When Matt Cooper first discovered startup incubator Volta in the middle of the last decade, it was not as the leader of a prospective resident company, but as a service provider.

Cooper was a co-founder of Swept – which was then a cleaning company that used its own in-house communications and logistics software to operate more efficiently than its competitors.

In the ensuing years, Swept would

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has launched a joint project with MIT Technology Review Insights, the university publication’s customer research and content arm, to create an index ranking the ocean-tech ecosystems in 60 countries.

The index, called the Blue Technology Barometer, will rank innovation rates, regulatory structures and commercial activity. Its stated goal is to identify where

Dalhousie University has announced the second cohort of its Ready2Launch summer accelerator, which comprises 12 teams from universities across Atlantic Canada.

Known as R2L, the three-month program is designed for teams that are committed to building research-driven ventures. It is part of the Dal Innovates suite of programs that helps deliver innovation and entrepreneurial skills to students.

Dartmouth’s Green Power Labs, which makes predictive analytics software for electrical grids and solar power plants, is launching a joint project with Calgary- and Houston-based MR Control Systems International.

Founded in 2004, Green Power’s software predicts increases and decreases in power consumption or production based on factors such as temperature. MR Control sells technology for managing

We would like to take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to Entrevestor, and to providing the Atlantic Canadian startup community with news and data.

On Tuesday, we marked World Oceans Day with our first post in our new oceans-themed page Entrevestor Oceantech. Meanwhile, over the weekend, we told friends on social media we have sold our house in Nova Scotia and will be spending more

Today, on World Oceans Day, we’re launching our first global coverage of the oceantech space.

On our new Oceantech page, we’ve published an article on the explosion in bluetech accelerators around the world, which marks the first time Entrevestor has covered a global development in the startup space. Global bluetech will now become a regular feature in our coverage, and we’re hoping to develop

One of the biggest changes in the ocean innovation space in the last five years is the explosion of bluetech accelerators around the world.

Five years ago, an entrepreneur with an ocean-focused venture would have had only a few accelerators to work with, such as PortXL in Rotterdam or Braid Theory, which works out of the AltaSea facility in Los Angeles.

Today, there are bluetech accelerators

Halifax’s Talkatoo, which sells transcription software for veterinarians, has won a major pitch competition hosted by the North American Veterinary Community, or NAVC, industry group.

Talkatoo beat out 19 competitors at the fourth annual VMX Pet Pitch Competition to win a free exhibitor booth at the Veterinary Innovation Summit in Kansas City and an invite to Purina’s Pet Care Innovation

Halifax’s Aurea Technologies is launching a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday to fund its first consumer product, a portable wind turbine called Shine.

The turbine is a portable power generator designed for campers and hikers who need to charge their devices during wilderness excursions. CEO Cat Adalay said in an interview that the turbine provides 13.3 watts per pound, making it more efficient

A team in Halifax has completed the soft launch of a new social media network focused on "talk", and hopes it will become the next big thing in online interactions. 

Watzan, a Halifax-based content curation platform for the pharmaceutical industry, has developed a new product for the mass market – a social network that allows people to post with their voices. It’s called ililli – pronounced