Two Cape Breton University nursing students have placed first in the Canadian division of the Techstars Startup Weekend.

Held via video-conference on April 24 and dubbed “Unite to Fight COVID-19,” the competition saw aspiring entrepreneurs divide into teams to cultivate their business ideas over 52 hours.

Michaela Moore and Kelsey Muller worked with five other participants on their plans for

The Cape Breton office of Innovacorp is offering a series of virtual meetings featuring leaders in communications and strategy free of charge in order to help entrepreneurs understand the importance of story-telling.  

The series, which is open to anyone, is designed to help entrepreneurs with their marketing skills, and features an array of international experts who are leaders in their fields.

Five startups each won $25,000 worth of investment in a remote version of the Volta Cohort pitching competition on Wednesday night.

The winners were chosen from a field of about 30 initial applicants, 15 of whom were selected to give three-minute presentations to a panel of judges from the public and private sectors. In addition to the money, the final five will receive access to mentorship and

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, or ACOA, will be distributing $110 million of federal funding to small and medium-sized companies that do not qualify for other forms of emergency bailouts.

ACOA said in a press release Wednesday that the Regional Recovery and Relief Fund, or RRRF, is aimed at the manufacturing, technology and tourism sectors, among others.

The Atlantic funding is part

Dartmouth-based SimplyCast, a multi-channel marketing company, has been awarded the Canie Award for Global Entrepreneurship for the Atlantic Region by the Innovators & Entrepreneurs Foundation. a national charity dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship among business owners in marginalized communities.

The award recognizes organizations that have succeeded in selling into international

Despite COVID-19 necessitating logistical changes, 2020 is shaping up to be a landmark year for the Atlantic division of science and technology accelerator Creative Destruction Lab.

The cohort that finished the program on May 5 was the first to offer specialized training for ocean technology startups, which comprised about half of the 25 companies that were accepted to participate.

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The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund and its Alberta counterpart are forming a new organization that they hope will become a nationwide vehicle for supporting female-led businesses.

The new group Canada51 is now a partnership between the AWVF and the Calgary-based female investment group The51.  

In its initial stages, Canada51 will probably involve the two founding organizations and their members

Propel CEO Barry Bisson has announced he will retire in the fall of this year, so the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator has begun its search for his replacement.

The pan-regional organization issued a statement Monday evening, saying its board of directors has formed a search committee to lead the effort in partnership with the executive search firm Chapman Group. 

Propel said it hopes to

Appili Therapeutics said Monday it will sponsor the first clinical trial in Canada evaluating Fujifilm Toyama Chemical’s drug Favipiravir for the prevention of COVID-19.

The Halifax company dedicated to fighting infectious diseases last November bought the rights to develop a new anti-fungal drug candidate from Fujifilm Toyama, and the announcement Monday shows the two companies are deepening

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is seeking applications from across Canada for short-term, innovative projects that will help stimulate economic activity.

Under the Accelerated Ocean Solutions Program, the federally backed supercluster—which partners with private industry to fund research and development— will spend up to $35 million to back small-scale projects that can be brought to market in less