As it moves closer to listing its stock on the TSX Venture Exchange, Appili Therapeutics of Halifax has raised an additional $3.6 million by selling shares and warrants through a private placement.

The drug discovery company issued a statement Monday saying it had raised gross proceeds of about $3.6 million through the placement, though the total is lowered somewhat by fees paid to the banks

The Smart Energy conference is looking for startups to pitch at its 15th annual conference, which will take place in Halifax on April 15 and 16.

The Smart Energy conference is hosted by the Jameson Group, which also produces the Invest Atlantic series of conferences. It will be attended by about 250 delegates, who are representatives of the energy industry in Atlantic Canada and beyond.

For the

Young Nova Scotian entrepreneurs with a good idea are invited to apply to this year’s 100 Entrepreneurs Planting Seed$ pitching contest for the chance to win $10,000.

Now in its fourth year, Planting Seed$ sells tickets to 100 people in the startup community at $100 per head. That money makes up the $10,000 prize that is awarded to the company with the most successful pitch.

Applicants must be

Wireless underwater communications company Acoubit was voted most improved startup by its peers in Dartmouth-based Start-Up Yard last week, winning a $1000 Air Canada gift card.

While the gift card will prove useful, Co-Founder Colin Ross said he really hopes his pitch at the Start-Up Yard Demo Day will lead to partnerships. Specifically, he is looking for a partner that could get his prototype

First Angel Network is shutting down after 14 years of channeling the money of wealthy investors into Atlantic Canadian startups.

As first reported by Betakit, Co-Founders Ross Finlay and Brian Lowe notified their friends and contacts on Friday that the investment group would cease operations on March 31. The move comes a little more than a year after one of its portfolio companies launched a

Our Job of the Week column today showcases an opening for a Full Stack Developer at St. John’s-based CoLab Software.

CoLab helps engineering teams better communicate and manage feedback when designing 3D models with its integrated platform, called Gradient.

The platform lets engineers share input on a design model, which is a process normally done through a convoluted string of emails,

Canum Nanomaterials, which aims to disrupt the market for fullerenes, is one step closer to financing its pilot facility after it won awards worth $446,000 in the Breakthru competition last night.

The Fredericton company won the top prize at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s biennial startup competition, and also captured the CBC Viewers’ Choice award, which allows it to appear on

One of the country’s most successful angel communities showed its stuff earlier this month as the Vantec Angel Network held its monthly pitching session.

About 150 people – half of them investors – assembled in the VentureLabs offices in downtown Vancouver to consider the three pitches and go over monthly business. Vantec has been holding these sessions for about 20 years and more than 2,000

Please help me NOT pester you.

I’ve been bothering people lately about filling out our survey, and I’d love to stop. Once you fill out our survey, I promise to leave you alone for the rest of 2019. If enough people complete it, I won’t have to pester anyone.

Why should you fill it in? Because, over the past five years, Entrevestor’s startup data has become the benchmark for the whole region,

As a graduate student at Rice University in Texas, Felipe Chibante was inspired by his professor Richard Smalley, a co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes.

On Thursday, Chibante and his co-founders in a young company called Canum Nanomaterials hope their work with fullerenes will win them a more modest prize – the 2019 Breakthru competition title. Canum