Eleven bluetech startups from around the world presented at the IMPAC5 conference in Vancouver on Monday, showcasing how they can help to protect marine environments.  

Startups and social enterprises were invited to present their ideas for enhancing the viability or creation of marine protected areas, or MPAs – designated areas that need established protection for long term conservation of

Invest Nova Scotia, the successor to recently amalgamated provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and business development corporation Nova Scotia Business Inc., will hold this year’s NEXT conference March 2.

The NEXT Nova Scotia Business Growth summit is a day-long virtual event that addresses issues faced by businesses of all sizes. Before the provincial government created

Newfoundland and Labrador industry group TechNL is looking for nominees for its board of directors with expertise in cybersecurity and risk management, finance and facilities management.

TechNL members can either nominate someone else for the role or stand for election themselves. Two members of TechNL’s existing five-person board are seeking re-election, leaving three openings. Board members

Mariner Partners, the 350-person firm founded by former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Gerry Pond, along with execs Bob Justason and Curtis Howe, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

The three men founded Mariner in Saint John without a specific market offering, but with a goal of using innovation to increase the prosperity of Atlantic Canada.

Today, Mariner is the umbrella corporation

Halifax-based Shoelace Learning has attracted investment from BDC Capital’s Thrive Venture Fund, closing out an oversubscribed seed round that the edtech company had originally targeted at $4 million. 

Shoelace previously announced a US$3 million first close of the round in November, and said at the time it expected the round to reach US$4.5 million. The round was led by female-focused venture

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship plans to roll out a system to digitally monitor Halifax harbour with an eye to commercial applications, initially under a partnership with local data company CarteNav Solutions.

Under its Digital Harbour: Seabed to Space program, COVE plans to gather data from buoys, underwater sensors, land-based and aerial sensors and

Atlantic Canada's Sandpiper Ventures, the female-focused venture capital fund, has made an investment of an undisclosed amount in Toronto’s Gotcare, which is developing an artificial intelligence system for home healthcare services.

Gotcare, founded by CEO Chenny Xia, has grown from $100,000 in annual revenue to $4 million today, Sandpiper said in a statement.

The company works with insurance

Dartmouth’s Nxtgen Care, which sells technology for tracking the activities of staff and residents in assisted living facilities, is expanding into Florida and Louisiana as CEO David Burke eyes about US$2.5 million in new sales in 2023.

Nxtgen is used in care homes in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, as well as in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee — the result of a United States

With the video game industry enjoying increasing prominence in Atlantic Canada, Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Computer Science is getting in on the action with an event from Feb. 3 to 5 that promises to teach novice developers the basics of coding video games.

Global Game Jam, as Dalhousie dubs the event, will last 48 hours and teach participants to design and develop a video game from

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship hosted eight United Kingdom-based companies at a pitch event Monday as part of a broader partnership with British government agencies Innovate UK and Innovate UK Edge.

The eight innovative businesses, some of which are recently founded and some of which are more established players bringing new technologies to market, comprised