The Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax will host this year’s Canadian edition of the Venture Capital Investment Competition on March 3 and is calling for startups to participate.

The VCIC is an international competition in which student delegations from business schools compete to make the best mock venture capital investment, as determined by a panel of judges. The

Halifax’s Milk Moovement is embroiled in a trade secrets and antitrust legal battle in the United States with one of its competitors, Texas-based Dairy LLC.

Milk Moovement, which last summer raised a US$20 million Series A funding round, was sued by Dairy LLC in California District Court in Dec. 2021 for allegedly basing parts of its supply chain management software for dairy farming

Fredericton startup hub Planet Hatch has opened applications for its Business Immigrant Essentials Accelerator, which promises entrepreneurship training tailored to the specific needs of new Canadians.

The five-week program will offer participants resources and support around Canadian business culture and customs, as well as business standards and best practices.

Entrepreneurs will also receive

Dr. Karen Cross, the CEO of Volta resident company MIMOSA Diagnostics, has made The Toronto Star’s list of fourteen Canadian entrepreneurs to watch this year.

Cross, a native of Newfoundland and Labrador who is now based in Halifax, is a plastic surgeon and medical sciences PhD who was inspired to found MIMOSA in 2016 after her grandfather died from a leg injury that failed to heal properly. Her

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has hired a new chief technology officer in the wake of finishing its absorption of fellow Newfoundland and Labrador company PanGeo Subsea and increasing its annual revenue by more than 50 percent.

Founded by former Canadian Navy officer Karl Kenny and now led by CEO Greg Reid, Kraken released a financial update last week saying it booked about $40 million in

Industry group Atlantic Fintech and incubator Fintech Cadence have inked a deal to make the Montreal innovation hub’s online training and support services available to East Coast startups.

The Fintech Hub, as Fintech Cadence dubs its service, is a rolling intake online incubator that offers pre-Series A companies access to workshops, peer networking, one-on-one coaching and in-kind services.

Dal Innovates has opened applications for the winter cohort of its Collide training program for budding entrepreneurs.

Aimed specifically at university students, the Collide program promises to teach participants the basics of customer discovery and de-risking their startup, as well as preparing them for other Dal Innovates programming, such as its Ready2Launch and Lab2Market accelerators.

ReelData, the Halifax company that makes artificial intelligence for land-based aquaculture, has raised a US$8 million (C$10.7 million) Series A funding round as it looks to commercialize its second product offering next quarter.

ReelData’s first product was an AI system for determining how much fish farmers should feed their animals and thereby reducing waste, dubbed ReelAppetite. Its second

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and provincial business development agency Opportunities New Brunswick will host their R3 climatetech summit in-person this February at the Fredericton Convention Centre.

The R3 – Connecting for Climate Innovation Forum is a venue for climate entrepreneurs, researchers and public servants to discuss innovation-driven solutions to the climate crisis.

This

WeUsThem, the Halifax ad agency, has spun off its software business unit into a new startup, HealthEMe, which is raising a roughly $1 million seed round.

HealthEMe’s first product is imTEEN, which was originally released by WeUsThem and allows youth to track and manage their mental health by self-monitoring for signs of common mental illnesses.

CEO Ashwin Kutty said the spinoff was aimed partly