When Lauren Ledwell talks about her vision for the Prince Edward Island life sciences community, it doesn’t take her long to mention two words: investment and infrastructure.

These two words are likely to play a big role in the strategic review now being carried out by the PEI BioAlliance – the organization that named Ledwell its new CEO last autumn.

Under her predecessor, Rory Francis, the

Pelorus Venture Capital and the Venture NL Fund took centre stage at the 2026 NACO Summit on Wednesday, drawing applause for funding successful ventures, returning money to shareholders and attracting more capital.

Pelorus Founding Partner Chris Moyer was featured Wednesday in the first fireside chat at the National Angel Capital Organization’s annual get-together in Ottawa. Joined by NACO CEO

The Cape Breton Capital Group has invested $100,000 in Petite Riviere Farming Company, a Nova Scotia startup focused on agricultural innovation and value-added food products.

The company, founded by Gregg Curwin, produces nutritional supplements made from freeze-dried micro-greens and operates under the GoMicro brand.

“From the outset, what stood out most [about Petite Riviere Farming] was the

A year after securing federal funding to lead the Atlantic region’s participation in the national Labs 4 network, the Nova Scotia Community College is celebrating a successful first year.

Labs 4 supports early-stage research commercialization with the aim of strengthening inter-institutional collaboration and helping student founders move closer to market, the group said in a press release.

As

Emera ideaHUB, the Halifax-based early-stage, deeptech incubator, has named 10 startups that have been accepted into its Spring 2026 ideaBUILD program.

Designed to help founders transform ideas into real-world solutions, ideaBUILD supports physical product development. The 10-month program offers founders a $10,000 grant towards prototyping materials, a 12-week bootcamp, and leading industry

The Ocean Startup Project has accepted 23 teams for its 2026 Ocean Idea Challenge, including 11 from Atlantic Canada.

The Idea Challenge is the OSP’s entry-level competition, in which novice oceantech entrepreneurs can conduct customer discovery and get an idea of whether their idea could lead to a viable business. Successful teams can graduate to the Ocean Startup Challenge, for teams

Propel, Atlantic Canada’s virtual tech accelerator, is asking members of the Atlantic Canadian startup community to complete a survey to help it assess the ecosystem.

The organization has released its confidential survey – which you can find here – and is asking founders, CEOs and others to take the time to fill it out.

Propel in January welcomed James Geneau as its new CEO, and under his

Tribe Network, the Halifax hub that supports BIPOC entrepreneurs, is moving to a new space at 1800 Argyle Street, the same space as tech hub Volta.

In a newsletter, the group said it is moving to facilitate a more integrated, collective approach to growth. 

“We’re establishing our home on the 8th floor of 1800 Argyle St, anchoring ourselves at the heart of the innovation ecosystem at Volta,”

Net Zero Atlantic’s Emerging Concepts & Technologies Research Program has received funding from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, with a further $1.15 million investment from Natural Resources Canada.

NRCan’s funding builds on previous contributions and the program is now expanding in scale, the group said in a statement.

This, the program’s third research call, received 28

Fredericton-based Profitual’s accounting software is being introduced into the University of New Brunswick’s management curriculum, marking the startup’s first agreement with a university.

Profitual will be used to teach financial forecasting and analysis to students in the faculty of management. The Fredericton university said it is the first post-secondary institution to adopt the platform,