Halifax’s Zen Electric has raised $1.25 million from Nigerian utility company North South Power as it eyes commercialization of its technology in South Asia.

Zen was originally founded by Ravindra Kempaiah to make electric bicycles under the name Zen Electric Bikes. More recently, the company has pivoted to focus on battery systems.

The North South deal is part of a larger funding raise that

Sydney-based Protocase is sponsoring a hackathon at innovation hub Navigate Startup House this month aimed at solving socioeconomic problems in Cape Breton.

The event will run for 12 hours on March 25 and four hours on March 26, with a $1,500 prize for the winning programmer or programmers.

“We invite teams of one-three developers of all skill levels to help us solve a major socioeconomic

Halifax-based research group eOceans has come up with a definition for the “Blue Economy” that only includes activities that are tied to ocean health.

Some academics and some experts in southern hemisphere countries use a similar definition, and eOceans would like to see it widely adopted, particularly among governments and businesses. The company believes the oceans community should clarify

Dalhousie University’s Dal Innovates startup hub has opened applications to the three summer cohorts of its Lab2Market Launch Accelerator, which will include an Atlantic research stream, a national health stream and a generalized Atlantic stream.

Students, researchers and recent graduates are all eligible to participate. The program includes a 12-week, milestone-based boot camp and up to $15,000

Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which recently opened an office at the Dartmouth-Based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, will head up a new Ocean Supercluster project to install a wave-powered desalination system off the coast of Barrington, Nova Scotia.

Dubbed the Oneka Glacier Project, the $14.1 million deal will see Oneka collaborate with shipyard A.F. Theriault & Son

On Friday, a lynchpin of the American startup ecosystem failed. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed under a bank run and was seized by California regulators.

Startup founders wondered aloud on social media about the extent to which Canadian companies might become embroiled in the crisis, either directly or by way of financial contagion.

Their concern was fuelled not just by the size of SVB — the 16th

Halifax inventory management platform Frenter was one of seven startups Saturday to pitch in the demo day for Silicon Valley’s Launch accelerator, co-founded by Jason Calacanis — a prominent angel investor known for being an early backer of Uber and no-fee retail investor platform Robinhood.

Helmed by 17-year-old Zach Laberge and now with an investment from Calacanis, Frenter is an inventory

St. John’s marine robotics company Kraken Robotics, which was the top performing tech stock on the TSX Venture exchange last year, has announced a lucrative new deal to participate in survey work in the North Sea.

Under the contract with Dutch subsea cabling company N-Sea, Kraken will use its in-house sonar technology to check that electrical cables running along the seafloor remain properly

Halifax startup consultancy and professional services firm Barrington Edge has launched a blockchain-based supply chain tracking platform under a collaboration with one of its clients, Kelowna, B.C.’s FutureWELL.

The new platform, dubbed Authen, calculates the environmental impact of processing and distributing farmed fish products to shoppers in stores. It also tracks the provenance of fish

With a refreshed five-year mandate from the federal government, Canada's Ocean Supercluster is calling for applicants to its new artificial intelligence program, which will spend $20 million to fund research and commercialization work from blue economy companies.

The program’s Discovery Stream will fund investigations and studies into implementing AI for commercial oceans activities -- projects