The owners of Halifax marketing agency Kula Partners have spun off a software development company that promises to bring private-sector, user-centred design sensibilities to public sector agencies.

Business partners Jeff White and Carman Pirie started What We Make It three years ago, incubating it as a division of Kula. The new service company promises to build software by consulting with its

Dalhousie University has announced the startup cohort for its second annual Design2Build accelerator -- an eight-month program meant to help deep tech entrepreneurs develop and manufacture their products.

The accelerator is split into three modules, with each lasting two or three months. The first module focuses on product design, the second on building a product and the third on scaling

Halifax advanced materials unicorn Metamaterials Inc., which boasts a C$2.1 billion market cap on the Nasdaq, will dole out a basket of $150,000 research grants, with winners being announced January, 2022.

The grant program, called Ideas for Innovation, will be open to scientists working on advanced materials research. Applications open Oct.1 and the deadline to apply is Dec.15.

A group of

Emergence, the life sciences incubator based on Prince Edward Island and targeting a national market, has made a new hire: Bernadette Fernandes, a corporate consultant who specializes in export development.

Since 2011, Fernandes has been CEO of The Varanda Network -- the consulting firm she founded, which is certified by the non-profit Forum for International Trade Training and counts among its

Volta, the Halifax-based startup hub, has recognized six Atlantic Canadian groups and individuals with its annual Ecosystem Impact Awards, which it announced last week.

Launched in 2019, the Ecosystem Impact Awards recognize the people who are having a positive impact on the support system for startups in the region.

“The efforts of each company, individual and supporter in our community

Our valuations panel at Entrevestor Live should shed light on a long-standing question for many East Coast founders: how do startup valuations in Atlantic Canada compare with other places?

This question has been in the air for years, and no doubt the answer will change as time goes on. Certainly, the impression is that investors can find more attractive valuations in Atlantic Canada than in

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Opportunities New Brunswick are launching a climate impact fund to finance private-sector initiatives to mitigate and adapt to climate change, with funding coming from the federal government’s redistribution of its recently imposed carbon tax.

The fund will dole out $1.5 million, split into a series of related programs.

“The funds for this program

Drinkable Water Solutions, a Halifax-based team developing a graphene-based sensor to monitor water quality, has won Dalhousie University’s Ready2Launch pitch competition.

Ready2Launch is a three-month accelerator that helps participants to commercialize scientific research. It is part of the Dal Innovates suite of programs that promises to teach entrepreneurial skills to students and

When Ali Mousavi and Arash Helmi joined the Startup Visa program sponsored by Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp, it was not from their home country of Iran, but thanks to a South Korean startup competition.

Mousavi and Helmi are the co-founders of Magic Organ Cloner, or MOC Biotechnologies. In 2019, they were in Korea to compete in the BIXPO innovation conference’s

Talks are now under way between Innovacorp and the Nova Scotia government about what should be done with the $104 million that Innovacorp received from its investment in Metamaterials Inc.

Last week, Entrevestor reported that the Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency made a return of $101 million on its $3 million investment in META. That’s a total return of 35 times, and a