Seven cleantech companies have been accepted into the inaugural Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, which offers a chance to win $100,000 in equity funding.

The Challenge, which is presented by Imaginal Ventures, Foresight Canada and Spring Activator, is made up of several regional competitions. Christine Whiteside, Program Manager at Spring Activator, said there will

Nominations are being sought for the InnovateNB awards that recognize individuals and companies that are boosting the innovation sector in New Brunswick.

This is the second year that a consortium of New Brunswick startup support groups are offering these awards, which are the successor to the long-standing KIRA Awards. Nominations are sought in ten award categories, ranging from the Emerging

A St. John’s company has devised a seaweed-based solution to one of the more stubborn and widespread forms of waste generated by universities: single-use laboratory plastics.

BioLabMate, founded by Memorial University biochemist Sarika Kumari and process engineer Sanjay Dubey, has created technology for converting kelp into recyclable, biodegradable plastic products. The company’s technology is

Cascadia Seaweed, the Sidney, B.C. maker of kelp-based fertilizer products, has received $1.5 million of funding to “fast-track” its commercialization activities from the non-profit British Columbia Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy, or CICE.

The money will go towards developing a 100 hectare seaweed farm in Prince Rupert, B.C. under a partnership with Metlakatla Development Corporation,

Halifax life sciences startup 3D BioFibR, which is developing advanced materials derived from collagen, has launched its first two products.

One offering, dubbed μCollaFibR and pronounced “micro-colla-fibre”, is an additive for the ink used to 3D print tissues — a process called bioprinting. The second product, called simply CollaFibR, uses similar underlying technology but takes the form of a

Four Canadian teams have won a collective $22,500 in the first-ever Ocean Communities Climate Challenge, a program designed to help businesses improve ocean sustainability.

The Challenge was presented by the Ocean Startup Project, a national organization that offers resources and support to help sustainability-focused startups. The challenge started in May, and supported startups focused on:

Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada is donating $3 million to help grow B.C.'s ocean and marine technology sectors and foster Indigenous entrepreneurship and expertise in emerging industries.

The federal government’s economic development agency is contributing the money to the South Island Prosperity Partnership. The Partnership will use the funds to support the blue economy through

The cryptocurrency world’s first public look at the sophisticated hacking operation in its midst, which Fredericton crypto-sleuthing startup Gray Wolf Analytics is playing a key role in investigating, came via a Twitter thread from an anonymous industry account.

The April 18 thread described a successful and widespread effort to hack the digital “wallets” of cryptocurrency owners and steal their

Halifax space startup Galaxia Mission Systems is receiving $1.7 million from the Canadian Space Agency to launch the first two in a “constellation” of satellites equipped with its edge computing technology.

Galaxia, founded in 2020 by Dalhousie University engineer Arad Gharagozli, is developing technology to allow groups of satellites to complete computing tasks among themselves, rather than

David Hodgson, CEO and Co-founder of Halifax-based Hollo Medical, has won the 2023 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, or GSEA, beating out almost 1,100 entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Hodgson claimed the US$50,000 (C$66,000) first prize at an event in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday. His medtech company, which aims to reduce the size of children’s inhalers, has been one of the most