Atlantic Canadian students and researchers still have a few days left to apply for the 2025 Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada pitch competition, with the deadline set for Sunday, Aug. 24, at 11:59 p.m ADT.

The event will take place Sept. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Halifax Central Library and will also allow participants to pitch live online. The competition is open to post-secondary students,

Early-bird tickets are now on sale and nominations have opened for the 2025 InnovateNB Celebration and Awards, taking place Thursday, Nov. 27 at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre.

Now in its fourth year, InnovateNB is the province’s premier celebration of innovation, bringing together entrepreneurs, researchers, business leaders, and public-sector changemakers to recognize the people

Preparing for rising demand for its electronic assemblies, Dartmouth-based MilAero Electronics Atlantic is embarking on a major expansion estimated to cost more than $2.2 million.

Co-owners Paul and Debora Greedy announced last month that they were adding 8,000 square feet of manufacturing space to their existing headquarters, doubling the company’s operational facility.

The company’s expansion

Dalhousie University, ShiftKey Labs and Lab2Market are launching a new program called AI2Market to help students across Atlantic Canada develop AI-focused enterprises.

The new program is modeled on Lab2Market, which Dal co-founded with other universities in 2019 and has grown into a national program for research-based innovation. It’s being offered in collaboration with ShiftKey Labs, one of the

Tribe Network is seeking 2SLGBTQIA+ applicants from the BIPOC community for its new Out East program.

Offered in collaboration with the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Out East is a first-of-its-kind entrepreneurship program for members of these two under-represented communities.

“You don’t need to code-switch,” said an announcement from Tribe, a Halifax-based support organization

Fredericton-based Climative, a maker of AI-powered low-carbon plans for buildings, is one of three global cleantech companies named this year to the international LG Nova Mission for the Future program.

Hosted by the South Korean electronics giant LG, Mission for the Future is an international startup program that aims to help impact companies scale their products to help people and the planet.

Atlantic Canadian startups raised about $25 million in venture capital in the second quarter of 2025, says Canada’s main VC body, largely because of an undisclosed deal in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, known as CVCA, on Wednesday released its VC data for the first half of the calendar year. It showed the four eastern provinces amassed a

Maritime Launch Services has agreed to sell a stake to Montreal-based Reaction Dynamics Lab Inc. and collaborate on an all-Canadian orbital launch set for the summer of 2028.

MLS, which has built a commercial rocket launch pad in Canso, N.S., issued a statement Tuesday saying the agreements, which have a total value of $1.7 million, will lead to a rocket designed and built in Canada being fired

The Emera IdeaHUB is looking for early-stage, deep-tech startups to apply for the coming cohort of its 10-month ideaBUILD program.

The next IdeaBUILD program will accept as many as 10 teams that are working on a physical product and start with a 12-week bootcamp. Its advisers and engineers will spend almost a year helping these teams assess their market and validate and build their first

Fredericton-based internet-of-things venture SmartSkin Technologies has secured a $7.5 million line of credit with CIBC Innovation Banking and intends to use the access to funds to expand its market reach.

SmartSkin and CIBC issued a press release announcing the credit facility last week.

“This financing fuels our ambition to become the essential intelligence layer for pharmaceutical and