Nevada-based Movella, which makes motion-tracking technology and bought Halifax’s Kinduct in 2020, has gone public on the Nasdaq stock exchange via a reverse acquisition.

Movella, at the time called mCube, bought Kinduct and its health data technology for an undisclosed price. Kinduct CEO Travis McDonough told Entrevestor at the time the deal was worth more than the $70 million sale of GoInstant

Halifax business consultancy Imaginal Ventures and British Columbia-based national cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada are collaborating to launch Foresight’s eight-month accelerator program in the Atlantic Provinces.

Participating companies in the Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge will compete for the chance to be one of five to pitch to a mix of accredited and

Canada has sent a deep roster of oceantech industry members and ecosystem support players to this year's Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, which is underway this week.

Twenty Canadian exhibitors — many of them startups, and all but one from either British Columbia or Atlantic Canada — are attending, along with a roster of ecosystem delegates from organizations like

Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners has pledged to donate a portion of its profits to the Discovery Centre science museum, also in Halifax, in a move that looks to be aimed at least partly at increasing the talent pipeline for STEM jobs in Atlantic Canada.

The Discovery Centre mostly offers educational programming for children, and a frequent refrain from innovation economy observers is that the

Halifax-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies has begun applying its environmentally friendly, fuel-saving marine hull coatings to the ships of maritime services company KOTUG Canada.

GIT has applied its coatings to more than 20 vessels now, having inked partnerships last year with Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, whose Techstars-backed startup accelerator it joined last year, and

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is eyeing sales to private healthcare facilities in the United States after receiving $50,000 from Kaleidoscope Social Impact, a Saint John-based social impact investor that offers loans and training programs to entrepreneurs.

CandidateHub CEO Brad DiPaolo said in an interview that his company is aiming to help private hospital

Last summer, Fredericton-based cybersecurity startup Beauceron Security quietly raised an oversubscribed $3.1 million equity funding round that included strategic investors from the world of community banking.

The round was led by Utah-based BankTech Ventures, with the Independent Community Bankers of America, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the Arkansas-based Venture Center and

Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation, overseeing the Health Innovation Hub that often collaborates with healthtech and biotech startups. Before that, she spent more than 14 years running

A $50 million funding package to create a new BioAccelerator life sciences hub on Prince Edward Island, announced Friday, is set to become the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in the province’s history.

Spearheaded by industry group the PEI BioAlliance, the BioAccelerator will include 75,000 square feet of space for biomanufacturing research and manufacturing

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are giving the Université de Moncton a combined $324,000 worth of grants to create a new artificial intelligence hub at its Shippagan, New Brunswick campus.

Dubbed the Carrefour de formation en robotique et intelligence artificielle, or CFRIA, the new centre will be focused on developing innovative industrial