Sandpiper Ventures, Atlantic Canada’s female-led investment fund, announced Thursday it has made its first investment -- in Halifax-based DeNova.

The early-stage venture capital fund, which is managed by women and targets female-led companies, is launching this year and has said its goal is to launch with $20 million under management. It did not reveal the amount it is investing in the clean

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For Dalhousie PhD student Raphael Ofoe, participating in Dal Innovate’s Lab2Market program was not just a path to creating a viable business, it was a way to accelerate his work on solving one of the most pressing challenges facing both his home country of Ghana and the rest of the world.

Ofoe is a PhD candidate in Dalhousie’s agricultural science program. Last fall, he was

Memorial University of Newfoundland has launched a pilot project that will help graduate commerce students work with startups on business development.

The Supporting the Local Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem project has a budget of $278,000, funded equally by a grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and a donation from Killick Capital CEO (and MUN alum) Mark Dobbin.

The

Having already signed on about 40 American law firms as clients, legal software maker Rally has inked a deal with the Atlantic Canadian law firm Cox & Palmer to help provide legal services to the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

Based in St. John’s, Rally makes software to help lawyers share documents among themselves and with their clients, as well as communicate with clients about their

Eight companies have been named to Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta, a new program that helps high-growth Atlantic Canadian companies increase their sales in the U.S. Southeast.

In the Scale-Up Hub program, which began in 2018 in Cambridge, Mass., Atlantic Canadian companies commit to spending extended periods in a major city with the aim of gaining clients and developing a network. The 2021 programs will

The Halifax Innovation District has posted a new feature on CarbonCure Technologies, which compares the Halifax cleantech company’s recent Carbon XPRIZE win with Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Penned by Entrevestor Reporter Avery Mullen, the article points out that Lindbergh rose to fame in 1927 by winning an international competition to be the first to fly across the

Atlantic Canadian companies secured a better-than-average $35 million in venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2021, and continued to attract private equity financing, said the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association on Tuesday.

The CVCA’s quarterly data showed that startups in the four eastern provinces completed 17 VC deals from January to March, amounting to $35

The Halifax Innovation Outpost, a joint project between the city and the Halifax Partnership think-tank, has announced that it will back construction fintech startup Harbr and mental health app Tranquility in a bid to help the two companies scale faster.

The Innovation Outpost, which calls itself a “living lab,” pairs startups with early adopters to trial their technology. The Outpost is part of

Two Nova Scotian groups supporting startups will hold virtual demo days in the next week, showcasing a total of 37 companies based in the province.

The Emera IDEAhub, Dalhousie University’s hardware incubator, will host its first IDEA Demo Day on Wednesday at 3 pm. It will feature presentations from 15 graduates from its Build program, as well as videos from five graduates.

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A pair of openings at Halifax-based medtech company Adaptiiv – for a Senior Software Engineer and a DevOps Engineer – headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing last year, has developed a system that 3D prints a bolus – a piece of plastic that is placed over the cancerous area in a patient undergoing radiation therapy. The radiation hits