Virtual startup incubator Propel ICT will present its annual Gerry Pond Sales Award in Moncton on Sept. 17, recognizing its program members that have excelled at selling their product. 

The Gerry Pond Award is an annual, $25,000 cash prize in honour of former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Gerry Pond, who went on to co-found Saint John-based Mariner Partners and Propel itself. Pond is a

This year’s BioPort Atlantic life sciences conference will include a venture capital panel discussion, as well as a pair of pitch sessions featuring pre-seed and seed-stage startups from the region.

When BioPort attendees gather at the Halifax Marriot September 19, the VC panel will feature investors from firms such as Vancouver-based Pender Ventures and Quebec specialist fund AmorChem.

The

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre, the Fredericton university's entrepreneurship hub, has announced a partnership with Harvard University to bring the Ivy League institution’s prestigious public and planetary health accelerator to Canada.

Created by Harvard College's Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the

Kraken Robotics, the Newfoundland maker of marine robotics systems that has raised close to $38 million from public markets this year, has signed a major new product partnership.

The company, which specializes in next-generation sonar systems and unmanned platforms to carry them, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.K.-based SeaByte, a division of Battelle. Kraken will combine its

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to the fall edition of its Investment Day event, which it hosts in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event will be held at Volta’s new offices in downtown Halifax’s Armoyan Centre on November 12 and will give 12 seed-stage and Series A companies the chance to pitch to an audience of venture capitalists from

Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador entrepreneurship hub, is looking for applicants to the fall, 2024 cohort of its 10-week Evolution startup program.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young companies for longer programs, such as its own, three-year Enterprise incubator. Evolution promises to help entrepreneurs clarify their businesses’ value propositions,

In October, entrepreneurs, researchers and students will gather in Fredericton for the city’s Boost Ideation Camp, an innovation challenge aimed at finding solutions to problems related to population growth.

Backed by the University of New Brunswick and other partners, the event is aimed at applicants with some business or technical background, such as having worked as a project manager or

There are only three-and-a-half weeks left to register for Entrevestor Live, our annual event showcasing the best and the brightest in the Atlantic Canadian innovation community.

To be held Sept. 17 at Volta, this half-day conference highlights the Atlantic Canadian startups that have significant global sales and demonstrates how entrepreneurs can grow market-leading companies within the East

B-Line Technologies, the Halifax maker of smart building technology, has launched a new AI assistant product to act as a building management hub and help operators find information quickly.

In an interview at the company’s offices in Halifax’s historic Benjamin Wier House, CEO Aaron Short said B-Line is experiencing “exponential” revenue growth.

“A lot of the analytics that we were doing before

Dragon Breath, a marketplace created by CEO Darsh Sinha for video game players to trade gaming equipment and in-game valuables, took first prize at Halifax startup hub Volta’s latest Virtual Pitch Competition this week.

The event offered budding founders the chance to practice giving a three-minute pitch to a panel of judges. Winners were chosen based solely on the quality of their pitches, not