The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency on Friday announced non-dilutive funding totalling $4 million for  nine Halifax startups to help them scale.

The federal regional development agency revealed the funding under ACOA’s Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program at a reception at Volta on Friday. All of the contributions were loans, except for a $50,000 grant for Shoelace Learning.

With the help of AI, two student entrepreneurs plan to help coaches and parents of injured junior athletes assess whether it is safe to let a player back in the game.

Isaac Hierlihy and Morgan MacKinnon, both 19, and second-year university students (Hierlihy at St. Francis Xavier and MacKinnon at Saint Mary’s), are building a company called Athlete Aid, which includes an AI-supported triage

After seven years coaching founders at virtual accelerator Propel, Charlotte Murray is joining Moncton social enterprise The Farmers’ Truck where she will work to improve food security across the continent.

The Farmers’ Truck provides fresh, accessible food in communities across North America through the use of mobile market trucks and through funding and supply partnerships with communities.

Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations, which sells an artificial intelligence system to perform quality control checks on production lines via thermal cameras, has raised a $2.6 million funding round.

The company said in a statement it has seen growth in demand for thermal imaging tech, and the raise comes after CEO Erin Barrett said at Entrevestor Live last month that the key to making Eigen

St. John’s innovation hub Genesis has appointed Ed Martin, formerly Director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, its new President and Chief Executive Officer.

Before working as director at MCE, Martin co-founded and led Clockwork Fox Studios, creator of the popular education platform Zorbit's Math Adventure, leading the company through to its acquisition in 2021. He also worked as

Dependbuild, the St. John's maker of cloud software that helps municipalities and infrastructure developers assess risks to construction projects, has been accepted into TechStars accelerator in Ohio State University in Columbus.

The accelerator for nascent companies offers a three-month program, USD$120,000, mentoring and access to an extensive network.

Dependbuild Chief Operating

The University of New Brunswick's 2024 Future of Innovation Conference in Fredericton will focus on solutions for problems that are persistent throughout Canada and the world.

The annual conference, hosted by the university's J Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship, takes place this Friday, October 11, at UNB’s Wu Centre from 8:30am to 5:00pm. Each session will

It was a willingness to pivot based on market feedback that helped propel Halifax-based Dash Hudson to an enterprise employing 220 people, but it may have been a resolute focus on human resources that made the business sustainable.

Audiences at Entrevestor Live last month heard from Co-Founder Tomek Niewiarowski and Vice-President of Operations Jill Hennigar that while Dash Hudson was founded in

Having just closed $10 million in funding, Sparrow BioAcoustics is setting its sights on building the world’s biggest databank of cardiological recordings, and helping doctors and patients understand how that can help them.

Last week, the five-year-old St. John’s medtech company announced it had closed a $13 million seed round, led by Killick Capital, Klister Credit and Pelorus Ventures. In an

St. John’s-based Mysa has closed an $11 million round of funding, which is a continuation of the $20.3 million Series B round it announced in 2021.

The investors in the continuation round are all returning from the previous funding round: Climate Innovation Capital (CIimateIC), Cycle Capital, Bruce Croxon’s Round 13 Capital, Business Development Bank of Canada, and Killick Capital. The original