Sanjay Dubey of Memorial University has won the $80,000 second prize in the 2026 Student Entrepreneur Climate Solutions Prize for his work developing seaweed-based alternatives to conventional plastics.

The award recognizes Dubey as a Co-Founder of St. John’s-based BioLabMate Composite Inc., a startup he co-founded with CEO Dr. Sarika Kumari. Although the prize was presented to him personally,

Applications are now open for the second 2026 cohort of Invest Nova Scotia's Accelerate program, which provides funding and support to help Nova Scotia startups prepare for investment and grow their businesses.

The milestone-based program now offers two streams aimed at companies at different stages of development.

The Growth Stream is designed for technology startups that are already in the

Halifax-based Virtual Hallway this week received the Access to Care  Award at HealthPRO Canada's Healthcare Innovation Den, for its work closing the access-to-care gap for rural and remote Canadians.

The Innovation Den, held for the first time this year, named winners in three categories to recognize innovations that could create a measurable impact across Canada's healthcare system.​ HealthPRO

A delegation from Atlantic Canada’s life sciences and biotech industry will next week attend the BIO International Convention, said to be the largest biotechnology conference in the world.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the office of Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston both issued statements announcing participation in the event in San Diego, California. The delegation will include 16

One of Canada’s leading startup advocates has been charged with two criminal offences following an incident in Saskatoon last month, according to The Globe and Mail.

Jesse Wiebe, executive director of the Canadian Startup Capital Association, or the CSCA, was arrested by Saskatoon police on May 17 and charged with willfully committing an indecent act and unlawfully entering a dwelling with

Moncton-based Breathe BioMedical has expanded a clinical study of its breast cancer detection device after a clinical study found an 88 percent success rate in detecting breast cancer.

The company issued a press release recently saying that Pittsburgh’s Weinstein Imaging Associates has become the fourth site in its multi-centre observational study aimed at advancing a breath test designed to

Spark Nova Scotia, the contest for rural and coastal high-potential, knowledge-based businesses, has announced this year’s winners.

The contest is run in three regions — Cape Breton, North, and Southwest — and offers winners up to $50,000 in non-dilutive funding. The competition featured five finalists in each of the three regions, including a competition in the North region that resulted

Genesis, the St. John’s startup hub, has launched Residency, an invitation-only program for founders building venture-scale companies.

Residency is Genesis's highest-tier founder program, and its members were selected by the new Genesis Founders' Council, which comprises leaders from the Newfoundland and Labrador startup community.

In Residency, founders receive structured quarterly feedback

Somru BioScience Inc., a Charlottetown-based contract research organization, has agreed to buy Novus Clinical Research Services Ltd. of Bangladesh to expand its international clinical research operations.

The P.E.I. company announced Wednesday that its affiliate, Somru BioScience (BD) Limited, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase all shares of Novus, a clinical research organization

Saint John-based Versos AI has been accepted into NVIDIA’s startup support program, NVIDIA Inception, the company announced Tuesday.

Versos AI develops technology that helps organizations convert large video libraries into structured datasets that can be used for artificial intelligence training, analytics and other AI applications. The company’s Video Library Intelligence Platform is designed