We’d like to draw your attention to two pieces of content that will be of interest to people who follow the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

Vanessa Balintec of CBC New Brunswick on Monday reported on the under-representation of female and minority founders in the community. The article arose from our presentation earlier this month on New Brunswick startup in collaboration with Planet Hatch

Jason Trask, the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, has landed a spot for his new rodent deterrent company in the federal government’s CTA AgTech Accelerator.

A serial entrepreneur, Trask has run companies ranging from sales AI specialist Zambara to Globalstudent.com -- an online book exchange for university students. He co-founded his latest venture,

Moncton-based startup hub Venn Innovation will lead an Atlantic Canadian delegation to the world’s largest fintech conference -- Money20/20 in Las Vegas.

The delegation is being backed by the governments of the four Atlantic Provinces and will include eight local fintech startups. Venn said in a press release that the purpose of the trip, which follows up on a 2019 mission also organized by the

As it develops its portfolio, female-focused venture capital firm Sandpiper Ventures has invested in Pasadena, NL-based Swiftsure Innovations, which is developing a device for cleaning the mouths of people on ventilators to help prevent them from developing pneumonia.

A spokesperson for the seed-stage fund declined to comment on the size of the Swiftsure investment. The Atltantic Canadian-based

As consumers recognize the link between consumption of animal products and carbon emissions, Hannah Chisholm, Halifax creator of egg-alternative Eggcitables, has received non-dilutive funding from Vancouver’s Earth’s Own group which fights climate change by encouraging plant-focused eating.

Chisholm’s egg alternative is a chickpea-based dry product, able to mimic eggs in almost all applications.

Aiming to boost innovation in healthcare and the prospects of medtech startups, Eastern Health in Newfoundland and Labrador has partnered with HaloHealth, Canada’s first physician angel group that brings together physicians and early-stage health technology startups.

Eastern Health and HaloHealth are working to accelerate healthcare innovation throughout Atlantic Canada. The partnership provides

The Atlantic Venture Forum startup conference has announced the 12 companies that will present at this year’s event -- to be held virtually thanks to COVID-19.

The ninth annual instalment of AVF will be held on Oct 20 and 21. The aim of the gathering is to offer a “financing and partnering forum” for early-stage and growth-stage companies by attracting angel investors, venture capitalists,

A new training program spearheaded by Dalhousie University’s Jeff Larsen and Globalive Capital’s Brice Scheschuk promises to train experienced businesspeople to become more effective mentors.

Larsen is the Executive Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Dalhousie’s Office of the Vice-President, and Scheschuk co-founded telecom provider Wind Mobile, now owned by Shaw. Also backing the

Atlantic Canadian technology industry group TechImpact has launched a new platform to match New Brunswick-based technology service companies with customers in the province and globally.

Dubbed CollabHub, the service is bilingual. Companies can sign up to be included in a directory, which potential customers around the world can then browse. It also also includes a careers page to help individual

Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp has announced 14 participants for the second cohort of its revamped, virtual Accelerate program.

The participating companies, all of which have sales of less than $1 million and equity investment of less than $250,000, will each receive $25,000 in grants. They will also have access to coaching, monthly workshops and market research from