Four ventures working in social innovation have been named 2023 regional champions at an event staged by Enactus Canada, a national charity and experiential learning platform for post-secondary students, which is part of a global network.

The winning ventures won The Scotiabank Climate Action Challenge and The TD Entrepreneurship Challenge at a snowed-in event in Halifax.  

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Just a month after it raised an oversubscribed seed round that had originally been targeted at $4 million, Halifax’s Shoelace Learning is one of 20 edtech startups globally to have reached the finals of the prestigious GSV Cup.

To make it to the top 20, Shoelace beat out more than 900 other applicants, putting the company in the running for a $1 million prize pool.

The GSV Cup is organized by

The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund, the new female-focused angel investing group from the non-profit Atlantic Women’s Venture Foundation, is now accepting applicants from founders.

The angel group is the result of a partnership between the the Atlantic Women’s Venture Foundation and the Women’s Equity Lab, which was founded in Victoria, British Columbia in 2017 to address the "chronic and

As it launches the second generation of its flagship product, Halifax medical device maker FIVAMed has inked a distribution deal with Ontario-based industry incumbent Canadian Hospital Specialties, or CHS.

FIVAMed makes technology for alerting medical staff when IV bags (like those used in hospitals and veterinary clinics) run dry. The company’s second-generation product, FIVAFlow, also collects

Invest Nova Scotia has put out a call for applicants to its GreenShoots funding and mentorship program, which offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies up to $40,000 in grants.

The latest iteration of the program marks its first time being run by the recently created Invest Nova Scotia, under a partnership with industry groups Bioenterprise Canada and the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub, which

Leadership teams at mature startups might find a support program tailored to the unique needs of their larger enterprises in the form of the University of New Brunswick’s Scale Up Atlantic Canada program.

The six-month program, spearheaded by UNB’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship, is aimed specifically at fast-growing companies with between $1 million and $15

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is giving the University of New Brunswick just over $1.3 million towards a $2.8 million expansion of the school’s Off-site Construction Research Centre, which works with the private sector to develop technologies for constructing parts of buildings at centralized factories.

The centre is also receiving about $300,000 of grants from the New Brunswick

Several free webinars are coming up in the ocean communitity.

First, the Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST,  is holding a webinar on March 15 on the role of ocean tech in climate security.

Flooding, erosion, wildfires, hurricanes and king tides are just some of the extreme climate changes whose effects could create both opportunity for alliance and

Canada's Ocean Supercluster has had its mandate renewed by the Canadian government for another five years, although the federal money it will receive over that period has been cut compared to its previous funding package.

When Ottawa created the Ocean Supercluster in 2018, it earmarked $153 million to fund the organization until this year. This time, the Supercluster will receive up to $125

Chris Cowper-Smith, the former CEO of high-tech knee and back brace maker Spring Loaded Technology, has a new company aiming to buy majority stakes in private medical clinics across Canada, with a focus on orthotics, bracing and prosthetics.

Mable Health is a collaboration between Cowper-Smith and Halifax private equity shop SeaFort Capital. He said that central to Mable’s value proposition will