Amit Virmani, Founder and CEO of Fredericton-based Naveco Power, along with Ryan Mitchell, Vice-President and CDO of Saint John Energy, have made Canada’s Clean50 leaders for 2021.

The Clean50 awards are announced annually by Delta Management Group and the Clean50 organization, They celebrate individuals or small teams across 16 categories who have excelled at advancing the cause of

The Halifax Port Authority is boosting the region’s growing oceans ecosystem with its Living Lab, designed to be a global centre for collaboration on maritime innovation, especially as it pertains to the port industry.

The PIER (Port Innovation, Engagement, and Research) will allow partners, entrepreneurs, researchers and stakeholders to solve “wicked” industry problems and uncover new

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has lent Halifax-based DeNova $250,000 to help develop its technology, which converts greenhouse gases into a protein that can be used as feed in farms and aquaculture.

ACOA announced the loan, made through the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program, in a press release on Friday.

DeNova has developed a new source of protein made from

The current cohort of Creative Destructive Lab Oceans Stream has established a scholarship in the memory of Dr. Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, Co-Founder and CEO of ECOncrete, who died March 7.

ECOncrete, an Israeli company, was one of the international ventures going through the accelerator, the first dedicated oceantech stream offered by the pan-national accelerator CDL. The cohort met this weekend

Writing the 2020 edition of our Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report, I’ve noticed a few external factors that could impact the community – some good, some bad.

By external factors, I mean economic forces that are outside the conventional startup ecosystem that will affect startups’ ability to raise capital, attract talent and sell their products. In several cases, I haven’t nailed down hard or

Milk Moovement, which is dedicated to improving efficiency in the dairy supply chain, has closed a $4 million equity funding round and attracted investment from a member of the first family of U.S. agriculture.

The round was led by Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Dynamo Ventures, with additional investment from three other American VC funds, Bread & Butter Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, and Better Food

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Hart Devitt can truthfully say he’s gone to the far side of the world and never found an organization comparable to Springboard Atlantic.

The Director of Industry and Government Services at University of New Brunswick spent several years working at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

And now that he works for an Atlantic Canadian university, he’s more than

Calling it an “immigrant’s dream come true”, Hussain Abdullah has launched his business AllinBud, which manufactures and sells secure wooden boxes for cannabis and related accessories.

After selling out an initial 300-unit trial run, he has now launched the company, selling the products in Canada and the U.S. through his website Allinbud.com, as well as other channels.

The AllinBud boxes are

For the second time in six months, Halifax-based security intelligence company LifeRaft has drawn investment from the Canadian Business Growth Fund, or CBGF, which is backed by the country’s largest financial institutions.

The parties did not reveal the size of the round, though the press release announcing the investment said the Toronto-based fund customarily makes investments of $3 million to

Airntell Aerospace, which is developing a drone service to support search and rescue operations, claimed the $1,500 first prize at the Genesis Pitch & Pick competition on Tuesday.

Founded by CEO Mateus Saar, Airntell uses drone technology for offshore search and rescue to help find missing people faster, more reliably, and at a fraction of the cost of current techniques. The company is