Dalhousie University’s Dal Innovates startup hub has opened applications to the three summer cohorts of its Lab2Market Launch Accelerator, which will include an Atlantic research stream, a national health stream and a generalized Atlantic stream.

Students, researchers and recent graduates are all eligible to participate. The program includes a 12-week, milestone-based boot camp and up to $15,000

Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which recently opened an office at the Dartmouth-Based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, will head up a new Ocean Supercluster project to install a wave-powered desalination system off the coast of Barrington, Nova Scotia.

Dubbed the Oneka Glacier Project, the $14.1 million deal will see Oneka collaborate with shipyard A.F. Theriault & Son

On Friday, a lynchpin of the American startup ecosystem failed. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed under a bank run and was seized by California regulators.

Startup founders wondered aloud on social media about the extent to which Canadian companies might become embroiled in the crisis, either directly or by way of financial contagion.

Their concern was fuelled not just by the size of SVB — the 16th

Halifax inventory management platform Frenter was one of seven startups Saturday to pitch in the demo day for Silicon Valley’s Launch accelerator, co-founded by Jason Calacanis — a prominent angel investor known for being an early backer of Uber and no-fee retail investor platform Robinhood.

Helmed by 17-year-old Zach Laberge and now with an investment from Calacanis, Frenter is an inventory

St. John’s marine robotics company Kraken Robotics, which was the top performing tech stock on the TSX Venture exchange last year, has announced a lucrative new deal to participate in survey work in the North Sea.

Under the contract with Dutch subsea cabling company N-Sea, Kraken will use its in-house sonar technology to check that electrical cables running along the seafloor remain properly

Halifax startup consultancy and professional services firm Barrington Edge has launched a blockchain-based supply chain tracking platform under a collaboration with one of its clients, Kelowna, B.C.’s FutureWELL.

The new platform, dubbed Authen, calculates the environmental impact of processing and distributing farmed fish products to shoppers in stores. It also tracks the provenance of fish

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