The Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge is looking for would-be investors to participate in a 10-week training program and eventually back the winners of its 21-company healthtech and cleantech startup competitions.

Organized by Vancouver-based angel network Spring, Imaginal Ventures, Halo Health, Foresight Canada and the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub, the challenge

Brilliant Labs, which aims to foster coding and digital skills among the youth, will host its inaugural Brilliant Blue innovation competition virtually Dec. 16, with 19 teams from Nova Scotia and another 19 international groups.

The challenge invites students to design and prototype a new technology in the areas of autonomous systems or renewable energy in the marine environment, or protecting

Construction technology-maker Veristart has won $10,000 from this year’s Pitch & Pick Invitational startup competition, held by Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub for graduates of its Evolution accelerator.

Founded by entrepreneurs Craig Hannam, Lou Lawrence and Ajay Pande, Veristart makes technology for creating digital keys to construction equipment, solving the security problem

A PhD student who aims to protect wild fish stocks by producing food made from insects won big at the recent Illuminate program at Memorial University in St. John’s.

Jessika Lamarre, founder of Invertable, took home multiple awards at the inaugural pitch competition for women and gender-diverse students hosted by the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Invertable is developing a feed

As Charlottetown-based drug manufacturer BIOVECTRA launches its new, $90 million biomanufacturing facility, CEO Oliver Technow says expansion of its production capacity is an important part of its plans to stay internationally competitive.

BIOVECTRA was the only Atlantic Canadian company last year to crack Ontario-based Communitech’s inaugural Team True North list of startups that are on track

Energia Ventures, the Fredericton-based accelerator affiliated with University of New Brunswick, will hold its demo day for the four companies in its latest cohort on Dec. 7.

Energia is hosted by the university’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship, or TME, and supports startups from around the world involved in energy, smart grids, cleantech and

The entrepreneurs behind Radian6, one of the startups that helped put Atlantic Canada on the innovation map, have a message for founders: think bigger.

Marcel LeBrun was Radian6’s CEO, and David Alston was its chief marketing officer. When their company was bought by Salesforce for US$276 million in cash and US$50 million in stock in 2011, the deal was a formative one for the Atlantic Canadian

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $117 million in the third quarter of 2023, according to data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. Much of that investment capital was tied to the largest funding round in Nova Scotia history: Halifax-based CarbonCure’s gangbusters US$80 million raise from July.

Nationally, venture capital has been recovering from last year’s

Bright Breaks, the Halifax startup that produces online wellness videos for employees, has closed a $2.525 million funding round led by new investor Build Ventures.

Returning backers Concrete Ventures and Invest Nova Scotia also joined the funding round – which follows on from the company’s $1.45 million round announced in September 2022.

Bright sells subscriptions for online fitness and

Twelve companies pitched at Halifax startup hub Volta’s first Investment Day event Wednesday, which it hosted in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event was held at Volta’s new offices in downtown Halifax’s Armoyan Centre and gave seed-stage and Series A companies the chance to pitch to an audience of funders and industry players from both inside and outside