Two Atlantic Canadian companies, EmployNXT and StarLuv, are among the 20 joining the 2024 cohort of Calgary-based Movement51’s Founder Lab training program for female founders preparing to raise capital.

Movement51, the non-profit arm of The51 venture capital shop, aims the Founder Lab program at entrepreneurs planning to raise up to $1.5 million within about six to eight months. The 11-week

Saint Mary’s University is looking for applicants to its Access-Ability program for entrepreneurs with disabilities.

The speaker series, which includes 18 sessions per year, will pay entrepreneurs $50 for their “time, participation and focus,” and cover topics related to both business- and personal-development, as well as asynchronous online content.

To be eligible to participate, applicants

The Women’s Equity Lab Atlantic Investment Group, or WEL Atlantic, an angel capital organization launched early last year, has closed its first fund and opened a second, for which it has raised $250,000 from 50 investors.

Fund 1, which had 38 investors, spent a total of $190,000 to back four companies: New Brunswick’s Uresta, which makes a device to prevent bladder leakage, and Halifax-based

Fredericton-based Picketa Systems, maker of the LENS hardware and software suite for analyzing plant tissues, has launched its product in 13 American states, mostly in the country’s bread basket region.

Initially designed for use on potato crops, with support for corn added recently, LENS has been in use by farmers since last year. In a statement, the company said the addition was motivated by

A pharmaceutical startup aiming to treat Androgenetic Alopecia, a type of genetic hair loss, has raised a $4 million funding round that included the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Founded in 2013 by Dr. Houfar Sekhavat and pharmacist Peter Ford, Dieppe, N.B.-based Triple Hair also received approval from European regulators to start the final stage of trials for its flagship prescription

Invest Nova Scotia is seeking applicants for this year's second cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Accelerate offers companies four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding, as well as weekly one-on-one coaching sessions and monthly workshops on a range of investor readiness-related topics. Invest Nova Scotia is specifically looking for agtech, cleantech,

Techstars alum innerlogic, which is developing a software and AI suite to automate employee feedback for enterprise clients, has closed a $1.3 million funding round to support product and business development.

Founders Bryce Tully and Mike Bawol were inspired to launch the Halifax-based company after working for Canada’s Olympic team, Tully as a mental performance consultant and Bawol as a data

We’re pleased to report that a new panelist has joined the Entrevestor Live lineup: Zen Electric CEO Ravindra Kempaiah.

On Sept. 17 at Volta, Kempaiah — whose company is developing battery systems for the very small two- and three-wheeled vehicles common in South Asia and Africa — will appear on our panel on the growth of the battery ecosystem in Atlantic Canada.

Halifax is fast becoming a hub

Information technology businesses are not just the largest group of startups in Atlantic Canada. They dwarf every other sector, accounting for almost two-thirds of all East Coast startups at the end of 2023. If there is a challenger for the most dynamic industry, it is medtech, which posted the fastest revenue growth at 168 percent, according to data from Entrevestor's 2023 Atlantic

St. John's-based Sparrow Bioacoustics has launched Version 3 of its stethoscope app, now integrating AI analysis, with the company releasing it first in Ukraine.

The move builds on a pilot program that has involved Ukrainian cardiology clinics piloting an earlier version of Stethophone, as the software is called, since last year. In a press release, Sparrow said the updated version will help