Regional virtual accelerator Propel has announced the fledgling ventures taking part in its new Validation cohort.

Validation is the first step on the Propel path, allowing participants to validate business ideas with customers using lean startup methodology. Generally, the course is for pre-revenue companies or those making less than $1,000 monthly.

The latest early-stage ventures represent a

Less than two years after Saint Mary’s University professor Ellen Farrell began commercializing a software product aimed at helping women founders, she has revealed that 20 initial participants have raised almost $25 million in dilutive and non-dilutive funding.

Farrell, a key figure behind the Sobey School of Business's entrepreneurship and venture capital programming, devised Investor Q&A to

Fredericton-based fintech company Profitual has launched a startup competition that assesses founders’ business models rather than their talent for spinning a yarn.

Entries for the “No-Pitch Competition” are open until the end of the month, and the winner of the $10,000 first prize will be announced on June 16.

Profitual, a financial intelligence startup that specializes in working with other

The Council of Canadian Innovators has released its policy report, A Mandate to Innovate, which the group describes as a set of recommendations for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mandate letters to his new cabinet. 

The group, which represents over 170 of Canada’s fastest-growing technology companies, said national sovereignty depends on economic competitiveness, and economic success is driven by

St. John’s-based Data Farms is working on a funding round with a target of $900,000 to refine its product and boost its use among farmers practising regenerative farming, which focuses on soil and ecosystem health and regeneration.

Climate change and soil and ecosystem degradation make regenerative agriculture of growing interest to farmers, but gathering and analysing the data created by soil,

For the second year in a row, Fredericton-based Anessa has won an export award from Opportunities New Brunswick, this time an Exporter of the Year Award for export sales under $5 million.

The New Brunswick economic development agency announced the winners of its annual export awards last week. A year ago, Anessa also captured an ONB export award for Innovative Exporter of the Year.

Founded by

Saint John-based healthcare procurement company MedReddie is celebrating getting into the Roux Institute of Healthcare Founder Residency based in Maine.

The program, designed in partnership with Northern Light Health, MaineHealth, and Maine Venture Fund, is said to be the first of its kind in northern New England and aims to accelerate the growth of digital health, healthcare technology,

Halifax-based ResolveHD is one of eight Canadian companies accepted into the 2025 Vendor Innovation Program, or VIP, offered by the national organization Canada Health Infoway.

Led by CEO Chris Crowell and Chief Scientific Officer Louis Beaubien, ResolveHD securely automates the collection, enrichment, and organization of vast amounts of unstructured health data, making it easier for healthcare

Halifax-based social enterprise Greenii Inc. has been named a recipient of the ISANS Divert NS Grant, securing $1,500 to support its next phase of sustainable manufacturing growth.

A participant in Propel’s Fall 2024 Traction and Growth cohort, Greenii has developed semi-automatic machines to swiftly upcycle old newspapers, magazines, brochures, and flyers into paper bags without any pulping or

Speakers at the NACO 2025 Summit in Ottawa this week were virtually unanimous in their calls for the new government to revolutionize the country’s innovation economy.

The two-day conference hosted by NACO Canada, the National Angel Capital Organization, kicked off the day after the new Liberal government was elected, and against the backdrop of the country feeling threatened by U.S. President