stage founders and its Traction & Growth stream

A surge of new, headline-making artificial intelligence products from global leaders like OpenAI and Google have thrust the field into the public consciousness like never before. End users can now command AI systems vastly more versatile and sophisticated than previous generations of the tech, generating nearly photo-realistic images and lucid, coherent prose.

But Atlantic Canadian innovators

Information technologies industry group Digital Nova Scotia has opened applications across Atlantic Canada for its new, $3.7 million jobs training program, which it announced earlier this year.

Dubbed Skills for Hire Atlantic, the initiative is a federally funded partnership between Digital Nova Scotia and St. John’s professional training company Bluedrop ISM.

This year’s Skills for Hire

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