As Halifax’s Bloxo Inc. pivots in response to COVID-19, the online fitness startup has won the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 2020 Startup Spotlight pitch competition.

Five companies competed in the event for votes from an audience of 60 to 70 spectators. Normally held in person at the university’s Enterprise Forum innovation hub, the event went virtual because of the pandemic.

Bloxo’s

The Nova Scotian sandboxes – entrepreneurial groups at the province’s post-secondary institutions – are looking for applicants for the Sandbox Ignition program.

The program, which will offer online curriculum this year, is an accelerator for college, university or high school students with an idea for a business or community project.  

The program will run from this month to August 28 and

Vancouver-based responsible business consultancy Decade Impact Strategy & Activation is rolling out its Getting to 80 corporate training program in Atlantic Canada.

The course’s new East Coast iteration is recruiting applicants and will hold its first session on June 24. Like the West Coast version, it will help participants prepare to apply for the internationally noted B Corporation ethical

St. John’s-based DNA sequencing startup eDNAtec has won an award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association recognizing its contribution to protecting the marine environment.

The Cleantech Innovation Award, announced Thursday, was created to recognize a company that has the potential to “mitigate effects to, protect, or enhance the environment.”

EDNAtec’s product uses

The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund is launching its first fund, Sandpiper Ventures. Danielle Graham, a well-known proponent of diversity in entrepreneurship, has been named the fund's Investment Principal.

Graham will oversee the distribution of a planned $20 million fund to female-led businesses across Canada, with investments tentatively slated to begin in three to six months.

A group of

Deloitte has opened applications for its 2020 Technology Fast 50 program, which recognizes the fastest-growing IT companies in the country based on four years of revenue data.

Now in its 23rd year, the Fast 50 is a benchmark for success in high-growth tech companies. Though Atlantic Canadian companies have frequently failed to make the list of the 50 fastest-growing tech companies in the

A study sponsored by the PEI BioAlliance has found that the bioscience sector was the province’s second-largest export industry in 2018, but CEO Rory Francis said in an interview that infrastructure and labour constraints represent obstacles to future growth.

Bioscience accounted for $214 million of GDP, or about 4.4 percent of the provincial economy, and $405 million of direct economic output,

Halifax-based Outcast Foods has teamed up with Toronto's Greenhouse to reduce food waste by creating new products. Outcast will upcycle pulp byproduct from Greenhouse’s juice processing operation to produce dried fruit and vegetable powders.

Outcast Foods turns surplus fruits and vegetables into whole plant powders. This reduces food waste, decreases greenhouse gases and makes nutrients in food

A 2019 pivot has allowed Moncton-based social enterprise The Farmers’ Truck to become cash-flow positive and expand outside of Canada.

CEO Fredéric Laforge and co-founder Mathieu Reyjal originally conceived of the company as a mobile produce store, which they planned to franchise. Now, they sell specially customized trucks to non-profits. The charities then use the trucks to distribute healthy

Charlottetown-based Somru BioScience Inc. is adapting its antibody platform to assist in developing therapeutic and diagnostic solutions for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

The company has been developing a range of products centred around antibody technology for research, diagnostic and clinical applications. The products have been mainly used so far in research, with clients in 27