Jeff White, the CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, has posted a blog saying his organization is noticing a rebound in the startup community in the launch of new ventures and fundraising by portfolio companies.

The article highlights a resurgence in New Brunswick’s startup community, which White outlined last month at the New Brunswick Innovation Outlook event in Fredericton.

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics, which specializes in next-generation sonar systems and unmanned platforms to carry them, is in the process of raising about $100 million by selling shares on the TSX Venture Exchange.

The company issued a statement on Tuesday saying Desjardins Capital Markets is leading a syndicate of underwriters for the deal. They will buy 37.6 million shares at $2.66 each,

The Axis Accelerator at University of New Brunswick Saint John has seats available for its 10-week program for business-to-business startups looking to grow their revenues and prepare to raise capital.

The program will begin in September and require three to five hours per week from participants. It is aimed at positioning the founder of a company as its lead salesperson, as well as bolstering

Cape Breton–based sustainable promotional products company Ethical Swag is navigating the current economic chaos through the B-Corp certified systems it already had in place.

The Sydney company helps organizations make their values visible through ethically made, branded merchandise.  Over the last few years, the company has had strong revenue growth operating throughout Canada and the U.S. Even

For the first two-thirds of Toward Prosperity, the reader could be forgiven for thinking they’d picked up the wrong book.

In the title, this superb new analysis of the Atlantic Canadian economy by economist David Campbell and retired pollster Don Mills promises a path to affluence. Even the subtitle, The Transformation of Atlantic Canada’s Economy, makes it clear that things are changing in a

This Saturday through Monday, Haligonians can experience 1904 Dublin and 2025 Halifax in an app-based self-guided tour of the novel Ulysses. Billed as part literary excursion, part scavenger hunt, and part pub crawl, the app is the work of Andrew Burke, a partner in Halifax-based BeanCountertech.

Joyce's Ulysses is said to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century although many find it

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) has announced that Halifax will host the 2026 edition of its annual conference, Invest Canada, from May 26 to 28.

New Brunswick Innovation Foundation CEO Jeff White, who was recently appointed to the CVCA board, will be the official host of the conference. 

This return to Halifax recognizes the region’s expanding influence and

Dartmouth-based DeNova, which makes sustainable feed ingredients for aquaculture, will lead a $7.2 million Microbial Protein for Sustainable Aquaculture Project outlined this week by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster.

The project was the largest of five projects worth a total of $18 million unveiled by the Supercluster Monday at the H20 Conference in Halifax. Each of the five projects features

A total of 20 student teams will take part in Dal Innovates’ Lab2Market Launch and Collide Launch summer accelerator programs.

Comprising 33 students and recent graduates from 10 post-secondary institutions, the students will develop their ventures over 12 weeks. The two accelerators will offer students entrepreneurial training and access to $10,000 in funding.  Lab2Market Launch is primarily

Having graduated from the most recent cohort of the Techstars Sustainability Paris Accelerator, the team at St. John’s-based Nditive is setting its sights on launching their gas monitoring product in 2026.

Founded by Dr. Salar Salahi and Dr. Seyed Nabavi, Nditive is developing a proprietary system that can proactively monitor industrial infrastructure for hazardous events. Its initial target