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Rachael Craig’s MotionHall Exits

  • Mar 24, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Rachael Craig, who was active in the early days of the Halifax startup ecosystem, now has a Silicon Valley exit on her résumé.

Craig was a Co-Founder and (until recently) CEO of San Francisco-based MotionHall, which developed software that provided

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Victory Receives $400K from ACOA

  • Mar 22, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A Saint John electric vehicle startup has received just over $400,000 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency as it looks to scale production of its high-performance motors.

Victory Advanced Technologies sells powertrains that can be

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LadderSpike Wins National Pitch Competition

  • Mar 22, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

As St. John’s-based LadderSpike looks to start delivering on its pre-orders this spring, the company has won a pitch competition at the Canadian Construction Association’s annual conference, bagging the top prize with its footing system for ladders.

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MIMOSA Wins at Medtech Investment Challenge

  • Mar 21, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

MIMOSA Diagnostics, the Halifax- and Toronto-based maker of a medical device for non-invasively measuring tissue damage, was victorious at Wednesday’s medtech finals of the Atlantic Canada Healthtech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, besting four

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Youth Innovation Fair Coming to Miramichi

  • Mar 21, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Brilliant Labs, an Atlantic Canadian charity that aims to foster coding and digital skills among youth, will host an innovation fair in Miramichi April 4, with the timing chosen to align with an eclipse that will happen on the 8th.

Slated to be

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Profitual Joins NEXT AI

  • Mar 20, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Profitual, a financial intelligence startup founded by a pair of former New Brunswick Innovation Foundation execs, is one of 40 companies nationally to be accepted into startup support organization NEXT Canada’s 2024 AI cohort.

NEXT, a non-profit,

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Martha Casey Becomes EfficiencyOne COO

  • Mar 20, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Nova Scotia cleantech non-profit EfficiencyOne has a new member of its C-suite, and one who will be familiar to many in the innovation economy: former Volta chief executive Martha Casey.

Most recently the interim co-CEO of the International

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P.E.I. Life Sciences Sector Posted $600M Revenue in 2022

  • Mar 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Life sciences businesses on Prince Edward Island brought in more than $600 million of revenue in 2022, according to research from the P.E.I. BioAlliance.

A survey by the industry group of about 50 of its member companies found their combined

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Clean Valley Joins Thrive

  • Mar 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Clean Valley CIC is the only Atlantic Canadian startup among 15 to be selected for Silicon Valley accelerator Thrive’s third Canadian cohort.

Thrive, which is run by the West Coast agri-food VC firm SVG Ventures, offers startup founders

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Ocean Startup Project Announces Follow-On Funding

  • Mar 18, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

National industry group the Ocean Startup Project has announced 12 alumni from its accelerator program that will receive follow-on funding.

Offered for the first time this year, the Ocean Challenge: Boost funding program offers additional funding

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MarineThinking Attending NATO DIANA

  • Mar 17, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based MarineThinking, which has developed autonomous technologies for marine vessels, is now going through NATO’s new innovation accelerator operating out of Boston.

The company is one of seven companies selected for the first cohort of the

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Aurea Plans Automation

  • Mar 15, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is lending Aurea Technologies just under $392,000 as the Dartmouth maker of portable wind turbines looks to automate more of its production process.

Some of the money will go towards buying specialized

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