Catch Propel CEO Kathryn Lockhart and me chatting with host Mark Leger on the Huddle podcast, which is now available. 

I interviewed Lockhart last month, and she revealed an ambition to make Atlantic Canada a farm for "baby unicorns." These would be companies that are on their way to being $1 billion enterprises but are not there yet. She is on board with the longstanding Propel ambition to

Halifax travel-planning software company Trip Ninja has pivoted to focus on brick-and-mortar travel agents and finished a major redesign of its platform.

Trip Ninja was originally conceived as a way for consumers using travel-booking websites like Britain’s Globehunters.com to find the cheapest routes for multi-city trips. The revised software, now dubbed QuickTrip, offers travel agents a more

BioNova, Nova Scotia’s life sciences association, has named six student finalists for its BIC Junior youth pitch competition, which will take place at the virtual BioPort conference on November 3.

The contest is intended to inspire Nova Scotia's high school students to create a business idea for the health and life sciences sector that has real commercialization potential.

The contest is

LifeRaft, a Halifax security intelligence company, has closed a round of funding from the Canadian Business Growth Fund, or CBGF, believed to be worth more than $3 million.

LifeRaft, which said CBGF was the only investor in the round, did not disclose how much money it raised. However, the press release announcing the funding said the Toronto-based fund customarily makes investments of $3

The federal government said Wednesday it has contributed $1.3 million to the Lab2Market program at Dalhousie University, and the program is now looking for participants for its next cohort.

The Dal announcement was part of a major funding initiative for Lab2Market, which aims to be a pan-national program that teaches startup methodology to researchers. While the Atlantic Canada Opportunities

Halifax’s ReelData AI has won a US$50,000 cash prize as one of the leading companies in the latest cohort of the prestigious MassChallenge accelerator in Boston.

MassChallenge, which receives thousands of applications each year, accepted 100 participants from 12 countries into its 2020 cohort earlier this year, all of them attending remotely. Last week, it announced that 11 of those companies

One of the highlights of our 2019 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report was the total number of new companies launched in the region. 

We tallied up 164 new companies last year. Not only was that the best year ever for the creation of new startups, it was more than 40 percent better than any year in which we’ve been researching the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

In the early years of our

East Valley Ventures, the Saint John-based investment group, has named serial tech entrepreneur Brian Dunphy as an Executive-in-Residence.

Dunphy, who will continue his position as General Manager of Cvent Canada, posted on Facebook on Tuesday that East Valley Chair Gerry Pond has offered him the position. As Executive-in-Residence, he will help the executive teams of the 28 companies in the

Halifax-based Appili Therapeutics Inc. has signed a manufacturing agreement for one of its drug candidates that could become a vaccine used to combat biological warfare.

The company, which is developing anti-infective drug candidates, issued a statement Tuesday saying it has signed a partnership with Alachua, Fla.-based Ology Bioservices to manufacture Appili’s drug candidate ATI-1701.

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We’ll be in Charlottetown on Monday to appear in a live lunch-and-learn event that will include Island Capital Partners Director of Operations Stefanie Corbett and CarbonCure Technologies President Jennifer Wagner.

My role in the program is to deliver Entrevestor’s Startup Data Presentation, which we showcase around the region every year. We’ve partnered with Island Capital and Startup Zone to