The CEO of a Dartmouth-based marketing and public safety automation startup with a history of innovation in employee management believes Atlantic Canada’s technology labour crunch is being mis-framed in the community discourse.

Saeed El-Darahali is the founder of SimplyCast, which is a platform that automates marketing and public safety-related digital tasks. He said in an interview that instead

The Halifax chapter of silver economy group Aging2.0 is holding a virtual pitch competition next month for early-stage startups whose products are designed to improve the life of seniors.

The event will be part of the Longevity Economy Showcaae, a conference for people interested in business opportunities that come from meeting the needs of the elderly. You can register for the conference, which

Eight teams will vie for a $2,000 first prize at Genesis’s next Pitch & Pick competition — the culmination of its eight-week Evolution accelerator.

There will also be a $1,000 second prize and a $500 Community Choice Award. 

The Evolution Program is held three times a year at the end of Evolution’s three annual cohorts, and the last winner was DuaScript, which makes software for compounding

Halifax advanced materials startup 3D BioFibR has borrowed $200,000 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to fund improvements to its process automation.

The company has developed technology for manufacturing biofibres — naturally occurring fibres with commercial applications, such as spider silk and collagen — and CEO Kevin Sullivan said in an interview that he hopes to be generating

Halifax startup hub Volta has opened applications for its free LEAP program, which aims to prepare entrepreneurs to submit an application to a startup accelerator, such as Creative Destruction Lab or Techstars.

Created in 2019 and headed-up by venture capital veteran Toon Nagtegaal, training will be held over four half-day sessions. Nagtegaal was a co-founder of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based

With galloping revenue growth, Toronto-based aquaculture software maker Wittaya Aqua is planning to open its first international office in Singapore this spring and is working on a $3 million raise.

The company, which has an employee based at the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship in Dartmouth, makes software that helps businesses throughout the aquaculture supply chain increase

Venn Innovation, the New Brunswick startup hub, has added five early-stage startups to its Venn Garage incubator via its latest open pitch day — up from two companies from the previous, November pitch competition.

Beginning last year and so-far held online because of COVID-19, the Open Pitch Competitions require entrepreneurs to submit a five-minute video pitch and answer 10 minutes of questions

Saint John Energy, New Brunswick’s second-largest utility after NB Power, has inked a deal to pilot a suite of smart water heating and energy forecasting technology developed by a Norwegian consortium.

The technology was developed by Hokksund, Norway-based internet-of-things specialist OSO Energy, AI startup Kongsberg Digital and Epos Consulting. The pilot project will see Saint John Energy

Dalhousie University has opened applications for the third cohort of its Ready2Launch accelerator for Atlantic Canadian university students and recent graduates looking to commercialize their academic research.

The three-month program for technology-based ventures will be offered virtually again this year and run from June 6 to Aug. 26, with a final pitch day on Sept. 22. Undergraduate, graduate

As the PEI BioAlliance industry group looks to expand the province’s biotech manufacturing capacity, it has opened a new $6.5 million Biomanufacturing Incubator with room for six companies in the BioCommons Research Park in Charlottetown.

The incubator includes 20,000 square feet of floor space for biotech companies looking to pilot their manufacturing processes. It was funded by the Atlantic