The Woodward family has committed $500,000 to expand student entrepreneurship at Memorial University in St. John’s. The new capital will maintain the Mel Woodward Cup, the university’s flagship student startup competition.

Over the last ten years,

CoLab AI, which makes AI-driven collaboration software for engineers, was named the Nasdaq Verafin Tech Company of the Year last week at the fifth annual techNL Industry Awards.

The industry association presented awards in five categories during an

Nova Scotia founders are invited to apply to Spark Nova Scotia, the contest for rural and coastal high-potential, knowledge-based businesses.

The contest is run in three regions — Cape Breton, North, and Southwest — and offers winners up to

Calgary-based non-profit Top 7 Over 70 will hold an awards ceremony in Halifax next month which will celebrate the recent successes of adults over 70. It is the first time the awards will be held in Atlantic Canada.

The Top 7 Over 70 movement began

Saint John-based Versos AI has announced a partnership with Tape Ark to convert large volumes of video stored on physical tape into structured datasets for artificial intelligence systems.

Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneur Chris Keevill,

Scott Stevenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Spellbook of St. John’s, has won the Rocketship Award as leader of the fastest-growing company in Canada at the inaugural Built in Canada Awards.

The Built in Canada Awards recognize tech companies that

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship (MCE) has launched a program aimed at helping Memorial University engineering co-op students identify real-world problems that could lead to the creation of new companies.

The initiative, called the Problem

Halifax-based Tribe Network, a support hub for BIPOC founders, and rural startup group IGNITE Atlantic have established a partnership to boost support for racialized entrepreneurs in the region.

The partnership connects Tribe's community, coaching,

Charlottetown-based Paytic has acquired GUPPY-AI for an undisclosed price, a move that has led to the launch of a new product suite called PayTic Intelligent Components.

The companies announced the development Wednesday in LinkedIn posts, with

Yash Mehta is more interested in the quality than the quantity of early adopters as he plots the growth of four-month-old Mettara AI, which now has annual recurring revenue of US$40,000.

Yes, you read that correctly. Halifax-based Mettara was only

Halifax-based Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic is looking for applicants for its 2026-2027 general and oceantech programs.

The Atlantic Canadian branch of the Toronto-based organization is currently seeking founders for two programs: the Prime

Having recorded a $2.7 million funding round and 10X revenue growth in 2025, St. John’s-based SiftMed now hopes to book more sales – including enterprise clients – and capital in 2026.

In fact, Co-Founder and CEO Holly Hill revealed in an interview