Dartmouth's Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship’s will host an Ocean Connector event Thursday, that will include a panel on the bluetech startup ecosystem.

The panelists will be moderator Mohammad Ali Raza, Eric Siegel, Peter Moreira and Jeff Larsen.

Raza is a partner with Halifax law firm Cox & Palmer. He previously served as general counsel for several multi-national oil and gas

Dal Innovates, the innovation arm of Dalhousie University, plans to launch the Scientific Venture Program this autumn, rounding out a suite of programs designed to develop entrepreneurial thinking.

The program will help people working on post-doctoral research to develop companies based on their scientific work. It was developed by Montreal’s Concordia University, which modeled it on the Runway

The Halifax Innovation District has begun a series of articles that show how Halifax entrepreneurs are using the city’s startup ecosystem to develop their businesses.

The first two articles, which detail how companies receive support from Volta and COVE, have appeared on the Innovation District website. The District, which is overseen by the Halifax Partnership, commissioned Entrevestor writers

St. John’s-based PragmaClin Research has won first place and $25,000 in Memorial University’s annual Mel Woodward Cup, as Co-Founders Bronwyn Bridges and Gord Genge prepare to trial their software and hardware suite for helping Parkinson’s patients.

PragmaClin’s technology — dubbed PRIMS, or Parkinson’s Remote Interactive Monitoring System — is designed to allow clinicians to perform assessments

With emergency services organizations recovering from two years spent operating in a state of crisis, the chief executive of Halifax startup ELi Technology believes the time is right for a major sales push.

Peter Woodford founded ELi in 2017 and aims to replace conventional 911 systems that rely on antiquated phone networking technology with his company’s more accurate, internet protocol-enabled

Though two years of pandemic have disrupted academic life, there is some consolation in knowing that Atlantic Canada's leading research universities entered the pandemic with strong funding levels for research.

While classes moved online, the scientific research that has driven much of Atlantic Canada’s startup boom was often less transferable to the digital environment, according to researchers

Fredericton’s Potential Motors is preparing to build and sell its own electric off-road vehicle in a bid to demonstrate the value of its control system software, with a prototype already built and set to be publicly revealed next quarter.

Chief Executive Sam Poirier said in an interview that the offering will be a ground-up design meant to showcase the potential benefits of electrification in

Fredericton cybersecurity startup Gray Wolf Analytics has signed a letter of intent with Ocean Falls Blockchain for the Vancouver-based company to become the first member of Gray Wolf’s early adopter program.

In a press release, Gray Wolf President Dhirendra Shukla said he and CEO Matthew Sampson plan to use the early adopter program to gather customer feedback. The two co-founders’ seven-person

Dartmouth cleantech startup Planetary Technologies has raised $7.8 million, including $4.2 million of equity funding and $3.6 million of grants to pilot its technology.

The investors include Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and Apollo Projects, which is a venture capital firm owned by American tech luminaries the Altman brothers. Apollo invests in “moonshots” —

The CEO of a Dartmouth-based marketing and public safety automation startup with a history of innovation in employee management believes Atlantic Canada’s technology labour crunch is being mis-framed in the community discourse.

Saeed El-Darahali is the founder of SimplyCast, which is a platform that automates marketing and public safety-related digital tasks. He said in an interview that instead