The Richmond, BC-based Ocean Legacy Foundation, or OLF has announced it is partnering with telecom giant Telus on a public awareness campaign about plastic pollution in oceans.

Founded in 2013 and helmed by Executive Director Chloe Dubois, the OLF

The Ocean Startup Challenge, which offers idea- and early-stage bluetech startups up to $40,000 each, as well as specialized training, mentorship, networking and events, has revealed the 60-company shortlist for its third iteration.

Organized by

Awareness of the education and support offered free by the Black Startup Project is growing among BIPOC founders who are taking advantage of the training and mentoring available from the Halifax-based network.

Upcoming workshops will look at how to

Britain's leading global affairs magazine, The Economist, hosted its World Ocean Tech and Innovation Summit at the Halifax Convention Centre this week.

The event drew blue economy leaders from across Canada and around the world, including delegates

The Canadian and British governments are collaborating on a new bluetech innovation competition, with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency giving the Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia $275,000 to help run the program.

The competition will

The entrepreneurial community at University of New Brunswick will hold its annual Future of Innovation Conference on Oct. 19, with a special focus on the future of work.

The J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship

As a remotely operated business, we rely on our home Internet  connection and we're now working without Internet. 

Our Internet connection was knocked out after Fiona hit and we're working to get it restored. Eastlink has told us we will likely be

The University of New Brunswick’s McKenna Institute has named Kenneth Kent as its first Barrett Chair in Entrepreneurship for Digital Transformation.

Kent is a longtime professor of computer science at UNB and heads up the Atlantic Canadian arm of

On the back of quietly raising an unannounced pre-seed round in January, Dartmouth’s Impactful Health R&D is conducting pilot projects with several major players in the fish processing and packaging industries.

Founded by biomaterials researcher

Cape Breton’s Navigate Startup House is hosting a day-long “reverse pitch event” Oct. 13 that will see startups pitch their companies as if to investors, after which existing backers will explain why they bought in.

Dubbed Bring It Together, the

We’re delighted to announce that  Entrevestor Live, our hybrid event on Oct. 20, will feature a panel discussion with four of the region's leading seed-stage companies, to be hosted by Business Development Bank of Canada Director Paul Ryan. 

While

Energia Ventures, an international tech accelerator operated by University of New Brunswick, has begun its fall 2022 cohort, whose five members include two from Atlantic Canada.

The free accelerator is based in Fredericton at UNB’s J. Herbert Smith