Nova Scotia Business Inc.’s Scale-up Hub: Atlanta program has announced its six-company fall cohort -- down from eight participants in the spring session -- with four startups from Nova Scotia, one from Newfoundland and Labrador, and one from New Brunswick.

Created in 2018, the Scale-up Hub program encourages Atlantic Canadian companies to commit to spending extended periods in a major city with

Milk Moovement, which makes supply chain management software for the dairy industry, now controls about 10 percent of United States milk production and has bagged a $1.5 million grant from federal agency Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

CEO Robert Forsythe said in an interview that, in the wake of a United States expansion that saw the company move its sales office to Minnesota, Milk

Almost three months after Halifax travel scheduling startup Trip Ninja announced it was ceasing operations, an eleventh-hour buyout has saved the company and the jobs of both its founders and employees.

In September, CEO Andres Collart said he was shuttering Trip Ninja because of the damage wrought by COVID-19 on the travel sector. Now, the company has announced it is being acquired by

Medtech and biotech companies were dominant at Wednesday’s Volta Cohort pitch competition, with all five winners pitching products with healthcare applications.

The victors triumphed in a field of 14 finalists to bag up to $25,000 in the short-term in prize money and entrance into the Volta Cohort accelerator program. They will be eligible for another $25,000 in six months if they stay in the

At Entrevestor, we’re now gearing up to produce our data reports for 2021, and we’d like to tell you how we’re enhancing these products.

As we have for the past nine years, we will produce our annual Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, which we expect to publish before summer. It’s shaping up to be an interesting report as the public and private companies in the region have raised more than

Venture Grade, a student venture capital fund based at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, has announced new investments in two regional companies that facilitate the making of  advanced maps: 3D Planeta and KorrAI.

In a statement, the young investors said they have invested $12,500 in each venture, after being impressed by the companies’ management teams and their growth and exiting prospects.

BoomersPlus, a Halifax company that matches seasoned professionals with part-time jobs where their experience is needed, is rebranding as SeasonedPros.

“We think our new name better reflects our current and future membership and who we can connect to our clients,” said SeasonedPros in a press release.

The company is also tweaking its target market slightly. It was originally created to help

Video game technology company Swarmio Media, which has offices in Halifax, Sydney and the Toronto area, began trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange Monday, with shares spiking early in the day before surrendering most of their gains.

The listing made good on plans announced by Swarmio in July. At the time, the company said it hoped to raise about $5 million. The listing process beat

Charlottetown-based BioVectra, which manufactures pharmaceutical ingredients, has announced it will build one of Canada’s first mRNA vaccine manufacturing facilities in a project worth $76.9 million.

The federal government will pay $39.8 million of the total cost and the P.E.I. government $10 million, with the balance born by BioVectra.

The drugmaker was bought by private equity firm H.I.G.

Ashored, the Dartmouth-based maker of fishing equipment that reduces accidental harm to marine animals such as whales, will head up a $1.4 million Ocean Supercluster project to develop a “rope-on-command” system for lobster and crab traps.

Conventional traps are retrieved via ropes connected to the trap at one end, with the other end floating on the surface of the ocean. But sea-life including