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

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