Nova Scotia Business Inc., the provincial business development agency, has signed off on a payroll rebate program for Gerry Pond’s Mariner Partners worth nearly $1 million over five years.

Mariner is the 270-person firm founded by former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Pond and a group of business partners. It serves as the umbrella corporation for a basket of other businesses, including

Here’s something to ponder as we enter the busiest part of the year: we’ve never seen so much uncertainty in the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem as we’re seeing right now.

The ecosystem as we know it today has only been around for a little more than a decade, and it’s going through a greater flux than we’ve ever seen. Not only is the macro-economic climate deteriorating, but change is afoot

Lab2Market’s third oceans cohort commenced Monday, boasting the program’s highest ever level of gender diversity.

Forty percent of the students attending the seven-week accelerator for research commercialization identify as female, compared to 23 percent last year and 11 percent the year before. Hosted by Dalhousie, Toronto Metropolitan University, Memorial University and University of Manitoba,

We’re delighted to announce that our Entrevestor Live conference next month will be headlined by three of the hottest companies in Atlantic Canada – Milk Moovement, Shoelace Learning, and Sonrai Security.

We launched Entrevestor Live last year to showcase the most successful startups in Atlantic Canada, and to dispel the notion that our region is dominated by early-stage ventures. And we’re

Halifax’s Bright has raised a $1.45 million round of funding led by Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners, building on traction from the spring and summer, CEO David Howe said in an interview.

Along with Tidal, Halifax’s Concrete Ventures and provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp — now being amalgamated with Nova Scotia Business Inc. to form Invest Nova Scotia — also participated.

The Atlantic Venture Forum, or AVF, has announced 22 showcase companies that will be highlighted at the event.

The AVF will be held Sept. 13 and 14 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront Hotel, marking the first in-person iteration of the event since the beginning of the pandemic.

The forum is organized by Calgary-based Critical Path Group, which describes itself as an “events, advisory and

Dalhousie University will hold a demo day for the third cohort of its Ready2Launch accelerator September 22.

The three-month program for technology-based ventures was held virtually this year and wrapped up Aug. 26. It was open to undergraduate, graduate and PhD students, as well as postdoctoral fellows.

Ready2Launch teaches customer discovery skills and helps coach participants through the

Halifax payment processing specialist B4Checkin's TransForm technology will be incorporated into Ontario-based Maestro PMS’s property management software for hotels.

B4Checkin, which does business as b4, sells browser-based software to process credit-card payments by eliminating the need for clerks to enter credit card information manually and immediately encrypting the data.

The company says

Rally, the St. John’s maker of process automation software for law firms, is incorporating technology from San Francisco artificial intelligence non-profit OpenAI into its software platform to help lawyers draft contracts.

Spellbook is Rally’s new tool for auto-generating contract clauses using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model, which is capable of writing prose largely indistinguishable from that

We’re delighted to announce that our second annual Entrevestor Live event will be held on the afternoon of Oct. 20, and it will be hybrid so you can attend live or online.

Showcasing some of the most successful startups in the region, we launched Entrevestor Live last year as a virtual event. This year, we are partnering with Volta, so anyone in Halifax on Oct. 20 can join us for the live event