Two East Coast innovation hubs are looking for applicants to their startup support programs.

Invest Nova Scotia has put out a call for entrepreneurs interested in its GreenShoots funding and mentorship program, which offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies up to $40,000 in grants — though there are only a few days left to apply.

And Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup support

Saint Mary's University in Halifax has launched a new version of its Bachelor of Commerce curriculum.

SMU’s Sobey School of Business, led by interim dean Mark Raymond, bills its revamped BComm program as offering a high level of customization and flexibility, including letting students choose whether to participate in a work co-op program, as well as international learning experiences like a

Halifax-based Frenter, which sells an asset-management and geofencing software platform for heavy equipment, is deploying its hardware and software suite in the field for the first time on the back of raising $1.4 million and accumulating six figures worth of pre-sales.

Chief executive Zach Laberge said in an interview that the first unit will be deployed next week, with about another 100 in the

Rural innovation hub IGNITE Atlantic will host a pair of workshops on artificial intelligence in partnership with Toronto-based consultancy H10 AI on Sept. 26 in Yarmouth, N.S. and Sept. 29 in New Glasgow, N.S.

Attendees will receive training from industry experts and hear from two presenters, AI researcher and H10 chief executive Helmut Neher, as well as COO Dillon Kearl, who was previously

Halifax’s Clean Valley CIC is extending a trial of its technology for growing algae in wastewater from land-based aquaculture pens with a major Portuguese operator.

Clean Valley Founder Nicholas LaValle said in an interview the test has been in progress for nine months and the two parties have agreed to continue for another six. LaValle’s goal is for Peniche, Portugal-based trial partner

In an outside-the-box solution to business development beyond its home territory, New Brunswick financial intelligence startup Profitual has begun sending its staff members to work in Toronto on a rotating basis.

Profitual, founded in 2021 by former New Brunswick Innovation Foundation investment officers Raymond Fitzpatrick and Daniel Hoyles, now rents a co-working space at the non-profit MaRS

The Sydney-based Verschuren Centre, which provides startups with access to industrial fermentation and bioprocessing infrastructure, is receiving a $1 million grant from the federal government to expand its operating capacity by a factor of 15. Two resident companies, Dispersa and Cotex Technologies, are also both receiving $500,000 loans.

Laval, Que.-based Dispersa, which has its research and

Halifax startup hub Volta’s fifth annual Ecosystem Impact Awards are coming on September 20, honouring changemakers from the region's innovation ecosystem.

Slated to be held at Dalhousie University’s Ocean Sciences Building in Halifax, the event is free to attend and aims to highlight startup community members that have fostered economic or social progress.

Last year’s winners included Milk

St. Stephen, NB-based Stewart Farms sells its cannabis bath bombs in government retail outlets like any other THC-based product, but the value proposition it offers customers is quite different.

Chief Executive Tanner Stewart founded the company in April 2020, inspired by his experiences operating Edmonton construction company Field-Max Industrial and wishing for products similar to the ones he

Halifax-based MARIN X, which sells sensor technology for aquaculture operators, has won the Innovation Award at global bluetech conference Aqua Nor, held in Trondheim, Norway.

The brainchild of entrepreneurs Sheamus MacDonald and Aleksandr Stabenow, MARIN X is an evolution of the 2017-founded Sedna Technologies and has offices in both Nova Scotia and fish farming centre Norway. The company’s