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

The technology created by Halifax medtech startup MIMOSA Diagnostics has been acknowledged as an assessment tool by U.S. Medicare and Medicaid providers, allowing the company to scale south of the border.

In November of last year, U.S. Medicare and

The competition that trains student venture capitalists in real world situations is going national with student entrepreneurs from across the country arriving to pitch their businesses to young venture capitalists in Halifax.

Until now, the

We really need CEOs and founders to take a few minutes and complete our 100% confidential survey.

We’re now beginning to analyze the data that we’ve been collecting, but we need a lot more surveys to finish the job. We can’t emphasize this enough: