Two regional companies have made the top 20 ventures entered into the inaugural Canada-wide Impact Investor Challenge. Run by Vancouver-based Spring Activator, the contest offers the chance to win $100,000 in impact investment.

The Farmers’ Truck, based in Edmundston, NB, is the first regional contender. The Farmers’ Truck provides affordable mobile market trucks for organizations to serve food

A new website that allows the renting of personal property such as sports equipment is being launched by young Halifax entrepreneur Zachary Laberge.

Laberge, 15, has raised $70,000 and is taking his site, frenter, through the Propel program, all while working through Grade 10 at École Secondaire du Sommet.

Frenter facilitates processes like online payment, insurance, and marketing.  Laberge

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Marketing Manager at New Glasgow, NS-based eLearning company Velsoft Training Materials.

Velsoft’s product turns written training materials into interactive, industry-compliant eLearning. The company exports to more than 160 countries and includes many global brands among its clients. The company has grown from 10 employees in 2010 to

At a time when Atlantic Canada in general is attracting innovation-driven companies from other parts of Canada and the wider world, no city has attracted more startups than Sydney, which is establishing a thriving life sciences cluster.

At least seven companies from outside the region have established operations in Sydney in the last year, attracted by the facilites at the Verschuren Centre,

Dalhousie University has opened applications for its second Ready2Launch cohort, a summer accelerator for Atlantic Canadian university students and recent graduates.

The three-month program for technology-based ventures will be offered virtually this year, and begin in June. Undergraduate, graduate and PhD students as well as postdoctoral fellows are welcome to apply.

“Dalhousie University is

Halifax-based medtech company Audioptics Medical, whose device can see through eardrums to study the middle ear, has closed a $1.9 million investment round led by Innovacorp and the German medical device company Carl Zeiss Meditec AG.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency, is a returning investor in Audioptics, having invested $100,000 in the company in its

The Ocean Startup Project has opened applications for the second cohort of the Ocean Startup Challenge, quadrupling the total prize money to $1.4 million.

The Ocean Startup Project is a pan-regional group dedicated to identifying and nurturing early-stage oceantech companies, not just in Atlantic Canada but across Canada and elsewhere. The group’s major initiative is the Ocean Startup Challenge,

March 29th, 2024

Dear Three Years Ago:

Looking back on 2020, it became clear early on that COVID would disrupt the global economy and that local impact would be determined by harmony between public health officials and political leadership. Luckily, in Atlantic Canada, we watched the rest of the world transition between lockdowns, school closures and COVID tests, while we used our relative

In a marriage of two companies operating out of Volta, Blue Charm Adherence has purchased Symbi Medical for an undisclosed price to increase the capabilities of its software and help patients get the best treatment possible.

Blue Charm is led by CEO Greg Patey, previously one of the Co-Founders of STI Technologies, which helped drug companies distribute samples efficiently. It was sold to the

Halifax-based KorrAI, whose artificial intelligence-powered solution helps such clients as miners analyze aeriel photos and geographic images, is midway through an equity funding round it hopes will reach $500,000.

The company is developing an AI platform that can be used by mining and environmental services companies to study patches of land, using satellite images and other data.

It has