Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub has graduated eight companies from its flagship Enterprise accelerator.

Enterprise targets companies looking to reach $1 million in annual revenue, and which already have a minimum viable product and traction in the marketplace. They also must have completed Genesis’s intermediate-level Evolution accelerator or a similar program.

“At Milk

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub has put out a call for applications for the fall cohort of its eight-week Evolution startup accelerator, with an Oct. 3 deadline.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young companies for longer programs, such as its own, three-year Enterprise incubator. Evolution promises to help entrepreneurs clarify their

The Rounds, a Halifax-based social network for medical professionals, has raised a $5.1 million seed round, bringing the company's total capital raised since its founding in 2012 to $7.8 million.

The money will go towards continued development of the platform, including new hires in sales, marketing and engineering.

Chief Executive Tim Rice said in an interview that the user growth that

With almost nine months in the books, 2022 is proving to be a pretty good year for funding by innovation companies in Atlantic Canada, on track for a quarter-billion dollars in equity capital.

With the announcement of a $5.1 million funding round by The Rounds of Halifax on Tuesday, we’ve tallied about $137 million in private capital raised by Atlantic Canadian startups this year. Adding on

Nova Scotia Business Inc., the provincial business development agency, has signed off on a payroll rebate program for Gerry Pond’s Mariner Partners worth nearly $1 million over five years.

Mariner is the 270-person firm founded by former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Pond and a group of business partners. It serves as the umbrella corporation for a basket of other businesses, including

Here’s something to ponder as we enter the busiest part of the year: we’ve never seen so much uncertainty in the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem as we’re seeing right now.

The ecosystem as we know it today has only been around for a little more than a decade, and it’s going through a greater flux than we’ve ever seen. Not only is the macro-economic climate deteriorating, but change is afoot

Lab2Market’s third oceans cohort commenced Monday, boasting the program’s highest ever level of gender diversity.

Forty percent of the students attending the seven-week accelerator for research commercialization identify as female, compared to 23 percent last year and 11 percent the year before. Hosted by Dalhousie, Toronto Metropolitan University, Memorial University and University of Manitoba,

We’re delighted to announce that our Entrevestor Live conference next month will be headlined by three of the hottest companies in Atlantic Canada – Milk Moovement, Shoelace Learning, and Sonrai Security.

We launched Entrevestor Live last year to showcase the most successful startups in Atlantic Canada, and to dispel the notion that our region is dominated by early-stage ventures. And we’re

Halifax’s Bright has raised a $1.45 million round of funding led by Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners, building on traction from the spring and summer, CEO David Howe said in an interview.

Along with Tidal, Halifax’s Concrete Ventures and provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp — now being amalgamated with Nova Scotia Business Inc. to form Invest Nova Scotia — also participated.

The Atlantic Venture Forum, or AVF, has announced 22 showcase companies that will be highlighted at the event.

The AVF will be held Sept. 13 and 14 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront Hotel, marking the first in-person iteration of the event since the beginning of the pandemic.

The forum is organized by Calgary-based Critical Path Group, which describes itself as an “events, advisory and