We’re thrilled to announce that Entrevestor Live will be held this year in collaboration with Tribe Network in downtown Halifax at their new office location, 1717 Barrington Street.

This announcement is more than just a change of location from our

The co-CEOs of Saint John technology company Innovatia, Roxanne Fairweather and Dave Grebenc, have been inducted into industry group InnovateNB’s Hall of Fame.

Innovatia, which helps businesses develop and implement their internal

Halifax-based Glas Ocean Electric, which is developing technology to electrify boats and optimize their energy performance, has won a contract from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

The company issued a

Growing out of the crisis of the pandemic, Halifax-based Food for Thought Software Solutions, a company that provides stigma-free school meals to kids in need, is using its participation in a U.S. EdTech program to expand.

The

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia has a new CEO: software-as-a-service veteran Owen Sagness.

With a background at Microsoft, where he eventually became the U.K. managing director for advertising and online, Sagness most recently founded consulting

Arolytics, the Halifax- and Calgary-based maker of emissions tracking software for oil and gas companies, has raised a seed round worth over $3.5 million, led by BDC Capital’s new, $150 million Sustainability Venture Fund.

Other backers of the

Boston-based bluetech innovation hub SeaAhead and the New England Aquarium have selected a fourth cohort of startups for BlueSwell, a program focused on early-stage bluetech innovation.   

The five startups target decarbonization, ocean data

The Halifax maker of anti-microbial film for fish packaging that was formerly called Impactful Health R&D has rebranded to Freshr Sustainable Technologies.

Freshr, which was founded by biomaterials researcher Mina Mekhail in 2017 and makes its

A group of innovation ecosystem support groups on Prince Edward Island are collaborating to host a one-day entrepreneurship conference in Charlottetown Nov. 2.

The Summit for Island Entrepreneurs and Innovators is being organized by Startup Zone,

On the eve of Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Saint John-headquartered North Shore Mi’kmaq District Council has inked $3 million worth of investment deals with two makers of next-generation nuclear reactors.

The two nuclear

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-related research and development deals with the private sector, including a $10.5 million, six-company group working on environmental assessments for tidal energy

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance has become the first North American group to receive the Gold Label of Cluster Management Excellence by the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis.

The Charlottetown-based group, which brings together