Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada will hold its annual three-minute pitch competition at the Halifax Central Library on Sept. 14, sending one Atlantic Canadian researcher to the international finals in Berlin.

The event, hosted by Research Nova Scotia and supported by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, will feature 14 students and early-career researchers from across Atlantic Canada.

Invest Nova Scotia has opened its RevUp! Program, which offers up to $150,000 to help Nova Scotia businesses enter new geographic markets or national/international supply chains.

RevUp! is designed for established, high-growth Nova Scotia small and medium-sized enterprises with the resources and strategy to pursue new market opportunities. 

Applicants must:be a Nova Scotia-registered business

David Sears, a Halifax-based geologist, has created PartnR, an app that helps golfers connect with playing partners, organize rounds, track scores, explore Canadian courses, and build a digital golf passport.

Surprisingly, perhaps, Sears, who recently returned to Halifax after working as an independent contractor in the oil and gas industry in Calgary, created the app himself with the help of

Halifax-based Boundless Discovery has raised a US$2 million (C$2.8 million) seed round to develop an artificial intelligence-powered platform that maps and analyzes critical markets.

The company, founded in late 2024, issued a recent press release saying the financing came from venture capital funds in the United States and United Kingdom, family offices, and executives in the technology, energy

Cape Breton Capital Group has launched a new $1.2 million angel investment fund focused on early-stage companies with connections to Cape Breton.

The Cape Breton Future Fund, or CBFF, will invest in qualifying small businesses that are registered in Nova Scotia and have a meaningful connection to Cape Breton. That connection can include research and development activity, executive leadership, a

The Rounds, the Halifax-based company that developed a social network for medical professionals, has exited after being acquired by Native Touch, a Toronto digital advertising firm.

In an interview, CEO Tim Rice said that The Rounds – whose corporate name is Boondoc Technologies Inc. – was sold in May to Native Touch, which owns a portfolio of companies that have synergies with the Halifax

In his splendid book Nova Scotia’s Lost Century: Can We Change Course?, Ian Thompson zeroes in on an all-important but immeasurable factor in the province’s underperformance since Confederation: our loss of confidence.

Our historical underconfidence is a treacherous subject for a pundit, as it tends to raise hackles. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper was vilified in 2002 when he spoke of the

It was feast or famine in the Atlantic Canadian venture capital arena in the first half of 2026, with New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador accounting for 96 percent of the funds raised.

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, released its quarterly VC data on Tuesday, showing that New Brunswick booked $31.6 million in the six months to June 30. Newfoundland reported

Fredericton-based Green Imaging Technologies has appointed Norm Couturier as chief executive officer while Co-Founder Derrick Green has moved into the newly created role of chief technology officer.

The changes took effect July 15 and are intended to give separate executive oversight to the company's commercial operations and technology development.

Couturier had served as chief operating

The federal government has announced $50 million in funding for Natural Products Canada (NPC) to help expand Canada's agri-food innovation sector through a project valued at $94.8 million.

The funding, provided through the Strategic Response Fund, will support NPC's efforts to commercialize Canadian agrifood and bio-based technologies and increase their adoption in domestic and international