I believe that one day we’ll look back on 2021 as the year in which the Atlantic Canadian startup cluster began giving back to the governments that have supported it.

From our standpoint, the story of the year in 2021 was the governments of Canada, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador receiving a total of about $300 million from transactions involving Meta Materials Inc. and Verafin.

These

As we do each year, we're taking off the week between Christmas and New Year's. So this is our last day of publishing until Jan. 4. 

It's been a fantastic year, and we would like to thank all our readers and customers for making it so great. In 2021, we launched our Entrevestor Live event and got the ball rolling on our oceantech publication. We'll have lots of news about these initiatives in

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship is adding two awards to its annual Woodward Cup competition, including one that aims to increase participation by women and non-binary students.

The entrepreneurship hub at Memorial University of Newfoundland said via an article in The Gazette that the 2022 Woodward Cup would feature an Entrepreneurship Award for women or non-binary leadership and an

Halifax-based geriatrician, academic, and founder Kenneth Rockwood has been awarded the 2021 Ryman Prize, which is worth NZ$250,000, or C$218,000, for his work on behalf of older adults.

The grant recognizes the Dalhousie professor’s more than 30 years of research, collaboration and practical clinical work for older adults living with frailty and dementia and his long-term campaign to battle

Dartmouth’s Ring Rescue, which now sells its system for removing stuck jewelry in eight countries, has inked a distribution deal with fire and emergency supplies distributor Team Equipment to make its product available to more than 200 sellers in the United States.

Team Equipment distributes emergency gear to the companies that supply fire departments and other emergency responders, who will now

In the wake of doubling both its team and its client count over the last 18 months, Saint John regulatory software startup Four Eyes Financial is hiring another five people and preparing for a Series A funding round in early 2022.

The 31-person company makes regulatory compliance software for financial advisors, which it sells to firms that act as “back offices” to the advisors themselves. The

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a pair of new projects worth a combined $3.6 million -- one to remotely monitor work being conducted at offshore sites and one to develop risk assessment and crisis management strategies.

The remote monitoring system, which the supercluster dubs the Offshore Connected Worker Project, is budgeted at $3.1 million, with the supercluster kicking in $1.3

Alongside, the Moncton-based maker of human resources software, has acquired CareerBeacon for an undisclosed price, allowing the development team to take control of the job board and plot its expansion.

The Moncton company announced the purchase of the largest recruitment platform in Atlantic Canada in a press release today, but revealed no details of the transaction. Alongside CEO Yves Boudreau

At Entrevestor, we're in the process of preparing our annual data reports for 2021, including our first pan-Canadian Oceantech Data Report, which will be made available to the general public early in 2022.

If you head up an oceantech startup in Canada, please consider filling out our survey here. Startup support organizations and industry groups use our data to learn how to better allocate

Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software helps tech companies identify sales leads, has been acquired by Boston-based media company IDG Communications for an undisclosed price.

The two companies issued a press release today announcing the deal, and saying that LeadSift’s technology will help the Boston company to mine data to help its tech clients to find sales leads.

LeadSift’s 15-member team