Just in time for World Oceans Day, Sidney, B.C.-based Cascadia Seaweed is launching its first agricultural product — a kelp-based fertilizer dubbed ReFeed Seaweed Extract and released under a partnership with innovation hub ReFeed Canada.

The seaweed extract is a liquid plant food made from cultivated, cold-water kelp. Cascadia said in a statement it contains essential nutrients for plant growth

Five months after it hired a new chief executive, Fredericton- and Miami-based artificial intelligence star Introhive also has a new chief financial officer.

Freshly minted CFO Saeideh Fard is a software-as-a-service veteran who most recently served as senior vice-president of finance at Toronto’s PointClickShare, a healthtech software-maker that ranks among North America’s largest privately

St. John’s-based Sparrow BioAcoustics has won United States Food and Drug Administration approval for its smartphone stethoscope app.

The app uses a phone’s internal microphones, along with software processing, to allow the device to function as an ad hoc stethoscope when it is held against a patient’s chest.

Trials were conducted at Newfoundland’s Eastern Health Medical Centre, where 70

After successful medical trials in India, Halifax's NeoCare is aiming to recreate the promising results in Canada as it looks to secure regulatory approval and close a $750,000 funding round.

NeoCare’s flagship product is SAMIRA — a system that uses light shone through a newborn’s thumb to test for jaundice, anemia and hypoxia, all of which are leading causes of infant mortality globally.

Dalhousie University’s startup hub Dal Innovates has announced the cohort for three Lab2Market Launch accelerators, part of a national research commercialization program for post-secondary institutions.

The programs include a research stream for Atlantic Canadian companies, a national health stream and a generalized Atlantic stream.

The Atlantic Canadian research cohort and the general stream

Two years on from its dramatic stock matket spike during the pandemic, Dartmouth-based Sona Nanotech is once again focused on using its gold nanorods to battle cancer.

The company has had some major announcements in the first half of 2023. Having raised $1.1 million by selling shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange earlier this year, Sona also grew by acquiring Boulder, Co.-based Siva

The Joint Economic Development Initiative, which supports economic opportunities for Indigenous people in New Brunswick, launched its JEDI Trades Trailer last week to introduce skilled trades to Indigenous youths.

The trailer has been under construction for the last year and is part of the Indigenous Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness project, which is funded by the federal government’s

We were delighted to participate in the presentation of the Halifax Index on Thursday, explaining to the Halifax Partnership’s annual event the progress of the city’s startup community in 2022.

Each spring, the Partnership releases its Halifax Index, a detailed examination of every conceivable facet of the city’s economy and life. For the past few years, Entrevestor has participated by

Three Atlantic Canadian startups are among 112 international companies accepted into the 2023 cohort of the MassChallenge Switzerland accelerator, which will take place in the Alpine country this summer.

Bonavista, NL-based MycoFutures North Atlantic, Pleax Building Systems of Dieppe, NB, and Dartmouth-based Clean Valley CIC will attend boot camps and connection events in Switzerland. The only

Saint John-based Shift Energy, which uses machine learning to control energy use in large complexes, has partnered with Toronto’s Blackstone Energy Services, which plans to adopt Shift’s technology.

The two companies issued a press release on Wednesday saying Blackstone Energy would incorporate SHIFT’s artificial intelligence-driven technology into its energy management systems.

Shift Energy,