Health Canada has approved the Granville Swab, a new product created by St. John’s-based Granville Biomedical.

During the pandemic, company Co-Founder and registered nurse Crystal Northcott has been swabbing people for the COVID-19 virus in Newfoundland and Labrador, and it’s intended that the new swab will be used in COVID-19 testing.

“As a medical professional witnessing the COVID-19 pandemic

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods, which makes powdered food products from rejected produce, has closed a $10 million funding round, half of which came from the fund led by Arlene Dickinson of Dragons’ Den fame.

Outcast will use the money to expand its plant in Dartmouth and build a plant in Southern Ontario that will have the capacity to generate up to $30 million in revenue annually. That will

Agtech company SomaDetect has closed a $6 million venture capital round led by Ag Tech Canada, and intends to use the funds to accelerate adoption of its sensor technology that monitors the health of dairy herds.

As well as the Tillsonburg, Ont.- based private equity fund Ag Tech Canada, the funders participating in the round are Merck Animal Health Ventures, Builders VC and Wilbur Ellis’

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship on March 25 will host the 2021 Mel Woodward Cup, which will hand out $40,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students.

The virtual event will be a pitching competition for student entrepreneurs who are serious about developing their ventures into bona fide businesses. The winner will receive $25,000 and the runner-up $15,000.

Snorble, an automated bedtime companion for children, has been chosen for a high-impact campaign on Indiegogo, says its Halifax-based designer Mike Rizkalla.

Snorble is a soft toy, about the size of a teddy bear, that uses voice recognition software and artificial intelligence to encourage children to get ready for bed and go to sleep with no fuss. It helps the child with pre-bedtime routines

For eight years, BioNB and partners have held the bioeconomy conference Atlantic BIOCON. For this year's event, the partnership is expanding to include the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub, CCNB-INNOV and IGNITE Atlantic, and young researchers are being asked to enter a student competition.

This spring, instead of a single in-person conference, the BIOCON partnership will host interactive events that

By being named to the Globe and Mail’s inaugural list of 50 Canadian Changemakers, Charles Milton hopes he can shine a spotlight on the dearth of domestic Black entrepreneurs in the Nova Scotian startup community.

Milton, the Co-Founder and CEO of Halifax-based Bursity, was one of three Atlantic Canadian tech founders named to the national newspaper’s list of Canadians who are making a

A surprising corporate deal took place last week which will result in a new data centre in Grand Falls, NB, being part of an environmentally sustainable cryptocurrency operation.

Vancouver-based HIVE Blockchain Technologies, which is listed on the TSX Venture exchange, issued a statement Thursday saying it would pay about $25 million in stock for GPU Atlantic, a division of Montreal’s GPU.One.

Our Jobs of the Week column today features postings at En Point and MindSea in Halifax, and the Memorial University Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, in St. John’s.

The mission of the MCE is to inspire and enable aspiring entrepreneurs and to help Memorial University become the leading entrepreneurial university in Canada. The centre provides entrepreneurial students throughout the university

Vertical farm operator GoodLeaf Farms has received a $30 million investment from McCain Foods, which will allow it to build two more Canadian farms this year.

The company was launched several years ago in Truro, NS, as TruLeaf by serial entrepreneur Gregg Curwin, to provide a local source of healthy greens year-round. The company opened its first 45,000-square-foot plant in Guelph, Ont. in 2019,