BioNova has named eight semi-finalists for the 2019 BioInnovation Challenge, or BIC, which will take place at its BioPort conference on Nov. 5 and 6 at Pier 21 in Halifax.

Now in its ninth year, BIC is the main pitching competition for early-stage life sciences companies in Atlantic Canada. The prize for the winner this year will be $25,000 in seed funding and a $30,000 advisory services package

Halifax startup hub Volta is launching a new program headed by venture capital veteran Toon Nagtegaal to help Atlantic Canadian companies prepare for accelerators – even the best in the world.

The organization said last week it had received a $663,750 grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to support Volta LEAP, the program beginning this autumn. It aims to help about 15 to 20

Saint John-based Sensory Friendly Solutions has launched an app that helps people who experience sensory overload find sensory friendly events, places, products and services.

The Sensory Friendly Finder is designed to become a comprehensive listing of sensory friendly businesses.  

“In a world that is increasingly busy, noisy, and often overwhelming, more and more people are looking for ways to

Sales Atlantic, a two-day workshop to teach sales skills to Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs, will take place in the Sydney area Sept. 9 and 10.

The program will feature such sales and marketing experts as Skaled Sales Training founder Jake Dunlap, product positioning expert April Dunford, and MentorCamp founder Permjot Valia. It will take place at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre. You

Innovacorp is offering mentoring and tens of thousands in non-dilutive financing to Nova Scotian startups through four programs, whose entry deadlines are rapidly approaching.

The Nova Scotia government’s venture capital group has opened applications for its four main programs for helping early-stage companies – Sprint, Accelerate, Startup-Yard and the Blue Green Challenge. Here are the details:

The entrepreneurship programs at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Acadia University in Wolfville are receiving grants totaling almost $1.9 million from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and provincial governments.

ACOA, the federal government’s East Coast economic development agency, said in a statement It would provide a grant of $1 million over the next three years to the

Having caught the attention of some of the world’s largest corporations, two Vietnamese entrepreneurs have now chosen Nova Scotia as their company’s new home.

Henry Pham and Joe Nguyen are the creators of TablePlus, a computer program that helps data scientists and software developers interact with large information databases.

Their product is used by staff at several Fortune 500 companies,

Dieppe, NB-based PurelyHR has launched an employee-evaluation product called Performance, the latest module within its human resources management platform used by small and medium-sized businesses all over the world.

PurelyHR, the public brand for Ironflow Technologies, has developed a Software-as-a-Service product that helps SMEs with a range of human resources tasks. Performance is the

Springboard Atlantic will receive $9.6 million in funding from the federal government to continue providing a bridge between industry and Atlantic Canadian academia for the next three years.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency announced the funding on Wednesday, saying it would come from the agency’s Atlantic Innovation Fund. The statement added that the 19 post-secondary institutions that

Registration is open for the autumn cohort of the B4C Start program at the B4Change Social Enterprise Accelerator in Fredericton.

A social enterprise is a business that does good in addition to making money. The Start program is for people with very early stage ideas and for those who have not yet had time to work deeply on their ideas, organizers said in a statement. The Start programming