The Joint Economic Development Initiative, which supports economic opportunities for Indigenous people in New Brunswick, launched its JEDI Trades Trailer last week to introduce skilled trades to Indigenous youths.

The trailer has been under

We were delighted to participate in the presentation of the Halifax Index on Thursday, explaining to the Halifax Partnership’s annual event the progress of the city’s startup community in 2022.

Each spring, the Partnership releases its Halifax

Three Atlantic Canadian startups are among 112 international companies accepted into the 2023 cohort of the MassChallenge Switzerland accelerator, which will take place in the Alpine country this summer.

Bonavista, NL-based MycoFutures North

Saint John-based Shift Energy, which uses machine learning to control energy use in large complexes, has partnered with Toronto’s Blackstone Energy Services, which plans to adopt Shift’s technology.

The two companies issued a press release on

Covina Biomedical, once considered one of the hottest young bio startups in the region, has shut down and filed for insolvency.

Covina, which grew out of research at Dalhousie University, aimed to use injectable bone cement to repair the bones in

Rafaela Andrade has received the Outstanding Entrepreneur award at the Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards, which took place in Waterloo, Ont., earlier this month.

The CEO and Co-Founder of Halifax medtech company Myomar Molecular received the national

Ignite Atlantic has opened applications for its $100 youth startup challenge to help foster entrepreneurship in rural Nova Scotia.

The youth startup challenge is a four-day summer camp that allows individuals from Grades 7 to 11 to develop and

One of the more interesting and unheralded developments in the Atlantic Canadian Business Community recently is the ascent of parallel entrepreneurs.

A parallel entrepreneur is a founder or co-founder who develops multiple companies at the same

Memorial University is benefiting Newfoundland and Labrador's ocean economy through research, teaching and public engagement, says a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

The organization, which comprises 38

Fredericton-based Picketa Systems, which makes hardware and software for analyzing plant tissues, has raised a $1.4 million seed round led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation ahead of an early adopter program. 

The agtech startup is

Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics, which specializes in developing infectious disease treatments, has bagged a United States patent for its liquid formulation of the antibiotic metronidazole.

For Appili, which was founded in 2015,

Black entrepreneurs are invited to sign up for the final live BUILD workshop in Halifax, which is titled Pitching Your Business to Investors.

Occurring next Wednesday, May 31, the workshop is being offered by Tribe Network, a group that offers