Four startups led by underrepresented founders presented at an event at Tribe on Friday, telling their stories of resilience and rising sales to a group of community members.

Tribe, which supports BIPOC entrepreneurs and members of other underrepresented groups, hosted an afternoon event that featured panel discussions with both entrepreneurs and investors.

In the first panel session, Tribe

Jennifer Johnston, Founder of Elle, MD Biotechnologies, has won this year’s Fueling Female Founders Pitch Competition run by Fredericton-based New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Johnston is a family physician and assistant professor at Dalhousie University School of Medicine. In 2022, she founded Elle, MD in New Minas, NS. The company focuses on enhancing reproductive autonomy by developing a

Dartmouth-based Aurea Technologies has won a 2025 HardTech Award for its portable Shine Turbine. The recognition comes from Vancouver-based MistyWest, a product development firm focused on sustainability.

Aurea, which has just celebrated eight years in operation, was nominated by crowdfunding site KickStarter after pre-selling $407,000 of revised product in September last year. Aurea raised over

Halifax-based natural materials company 3DBioFibR has closed a $3 million funding round to help it to scale up its manufacturing capacity to meet soaring demand for next-generation biomaterials.

The company issued a statement Tuesday saying the participants in the round included new investor AoA Innovation Fund (part of the Seattle-based Alliance of Angels), as well of returning investors Build

For years, the ambition of the Atlantic Canadian startup community has been to produce a unicorn. Now, it’s worth asking whether it’s too soon to talk about developing a cluster of unicorns on the East Coast within a few years.

The fact is we’re a lot closer to having a group of unicorns than many people realize. There are a few companies in the startup community that could cross the threshold

One of the main stories we highlighted in our recent 2024 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report was the strong performance shown by the region’s leading startups.

While sounding alarm bells about the dearth of early-stage funding, our 11th startup data report also stressed that the region’s Elite and Scaling startups accounted for most of the community’s funding and revenue growth.

While we have

Founder Robert Niven has stepped down as CEO of CarbonCure Technologies. The company has named Chief Financial Officer Kristal Kaye as Interim CEO.

The Dartmouth-based company issued a statement Monday saying Niven – who founded the company forerunner Carbon Sense Solutions in 2007 – will remain involved as a board member. The current CarbonCure company launched in 2012.

Under Niven’s

Saint John-based healthcare procurement company MedReddie has signed a partnership with HealthPRO Canada, which connects healthcare teams to the supplies and solutions they need to care for Canadians.

The collaboration combines MedReddie’s AI technology with HealthPRO Canada’s national sourcing expertise to improve how products and services are sourced, delivering faster, smarter, and more

St. John's -based Veristart, which is improving the security around using construction equipment, has been selected as one of five global winners of the EDF Startup Challenge and will present at Viva Technology 2025.

EDF (Électricité de France) is recognizing startups that are redefining health and safety in high-risk environments, and has invited Veristart to Paris to meet with EDF and showcase

Atlantic Canadian founders were among the hundreds of international entrepreneurs chosen to pitch to investors at the recent Web Summit Vancouver.

Web Summit started in Ireland in 2009, and last month’s conference was the first time the Web Summit had been held in North America.

The four-day event saw thousands of entrepreneurs and investors in Vancouver. Organizers said the event saw more than