A surprising corporate deal took place last week which will result in a new data centre in Grand Falls, NB, being part of an environmentally sustainable cryptocurrency operation.

Vancouver-based HIVE Blockchain Technologies, which is listed on the TSX Venture exchange, issued a statement Thursday saying it would pay about $25 million in stock for GPU Atlantic, a division of Montreal’s GPU.One.

Our Jobs of the Week column today features postings at En Point and MindSea in Halifax, and the Memorial University Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, in St. John’s.

The mission of the MCE is to inspire and enable aspiring entrepreneurs and to help Memorial University become the leading entrepreneurial university in Canada. The centre provides entrepreneurial students throughout the university

Vertical farm operator GoodLeaf Farms has received a $30 million investment from McCain Foods, which will allow it to build two more Canadian farms this year.

The company was launched several years ago in Truro, NS, as TruLeaf by serial entrepreneur Gregg Curwin, to provide a local source of healthy greens year-round. The company opened its first 45,000-square-foot plant in Guelph, Ont. in 2019,

Metamaterial Inc. is borrowing US$10 million from Plano, Texas-based oil and gas producer Torchlight Energy Resources, the company it hopes to merge with in the coming months.

Meta, as the Dartmouth company is known, announced in the autumn that it would merge with Torchlight through a reverse takeover. The result of the pairing is intended to give Meta a Nasdaq listing, while Torchlight will

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a $27 million project that will help improve the aquaculture industry through data analytics and increased connectivity.

The group that supports the country’s ocean economy issued a statement on Thursday announcing the launch of the Integrated Operations and Real-Time Analytics Project, which will be led from St. John’s and Halifax.

The project will

Halifax-based Talkatoo is one of four Canadian startups accepted into the first cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Voice AI.

Google announced this week that 12 North American companies would attend the 10-week accelerator, which aims to bring Google’s programs, products and people to voice technology companies.

The program, which begins in March, will offer participating companies

Halifax- and Calgary-based Arolytics, whose software helps oil and gas companies track their methane emissions, has raised $710,000 in equity financing, which the company says will help it to scale quickly.

The company issued a statement saying it won Startup TNT’s inaugural Calgary Investment Summit in November, and the prize included backing from a pool of Alberta investors. The company also

Having raised more than $400,000 in equity funding, Halifax’s Clever Fruit Products has announced new directors to its board who it says will add top-flight expertise and connections.

The company, which is developing new berry-based food ingredients, said its board now includes: Lorna Vanderhaeghe, a health expert and product developer; Dean Mosca, a natural products industry veteran; and

Applicants are being sought for the oceans cohort of the Lab2Market program, which helps researchers commercialize their research.

Hosted by Dalhousie, Ryerson, and Memorial Universities, Lab2Market provides training and support to teams commercializing research from Canadian universities.

“This virtual 7-week program is a great opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to receive $15,000

Enable Leaders, a new website designed to teach users how to be better leaders, has been launched by Moncton-based Jonathan Dunnett.

Dunnett, a program manager specializing in marketing insights at Venn Innovation, is curating content that is freely available online in three main areas: decision-making; leadership and psychology.

Studies show that one-third of people are currently struggling