St. John’s-based Spellbook, the maker of artificial intelligence-enabled contract-drafting software, has raised a US$10.9 million or C$14.8 million seed round from investors including Thomson Reuters, the Toronto data and publishing giant that controls a massive percentage of the legal software market.

The company originally did business as Rally. Spellbook was the name of one of several

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, has announced the companies graduating from this year’s Oceans cohort for bluetech companies and its Prime cohort for general startups.

CDL is a nine-month, milestone-based accelerator founded by University of Toronto management professor Ajay Agrawal and it is now

Halifax’s Net-Zero Edge, or NZE, is joining the 10-week Bluetech Boost accelerator from Gulf of Maine Ventures, the investment arm of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute oceantech hub in Portland, Maine.

Founded last year by blue economy veteran Kyle Burton — who has previously worked at Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and former venture capital Crown corporation

Get Coding Training, a Newfoundland and Labrador-based information technology jobs training company, is expanding throughout Atlantic Canada in the wake of strong demand from workers in more traditional industries looking to change careers.

Founded by CEO Jan Mertlik and CTO Sahand Seifi, Get Coding offers nine- to 12-month training courses designed to prepare participants to work professionally

Genesis, Newfoundland and Labrador’s startup hub, is seeking applications for its Evolution accelerator program this summer.

According to Genesis, this program is a “pre-incubator program,” which offers intensive and experiential learning to help entrepreneurs during their earliest stages. Each week, participants will be immersed in different educational sessions. The program promises to assist

Having successfully completed clinical trials, Pasadena, NL-based medtech company Swiftsure Innovations has raised a $2.3 million seed funding round, led by Pelorus VC.

Founded three years ago by intensive care unit nurse Deanne McCarthy, Swiftsure is developing medical devices that aim to improve oral care solutions for critically ill patients on ventilator systems. The company is now planning

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $57 million in venture capital through 13 deals in the first quarter – a respectable performance given the decline in venture capital elsewhere in the county.

Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, or CVCA, released its first quarter data report on Thursday, showing that Canadian startups raised $1.3 billion in the first quarter. It was a drop

The first quarter of 2023 saw a rare downturn in startup jobs on the East Coast, with total employment in the sector dropping to levels comparable to the worst days of the pandemic, according to data from early stage venture capital fund Concrete Ventures.

The Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem shrank by 521 jobs in the first quarter of 2023, with just 18 percent of startups adding staff and 30

If there was a singular achievement of Canada’s oceantech startup community in 2022, it was that it truly became a national community.

Today, we are releasing our 2022 Canadian Oceantech Data Report, our second analysis of the country’s bluetech startups. We were struck by two things while producing this work. First, the developments in the ecosystem have been astonishing in one year, creating a

Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute this week officially opened the long-awaited marine research lab The Launch in an oceanside location in Holyrood, about 50 kilometers from St. John’s.

The Launch -- formerly known as the Holyrood Marine Institute -- was first opened in 2010 and experienced multiple phases of development throughout the decade. This new space allows students and