Canada’s Ocean Supercluster and several First Nations community partners have launched a new program to help Indigenous workers find job placements in the ocean economy.

The Supercluster on Monday announced the launch of the Indigenous Career Pivot Project, an initiative that will cost more than $740,000, of which $550,000 is funded by the Ocean Supercluster.

The pilot project will allow about

A 4,000-square-metre indoor vertical farm operated by Nova Scotia and Ontario-based GoodLeaf Farms is now fully operational in Guelph, Ontario.

The farm is fully automated and equipped to grow microgreens and baby greens 365 days a year without the use of pesticides, herbicides or fungicides and with reduced water consumption, the company said in a statement. 

“Our growing system mimics the

Though the pandemic has made REDspace’s 20th year a strange time, CEO Mike Johnston believes his company is well positioned to thrive as the economy improves.

The Bedford, NS, software development company, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last week, builds flexible platforms for global enterprises, with special strength in video platforms. In the past few years, it’s experienced strong

There are just a few days left to sign up for the virtual presentation of our 2019 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, which will take place at noon on Thursday.

We've teamed up with Volta for this presentation. We had been planning to do an in-person event at Volta and have it live-streamed, but now we've opted to just go for a virtual event. It's free, and you can register here.

Researchers engaged in IT, life sciences, cleantech, oceantech, and other technologies are invited to apply to Innovacorp’s Early Stage Commercialization Fund, which provides up to $50,000 per project for post-secondary researchers to move their research to market.

Eligible applicants include Nova Scotia university and college faculty members, as well as staff and clinicians in

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies has raised a fresh round of funding led by Amazon and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and CEO Robert Niven believes it’s the biggest cleantech financing round in Canada this year.

The announcement of the major funding round came the day after Ottawa-based eCommerce giant Shopify said its $5 billion Sustainability Fund would purchase carbon offsets from

Halifax-based DMF Medical has received a Class II medical device license from Health Canada to sell its memsorb carbon dioxide filtration device.

Memsorb is a next generation CO2 removal system for general anesthesia. The product is designed to improve the process of removing carbon dioxide from the system that puts patients to sleep during operations by using membrane technology rather than a

Venn Innovation is seeking applications for its new Set to Scale program, which aims to help innovation-driven companies in New Brunswick accelerate their revenue growth.

The program, which lasts six to 12 months, is based on Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up Methodology, which has been adopted by thousands of companies across the world.

It will introduce the participants to processes that help them

A virtual conference, Innovate Care, is inviting Canadian startups focused on health and senior care to pitch their products and services.

In a statement, the Halifax-based Jameson Consulting Group said the participants can be in the development stage or they can have been in the market for less than 24 months.

The interactive virtual conference, which is hosted by Jameson and Aging 2.0-Halifax

Halifax-based entrepreneur and educator Akram Al-Otumi has been named Global Enactus Alumni of the Year.  

Well-known in Halifax as the CEO and Founder of Spritely Technologies Inc., Al-Otumi is also Director of Shiftkey Labs, a software innovation hub and a lecturer in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship at Dalhousie University.

Enactus is a global group that helps students form social