Nicole LeBlanc, the former chair of Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp, has moved to Japan to become a partner at the Toyota Motor Company’s US$800 million or C$1.09 billion Woven Capital investment fund.

Located in Tokyo, Woven Capital is part of Woven Planet, a Toyota subsidiary focused on smart cities and novel transportation systems. The New Brunswick-born LeBlanc

Entrepreneurs and investors gathered at Halifax startup hub Volta Thursday for the second annual Entrevestor Live conference, which was held in-person for the first time.

The three-hour event gave startup founders like Shoelace Learning CEO Julia Rivard Dexter and Milk Moovement Co-founder Robert Forsythe, along with investors like Sandpiper Ventures Founding and Managing Partner Rhiannon Davies

The number of service and data-focused bluetech companies in Canada increased by almost a third between 2020 and 2022, according to a new study sponsored by Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE.

The Canadian Ocean Enterprise 2022 report is the second in a series of studies tracking businesses involved in what COVE Chief Executive Melanie Nadeau previously described

Australia’s Novonix Ltd. — the parent company of Novonix Battery Testing Solutions, which emerged from research conducted at Dalhousie University by Jeff Dahn — is on track to win a mammoth US$150 million or C$206 million grant from the United States Department of Energy.

The grant money is part of an initiative from President Joe Biden to onshore manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles

Entrevestor Live tomorrow will offer not only a great program of content, but also a chance for the startup community to return to networking.

Entrevestor Live is a three-hour conference that allows some of Atlantic Canada’s best founders and their backers to tell their stories. And it will be followed at 4 pm by a networking session that will run for a further three hours. The networking

Halifax startup hub Volta has made interim CEO Matt Cooper’s posting permanent, as the former entrepreneur eyes expanded support for more mature startups, increased collaboration with other ecosystem support organizations and a more data-driven approach to advising founders.

Cooper, who joined Volta last year as Chief Innovation Officer, previously co-founded Swept, a cleaning company that went

InnovateCare, a Dartmouth-based conference that discusses medical care and support for seniors through an innovation-focused lens, has announced this year’s keynote speakers.

Slated to be held Oct. 26 at the DoubleTree hotel on Wyse Road, InnovateCare will be headlined by Dr. Saskia Sivananthan, chief science and knowledge translation officer at the Alzheimer Society, and Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, a

Fredericton-based Passiv has closed a US$2.2 million or roughly C$3 million seed funding round following the fintech startup's graduation from the prestigious Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator.

Passiv plans to spend the money developing its new product, SnapTrade, which is an API, or application programming interface. It is intended to allow app developers to connect their software to

At Entrevestor Live on Thursday, we’re teaming up some of the region’s top founders and their investors to tell about their companies’ stories together.

Entrevestor Live is a half-day conference at Volta that showcases some of the greatest successes in the East Coast startup community. It features fireside chats with co-founders from Sonrai Security, Eyeread/Dreamscape and Milk Moovement. Each

CareerBeacon’s purchase of Toronto’s Ruutly, the Moncton recruitment company’s second acquisition this year, was aimed at consolidating pieces of technology that work better as a software suite than as individual tools, according to the heads of both companies.

Ruutly, founded in 2016 and led by CEO Ryan Porter, allows companies to show prospective employees job postings tailored to their