The Halifax Port Authority is boosting the region’s growing oceans ecosystem with its Living Lab, designed to be a global centre for collaboration on maritime innovation, especially as it pertains to the port industry.

The PIER (Port Innovation,

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has lent Halifax-based DeNova $250,000 to help develop its technology, which converts greenhouse gases into a protein that can be used as feed in farms and aquaculture.

ACOA announced the loan, made through

The current cohort of Creative Destructive Lab Oceans Stream has established a scholarship in the memory of Dr. Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, Co-Founder and CEO of ECOncrete, who died March 7.

ECOncrete, an Israeli company, was one of the international

Writing the 2020 edition of our Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report, I’ve noticed a few external factors that could impact the community – some good, some bad.

By external factors, I mean economic forces that are outside the conventional startup

Milk Moovement, which is dedicated to improving efficiency in the dairy supply chain, has closed a $4 million equity funding round and attracted investment from a member of the first family of U.S. agriculture.

The round was led by Chattanooga,

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Hart Devitt can truthfully say he’s gone to the far side of the world and never found an organization comparable to Springboard Atlantic.

The Director of Industry and Government Services at University of New Brunswick spent

Calling it an “immigrant’s dream come true”, Hussain Abdullah has launched his business AllinBud, which manufactures and sells secure wooden boxes for cannabis and related accessories.

After selling out an initial 300-unit trial run, he has now

For the second time in six months, Halifax-based security intelligence company LifeRaft has drawn investment from the Canadian Business Growth Fund, or CBGF, which is backed by the country’s largest financial institutions.

The parties did not

Airntell Aerospace, which is developing a drone service to support search and rescue operations, claimed the $1,500 first prize at the Genesis Pitch & Pick competition on Tuesday.

Founded by CEO Mateus Saar, Airntell uses drone technology for

Halifax-based QRA Corp., which provides natural language processing for complex engineering tasks, has closed a US$3 million (C$3.8 million) funding round to enhance its business development and customer service teams.

The venture capital funds

Startup Weekend Nova Scotia will be held online starting on April 30, with a special focus on inclusion and diversity.

A division of the global accelerator Techstars, Startup Weekends are frequently held to bring community members together to

Atlantic FinTech, an association supporting financial technology in the region, has partnered with Fintech Cadence, a Montreal-based national non-profit, to help grow the region’s fintech industry and ecosystem.

The region is already home to a