BoomersPlus, a Halifax company that matches seasoned professionals with part-time jobs where their experience is needed, is testing a new initiative to help startups find industry mentors.

The Virtual Startup Mentor Pilot program will see a roster of retired and semi-retired people with experience in corporate leadership roles spend twelve weeks giving operational, financial and marketing advice

Sydney’s Verschuren Centre and Bioenterprise, Canada’s food and agri-tech organization, have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in support of sustainable innovation in agriculture and the bioeconomy.

 In a statement, Bioenterprise said the partnership means greater connection to opportunities and resources in Canada’s bioeconomy and the possibility of more collaborations with

Even after decades of attempts by governments and environmental groups to make recycling ubiquitous, the industry faces at least one constant challenge: finding uses for discarded material. But the founder of New Brunswick-based PLAEX Building Systems says his company can help.

PLAEX is developing modular, interlocking bricks made from about 90 percent recycled materials. The bricks lock

Entrevestor will be participating in the release of the Halifax Index on Thursday at 9 am, bringing our insights on startup and innovation to the Halifax Partnership’s annual assessment of the city’s economy.

The Halifax Index tracks the city’s metrics across major themes: people, labour, investment and innovation, affordability and quality of place. It includes a progress report on Halifax’s

In the latest win for Sydney’s Verschuren Centre biotech hub, agtech startup CoteX Technologies has relocated from India to use the facility.

Founded in 2018 by chemical engineer Santosh Yadav, CoteX uses a process called thermoforming to apply delayed-release coatings to fertilizer pellets more cheaply than existing methods.

“Polymer-coated fertilizer exists in the market, but our innovation

Halifax-based Appili Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs for infectious diseases, has added clinical research sites in Mexico and Brazil to its Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating favipiravir as a potential oral therapy for patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19.

The expansion into Mexico and Brazil will ensure a timely completion of the trial, the company said in a

When discussing what big, ocean-based carbon capture or storage could look like in 10 years, Matthew Eisaman likes to point out that atmospheric carbon capture will prove difficult unless it’s complemented by an ocean-based effort.

People understand the need for carbon capture – that is, the practice of capturing and storing greenhouse gases that would otherwise escape into the atmosphere. They

Harbr, the Halifax-based maker of project management software for the construction industry, is testing a fintech service that CEO Dave Kim says will help address systemic problems with late payments in the sector.

The company’s main offering is a communications platform that lets construction workers use text messages to send real-time updates about their work to a central database.

The system

Several high-profile companies and organizations in the Halifax area, including Outcast Foods and b4checkin, have announced changes in senior management in the past few days.

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods, which makes powdered food products from rejected produce, has hired Miriam Zitner as Vice President of Business Development.

Halifax’s b4checkin, which makes software for hotel chains, has

A new national Leger survey sheds light on how Canadians, including Atlantic residents, view the need for healthy Indigenous businesses.

Coinciding with National Indigenous History Month, the survey probes attitudes towards Indigenous businesses in terms of creating sustainable economic opportunities for Indigenous peoples and Canada’s economic growth.

The survey of 1,589 Canadians found that