Dalhousie University’s Emera IdeaHUB has announced the latest cohort of its BUILD accelerator, with artificial intelligence playing a role in the underlying technology behind at least four of the 10 companies.

BUILD, previously called Design2Build, is a 10-month accelerator meant to help deep tech entrepreneurs develop and manufacture their products.

The program is split into three modules. The

CoLab Software, the St. John’s-based maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, has been accepted into the Lazaridis Institute’s prestigious ScaleUp program for growth-stage companies in the wake of its best quarter ever.

Chief Executive Adam Keating said in an email that CoLab’s recently ended third quarter saw the company more than double its revenue compared to its previous best

Sherbrooke, Quebec-based Oneka Water Technologies, which received a $1 million investment from Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp in 2021, has won the Innovation Award at the International Desalination Association Conference.

Held in Sydney, Australia, the conference is the flagship event of the International Desalination Association, or IDA — a United Nations recognized

Honolulu, Hawaii has become the fourth city to sign on to New York- and Halifax-based edtech startup Pressto’s Junior Journalist Program, aimed at helping youths develop media literacy, as the company readies a new product offering for school classrooms.

Pressto, founded by former magazine publisher Daniel Stedman, is a web app that lets children write and edit a mock newspaper and receive

We have posted articles recognizing and thanking many people who supported Entrevestor Live, which was held Thursday at Volta. But there were a few people working behind the scenes that deserve our sincere thanks.

Entrevestor Live was a showcase for some of the hottest startups in the region. Hosted by Propel CEO Kathryn Lockhart, it featured a range of speakers from founders to investors to

Moncton startup hub Venn Innovation’s Atlantic Fintech initiative has announced the Atlantic Canadian companies attending the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas this week.

The delegation is being backed by the governments of the four Atlantic Provinces via their Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy, and will include eight fintech startups.

Venn said in a press release that the purpose

Nicole LeBlanc, the former chair of Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp, has moved to Japan to become a partner at the Toyota Motor Company’s US$800 million or C$1.09 billion Woven Capital investment fund.

Located in Tokyo, Woven Capital is part of Woven Planet, a Toyota subsidiary focused on smart cities and novel transportation systems. The New Brunswick-born LeBlanc

Entrepreneurs and investors gathered at Halifax startup hub Volta Thursday for the second annual Entrevestor Live conference, which was held in-person for the first time.

The three-hour event gave startup founders like Shoelace Learning CEO Julia Rivard Dexter and Milk Moovement Co-founder Robert Forsythe, along with investors like Sandpiper Ventures Founding and Managing Partner Rhiannon Davies

The number of service and data-focused bluetech companies in Canada increased by almost a third between 2020 and 2022, according to a new study sponsored by Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE.

The Canadian Ocean Enterprise 2022 report is the second in a series of studies tracking businesses involved in what COVE Chief Executive Melanie Nadeau previously described

Australia’s Novonix Ltd. — the parent company of Novonix Battery Testing Solutions, which emerged from research conducted at Dalhousie University by Jeff Dahn — is on track to win a mammoth US$150 million or C$206 million grant from the United States Department of Energy.

The grant money is part of an initiative from President Joe Biden to onshore manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles