A new training program spearheaded by Dalhousie University’s Jeff Larsen and Globalive Capital’s Brice Scheschuk promises to train experienced businesspeople to become more effective mentors.

Larsen is the Executive Director of Innovation and

Atlantic Canadian technology industry group TechImpact has launched a new platform to match New Brunswick-based technology service companies with customers in the province and globally.

Dubbed CollabHub, the service is bilingual. Companies can sign

Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp has announced 14 participants for the second cohort of its revamped, virtual Accelerate program.

The participating companies, all of which have sales of less than $1 million and equity

An opening at COPOL International in North Sydney and two at Barrington Edge in Halifax headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Barrington Edge helps entrepreneurs and innovators to launch new businesses, enter new markets, commercialize

Atlantic Canada’s cluster of service and data-related oceans companies is comparable in size to the largest American clusters, such as Massachusetts, and its growth has accelerated since the opening of COVE, a study by the Dartmouth-based bluetech

We hope founders and startup enthusiasts in New Brunswick will tune in this morning when we present a New Brunswick-focused version of our 2020 Atlantic Canada Startup Data.

The one-hour event is organized by Planet Hatch in Fredericton.

Each

Putting paid to the notion of Atlantic Canada as a marginal player in the world of startups, Entrevestor Live on Wednesday showcased some of the region’s highest-flying young companies.

A multi-billion-dollar, sector-pioneering materials business

Dartmouth-based carbon sequestration specialist Planetary Hydrogen has won as much as $200,000 from the Ocean Startup Challenge competition, along with 39 other bluetech companies that bagged a combined $1.4 million in smaller prizes.

The Ocean

Dartmouth-based advanced materials specialist META has closed a deal to buy British Columbia’s Nanotech Security Corp. for $90.8 million, as the maker of security holograms for bank notes and government ID cards announced it has inked a

Irish marine robotics company XOCEAN, which maintains a branch office in Dartmouth, has raised €8 million or C$11.7 million in a funding round that valued the startup at about €100 million or C$ 146.2 million.

Founded in 2017 and based in Louth,

Atlantic Canadian companies are among the 100 winners of the Blueprint: Backing BIPOC Businesses awards, run by the DMZ, an award-winning startup incubator at Toronto’s Ryerson University, and funded by American Express.

The 15-week program offers

The Newfoundland and Labrador government will kick in $10 million to the first close of the Venture Newfoundland and Labrador II fund, adding on to a $6.3 million private sector funding raise.

Like the first Venture NL fund, Fund II will be managed