The entrepreneurs behind Radian6, one of the startups that helped put Atlantic Canada on the innovation map, have a message for founders: think bigger.

Marcel LeBrun was Radian6’s CEO, and David Alston was its chief marketing officer. When their company was bought by Salesforce for US$276 million in cash and US$50 million in stock in 2011, the deal was a formative one for the Atlantic Canadian

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $117 million in the third quarter of 2023, according to data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. Much of that investment capital was tied to the largest funding round in Nova Scotia history: Halifax-based CarbonCure’s gangbusters US$80 million raise from July.

Nationally, venture capital has been recovering from last year’s

Bright Breaks, the Halifax startup that produces online wellness videos for employees, has closed a $2.525 million funding round led by new investor Build Ventures.

Returning backers Concrete Ventures and Invest Nova Scotia also joined the funding round – which follows on from the company’s $1.45 million round announced in September 2022.

Bright sells subscriptions for online fitness and

Twelve companies pitched at Halifax startup hub Volta’s first Investment Day event Wednesday, which it hosted in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event was held at Volta’s new offices in downtown Halifax’s Armoyan Centre and gave seed-stage and Series A companies the chance to pitch to an audience of funders and industry players from both inside and outside

InkWell Health, which has developed technology to help orthopaedic surgeons remotely monitor patients’ recoveries, has entered commercialization in the United States as it looks to raise capital and build out a network of doctors using its system.

With the help of temporary tattoos and a smartphone app, InkWell uses photos to model and track a joint surgery patient’s range of motion and how much

We'd like to thank everyone who made Entrevestor Live on Tuesday such a smashing success. 

We gathered at the Tribe Network in Halifax for an exhilirating showcase of some of the best entrepreneurs in the region. As well as the six live sessions in Halifax, a look back at Radian6 was livestreamed to us from University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. The presentations were absolutely splendid.

John Risley’s massive, 328-turbine wind energy and hydrogen production facility that he plans to build near St. George’s Bay in Newfoundland is part of what the serial entrepreneur and super-angel describes as the most significant business trend of his career: the global transition to clean energy.

Best known as the co-founder of Clearwater Seafoods, which was sold to a consortium that included

When veteran startup executive Kathy Doucette joined Proposify in 2021, what she saw in the company’s finances made her feel like “the canary in the coal mine.”

Doucette is a veteran startup executive who has held financial leadership roles across businesses as diverse as law firm Cox and Palmer and data analytics specialist Talem AI. When she became chief operating officer and chief financial

When Arolytics raised $3.5 million last month it did so on the back of 250 percent revenue growth from 2021 to 2022, as governments in Canada and the United States tee up stricter methane emissions rules governing oil and gas projects.

Liz O’Connell, Chief Executive of the Halifax- and Calgary-based maker of environmental reporting software, said in an interview that the new funding will go

Atlantic Canadian cleantech companies like Dartmouth-based superstar CarbonCure and Halifax’s Arolytics, which recently raised $3.5 million, stand to benefit from a broad shift in attitudes towards environmental technology plays from investors not just on the East Coast, but industry-wide, according to ArcTern Ventures managing partner Tom Rand.

In an interview Friday, he said that despite a