Three innovation economy players took home silverware Thursday night at the Halifax Business Awards, hosted by the city’s chamber of commerce.

ESG Partners, an environmental, social and corporate governance consulting firm, won New Business of the Year. Impactful Health R&D, which is developing antimicrobial packaging for fish, won Innovative Business of the Year. And Nautel, one of the world's

Stockholm-based business intelligence company University Business Incubators Global, or UBI, has named Memorial University’s Genesis startup hub as a “top challenger” for its annual list of the top 10 university-affiliated startup incubators internationally.

Genesis is one of only three North American universities to be named as top challengers — UBI’s term for incubators that stand out within

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is lending a total of $1.7 million to three Halifax biotech companies: ClearDynamic, AGADA Biosciences and NovaResp Technologies.

ClearDynamic is taking home the lion’s share of the funding, $948,750, to assess the feasibility of its system to treat joint pain by injecting tiny particles of glass into a patient’s bloodstream.

The technology is similar in

Immigrant founders and veteran entrepreneurs are making a strong showing among remote startup accelerator Propel’s resident companies, as the organization mobilizes to meet spiking demand for its services.

Founders over the age of 40 will make up about 40 percent of the entrepreneurs Propel works with during the fiscal year ending in March, and second-time founders have increased from 41 percent

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Five startups received grants of $25,000 each from Innovation PEI last fall as part of its Ignition Fund, the agency has announced.

Launched in 2014, the fund has so far backed 80 companies. Several of this round of recipients, including Jems Boutique and Knit Pickers PEI, are established small businesses that are now launching more ambitious and scaleable projects.

Here’s a look at the latest

Pressto, the New York- and Halifax-based maker of edtech software, has opened early access to its artificial intelligence system for teachers.

The system offers teachers personalized prompts for their students, as well as generating lesson plans, vocabulary and feedback tailored to each youth’s abilities and interests.

Pressto, founded by former magazine publisher Daniel Stedman, is a web app

Having refocused its business on products for farmers, Cascadia Seaweed is setting out this year to raise about $10 million to fund a bioprocessing plant and the exponential growth of its seaweed production.

The Sidney, BC-based company, which operates on the Pacific coast, has raised a total of about $7.5 million since it launched in 2019, mainly from angels, but now CFO Rob Napoli and CEO

Halifax-based Smallfood is one of eight Canadian startups to receive a combined $2.5 million of funding from industry group the Canadian Food Innovation Network.

Smallfood is taking home $98,932, just seven months after the company and one of its collaborators were also announced as a semifinalist in the $15 million foodtech edition of the prestigious XPRIZE startup competition.

The latest

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Kognitiv Spark, the Fredericton maker of augmented reality software, will jointly fund a new augmented reality lab at the University of New Brunswick.

Dubbed the Spatial Computing Education, Training & Research Laboratory, or SPECTRAL, the lab will collaborate with private sector players in the aerospace industry on research and development work, with