Today, we’re posting our final articles for 2023 as we begin our annual end-of-year holiday.

We’re putting down the phones and shutting down the laptops for a few days, as we do every year at this time. We will begin reporting news again on Jan. 3.

The holiday season could soon be a little safer thanks to St. John’s-based LadderSpike.

Founded by Jordan Spencer and Dale Kean, the company has developed a footing system for ladders that drives spikes into the ground for improved stability.

The

Fredericton’s Potential Motors has inked a testing deal with Minnesota-based CFMOTO Powersports, which sells ATVs and other off-road vehicles, to integrate Potential’s vehicle control software into CFMOTO’s vehicles.

The companies said in a

Veer Group, the Lunenburg, NS, startup that plans to build hydrogen- and wind-powered container ships, has signed a €50 million, or about C$73.2 million letter of intent with a European backer to finance its first two vessels.

Founded by shipping

Fredericton-based Picketa Systems, maker of the LENS hardware and software suite for analyzing plant tissues, is expanding the system’s capabilities to include analysis for corn crops, in addition to its original focus on potatoes.

The upgrade will

With Atlantic Canadian startups raising more than $237.6 million in equity funding this year, improving on last year’s total, the region’s venture capital landscape remains bifurcated between established businesses with traction and young startups

Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the winter cohort of its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, which offers startups up to $50,000 of funding.

The money can go towards assessing a product’s market potential,

The Halifax Partnership has announced the six winners of its Circular Food Solution Challenge, which will each receive $5,000 to pilot or test circular economy technologies for the food sector over the next three months.

The competition was hosted

ASETS-CA hopes to make engineering work as simple as playing a video game, according to CEO Ashwini Oke, and the Fredericton maker of computer-aided design, or CAD, software now has significantly more funds with which to achieve that goal after

Fintech startup Woveo, which was originally founded in P.E.I. and is now headquartered in Calgary, has raised a $2.3 million seed round.

Woveo is a platform that lets users pool their money and take turns borrowing from the collective fund without

Infusd Nutrition has raised a round of angel funding and is working with 10 international beverage ingredient-makers to implement its technology in their businesses under licensing deals, just months after the Halifax startup launched.

Infusd was

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to its annual Democamp, which gives young companies the chance to showcase their technology for investors and other innovation community members.

Slated to be held at Volta’s new, Argyle Street