Halifax’s Clean Valley CIC is extending a trial of its technology for growing algae in wastewater from land-based aquaculture pens with a major Portuguese operator.

Clean Valley Founder Nicholas LaValle said in an interview the test has been in progress for nine months and the two parties have agreed to continue for another six. LaValle’s goal is for Peniche, Portugal-based trial partner

In an outside-the-box solution to business development beyond its home territory, New Brunswick financial intelligence startup Profitual has begun sending its staff members to work in Toronto on a rotating basis.

Profitual, founded in 2021 by former New Brunswick Innovation Foundation investment officers Raymond Fitzpatrick and Daniel Hoyles, now rents a co-working space at the non-profit MaRS

The Sydney-based Verschuren Centre, which provides startups with access to industrial fermentation and bioprocessing infrastructure, is receiving a $1 million grant from the federal government to expand its operating capacity by a factor of 15. Two resident companies, Dispersa and Cotex Technologies, are also both receiving $500,000 loans.

Laval, Que.-based Dispersa, which has its research and

Halifax startup hub Volta’s fifth annual Ecosystem Impact Awards are coming on September 20, honouring changemakers from the region's innovation ecosystem.

Slated to be held at Dalhousie University’s Ocean Sciences Building in Halifax, the event is free to attend and aims to highlight startup community members that have fostered economic or social progress.

Last year’s winners included Milk

St. Stephen, NB-based Stewart Farms sells its cannabis bath bombs in government retail outlets like any other THC-based product, but the value proposition it offers customers is quite different.

Chief Executive Tanner Stewart founded the company in April 2020, inspired by his experiences operating Edmonton construction company Field-Max Industrial and wishing for products similar to the ones he

Halifax-based MARIN X, which sells sensor technology for aquaculture operators, has won the Innovation Award at global bluetech conference Aqua Nor, held in Trondheim, Norway.

The brainchild of entrepreneurs Sheamus MacDonald and Aleksandr Stabenow, MARIN X is an evolution of the 2017-founded Sedna Technologies and has offices in both Nova Scotia and fish farming centre Norway. The company’s

Entrevestor Live, our third annual conference on Atlantic Canada's most successful startups, is coming to Halifax startup hub Volta Nov. 14. This year's theme is Going Global.

The half-day, hybrid event is dedicated to learning from the region’s greatest startup successes and dispelling the myth that Canada’s East Coast is home only to early-stage companies. To achieve that, we are preparing to

Halifax-based Hollo Medical has swapped out its CEO, replacing one co-founder with another.

Former CEO David Hodgson, who in June won the 2023 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, beating out almost 1,100 competitors internationally, will become chief medical officer. His co-founder and former chief operating officer, Sara Fedullo, is replacing him as chief executive.

“I am incredibly excited to

Dalhousie University’s startup hub, Dal Innovates will hold a virtual pitch day on Sept. 12 for its health cohort of Lab2Market Launch, part of a national research commercialization program for post-secondary institutions.

The students, researchers and recent graduates will have just completed a 12-week, milestone-based boot camp offering up to $15,000 of non-dilutive funding, as well as

Halifax medical technology startup NovaResp, which is developing an algorithm to help manage sleep apnea, has added a new member to its board of directors: Raj Sodhi, who has extensive experience selling technology to treat the condition.

Sodhi co-founded Umbian, which sold software for tracking patients’ sleep habits and was acquired by San Diego-based ResMed in 2012. He stayed on at ResMed for