With a refreshed five-year mandate from the federal government, Canada's Ocean Supercluster is calling for applicants to its new artificial intelligence program, which will spend $20 million to fund research and commercialization work from blue economy companies.

The program’s Discovery Stream will fund investigations and studies into implementing AI for commercial oceans activities -- projects

Networking group Future Capital and BDC’s Thrive Venture Fund have got together to deliver startup investing training to women across Canada.

The program, open to accredited and non-accredited investors, will focus on providing a safe and open space for women to develop and sharpen their understanding of early-stage investing while connecting with like-minded investors, mentors and startup

We’re calling on all startups to complete our quick-and-confidential 2022 Atlantic Canadian startup survey, which is the backbone of our coming Entrevestor Atlantic Canada Startup Data report.

The startup report provides a benchmark used by governments and support organizations for the entire innovation sector in the region. Entrevestor is completely independent, absolutely agnostic in terms of

Asked for her priorities for 2023, Amélie Desrochers answered instantly: she wants to see more funding for bluetech startups in Quebec.

Desrochers is the Accelerator Head at Novarium, the blue economy support organization based in Rimouski, the city on the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, about 300 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. The organization has the mission of developing the ocean

Novarium, the Quebec bluetech support organization, has opened the first cohort of its Flots Pro accelerator, welcoming companies from across the province to the 12- to 18-month program.

Flots targets companies with a product in the market, helping them to navigate the early phases of scaling, such as gaining their first industrial clients. It aims to encourage successful strategies in companies

It’s often said that young people need to be able to see themselves represented before they can aspire to success in a particular field. Halifax-based artist and entrepreneur Jo Napier's new venture sees her painting successful women with that in mind. 

Napier’s Great Women Portrait Project invites business and industry leaders to use portrait art as a tool to promote diversity, equity and

Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which in 2021 raised $5.5 million in a round of equity and non-dilutive funding, has opened an office at the Dartmouth-Based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE.

Founded in 2015 by mechanical engineer Dragan Tutic, Oneka manufactures wave-powered seawater desalination systems housed inside autonomous buoys. The company started as a

Four ventures working in social innovation have been named 2023 regional champions at an event staged by Enactus Canada, a national charity and experiential learning platform for post-secondary students, which is part of a global network.

The winning ventures won The Scotiabank Climate Action Challenge and The TD Entrepreneurship Challenge at a snowed-in event in Halifax.  

The TD

Just a month after it raised an oversubscribed seed round that had originally been targeted at $4 million, Halifax’s Shoelace Learning is one of 20 edtech startups globally to have reached the finals of the prestigious GSV Cup.

To make it to the top 20, Shoelace beat out more than 900 other applicants, putting the company in the running for a $1 million prize pool.

The GSV Cup is organized by

The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund, the new female-focused angel investing group from the non-profit Atlantic Women’s Venture Foundation, is now accepting applicants from founders.

The angel group is the result of a partnership between the the Atlantic Women’s Venture Foundation and the Women’s Equity Lab, which was founded in Victoria, British Columbia in 2017 to address the "chronic and