Charlottetown’s BIOVECTRA has reached a key milestone in its plans to develop one of Canada’s first mRNA vaccine manufacturing facilities, having inked a deal with pharma startup Acuitas to use the Vancouver-based company’s manufacturing technology.

Acuitas specializes in using lipid nanoparticles to deliver vaccines and other medications, with lipids being a class of organic compounds that

The University of New Brunswick is offering entrepreneurs a total of $30,000 worth of funding via this year’s Apex Startup Challenge.

The event, organized by UNB’s International Business & Entrepreneurship Centre, will see students and early-stage entrepreneurs from across Canada develop business plans for new ventures, which they will then present to a judging panel and mentors.

The

A week after Halifax advanced materials-maker Meta Materials swapped out its CEO, the company’s stock price woes continue to worsen, despite the recent dismissal of a class action lawsuit filed against it in New York. 

The one-time unicorn said it had “removed” co-founder and longstanding CEO George Palikaras Oct. 17, replacing him with turnaround artist Jim Fusaro following public disagreement

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to its first Investment Day event, which it will host in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event will be held at Volta’s new offices in downtown Halifax’s Armoyan Centre on Nov. 15 and will give seed-stage and Series A companies the chance to pitch to an audience of venture capitalists from outside Atlantic

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation will host a climatetech summit in Saint John Nov. 23 — this year’s iteration of the organization’s long-running R3 events, which highlight applied research in the province.

The day-long gathering will give attendees the chance to hear from and talk with players in the cleantech space and will be held at the Delta Brunswick Hotel.

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A group of bluetech industry support organizations will host an innovation competition called the Ocean of Data Challenge on Nov. 20.

The challenge will be held virtually and is spearheaded by the Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System, or CIOOS, which is an industry group backed by government, academic and non-profit entities. Also behind the event are Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, the national group that co-funds research and development projects with the private sector, is looking for climatetech-related proposals.

The Supercluster, which splits the cost of projects with companies and universities, is looking to back work related to ocean-based carbon capture and storage, sustainable food production, and ocean-going robots with sensors for

A pair of Halifax startups familiar to Entrevestor readers were among the companies honoured at this year’s Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards from the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia: Sparrow BioAcoustics and MOC Biotechnologies.

Sparrow has developed a stethoscope app for smartphones, called Stethophone. The app uses a phone’s internal microphones, along with software processing, to

Six life sciences startups are receiving almost a combined $3 million worth of loans from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to expand their product offerings, scale production and tap new markets.

“This funding has been instrumental in advancing our commercial go-to-market strategy in the US, which represents almost half of our target market,” said Alex Dunphy, CEO of Halifax-based

Halifax-based EmployNXT, whose AI-driven technology aims to encourage equity in hiring, has been accepted into the esteemed Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub – three months before its product is launched.

Growing out of Saint Mary’s University’s Masters of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation program, EmployNXT has a mission of helping women and members of the LGBTQ+ community find