Cuna del Mar, the aquaculture-focused investment group backed by Christy Walton, has purchased The Center for Aquaculture Technologies, or CAT, the P.E.I.-based research group.

The companies last week issued a statement saying that Cuna del Mar has bought all the shares of CAT for an undisclosed sum from Linnaeus Capital Partners BV, a Dutch investment group.

With operations in P.E.I. and San

Planet Hatch has named the five companies that will participate in its 2019 Sales Accelerator Program, which helps companies find new markets and improve their revenue base.

The Fredericton entrepreneurship hub said in a statement the program provides participants with comprehensive sales training from industry experts, and access of up to $25,000 to support market entry and business development

The Atlantic Venture Forum is seeking companies to present at this year’s conference and benefit from an enriched program of content for founders.

Companies have until the end of the day Tuesday to apply to present. You can find applications here.

The seventh annual AVF, which will take place June 26 and 27 at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel, is a meeting place for Atlantic Canadian

Propel, the pan-Atlantic IT support organization, has accepted 30 companies into Phase 1 of its virtual accelerator Incite – an increase of about one-third from its first cohort of the program.

Launched with 21 companies last fall, Incite is a virtual program that startup founders can take for up to a year, regardless of where they are in Atlantic Canada. The program is divided into two phases. 

A few years after leaving behind the tech game and St. John’s, Jason Janes has a new company with a distinctly low-tech product – wooden barbeque scrapers.

But here's the surprising thing: the young venture called Juniper BBQ Scrapers is showing growth metrics that tech entrepreneurs aspire to. Less than two years old, the company is on the cusp of selling its 100,000th scraper, now offering

Dalhousie University is inviting startup founders to apply for its annual 100K Competition, in which winning teams receive $10,000 in non-dilutive funding and entry into the university’s accelerator.

Dal’s 100K Competition, now in its sixth year, brings together students and researchers with the aim of helping young companies succeed. Ten finalists receive $10,000 each and entry into Dal’s

One reason Jason Martell has grown his business Inside Out Cleaning Services so strongly in recent years is his partnerships with Halifax-area startups, which have helped him to adopt a growth strategy and new technology.

Based in Blockhouse, on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Inside Out expanded mainly because of the acquisition of a competitor in Halifax in 2016. But that deal went hand-in-hand

An opening for an R&D Designer Software Developer at Protocase  in Sydney is the lone entry in our Our Job of the Week column today.

Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom manufacturing to the engineering, design, and research industries.  The company has more

The Lobster Trap Company, which aims to build a more robust trap than is now available, is making its first commercial manufacturing run of its plastic product this lobster season.

The Yarmouth-based company started taking orders three weeks ago and plans to produce at least 10,000 lobster traps for the 2019-20 lobster season along the southwestern shore of Nova Scotia. The new trap design –

We’d like to thank all the founders who have taken two minutes to complete our survey, and make another request to others to please fill it in – today, if possible.

Well over 100 founders have completed the 15-question survey, but we need more responses. So we’re asking the scores of founders who have been meaning to fill it in to please do so ASAP. Each year, we hear from CEOs who say they’ve