The University of New Brunswick’s Apex Business Plan Competition -- which features $30,000 in prizes -- will be held using a hybrid online and in-person model in January after taking place virtually in 2022.

The event, organized by UNB’s International Business & Entrepreneurship Centre, will see student and early-stage entrepreneurs  from across Canada develop business plans for new ventures,

On Thursday, three of the seven companies pitching in the Canadian finals of the Entrepreneurship World Cup will be from Atlantic Canada: St.John’s-based PragmaClin Research, and Halifax’s MOC Biotechnologies and Hollo Medical.

The competition is run by the Misk Foundation, a Saudi Arabian non-profit founded by that country’s head of state, Mohammed bin Salman. The World Cup has a $1 million

Good Robot Brewing, the popular Halifax seller of craft beer, is opening a new production facility aimed at sharing manufacturing resources among the region’s beverage makers and allowing them to achieve the scale necessary to target international markets.

Founded in 2015 by Joshua Counsil, Angus Campbell and Doug Kehoe, Good Robot has historically located its production operations at its Robie

Guelph, Ont.- and Bible Hill, NS-based vertical farming startup GoodLeaf Farms has announced that it will open a production facility in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil with the help of a $7 million loan from the Government of Quebec.

Slated to open by the middle of 2023, the new indoor farm is also being funded by several smaller grants, including one from Développement économique de

Halifax- and Ontario-based GreenSage Prebiotics has been accepted into Charlottetown’s Emergence virtual incubator for life sciences companies and is raising a $700,000 angel round as it prepares to commercialize its fish food supplement in early 2024.

Founded by life sciences startup veterans Brad and Sandra Saville, GreenSage is developing a prebiotic — a substance that acts as a source of

Six teams will vie for a $2,000 first prize at Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub Genesis’s next Pitch & Pick competition, the culmination of its eight-week Evolution accelerator, on Dec. 13.

There will also be a $1,000 second prize and a $500 Community Choice Award. 

The Pitch & Pick events are held three times a year at the end of Evolution’s three annual cohorts. The last winner was

Atlantic Canadian venture capital deals have so far mostly defied the industry’s global slide, as the region’s companies raised more money in the third quarter than in either of the two prior, according to data released Thursday by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, or CVCA.

The organization’s Canadian Venture Capital Market Overview found that Atlantic Canadian

Kyle Burton, a blue economy veteran with experience working for multiple startup support organizations, is launching his own company to build subsea computer data centres.

Gazpek, as Burton dubs his ambitious new business, hopes to place server hardware on the seafloor. The strategy could radically cut down on the costs associated with building and operating data centres.

Burton brings

The University of New Brunswick’s Pond-Deshpande Centre, or PDC, has named Katie Davey, a former executive at Ottawa-based think tank Public Policy Forum, as its new executive director.

Davey holds a political science degree from UNB and a Master of Applied Politics degree from Wilfrid Laurier University that she earned in 2020. She worked at Public Policy Forum for three years, during which

Tidal Venture Partners, the recently created pre-seed- and seed-stage venture capital fund based in Halifax, has announced one of its first investments: TheProgram.ai.

Founded earlier this year and also headquartered in Halifax, TheProgram.ai is a white label app for sports organizations to distribute sports-related augmented reality content to primary school-aged children. Sports groups can