Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation, overseeing the Health Innovation Hub that often collaborates with healthtech and biotech startups. Before that, she spent more than 14 years running

A $50 million funding package to create a new BioAccelerator life sciences hub on Prince Edward Island, announced Friday, is set to become the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in the province’s history.

Spearheaded by industry group the PEI BioAlliance, the BioAccelerator will include 75,000 square feet of space for biomanufacturing research and manufacturing

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are giving the Université de Moncton a combined $324,000 worth of grants to create a new artificial intelligence hub at its Shippagan, New Brunswick campus.

Dubbed the Carrefour de formation en robotique et intelligence artificielle, or CFRIA, the new centre will be focused on developing innovative industrial

For a week this March, entrepreneurs, students and researchers will gather in Fredericton for the city’s Boost Ideation Camp with the aim of developing new ways to track and reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Backed by Fredericton business incubator Planet Hatch and economic development agency Ignite Fredericton, the event will choose applicants partly based on whether they have

Dartmouth’s CarbonCure Technologies has managed to successfully sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide in concrete as part of a joint project with Brisbane, California-based Heirloom, in what both companies have described as a world first.

CarbonCure already sells technology to inject carbon dioxide into concrete, sequestering it and strengthening the end product. What makes the Heirloom project

Cross-border business development accelerator Scale-up Hub: Atlanta, has announced its nine-company winter cohort.

The group includes five companies from New Brunswick, two from Nova Scotia and one from Prince Edward Island, as well as one headquartered simultaneously in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy — a joint initiative between the

St. John’s-based SiftMed, which sells software for cleaning up disorganized medical records, has raised a $2.7 million seed round led by the Atlantic Canadian female-focused VC fund Sandpiper Ventures. 

Chief Executive Holly Hill said in an interview she plans to use the money to hire more staff, as well as for product development and accelerating already-underway commercialization efforts.

Halifax-based social network for medical professionals The Rounds has closed two follow-on investments to a prior Series A funding round, bringing the company's total capital raised since its founding in 2012 to around $9.4 million.

The latest tranche of funding saw Atlanta-based Panoramic Ventures, which led the Series A, and Invest Nova Scotia both re-up their stakes, investing a combined $1.6

Halifax biomarker-testing startup Myomar Molecular is ramping up clinical trials and preparing to file a patent application, as it eyes a possible crowdfunding campaign to raise capital later this year.

Myomar, which is developing a urine test to monitor muscle degeneration, was founded in 2021 by Dalhousie University biochemist and molecular biology PhD Rafaela Andrade. The company just raised

Eleven bluetech startups from around the world presented at the IMPAC5 conference in Vancouver on Monday, showcasing how they can help to protect marine environments.  

Startups and social enterprises were invited to present their ideas for enhancing the viability or creation of marine protected areas, or MPAs – designated areas that need established protection for long term conservation of