Techstars alum innerlogic, which is developing a software and AI suite to automate employee feedback for enterprise clients, has closed a $1.3 million funding round to support product and business development.

Founders Bryce Tully and Mike Bawol were inspired to launch the Halifax-based company after working for Canada’s Olympic team, Tully as a mental performance consultant and Bawol as a data

We’re pleased to report that a new panelist has joined the Entrevestor Live lineup: Zen Electric CEO Ravindra Kempaiah.

On Sept. 17 at Volta, Kempaiah — whose company is developing battery systems for the very small two- and three-wheeled vehicles common in South Asia and Africa — will appear on our panel on the growth of the battery ecosystem in Atlantic Canada.

Halifax is fast becoming a hub

Information technology businesses are not just the largest group of startups in Atlantic Canada. They dwarf every other sector, accounting for almost two-thirds of all East Coast startups at the end of 2023. If there is a challenger for the most dynamic industry, it is medtech, which posted the fastest revenue growth at 168 percent, according to data from Entrevestor's 2023 Atlantic

St. John's-based Sparrow Bioacoustics has launched Version 3 of its stethoscope app, now integrating AI analysis, with the company releasing it first in Ukraine.

The move builds on a pilot program that has involved Ukrainian cardiology clinics piloting an earlier version of Stethophone, as the software is called, since last year. In a press release, Sparrow said the updated version will help

Claudio Rojas, the CEO of NACO Canada, flew into Fredericton on Thursday to discuss solutions to the decline in angel funding in Atlantic Canada.

Rojas was attending the launch of Entrevestor’s 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report at an event sponsored by the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship at University of New Brunswick and the New Brunswick

When Tracy McGillivray and Liam Maaskant set out to design a better mobility aid in the fall of 2019, they split up and conducted their ideation work separately. When they reconvened two weeks later, they discovered they had arrived at nearly the same concept of incorporating a lifting mechanism into a larger device.

Their idea would eventually become the Raymex Lift, named for McGillivray’s

The East Coast startup community experienced record numbers of company launches and failures last year while most of the best continued to grow strongly, says Entrevestor’s 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, which we’re launching today.

Our 10th startup data report, which we’ll launch in an event at University of New Brunswick at noon, is a good-news-bad-news document that shows

Two months after it raised a US$5.75 million or C$7.77 million funding round, Saint John cybersecurity startup TrojAI has roughly tripled its presence in Fredericton with the opening of a new office in the city.

Founded by James Stewart and Stephen Goddard in 2019, TrojAI is now helmed by CEO Lee Weiner, who was appointed earlier this year. The company sells cybersecurity software to guard

In the 1960s, Cape Breton fisherman Floyd Mackenzie nearly drowned in an accident that ultimately claimed the life of a different crew member.

Mackenzie and his “hired man,” Ernest Brown, were jumping from their fishing boat into a dory. The smaller vessel destabilized, tipping both men into the water. Floyd managed to rescue himself by grabbing one of the rowboat’s oars. Brown was less

Innovation aficionados looking to save on tickets for this year's Entrevestor Live startup conference have until June 30 to sign up at our early-bird price of $70.

The half-day conference, to be hosted by startup specialist Permjot Valia, will take place Sept. 17 at Volta in Halifax. After this month, live tickets will cost $80. Virtual tickets cost $65.

Entrevestor Live showcases the best and