Female-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund Sandpiper Ventures has closed the first $10 million of a planned $20 million funding round for its flagship SV Fund, with the backers including 30 women and Scotiabank’s Roynat Capital.

Founded last year, Sandpiper now boasts the largest number of individual investors of any Atlantic Canadian VC fund, the fund said in a press release -- a

An Antigonish company developing lobster bait that relies on sound instead of fish, circumventing bait shortages, is preparing to start testing its technology this fall.

Peter Nicholson is the majority owner of Acoustic Bait Technologies, which he founded with his business partner, Chet Chisholm, in summer, 2019. With the help of professors David Barclay at Dalhousie University and Russell Wyeth

St. John’s-based medtech company BreatheSuite Inc. has received 510(K) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its device that helps people to user their inhalers properly.

Receiving FDA clearance means that BreathSuite can now sell its BreatheSuite Metered-Dose Inhaler V1 device in the U.S. The company said in a statement on Tuesday it is the first company from Newfoundland and

The owners of Halifax marketing agency Kula Partners have spun off a software development company that promises to bring private-sector, user-centred design sensibilities to public sector agencies.

Business partners Jeff White and Carman Pirie started What We Make It three years ago, incubating it as a division of Kula. The new service company promises to build software by consulting with its

Dalhousie University has announced the startup cohort for its second annual Design2Build accelerator -- an eight-month program meant to help deep tech entrepreneurs develop and manufacture their products.

The accelerator is split into three modules, with each lasting two or three months. The first module focuses on product design, the second on building a product and the third on scaling

Halifax advanced materials unicorn Metamaterials Inc., which boasts a C$2.1 billion market cap on the Nasdaq, will dole out a basket of $150,000 research grants, with winners being announced January, 2022.

The grant program, called Ideas for Innovation, will be open to scientists working on advanced materials research. Applications open Oct.1 and the deadline to apply is Dec.15.

A group of

Emergence, the life sciences incubator based on Prince Edward Island and targeting a national market, has made a new hire: Bernadette Fernandes, a corporate consultant who specializes in export development.

Since 2011, Fernandes has been CEO of The Varanda Network -- the consulting firm she founded, which is certified by the non-profit Forum for International Trade Training and counts among its

Volta, the Halifax-based startup hub, has recognized six Atlantic Canadian groups and individuals with its annual Ecosystem Impact Awards, which it announced last week.

Launched in 2019, the Ecosystem Impact Awards recognize the people who are having a positive impact on the support system for startups in the region.

“The efforts of each company, individual and supporter in our community

Our valuations panel at Entrevestor Live should shed light on a long-standing question for many East Coast founders: how do startup valuations in Atlantic Canada compare with other places?

This question has been in the air for years, and no doubt the answer will change as time goes on. Certainly, the impression is that investors can find more attractive valuations in Atlantic Canada than in

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Opportunities New Brunswick are launching a climate impact fund to finance private-sector initiatives to mitigate and adapt to climate change, with funding coming from the federal government’s redistribution of its recently imposed carbon tax.

The fund will dole out $1.5 million, split into a series of related programs.

“The funds for this program