The Atlantic Venture Forum startup conference has announced the 12 companies that will present at this year’s event -- to be held virtually thanks to COVID-19.

The ninth annual instalment of AVF will be held on Oct 20 and 21. The aim of the gathering is to offer a “financing and partnering forum” for early-stage and growth-stage companies by attracting angel investors, venture capitalists,

A new training program spearheaded by Dalhousie University’s Jeff Larsen and Globalive Capital’s Brice Scheschuk promises to train experienced businesspeople to become more effective mentors.

Larsen is the Executive Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Dalhousie’s Office of the Vice-President, and Scheschuk co-founded telecom provider Wind Mobile, now owned by Shaw. Also backing the

Atlantic Canadian technology industry group TechImpact has launched a new platform to match New Brunswick-based technology service companies with customers in the province and globally.

Dubbed CollabHub, the service is bilingual. Companies can sign up to be included in a directory, which potential customers around the world can then browse. It also also includes a careers page to help individual

Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp has announced 14 participants for the second cohort of its revamped, virtual Accelerate program.

The participating companies, all of which have sales of less than $1 million and equity investment of less than $250,000, will each receive $25,000 in grants. They will also have access to coaching, monthly workshops and market research from

An opening at COPOL International in North Sydney and two at Barrington Edge in Halifax headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Barrington Edge helps entrepreneurs and innovators to launch new businesses, enter new markets, commercialize breakthrough ideas, or simply think “bigger” about future opportunities. It is looking for a Senior Business Analyst and a Senior Solutions Architect.

Atlantic Canada’s cluster of service and data-related oceans companies is comparable in size to the largest American clusters, such as Massachusetts, and its growth has accelerated since the opening of COVE, a study by the Dartmouth-based bluetech hub has found.

COVE on Thursday released the report titled the Canadian Ocean Enterprise Report 2020, which it authored along with Washington, DC’s

We hope founders and startup enthusiasts in New Brunswick will tune in this morning when we present a New Brunswick-focused version of our 2020 Atlantic Canada Startup Data.

The one-hour event is organized by Planet Hatch in Fredericton.

Each year, we tally up the total number of startups, and assess their employees, funding and revenue, providing a vivid picture of how the community has

Putting paid to the notion of Atlantic Canada as a marginal player in the world of startups, Entrevestor Live on Wednesday showcased some of the region’s highest-flying young companies.

A multi-billion-dollar, sector-pioneering materials business headquartered in the region, a labour crunch giving rise to ballooning tech salaries and a surge in venture capital valuations that could leave the

Dartmouth-based carbon sequestration specialist Planetary Hydrogen has won as much as $200,000 from the Ocean Startup Challenge competition, along with 39 other bluetech companies that bagged a combined $1.4 million in smaller prizes.

The Ocean Startup Challenge is run by the Ocean Supercluster-backed Ocean Startup Project, helmed by lawyer and ocean technology specialist Donald Grant. This

Dartmouth-based advanced materials specialist META has closed a deal to buy British Columbia’s Nanotech Security Corp. for $90.8 million, as the maker of security holograms for bank notes and government ID cards announced it has inked a manufacturing deal worth up to $52.7 million over five years.

META announced it would buy Nanotech in August, two months after a reverse listing on the NASDAQ