The University of New Brunswick’s McKenna Institute has named Kenneth Kent as its first Barrett Chair in Entrepreneurship for Digital Transformation.

Kent is a longtime professor of computer science at UNB and heads up the Atlantic Canadian arm of the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, which focuses on commercializing computer science research. He has helped spearhead research and development

On the back of quietly raising an unannounced pre-seed round in January, Dartmouth’s Impactful Health R&D is conducting pilot projects with several major players in the fish processing and packaging industries.

Founded by biomaterials researcher Mina Mekhail in 2017, Impactful is developing sustainable, antimicrobial packaging that prolongs the shelf life of fresh fish.

“All of our intellectual

Cape Breton’s Navigate Startup House is hosting a day-long “reverse pitch event” Oct. 13 that will see startups pitch their companies as if to investors, after which existing backers will explain why they bought in.

Dubbed Bring It Together, the day will also include several Q&A and panel events, including one featuring MC Permjot Valia, an innovation economy veteran who serves on the boards of

We’re delighted to announce that  Entrevestor Live, our hybrid event on Oct. 20, will feature a panel discussion with four of the region's leading seed-stage companies, to be hosted by Business Development Bank of Canada Director Paul Ryan. 

While Entrevestor Live is designed to showcase some of Atlantic Canada's most successful startups, we also want to shine a spotlight on several companies

Energia Ventures, an international tech accelerator operated by University of New Brunswick, has begun its fall 2022 cohort, whose five members include two from Atlantic Canada.

The free accelerator is based in Fredericton at UNB’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, or TME. It supports companies involved in energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial

Dartmouth’s Ring Rescue, which was founded to sell a system for removing stuck jewelry from people’s fingers, has launched a second product line, which it calls the Dolphin.

Ring Rescue’s first offering uses air pressure to shrink the swelling in a patient’s finger, allowing stuck rings to slide off with the aid of a water-soluble lubricant. The system offers an alternative to doctors’ usual

With its five-year mandate set to expire next March, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is applying to the federal government for a renewal of its funding as it aims to increase the size of the national ocean economy fivefold by 2035.

When it was created in 2018, the federally backed Supercluster set expectations that it would steward about $350 million worth of oceantech investment, with projects

BioNova, the umbrella organization for health and life sciences innovation in Nova Scotia, has selected long-time biopharma executive Sean Awalt as its new Chief Executive Officer.

The organization announced the appointment on Thursday, adding that Awalt will join the BioNova board and assume the CEO role on Monday.

BioNova had been looking for a new boss since it announced in July that

Medtech is one of the fastest-growing segments of the Atlantic Canadian innovation community, and we’re recognizing it with a special discussion at Entrevestor Live.

A wave of new companies are developing medical devices, and attracting both media buzz and funding grants. Bounce Health Innovation in Newfoundland and Labrador is joining the network of support organizations in the life sciences

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced a $1.8 million joint project with economic development agency Opportunities New Brunswick to finance cleantech research and development.

The funding package is part of the provincial government's refreshed climate change action plan, announced last week. The latest tranche follows a similar, $1.5 million round of financial backing offered to