Three online startup events will be held in the next two days, recognizing Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurship and in one case awarding a six-figure prize to the winner.  

The Aquahacking Challenge Semi-Final and the Atlantic Canadian presentation of the Canie Awards will take place on Thursday, June 18. Then on Friday, four startups will compete in the Health Challenge Pitch Event, with the

Gene sequencing firm Nucliq Biologic and nutrition tracking startup Prospre won Memorial University’s Mel Woodward Cup pitch competition on Tuesday, beating out three other finalists.

Created in 2016, the Cup is the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship’s flagship event – held online this year because of COVID-19. The name honours fuel delivery and logistics magnate Melvin Woodward, who died in

Halifax-based b4, which offers Software-as-a-Service solutions to the hospitality industry, has launched a contactless payments process to help hotels bounce back from the pandemic.

The new physical distancing and hygiene requirements make the old ways of accepting and processing credit cards risky.

B4 (formerly b4checkin) said in a statement that taking payment over the phone is an option but

Cannabis testing startup Greenlight Analytical is preparing to launch a device that will measure the quality of cannabis crops without the need for slow and costly lab testing.

CEO James Wylde said in an interview that the product will be a modified mass spectrometer -- a machine that analyzes the chemical composition of substances and lists their contents -- paired with an AI system that will

Halifax biopharma company Appili Therapeutics has raised about $16.9 million to fund Canadian trials of influenza drug Favipiravir, which is owned by Japanese photography and biotech giant FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Company.

The private placement comes in the wake of Appili’s $10.25 million raise in February of this year and is part of a surge in bioscience fundraising in Atlantic Canada.

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Editor's note: Given the events of recent weeks, we wanted to host a discussion on whether people from the Black, First Nations and other minority communities are welcomed, supported and funded in the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem. We've asked several representatives of these communities to offer their thoughts. We're starting today with Ross Simmonds, the Founder of Foundation Marketing.  

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When Dalhousie University neuroscientist Dr. Shaun Boe set out to study how visualization could help rehabilitate stroke survivors, he didn’t expect to find himself rethinking an entire field of research. But close to a decade later, that’s exactly what he’s doing.

Boe runs the university’s Laboratory for Brain Recovery and Function, which he originally conceived as a vehicle

Navigate Startup House’s Island Entrepreneurs Exposition will feature a keynote speech by Clearbanc co-founder and TV personality Michele Romanow.

The conference was originally planned to be held in Sydney, where Navigate is based. The event is now slated to be held online on June 24 and 25.

Romanow’s Clearbanc gives loans to e-commerce startups to fund their online advertising. She is also a

Workplaces are opening up, but not everyone is returning to their former office or even their former job. Remote working is increasing competition for talent and is leading some Atlantic Canadians to ditch local employers in favour of others based elsewhere, including Silicon Valley.

Remote working also means that staff who’ve been given the permanent option of working from home may choose not

Halifax food safety startup FoodByte has seen its revenue increase by about a third since March, with more growth on the horizon.

The company sells regulatory compliance-tracking software for food producers, who CEO Sean Pindar said in an interview were under pressure from increasingly stringent World Health Organization guidelines even before COVID-19.

The WHO recently shifted its strategy for