Dartmouth-based Planetary Technologies has signed a US$31.3 million (C$43.2 million) agreement with Frontier to remove 115,211 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere between 2026 and 2030.

Blue-chip companies that back Frontier will pay Planetary to scale up its ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) operations in one of the world’s largest OAE projects to date.

Frontier works with some of the

St. John’s-based innovation hub Genesis is seeking founders to participate in Evolve, a seven-week program for early-stage tech founders.

Evolve is for founders who have an idea but no clear path forward, organizers said on LinkedIn.
The program allows founders to:

* Clearly define the problem their startup aims to solve.
* Understand who their customers are and what they want.
* Refine the

Fredericton-based Beauceron Security has launched its Cyber Wellness Score to help financial companies work with their customers to be more pro-active in preventing cybercrime.

The company in 2017 launched a cyber-risk scoring platform that allowed corporations of organizations to help employees assess their vulnerability to hackers and cybercriminals. That product now helps more than 1 million

The Ocean Startup Project has awarded $350,000 in funding to 15 Canadian startups in its fifth Ocean Startup Challenge, a national competition that supports early-stage oceantech ventures.

The winning companies, drawn from across the country, will each receive non-dilutive funding along with specialized support to help advance the development of their products. The 2025 cohort is tackling

As we do every summer, we're taking off the final week of August. 

We find there's little news to write about it in the week before Labour Day. And if something newsworthy does happen, there are few readers around to read about it. 

We're heading to the beach with a stack of good books -- forgive the shameless plug. We will be back in early September with more news. 

Atlantic Canadian students and researchers still have a few days left to apply for the 2025 Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada pitch competition, with the deadline set for Sunday, Aug. 24, at 11:59 p.m ADT.

The event will take place Sept. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Halifax Central Library and will also allow participants to pitch live online. The competition is open to post-secondary students,

Early-bird tickets are now on sale and nominations have opened for the 2025 InnovateNB Celebration and Awards, taking place Thursday, Nov. 27 at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre.

Now in its fourth year, InnovateNB is the province’s premier celebration of innovation, bringing together entrepreneurs, researchers, business leaders, and public-sector changemakers to recognize the people

Preparing for rising demand for its electronic assemblies, Dartmouth-based MilAero Electronics Atlantic is embarking on a major expansion estimated to cost more than $2.2 million.

Co-owners Paul and Debora Greedy announced last month that they were adding 8,000 square feet of manufacturing space to their existing headquarters, doubling the company’s operational facility.

The company’s expansion

Dalhousie University, ShiftKey Labs and Lab2Market are launching a new program called AI2Market to help students across Atlantic Canada develop AI-focused enterprises.

The new program is modeled on Lab2Market, which Dal co-founded with other universities in 2019 and has grown into a national program for research-based innovation. It’s being offered in collaboration with ShiftKey Labs, one of the

Tribe Network is seeking 2SLGBTQIA+ applicants from the BIPOC community for its new Out East program.

Offered in collaboration with the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Out East is a first-of-its-kind entrepreneurship program for members of these two under-represented communities.

“You don’t need to code-switch,” said an announcement from Tribe, a Halifax-based support organization