Aeon Blue Inc., the Cape Breton green fuel and carbon capture startup, has raised $195,000 in equity funding from the Cape Breton Capital Group to help the company establish its first facility in 2027.

Based in Sydney River, Aeon Blue specializes

Halifax will see 18 post-secondary student teams showcase their projects at the Enactus Canada Atlantic Region Competition Feb 27 and 28.

Enactus Canada is a charity providing programs focused on inspiring post-secondary students to initiate and

Halifax-based physicians’ network Virtual Hallway and IWK Health Genetics have joined forces to boost genetic health education among healthcare providers and improve access to specialized genetic services.

The partnership is part of a 12-month

Events for Atlantic Canada’s startup community are now being listed on an events calendar created by Startup Atlantic, a network of startup groups and accelerators.
The Startup Atlantic Event Hub is a one-stop shop for all startup events happening

Startups in Atlantic Canada raised $176 million in venture capital in 2024, their weakest performance in four years, according to new data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

On Wednesday, the organization known as the

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has announced the loss of its founder and former CEO Karl Kenny on February 11, at the age of 64.

Kenny founded Kraken in 2012 and was instrumental in building the company into a significant player in subsea

A new Atlantic Canadian investment group is hoping to close its first fund this month, and make its first investment at about the same time.

TLT East Ventures is the brainchild of Michael Brown, a New Brunswick-born investment banker whose career

Halifax basketball player Jayrell Diggs is partnering with courier companies and laundromats to grow his SudDrop laundry service into new provinces.

The student athlete is expanding his laundry subscription service to Ontario this summer, with the

Our column Wednesday about the decline in Atlantic Canadian startups sparked an interesting discussion on LinkedIn, with a related chat about whether AI and other factors are creating a wave of “solopreneurs”.

We had some requests to flesh out the

The fifth cohort of Ocean Startup Project’s Lab2Market Oceans/Validate program has begun work with 21 new teams that aim to tackle challenges in the blue economy.

The eight-week program, hosted by Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador,

There’s a troubling metric we’re discovering as we work on our next Atlantic Canada Startup Data report. For the first time, the startup community appears to be shrinking. As of right now, we have 732 innovation-driven companies in the Entrevestor

Invest Nova Scotia and partners are seeking early-stage agri-technology and bioeconomy companies to apply for GreenShoots programming.

GreenShoots is for companies in the agriculture, agri-food, bioeconomy, clean technology, and related sectors and