The Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism (CILAR) has developed a national grant program for Black-led businesses to help them through the remainder of the pandemic.

Funded by Facebook Canada, in partnership with Pitch Better Canada and Black Opportunity Fund, the program will provide between $2,500 to $10,000 to each venture, with the goal of providing capital to as many founders as

Ten years ago today, an unnoticed article was posted on an unknown website with a simple message: Welcome to Entrevestor.

Yes, today is the 10th Anniversary of the launch of Entrevestor, and we’ve spent a nostalgic week thinking back to the early days of the venture. The past 10 years have been fantastic, and we’re really looking forward to what’s ahead. We’re staying in the region, and hope to

Halifax’s Tranquility Online, whose digital solution helps people deal with anxiety, has been acquired by Toronto-based health insurer Green Shield Canada for an undisclosed sum.

The companies issued a statement on Wednesday saying Tranquility Online would retain its name and continue to be based in Halifax under the leadership of Co-Founder and President Joel Muise.

Founded in 2017,

Halifax’s Maritime Centre, the Barrington-street home of startup hub Volta, now sports a new mural celebrating Nova Scotia’s innovation community.

Painted by local artist John McPartland, who does business under the name ABSEN, the mural was paid for by ONSIDE, Halifax Innovation District, Volta, Slate Asset Management and the Downtown Halifax Business Commission. It faces Salter Street,

Texas energy giant Phillips 66 has paid US$150 million, or about C$188 million, for a 16 percent stake in Novonix Ltd., an Australian maker of materials for lithium-ion batteries that owns Novonix Battery Testing Solutions -- a startup spun off from research at Dalhousie University in 2017.

Brisbane-based Novonix Ltd. bought the company now called Novonix BTS in 2017, with Chinese battery

PanGeo Subsea, which was bought by fellow Newfoundland and Labrador company Kraken Robotics in July, will lead a $3.4 million Ocean Supercluster project to develop seafloor imaging technology for offshore energy installations.

Also on board are British Columbia’s Cellula Robotics and Memorial University’s Marine Institute. Canada’s Ocean Supercluster will ante up more than half of the funding --

To launch its annual Report on Angel Investing in Canada, industry group the National Angel Capital Organization will hold a roundtable discussion Thursday featuring two speakers from Atlantic Canada.

NACO is an industry group comprised of angel investor networks, such as Anges Quebec and Ontario’s Maple Leaf Angels. It does not itself invest in startups, but its member organizations do. It does

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re showcasing an opening posted by Dalhousie University for a Communications Manager for its Founders Skills Initiative, part of the I-INC program.

The Founders Skills Initiative is developing evidence-based programming designed to create better mentors and ultimately better entrepreneurs. It’s part of the Incubate Innovate Network of Canada, or I-INC, a

Dartmouth drug discovery company IMV is replacing its CEO.

Former Chief Executive Frederic Ors stepped down Wednesday, with Chief Business Officer Andrew Hall slated to serve as interim CEO until the Board of Directors hires a permanent replacement for Ors.

IMV is developing “a new class of targeted cancer immunotherapies” and has developed compounds that allow for the delayed release of

Colin Deacon, the Halifax startup founder turned senator, says Nova Scotia should privatize its venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and instead become a limited partner in a basket of private-sector VC funds.

Deacon co-founded BlueLight Analytics in 2009 and was appointed to the senate in June, 2018, where he now serves on the standing committee for banking, trade and commerce.