The David Sobey Centre National Retail Innovation Awards recognized three Canadian startups last week for improving customer service and product accessibility.

The David Sobey Centre for Innovation in Retailing and Services at Saint Mary’s University has handed out the awards since 2017 in recognition of young companies that are improving retail through sustainable solutions, e-commerce,

We’re extending by two weeks our offer to make a $10 donation to the Canadian Mental Health Association for every completed survey we receive from Atlantic Canadian startup CEOs.

We’re delighted with the responses we’ve received so far in our annual drive to ask founders to provide data so we can analyze the startups sector in the region. But we need more.

We had promised a $10 donation to the

Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub, is looking for applicants to the summer cohort of its eight-week Evolution accelerator, which will start in June.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young companies for longer programs, such as its own, three-year Enterprise incubator. Evolution promises to help entrepreneurs clarify their businesses’ value

Chantal Brine, CEO of Halifax-based mentorship software startup EnPoint, has won the Universal Women’s Network’s Women of Inspiration Mentorship Award.

Based in Calgary, the Universal Women’s Network is a global association for female executives and entrepreneurs that partners with companies to lessen the gender pay gap.

EnPoint’s software helps universities, companies, non-profits and

The Irving family of New Brunswick has donated $5 million to the Saint Mary’s University Entrepreneurship Centre, with the money going towards hastening an already underway expansion.

The project is also being renamed the Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre as part of the deal. Formally, the donors are Arthur, Sandra and Sarah Irving, as well as the Arthur L. Irving Family Foundation and

Halifax-based Reazent has joined the P.E.I. BioAlliance’s Emergence startup incubator as it seeks regulatory approval to sell its sustainable fertilizer products in Canada and finishes raising a seed round.

Chief Executive Sumit Verma said in an interview that the company has completed test projects under partnerships with agricultural companies at a range of scales, including some of the

The Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST, is getting a $2 million funding boost from the British Columbia government via its Innovative Clean Energy Fund.

Created in 2021 and operated by regional business group the South Island Prosperity Partnership, COAST is developing into the main innovation hub for the blue economy on Canada's West Coast. It said in a

Invest Nova Scotia, the provincial agency formed from the amalgamation of Innovacorp and Nova Scotia Business Inc., has a president and CEO: NSBI veteran Peter MacAskill.

Since the merger last summer, Invest Nova Scotia has been headed by minister of economic development Susan Corkum-Greek. MacAskill was previously COO for Invest Nova Scotia, and before that, he held vice president and COO roles

National industry group the Ocean Startup Project is seeking applicants to its new cleantech competition, held under a partnership with the municipalities of Port Alberni, BC, Rimouski, QC and Yarmouth, NS.

The Ocean Communities Climate Challenge will connect entrants for collaborative projects aimed at monitoring and predicting ocean conditions, making port communities carbon neutral, fostering

Reflecting on her four years as executive director of Dalhousie University’s DeepSense hub for artificial intelligence in the blue economy as she prepares for a move to Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, Jennifer LaPlante highlights her work giving students their first taste of oceantech.

“I think I am most proud of the students that we have had working on projects and training real machine learning