Halifax behavioural modification startup Habit Forming Technologies has raised just shy of $500,000 in an unplanned round of investment and is preparing for a second, more structured raise in the low seven-figures later this year.

Habit Forming Technologies and its platform, JackHabbit, aim to use artificial intelligence to help users develop healthy habits. The company plans to sell its system

The Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund is now open to applicants, and will provide loans up to $250,000 to Black business owners and entrepreneurs across the country.

On Monday, the federal government said Black business owners and entrepreneurs face systemic barriers in starting and growing their businesses, and the problem has been exacerbated by the pandemic. 

A partnership between the federal

With funding for many small-town startups languishing in the doldrums, rural innovation hub IGNITE is testing a new platform to match companies with investors, in hopes of making more capital available to entrepreneurs.

Talenca is being developed by IGNITE, with help from the engineering team at Yarmouth, NS-based e-commerce startup GlobalVillages, also an IGNITE resident company. The system

The funeral industry ranks among the most staid bastions of the traditional economy, with practices that have changed little in centuries. To one Halifax startup, it looks ripe for disruption.

Dear Life’s goal is to move the process of memorializing a dead loved one into the digital realm. Its software lets users create interactive online tributes to people who have passed away.

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ONSIDE, the Nova Scotian organization that works to develop the startup ecosystem, has established five regional groups to bring the teachings of the MIT REAP program to communities across Nova Scotia.

MIT REAP is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, an accelerator for regional ecosystems around the world. A team from Nova Scotia attended the

Sandpiper Ventures, Atlantic Canada’s female-led investment fund, announced Thursday it has made its first investment -- in Halifax-based DeNova.

The early-stage venture capital fund, which is managed by women and targets female-led companies, is launching this year and has said its goal is to launch with $20 million under management. It did not reveal the amount it is investing in the clean

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For Dalhousie PhD student Raphael Ofoe, participating in Dal Innovate’s Lab2Market program was not just a path to creating a viable business, it was a way to accelerate his work on solving one of the most pressing challenges facing both his home country of Ghana and the rest of the world.

Ofoe is a PhD candidate in Dalhousie’s agricultural science program. Last fall, he was

Memorial University of Newfoundland has launched a pilot project that will help graduate commerce students work with startups on business development.

The Supporting the Local Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem project has a budget of $278,000, funded equally by a grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and a donation from Killick Capital CEO (and MUN alum) Mark Dobbin.

The

Having already signed on about 40 American law firms as clients, legal software maker Rally has inked a deal with the Atlantic Canadian law firm Cox & Palmer to help provide legal services to the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

Based in St. John’s, Rally makes software to help lawyers share documents among themselves and with their clients, as well as communicate with clients about their

Eight companies have been named to Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta, a new program that helps high-growth Atlantic Canadian companies increase their sales in the U.S. Southeast.

In the Scale-Up Hub program, which began in 2018 in Cambridge, Mass., Atlantic Canadian companies commit to spending extended periods in a major city with the aim of gaining clients and developing a network. The 2021 programs will