Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub has put out a call for applications for the summer cohort of its eight-week Evolution startup accelerator, with a May 18 deadline.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young companies for longer programs, such as its own, three-year Enterprise incubator. Evolution promises to help entrepreneurs clarify their

Halifax-based Adaptiiv Medical Technologies, the Halifax company bringing 3D printing to bear on cancer treatment, has inked a collaboration deal with printer giant HP and Palo Alto, California medtech specialist Varian Medical Systems.

Under the deal, Adaptiiv will use HP’s 3D printing technology, Multi Jet Fusion, to produce form-fitted coverings placed over a cancer patient’s body to direct

Researchers are invited to apply for Lab2Market-NSERC, Canada’s first national research commercialization program.

Lab2Market, a program developed by several universities to commercialize research, has partnered with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, or NSERC, a federal organization that funds researchers, especially those working with industry. The two groups are

Boston-based Innovasea has begun testing a new tagless technology that can detect, count and classify fish in real time using a combination of imaging sonar, optical cameras and artificial intelligence. 

The technology has been shown in early trials to be 90 percent accurate in properly counting and identifying wild fish, Innovasea and its partners said in a statement.  Innovasea, whose main

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