An Ontario brewing company has changed hands for the second time in a deal that highlights the early strength of Atlantic Canada’s startup support ecosystem.

Halifax mixed drink startup Sage Mixology participated in the first ever cohort of Dalhousie University’s Starting Lean accelerator in 2012. Founders Cam McDonald and Daniel Bartek later moved the business to Toronto and renamed it Iconic

Halifax-based Tribe Network, which offers national startup support services to BIPOC entrepreneurs, is expanding into venture capital in a move CEO Alfred Burgesson said is aimed at offering founders the chance to work with investors who better understand their specific needs and challenges.

Tribe is raising a $20 million fund called Tribe Ventures that will back pre-seed and

Pow Wow Pitch, the premier pitch competition for Indigenous entrepreneurs in North America, will hold a pitch event at the Natoageneg Traditional Powwow in New Brunswick in July.

The 23rd Natoaganeg Traditional Powwow will be held on the Eel Ground First Nation, overlooking the Miramichi River. On July 15, it will feature a Pow Wow Pitch competition in which participants can pitch their

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The PEI BioAlliance’s Emergence bioscience incubator is expanding its programming with new startup mentors across Atlantic Canada in what BioAlliance Executive Director Jason Cleaversmith describes as a response to the sector’s strong growth in recent years.

In November, Emergence received $3.18 million in new funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and Thales Canada have announced the winners of their Digital Dockyard naval innovation challenge: St. John’s-based CORSphere and Toronto’s Datifex.

CORSphere sells marine fleet management software, including digital twin technology, under the leadership of CEO M. Sazied Hassan. Datifex, helmed by CEO Chris Erickson and with

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, will host its annual Demo Day on Wednesday, with bluetech companies demonstrating their innovations off the facility’s dock.

The event will include 17 exhibiting companies from as far away as British Columbia and Denmark, and COVE said in a statement it expects about 400 private sector and government decision-makers

Halifax-based fintech company QuickFacts, which helps insurance brokers compare quotes from insurers, has closed a $1.13 million funding round as it starts to expand in Western Canada.

The company has been on a roll in the past few months as it won the $25,000 Gerry Pond Award from Propel for success in sales, and graduated from the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic stream. And in May, the

Halifax Partnership and Volta announced Friday a joint program to support Nova Scotian cleantech companies at all stages of growth.

This partnership will give selected startups access to the Volta residency program and tailored support to help them thrive, they said in a statement.

The two organizations plan to work hand-in-hand to provide a comprehensive support system. The startups will

Memorial University and the Ocean Startup Project are calling for applications to their Lab2Market Oceans accelerator.

The program, part of a national group of accelerators, is aimed at helping academic researchers in the oceans space commercialize their work. It will run for 16 weeks, eight of which will be full time. Participants will also receive $15,000 of funding, as well as mentorship in

CoLab Software, the St. John’s maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, is seeing early success from its sales deal with automotive giant Ford.

The carmaker uses CoLab’s system in its Ford Pro department, which makes fleet management software and hardware.

Ford Pro gives fleet operators the ability to track metrics like electric vehicle charging and driver behaviour. CoLab chief