Halifax startup hub Volta will hold its next quarterly Virtual Pitch Competition May 28.

The competitions offer budding founders the chance to practice giving a three-minute pitch to a panel of judges. Winners are chosen based solely on the quality of their pitches, not the quality of their companies.

Victorious entrepreneurs will receive a $500 Visa gift card. 

Volta says on its website that

NovaResp, the Halifax developer of technology for treating sleep apnea, has raised a $3 million seed extension round that CEO Hamed Hanafi expects to fund the company through completion of its clinical trials.

The deal builds on a $2 million round NovaResp closed in Dec. 2022 and is led by board member Dr. Neil Smith, along with returning investors Concrete Ventures and  Invest Nova Scotia.

A Halifax startup is aiming to create an online platform that leverages the positive, community-oriented aspects of social media without relying on manipulative engagement-boosting practices or monetizing users’ personal data.

Chief Executive Sam Daviau described UpBeing Tuesday as “social, but not social media,” quoting from ads the company is running, ironically, on social media. He and

Seven companies pitched at Halifax startup hub Volta’s spring Investment Day event Tuesday, which it hosted in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event gave pre-vetted seed-stage and Series A companies the chance to pitch to an audience of funders and industry players from both inside and outside Atlantic Canada, followed by opportunities to meet with

Atlantic BIOCON, the industry gathering for life sciences, will be held at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University this May 28 to 30, with presenters from the startup community including Aruna Revolution and Dispersa, among others.

The event is being hosted by the Greenspring Bioinnovation Hub, with backing from Ignite Atlantic, Innov, which is the applied research arm of the

The national industry group Ocean Startup Project is looking for applicants to Ocean Idea Challenge, which offers young companies up to $7,000 of funding, as well as training and support services.

The Idea Challenge is a milestone-based accelerator program for entrepreneurs working on customer discovery and product-market fit, and for top-performing companies. It feeds into the more advanced

It's with great pleasure that we announce that Entrevestor's 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report will be launched June 20 in a presentation at the Wu Conference Centre at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

We're delighted to team up with the university's J Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship in hosting this event, which will feature a light lunch

Moncton-based online recruitment and talent management website CareerBeacon has announced a set of 10 bursaries worth a combined $25,000 for first-year post-secondary students, including $10,000 earmarked specifically for students in the trades.

The YearOne bursaries are a joint project with clothing brand East Coast Lifestyle and residential heating company Wilsons. Last year, the program

Halifax-based Planetary Technologies has cracked the top 20 finalists for the US$100 million Carbon Removal XPRIZE startup competition, building on a prior, $1 million interim award the company won in 2022.

Founded in Ottawa in 2019, Planetary has developed a system to convert alkaline rocks left over from mining operations into a substance called bicarbonate, which it plans to release into

California- and Halifax-based Frenter has signed a deal to incorporate its maintenance and analytics software for heavy equipment into Ontario-based Texada’s equipment business management platform.

Founded in 1984, Texada sells SaaS software for heavy equipment rental, sales and service companies. The integration deal is the second such agreement Frenter has finalized in less than two months,