Alfred Burgesson has won the 2025 Emerging Leader Award from the Ottawa-based think tank Public Policy Forum. 

In a profile announcing the award, the Founder and CEO of Halifax-based Tribe Network said that the organization is on track to raise $20 million for its first venture capital fund, the next big project for the organization. The group has found a lead investor who contributed $2 million

Technology company Stellar Futures, which is based in Nova Scotia and Texas, has won the Commercial AI Pitch Competition hosted by AWS and PREDICTif Solutions for its work in artificial intelligence and digital transformation.

The company's core product is StellarAlerts.AI, a coastal safety solution designed to enhance real-time public messaging, impact-based forecasting, and emergency

The first cohort of Invest Nova Scotia Accelerate 2025-2026 has been selected. Now in its fifth year, Accelerate offers participating startups four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding.

The program is completely virtual and aimed at companies that have already established market opportunities for products based on science or engineering-related intellectual property

Moncton-based recruitment software company VidCruiter has given $20,000 worth of computers to the BGC Clubs (Boys and Girls Clubs) in Dieppe, Moncton, and Riverview, as well as $10,000 worth of computers to Youth Impact Jeunesse Moncton.

The donations are helping to bridge the digital divide, providing underprivileged youth with the tools they need for education, skill development, and career

Mulli Swing Solutions, which helps golfers improve their swings, captured the top prize in the Growth Category last week at the University of New Brunswick’s RBC Student Pitch Competition.

The Fredericton-based company has developed sensors that attach to the grip of a golf club, producing data that helps golfers and their coaches analyse the player’s grip and swing. Its co-founders are Brycen

Backed by a $5 million federal grant, a new 51,000-square-foot bioinnovation hub is opening in Dartmouth to offer badly needed lab and bio-manufacturing facilities to a range of customers.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency last week issued a press release unveiling the grant to Neptune BioInnovation Inc., a new non-profit that will oversea the facility. Neptune will take over an existing

Breakthru is returning to New Brunswick.

As it awarded a $50,000 investment at the Breakthru Accelerating Cleantech pitching event on Tuesday, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation unveiled its plans to resurrect the Breakthru brand, whose name was once given to its flagship competition.

The pitching competition winner, which received a $50,000 investment from NBIF, was AgroGene Solutions,

St. John’s-based CoLab Software has received $5.6 million in funding from two offshore oil projects to help develop its new artificial intelligence and machine learning tool.

The company, whose software supports collaborative 3D design and review, held an event in St. John’s on Wednesday to announce the funding from the Hibernia and Hebron Projects. This cash infusion will fund about 60,000

Seven groups in the innovation community have received about $1.3 million from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to hire staff, streamline operations, increase production and reach new markets, ACOA said in a press release.

Among the recipients, most of whom are based in Dartmouth, are the following innovation-driven companies:

Lab4 specializes in critical mineral processing and

Charlottetown’s Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator has received a $2.6 million grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to support the delivery of Emergence 4.0 by BioAlliance.

The PEI BioAlliance is the private sector-led non-profit that is responsible for developing and coordinating strategy for the Island's bioscience cluster. In 2014, the organization launced Emergence,