Atlantic Canada's innovation community is home to a host of impressive women, some founders and some working in support organizations. 

In honour of International Women's Day, we're showcasing five dynamic women who are helping to advance innovation-driven companies in the region. 

Gabrielle Masone: Devising Optical Solutions

Halifax-based ColourSmith Labs is developing filters for contact

Carolyn Crewe, Halifax-based founder of Duckish Natural Skin Care, has teamed up with other female business owners to create a Boom Box, aka “a wellness box for Tired A$$ Women in hopes of inspiring women to take a break”.

The box, available as a one-time purchase or subscription, contains products centred around "sleep, skin, snacking, supplements, soul and surprise".

“As a business owner and

Quispamsis, NB insurance technology startup Brunvalley has closed a $300,000 funding round, including a $100,000 follow-on investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

The new round of financing comes in the wake of another $100,000 NBIF funding deal last year. This year’s money is earmarked for additional development work on LifeWallet, Brunvalley’s flagship product.

LifeWallet is

Drawing inspiration from the fintech unicorn Verafin, the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship is looking for applicants to its Solvers program, which pairs industry professionals with would-be entrepreneurs to co-found companies. 

The industry professionals, who must have at least five years of experience in their sector, will invest $5,000 apiece in the companies they co-found and commit “a

With its foothold in the long-term care industry established, Halifax senior care startup Tenera Care is looking to diversify into other market segments — a push being led by an announcement Wednesday that Tenera will partner with retirement home company Shannex.

Under the deal, Shannex will pilot Tenera’s technology in an arrangement backed by the CAN Health Network, which acts as a national

I had the pleasure recently of being interviewed by Dennis Young, the Founder and Managing Director of Barrington Edge, for his Beyond the Edge podcast, which is now live. 

Barrington Edge is a multi-faceted tech support group that helps companies with mentorship, funding and even product development, working with such startups as Nonte, which was spun off from Fredericton-based Populus Global

Though missing out on the bonanza of mega-deals, Atlantic Canada recorded one of its best years ever last year in raising venture capital, according to the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association.

The CVCA released its 2021 data report on Tuesday, showing that Atlantic Canadian startups raised $256 million in 55 deals. Almost half the money was raised in New Brunswick, which

At Entrevestor, we're in the process of preparing our annual Startup Data Report, which offers the most detailed snapshot available of the state of the Atlantic Canadian Startup Community.

If you are a startup founder in Atlantic Canada, please fill out our survey. Startup support organizations and industry groups use our data to learn how to better allocate resources and support the innovation

Halifax- and Toronto-based Curv Health has raised a $5.1 million seed round led by Toronto’s iGan Partners and Halifax's Build Ventures to develop a full-stack telehealth system for employers and insurance companies.

The telehealth project represents a new direction for Curv, which originally aimed to use machine-learning to analyze video of people in motion, then develop fitness routines to

Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics has inked a US$10 million (C$12.67 million) deal with the United States Department of Defence to test a vaccine against tularemia — a highly contagious infection that can be deadly when introduced into the lungs and is well-suited to use as a bioweapon.

The vaccine technology grew out of research and development work by the National Research