Lab2Market Launch and Dalhousie University have unveiled their inaugural Founder Council network for their Atlantic and National Health cohorts.

More than 40 founder council members from across Canada signed up to join the program.

The program

St. John’s-based Spellbook, the maker of artificial intelligence-enabled contract-drafting software, has raised a US$10.9 million or C$14.8 million seed round from investors including Thomson Reuters, the Toronto data and publishing giant that

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, has announced the companies graduating from this year’s Oceans cohort for bluetech companies and its Prime cohort for

Halifax’s Net-Zero Edge, or NZE, is joining the 10-week Bluetech Boost accelerator from Gulf of Maine Ventures, the investment arm of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute oceantech hub in Portland, Maine.

Founded last year by blue economy veteran

Get Coding Training, a Newfoundland and Labrador-based information technology jobs training company, is expanding throughout Atlantic Canada in the wake of strong demand from workers in more traditional industries looking to change careers.

Founded

Genesis, Newfoundland and Labrador’s startup hub, is seeking applications for its Evolution accelerator program this summer.

According to Genesis, this program is a “pre-incubator program,” which offers intensive and experiential learning to help

Having successfully completed clinical trials, Pasadena, NL-based medtech company Swiftsure Innovations has raised a $2.3 million seed funding round, led by Pelorus VC.

Founded three years ago by intensive care unit nurse Deanne McCarthy, Swiftsure

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $57 million in venture capital through 13 deals in the first quarter – a respectable performance given the decline in venture capital elsewhere in the county.

Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association

The first quarter of 2023 saw a rare downturn in startup jobs on the East Coast, with total employment in the sector dropping to levels comparable to the worst days of the pandemic, according to data from early stage venture capital fund Concrete

If there was a singular achievement of Canada’s oceantech startup community in 2022, it was that it truly became a national community.

Today, we are releasing our 2022 Canadian Oceantech Data Report, our second analysis of the country’s bluetech

Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute this week officially opened the long-awaited marine research lab The Launch in an oceanside location in Holyrood, about 50 kilometers from St. John’s.

The Launch -- formerly known as the Holyrood

Virtual startup incubator Propel has bagged $1.05 million of funding from the Nova Scotia government over three years, with CEO Kathryn Lockhart saying some of the money will go to expanding the organization’s five-person coaching staff.

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