As we begin to dig through the data for our coming report on the Atlantic Canadian startup community, one theme that is emerging is the slowing growth of the community overall.

The preliminary data we’ve accrued so far shows there were 805 startups in Atlantic Canada at the end of 2022. Had the community continued to grow as it was before the pandemic, the number would be over 1,100. We’ll

Halifax-based marine coatings maker Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, has closed a $10.2 million Series A funding round led by BDC Capital’s ClimateTech Fund as it looks to scale up its commercialization activities.

Also investing is U.K.-based Stolt Ventures, the investment arm of Stolt-Nielsen, which was founded in 1959 and now operates more than 150 tanker ships, as well as fish

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, is adding a new feature to its annual Demo Day this year: a pitch session with representatives from 10 bluetech startups and 10 venture capital firms.

The event dubbed Pitch + Roll, is by invitation only and will include three-minute pitches from each startup, followed by a facilitated discussion time. Companies chosen

The Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST, has announced veteran bluetech and industrial executive Jason Goldsworthy as its new executive director.

Goldworthy was previously Vancouver Island operations manager for Halifax-based environmental consulting firm Pinchin and CEO of Victoria-based startup Accumulated Ocean Energy, which captures wave energy and

Pulse Innovation, a Halifax-based industry network for health professionals involved in commercializing innovative medical technologies, will host a “Startup Crawl” networking event in Halifax April 27 featuring headline-making supply chain software business Milk Moovement.

Inspired by the British convention of the pub crawl, in which participants visit a variety of community bars as part of a

Invest Nova Scotia has announced 11 companies joining the first 2023 cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Accelerate offers participating companies 5 months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding.

Accelerate, which Innovacorp retooled in the summer of 2021, replaced both the old, longer program of the same name and the shorter Sprint accelerator. It is completely virtual

Halifax-based innovation hub Volta today announced it will move its operations this fall to the Armoyan Centre at 1800 Argyle Street, the former World Trade Centre building.

The decade-old startup support organization until recently occupied the first three floors of the Maritime Centre, at the corner of Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road. With more than 40 resident startups, it needed

This year’s edition of BSides Halifax, which is a community-run cybersecurity conference, is coming May 4.

The BSides conferences, held at numerous locations around the world, are a franchise of information security gatherings that offer event organizers a “peer-to-peer framework” for engaging with industry players.

The Halifax event, which will be held at the Halifax Central Library from 9:00

Mariner Partners-owned Shift Energy has reached a deal to roll out its artificial intelligence technology for managing electricity consumption across 10 Toronto area buildings owned by commercial property giant Cadillac Fairview.

Shift’s technology, which Mariner originally backed as an investor in successive funding deals before eventually purchasing the company outright, uses AI to optimize

Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, has inked a two-year deal to apply its new coating for ship propellers to 25 vessels owned by London, U.K.-based tanker company Stolt Tankers.

Stolt Tankers is the shipping division of Stolt-Nielsen, which was founded in 1959 and now operates more than 150 tanker ships, as well as fish farms and shipping terminals.

Founded in 2017