Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for companies to participate in its next quarterly Pitch Competition, but entrepreneurs who want to participate must apply in the coming week.

The competitions offer budding founders the chance to practice giving a three-minute pitch to a panel of judges. Winners are chosen based solely on the quality of their pitches — not the quality of their companies.

As of Nov. 3, Atlantic Canada will have watched three of its startups pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists on the CBC’s popular reality show Dragons' Den this fall, with two of the three companies having so far secured investment.

In September, an episode aired in which Mahone Bay entrepreneur Mark Lowe agreed to sell 32 percent of his company, Lobster Made Easy, to marketing

The annual Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which offers companies up to $50,000 of non-dilutive funding, has announced the winners for two of its three regional categories: Nova Scotia Southwest and Nova Scotia North. The Cape Breton division has been deferred until Spring.

Now in its ninth year, the Spark program aims to nurture Nova Scotian startups based outside of metro Halifax. The

St. John’s-based ReportMate, which sells software for cleaning up disorganized medical records, has rebranded as SiftMed as it enters commercialization.

The newly dubbed SiftMed’s artificial intelligence platform automatically organizes medical records into a clearly labelled, searchable database for use by insurance company employees as they assess some types of claims, such as accident-related

Dalhousie University’s Emera IdeaHUB has announced the latest cohort of its BUILD accelerator, with artificial intelligence playing a role in the underlying technology behind at least four of the 10 companies.

BUILD, previously called Design2Build, is a 10-month accelerator meant to help deep tech entrepreneurs develop and manufacture their products.

The program is split into three modules. The

CoLab Software, the St. John’s-based maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, has been accepted into the Lazaridis Institute’s prestigious ScaleUp program for growth-stage companies in the wake of its best quarter ever.

Chief Executive Adam Keating said in an email that CoLab’s recently ended third quarter saw the company more than double its revenue compared to its previous best

Sherbrooke, Quebec-based Oneka Water Technologies, which received a $1 million investment from Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp in 2021, has won the Innovation Award at the International Desalination Association Conference.

Held in Sydney, Australia, the conference is the flagship event of the International Desalination Association, or IDA — a United Nations recognized

Honolulu, Hawaii has become the fourth city to sign on to New York- and Halifax-based edtech startup Pressto’s Junior Journalist Program, aimed at helping youths develop media literacy, as the company readies a new product offering for school classrooms.

Pressto, founded by former magazine publisher Daniel Stedman, is a web app that lets children write and edit a mock newspaper and receive

We have posted articles recognizing and thanking many people who supported Entrevestor Live, which was held Thursday at Volta. But there were a few people working behind the scenes that deserve our sincere thanks.

Entrevestor Live was a showcase for some of the hottest startups in the region. Hosted by Propel CEO Kathryn Lockhart, it featured a range of speakers from founders to investors to

Moncton startup hub Venn Innovation’s Atlantic Fintech initiative has announced the Atlantic Canadian companies attending the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas this week.

The delegation is being backed by the governments of the four Atlantic Provinces via their Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy, and will include eight fintech startups.

Venn said in a press release that the purpose