Halifax’s Drinkable Water is opening pre-orders for its on-the-spot water quality testing device with deliveries scheduled to begin next April.

The launch comes as Drinkable looks to raise a $350,000 funding round to extend its runway while Chief Executive Matthew Mizzi and his small team focus on commercialization. The company has bagged commitments for about half the raise.

Drinkable’s device

Halibut P.E.I., a fish farm that had been leaning heavily on innovative, land-based aquaculture techniques, has been bought by Norway’s Amar Group four months after filing for bankruptcy.

The Norwegian private equity company, which specializes in backing maritime innovation, hopes to continue with Halibut P.E.I.’s plans to scale up its operations, according to Knut Trellevik, President of

The Joint Economic Development Initiative, an Indigenous organization that backs First Nations industry and entrepreneurs, has made acting CEO Stanley Barnaby’s job permanent.

Barnaby, 33, is already a JEDI veteran. He joined as an intern in 2015 and established himself as a finance and operations specialist. He said in an interview that he sees his youth as an asset for the chief executive

Tribe Network, which is a support organization for Black entrepreneurs and business owners in Atlantic Canada, is commencing its first Black Start-Up Project Roadshow — a series of networking events for Entrepreneurs of Colour.

With tour dates scheduled in multiple cities and towns across Atlantic Canada, the Roadshow is open to Black business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs and will feature

The Halifax Innovation District has just posted an article on its website showcasing the Emera IdeaHUB – Dalhousie University’s incubator for hardware startups – and one of its resident companies, OceanSync Data Solutions.

The article – written by Entrevestor – details the challenges posed by the development of hardware products, and how the Emera IdeaHUB team helps startups to overcome those

Atlantic Canada’s life sciences startups face a labour crunch possibly even more complex than the one gripping the information technology sector, but short-term training and upskilling programs could offer a partial solution, observers say.

Vivian Beer, manager of HR strategy for the PEI BioAlliance, and Chandra Kavanagh, director of Bounce Health Innovation, said in interviews that the biotech

Commercial spaceflight startup Maritime Launch Services has completed its reverse takeover of now-defunct merchant bank Jaguar Financial Corp., and in a departure from common practice, listed its shares on Toronto’s specialist NEO Exchange for innovation-driven companies.

The deal to buy Jaguar was announced in December and finalized last month. At the time, Jaguar was trading on the TSX Venture

Halifax’s Zen Electric Bikes, which works with prominent Dalhousie University battery scientist Jeff Dahn, has won $100,000 of non-dilutive funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC.

Founded last year by battery scientists and businessmen Ravi Kempaiah, Somu Kumar and Paul Daniel, Zen aims to improve the efficiency of electric bike batteries. The company’s research is

In a deal that aims to make Barcelona a leading hub for the Blue Economy, the World Ocean Council has agreed that the 2022 Sustainable Ocean Summit and inaugural Global Blue Finance Summit will be held in Barcelona. 

The agreement with Barcelona City and Port also names the city as the headquarters for the World Ocean Council, or WOC, known as the global Blue Economy Business and Investment

Charlottetown-based PayTic, whose product streamlines the back-office operations of payment companies, has raised $2.95 million in its initial funding round.

The company, which had previously been in stealth mode, issued its first press release on Monday to say its round was led by Halifax-based Build Ventures. The other investors are Charlottetown-based Island Capital Partners, Halifax-based