Ignite Labs has been recognized with a national Canie Award just days after the organization opened a new facility in Pictou County, N.S.

Yarmouth, N.S-based Ignite, headed by Founder and CEO Doug Jones, is dedicated to providing incubation space and support for rural innovators. It began in Yarmouth three years ago, and opened an outpost in northern Nova Scotia last year. Late last week, it

Volta has teamed up with Scale AI, the Montreal-based artificial intelligence supercluster, to offer a new program called Volta AI, which supports companies bringing AI to supply chains.

Volta, the Halifax-based innovation hub, said five Canadian companies will be accepted into the one-year program and each will receive $14,000 to buy services or materials.

Applications will be accepted until

As many of our readers know, I have a side hustle writing crime novels. A few of you have asked how or where to order the new editions of my books THE HAIGHT or A HITMAN ON HAIGHT STREET, which come out in paperback and digital formats on Nov. 10.

I’m arranging to hand deliver signed paperback copies to friends in Nova Scotia. If you’d like either or both, let me know the title and number, and I

Bounce Health Innovation, the organization supporting medtech companies in Newfoundland and Labrador, is enhancing its operations with a new full-time director and three years of funding.

The organization unveiled “Bounce 2.0” last week, in which Chandra Kavanagh, an expert in medical ethics, has been named the organization’s first director. She has created a schedule of events and programs

Eleven teams of entrepreneurs have been awarded a total of $375,000 in the Spark Nova Scotia program, which aims to develop startups in Nova Scotia outside of metro Halifax.

The cash prizes – ranging between $15,000 and $50,000 – were distributed during a virtual awards ceremony Monday evening.

The Spark competition is divided into three zones – South West, North, and Cape Breton – to cover all

Sydney-based Navigate Startup House has teamed up with the Nova Scotia Department of Labour & Advanced Education to create work experience for a team of junior software developers in Cape Breton.

The team is developing innovative business ideas at the ATOM Software Studio. The pilot program currently employs four young programmers, supervised by professional developers, in a hybrid software

Halifax-based 3D BioFibR Inc., only formed in July, has closed a $550,000 funding round that will launch its mission to produce commercial quantities of nature’s “strongest, lightest and toughest” materials.

The equity round – believed to be the first by an Atlantic Canadian company founded since the pandemic started – includes $150,000 from Concrete Ventures and $100,000 from Innovacorp.

The

Taking issue with the notion that Atlantic Canadian startups face a major funding problem, Andrew Ray says the companies in the Innovacorp portfolio have raised $71 million in the last six months alone.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency, did not participate in all those funding rounds, but it did invest more in the first six months of the 2010-21 fiscal

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency, invested a total $2.5 million in 19 companies in 2019-20, a drop in dollar terms of 60 percent from the previous fiscal year.

The provincial Crown corporation, whose fiscal year ends March 31, released its annual Accountability Report recently outlining its activity, which was impacted by three deals being delayed until

Cloud security company Sonrai Security has closed a US$20 million (C$26.4 million) venture capital round led by Menlo Ventures of Silicon Valley, the largest fully disclosed VC deal in Atlantic Canada this year.

The round also drew the backing of returning investors Polaris Partners and Ten Eleven Ventures.

Based in New York and Fredericton, Sonrai burst on the scene in late 2018 when its first