Unmanned submarine and sonar maker Kraken Robotics has become the first company to receive approval for an R&D project from Canada’s Ocean Supercluster.

The St. John’s-based company said it will oversee the $20 million development of the OceanVision system, which will allow clients to lease unmanned submarines to conduct seafloor surveys and store the data in the cloud. The Ocean Supercluster

Toronto-based EnergyX Solutions, which recently graduated from the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic, is establishing an office in Halifax with the help of a loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

ACOA issued a statement on Friday saying it will lend the company $500,000 through the federal government’s Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program. The company has hired its

Our Job of the Week column today showcases the opening for a Customer Support Manager at Spring Loaded Technology in Dartmouth.

For several years, Spring Loaded Technology has produced the Levitation brace, which not only stabilizes the knee joint but adds power to it, allowing people with mobility problems to move more freely. The Levitation line includes the world’s first tri-compartment

The  Atlantic Venture Forum on Thursday named four winners of its annual pitching competition and unveiled plans to integrate the annual startup conference into a startup festival next year.

The AVF brought together founders from across the region with a range of investors and startup organizations. The event featured 21 companies in four streams that pitched for investors, and about eight

Among the many positive headlines, facts and figures about Halifax contained in the latest edition of the Halifax Index is a particular statistic that caught my attention.

New research by the Halifax Partnership has revealed that the majority of funds raised by startup companies in Halifax over the last five years went to health care and life sciences companies – some US$64 million (C$84.4

The Atlantic Venture Forum is showcasing an interesting group of entrepreneurs this week – a young group that collectively says they are on the cusp of exponential revenue growth.

The annual conference is a meeting place between East Coast entrepreneurs, support organizations and a range of investors. Through the two-day event Wednesday and Thursday, 22 entrepreneurs are pitching to the crowd,

The stock market is looming larger in the Atlantic Canadian startup community than it ever has before, as several leading companies are choosing public markets as the best option to secure long-term financing.

Just in the past week, Metamaterial Technologies Inc. of Dartmouth announced that it will seek a listing on the Canadian Stock Exchange, with a goal of raising more than $10 million. And

Charlottetown-based MicroSintesis, which has developed a revolutionary product to ensure gut health in animals, has sold a minority stake to John Risley’s Northern Private Capital for $16.4 million.

 MicroSintesis is working in a new area of research called proteobiotic, which aims to rebalance the good and bad bacteria in an animal’s or person’s gut. The company has two products, which in total

Dartmouth-based automated marketing company SimplyCast has been granted a high-level certification for cybersecurity, which is a necessity for landing business from a range of enterprise clients.

The company issued a statement Tuesday saying it has secured ISO 27001:2013 certification, which is an international standard for information security management systems. The statement said achieving

The federal government has lent Dartmouth-based Beyond Food Inc. $925,000 to develop a manufacturing plant and market its nutritional supplement made out of grocery store produce nearing its sell-by date.

The two-year-old company’s mission is to reduce food wastage, which now amounts to $49.5 billion a year in Canada alone, by finding supermarket produce that is about to be tossed out and using