Halifax business consultancy Imaginal Ventures and British Columbia-based national cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada are collaborating to launch Foresight’s eight-month accelerator program in the Atlantic Provinces.

Participating companies in

Canada has sent a deep roster of oceantech industry members and ecosystem support players to this year's Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, which is underway this week.

Twenty Canadian exhibitors — many of them startups, and

Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners has pledged to donate a portion of its profits to the Discovery Centre science museum, also in Halifax, in a move that looks to be aimed at least partly at increasing the talent pipeline for STEM jobs in Atlantic

Halifax-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies has begun applying its environmentally friendly, fuel-saving marine hull coatings to the ships of maritime services company KOTUG Canada.

GIT has applied its coatings to more than 20 vessels now,

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is eyeing sales to private healthcare facilities in the United States after receiving $50,000 from Kaleidoscope Social Impact, a Saint John-based social impact investor that offers loans

Last summer, Fredericton-based cybersecurity startup Beauceron Security quietly raised an oversubscribed $3.1 million equity funding round that included strategic investors from the world of community banking.

The round was led by Utah-based

Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation,

A $50 million funding package to create a new BioAccelerator life sciences hub on Prince Edward Island, announced Friday, is set to become the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in the province’s history.

Spearheaded

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are giving the Université de Moncton a combined $324,000 worth of grants to create a new artificial intelligence hub at its Shippagan, New Brunswick campus.

Dubbed

For a week this March, entrepreneurs, students and researchers will gather in Fredericton for the city’s Boost Ideation Camp with the aim of developing new ways to track and reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Backed by Fredericton business

Dartmouth’s CarbonCure Technologies has managed to successfully sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide in concrete as part of a joint project with Brisbane, California-based Heirloom, in what both companies have described as a world first.

CarbonCure

Cross-border business development accelerator Scale-up Hub: Atlanta, has announced its nine-company winter cohort.

The group includes five companies from New Brunswick, two from Nova Scotia and one from Prince Edward Island, as well as one