Halifax startup hub Volta’s fifth annual Ecosystem Impact Awards are coming on September 20, honouring changemakers from the region's innovation ecosystem.

Slated to be held at Dalhousie University’s Ocean Sciences Building in Halifax, the event is free to attend and aims to highlight startup community members that have fostered economic or social progress.

Last year’s winners included Milk

St. Stephen, NB-based Stewart Farms sells its cannabis bath bombs in government retail outlets like any other THC-based product, but the value proposition it offers customers is quite different.

Chief Executive Tanner Stewart founded the company in April 2020, inspired by his experiences operating Edmonton construction company Field-Max Industrial and wishing for products similar to the ones he

Halifax-based MARIN X, which sells sensor technology for aquaculture operators, has won the Innovation Award at global bluetech conference Aqua Nor, held in Trondheim, Norway.

The brainchild of entrepreneurs Sheamus MacDonald and Aleksandr Stabenow, MARIN X is an evolution of the 2017-founded Sedna Technologies and has offices in both Nova Scotia and fish farming centre Norway. The company’s

Entrevestor Live, our third annual conference on Atlantic Canada's most successful startups, is coming to Halifax startup hub Volta Nov. 14. This year's theme is Going Global.

The half-day, hybrid event is dedicated to learning from the region’s greatest startup successes and dispelling the myth that Canada’s East Coast is home only to early-stage companies. To achieve that, we are preparing to

Halifax-based Hollo Medical has swapped out its CEO, replacing one co-founder with another.

Former CEO David Hodgson, who in June won the 2023 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, beating out almost 1,100 competitors internationally, will become chief medical officer. His co-founder and former chief operating officer, Sara Fedullo, is replacing him as chief executive.

“I am incredibly excited to

Dalhousie University’s startup hub, Dal Innovates will hold a virtual pitch day on Sept. 12 for its health cohort of Lab2Market Launch, part of a national research commercialization program for post-secondary institutions.

The students, researchers and recent graduates will have just completed a 12-week, milestone-based boot camp offering up to $15,000 of non-dilutive funding, as well as

Halifax medical technology startup NovaResp, which is developing an algorithm to help manage sleep apnea, has added a new member to its board of directors: Raj Sodhi, who has extensive experience selling technology to treat the condition.

Sodhi co-founded Umbian, which sold software for tracking patients’ sleep habits and was acquired by San Diego-based ResMed in 2012. He stayed on at ResMed for

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is looking for grant applicants to its new, $2 million Climate Change Mitigation Fund, and the deadline is Oct. 16.

NBIF and economic development agency Opportunities New Brunswick created the fund to accelerate the development and implementation of technology for climate change mitigation and adaptation, building on $1.5 million of grants handed out by a

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship will host this year’s Future of Innovation conference Oct. 17 and 18, and the first speaker to be announced is prominent business journalist Gordon Pitts.

The conference will feature a cross-section of speakers from the world of startups and innovation and will be held at the Delta Hotels

Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly said the CVCA's second-quarter data overlooked the CarbonCure deal. We have corrected the article to state that the CarbonCure round closed in the third quarter. 

 

While venture capital nationally has had a gangbusters second quarter, startups in Atlantic Canada suffered one of their worst fundraising periods ever, according to data