Black entrepreneurs are invited to sign up for the final live BUILD workshop in Halifax, which is titled Pitching Your Business to Investors.

Occurring next Wednesday, May 31, the workshop is being offered by Tribe Network, a group that offers support and training to BIPOC entrepreneurs. It will feature guest Amoye Henry, a consultant at AH Consulting in London, U.K.

Henry will share insights

Lab2Market Launch and Dalhousie University have unveiled their inaugural Founder Council network for their Atlantic and National Health cohorts.

More than 40 founder council members from across Canada signed up to join the program.

The program allows established entrepreneurs to guide and educate budding entrepreneurs in post-secondary school. According to Lab2Market, these mentors are

St. John’s-based Spellbook, the maker of artificial intelligence-enabled contract-drafting software, has raised a US$10.9 million or C$14.8 million seed round from investors including Thomson Reuters, the Toronto data and publishing giant that controls a massive percentage of the legal software market.

The company originally did business as Rally. Spellbook was the name of one of several

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, has announced the companies graduating from this year’s Oceans cohort for bluetech companies and its Prime cohort for general startups.

CDL is a nine-month, milestone-based accelerator founded by University of Toronto management professor Ajay Agrawal and it is now

Halifax’s Net-Zero Edge, or NZE, is joining the 10-week Bluetech Boost accelerator from Gulf of Maine Ventures, the investment arm of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute oceantech hub in Portland, Maine.

Founded last year by blue economy veteran Kyle Burton — who has previously worked at Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and former venture capital Crown corporation

Get Coding Training, a Newfoundland and Labrador-based information technology jobs training company, is expanding throughout Atlantic Canada in the wake of strong demand from workers in more traditional industries looking to change careers.

Founded by CEO Jan Mertlik and CTO Sahand Seifi, Get Coding offers nine- to 12-month training courses designed to prepare participants to work professionally

Genesis, Newfoundland and Labrador’s startup hub, is seeking applications for its Evolution accelerator program this summer.

According to Genesis, this program is a “pre-incubator program,” which offers intensive and experiential learning to help entrepreneurs during their earliest stages. Each week, participants will be immersed in different educational sessions. The program promises to assist

Having successfully completed clinical trials, Pasadena, NL-based medtech company Swiftsure Innovations has raised a $2.3 million seed funding round, led by Pelorus VC.

Founded three years ago by intensive care unit nurse Deanne McCarthy, Swiftsure is developing medical devices that aim to improve oral care solutions for critically ill patients on ventilator systems. The company is now planning

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $57 million in venture capital through 13 deals in the first quarter – a respectable performance given the decline in venture capital elsewhere in the county.

Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, or CVCA, released its first quarter data report on Thursday, showing that Canadian startups raised $1.3 billion in the first quarter. It was a drop

The first quarter of 2023 saw a rare downturn in startup jobs on the East Coast, with total employment in the sector dropping to levels comparable to the worst days of the pandemic, according to data from early stage venture capital fund Concrete Ventures.

The Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem shrank by 521 jobs in the first quarter of 2023, with just 18 percent of startups adding staff and 30