Entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the Halifax Convention Centre last week for the Atlantic Venture Forum, in what organizers at the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency described as a bid to foster bridge-building between the East Coast startup ecosystem and key players from outside the region.

The innovators that gathered on Argyle Street last week did so amidst a regional funding

Virtual startup accelerator Propel has named six companies participating in its Validation program for very early-stage founders.

The course focuses on teaching new entrepreneurs how to validate their business ideas and follow lean startup methodology in preparation for Propel’s other, more advanced programming. The organization recommends Validation for companies earning less than $1,000 of

Halifax-based Tribe Network is looking for applicants to its START accelerator for Black founders running early-stage companies.

The 10-week program promises to teach founders core entrepreneurship skills like how to access funding, as well as identify and solve customer needs. The curriculum also includes a session on lean business plans. Participants also have access to mentorship and

Myomar Molecular, which is developing tests for monitoring muscle health, has won Health Canada approval, clearing the way for it to begin selling its product to customers through healthcare providers, such as physiotherapy clinics.

Chief Executive Rafaela Andrade said in an interview Wednesday the nod from regulators comes in the form of a Medical Devices Establishment License — a certification

Halifax-based BlueGrid and its partners have built what they believe to be the first working vessel-to-grid energy transfer system in the world, making it possible for boat owners to sell power back to local utilities.

BlueGrid, formally Rimot, was founded by CEO Andrew Boswell and CTO James Craig in 2016. The company partnered with Norwegian electric motor company Evoy and Lunenburg, N.S.

Stealth funding deals proliferated in Atlantic Canada in 2023, while angel investment reached its lowest ebb in at least eight years.

Those are among the findings of Entrevestor’s 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report, with the unannounced stealth rounds emerging as a widespread phenomenon in the region for the first time. Of the 34 funding rounds worth over $1 million last year, 10 were

In the wake of successful testing with Dalhousie University last summer, Dartmouth climatetech startup Planetary Technologies is preparing to repeat the collaboration in the coming months.

Founded in Ottawa in 2019, Planetary is developing a process to reduce ocean acidification by releasing alkaline rock or sand into the water, accelerating a chemical reaction that already occurs naturally and

Halifax-based cleantech star CarbonCure has formally launched its technology in the United Arab Emirates, a market worth tens of billions annually and forecast to grow strongly, on the back of deals with several large companies in the region.

CarbonCure, along with its business partners — Emirates Beton Ready Mix, Tremix and industrial gas supplier Gulf Cryo — marked the occasion with a signing

Oliver Technow, the CEO of Charlottetown drug manufacturer BIOVECTRA, has been named the new chair of industry group BIOTECanada.

Technow, who leads a company that is among the largest and fastest-growing players in the Prince Edward Island bioeconomy, as well as being Chair of the P.E.I. BioAlliance, has spent more than three decades working in the life sciences. That time has included four

A Halifax courier startup is aiming to improve on conventional delivery apps with the help of a marketplace model.

Pilot X Technologies Co-Founders Kendall Darling and Ranajay Sarma originally conceived of the app as a delivery service that would hire independent contractors, similar to ride share apps. Now, they are preparing to launch a revamped website that will also allow existing courier