The Atlantic Canadian division of the Fondation de Gaspé Beaubien’s AquaHacking Challenge startup competition has announced its five finalist teams.

AquaHacking challenges are nine-month programs held across Canada that see competitors work to solve water-related problems, including issues with potability and industrial pollution. The Atlantic version was organized by Saint Mary’s University’s

Eight Atlantic Canadian companies and organizations have been recognized as part of the 2020 Canie Awards, presented by the Ottawa-based Innovators and Entrepreneurs Association, and Startup Canada.

The eight East Coast winners are part of a group of 40 entrepreneurs and support organizations that are being honoured as leading lights in Canada’s innovation economy.

The awards’ objectives centre

Do you drink coffee?

I want to start by asking, how do you take your coffee? 

Black? A bit of milk? One, maybe two lumps?

Well, if you’re the kind of person pulling up to the drive-thru ordering a double-double, you need to say thank you to one Mr. Michael Duck.

You probably don’t know it, but if it wasn’t for Mr. Duck, you’d likely still be tearing open sugar packets, spilling them (and

Three online startup events will be held in the next two days, recognizing Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurship and in one case awarding a six-figure prize to the winner.  

The Aquahacking Challenge Semi-Final and the Atlantic Canadian presentation of the Canie Awards will take place on Thursday, June 18. Then on Friday, four startups will compete in the Health Challenge Pitch Event, with the

Gene sequencing firm Nucliq Biologic and nutrition tracking startup Prospre won Memorial University’s Mel Woodward Cup pitch competition on Tuesday, beating out three other finalists.

Created in 2016, the Cup is the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship’s flagship event – held online this year because of COVID-19. The name honours fuel delivery and logistics magnate Melvin Woodward, who died in

Halifax-based b4, which offers Software-as-a-Service solutions to the hospitality industry, has launched a contactless payments process to help hotels bounce back from the pandemic.

The new physical distancing and hygiene requirements make the old ways of accepting and processing credit cards risky.

B4 (formerly b4checkin) said in a statement that taking payment over the phone is an option but

Cannabis testing startup Greenlight Analytical is preparing to launch a device that will measure the quality of cannabis crops without the need for slow and costly lab testing.

CEO James Wylde said in an interview that the product will be a modified mass spectrometer -- a machine that analyzes the chemical composition of substances and lists their contents -- paired with an AI system that will

Halifax biopharma company Appili Therapeutics has raised about $16.9 million to fund Canadian trials of influenza drug Favipiravir, which is owned by Japanese photography and biotech giant FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Company.

The private placement comes in the wake of Appili’s $10.25 million raise in February of this year and is part of a surge in bioscience fundraising in Atlantic Canada.

Both

Editor's note: Given the events of recent weeks, we wanted to host a discussion on whether people from the Black, First Nations and other minority communities are welcomed, supported and funded in the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem. We've asked several representatives of these communities to offer their thoughts. We're starting today with Ross Simmonds, the Founder of Foundation Marketing.  

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