Dr. Annika Benson and her device for improving brain surgery outcomes are heading to Berlin in November.

Benson, a PhD researcher at Dalhousie University, captured the top prize at the Falling Walls Lab Atlantic competition at the Halifax Central Library on Monday evening. Her prize will be a fully paid trip to Berlin in early November, where she will compete against 100 other innovators in the

St. John’s-based innovation hub Genesis is offering new and aspiring tech founders the chance to put their business ideas to the test in a two-hour, interactive virtual workshop.

The workshop  helps participants shape and refine their concepts, explore how AI tools can support research and validation, and connect them with the resources available to founders in Newfoundland and Labrador,

Halifax-based Digital Nova Scotia, the industry association for the province’s tech sector, has announced the finalists for its 2025 Tech Forward Awards. The awards received nearly 200 nominations this year, the most in the event’s history.

Launched in 2016 and rebranded the Tech Forward Awards in 2022, the annual event aims to recognize the people and companies driving innovation, inclusion,

Halifax-based Tribe Network, a support organization for Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Colour, is celebrating the first cohort to complete its Accelerate Tech program.

Twelve ventures completed the 2024 to 2025 cohort of the program for founders and ventures at various stages of development.

Organizers say the program offers:

• 1:1

Halifax-based medical data provider Blue Charm Adherence has raised $4 million in a seed funding round to enhance its patient engagement tools and attract more customers.

The financing was co-led by Crédit Mutuel Equity of France and Invest Nova Scotia, both of which are investing in the company for the first time. Blue Charm’s original early-stage investors also participated in the round.

The

Two Atlantic Canadian startups have been accepted into international programs for startups.

CropMind of Fredericton was named this week to the latest cohort of Techstars, joining the Build in Tulsa Techstars program. And Halifax’s QuickFacts has been selected to attend InsurTech NY’s InsurTech Match program in New York on Sept. 17–18.

CropMind was co-founded by Damilare O. Odumosu and Rilwan

At least 30 Atlantic Canadian companies specializing in artificial intelligence will participate in a trade mission to Montréal later this month, led by Digital Nova Scotia.

The companies will take part in ALL IN 2025, billed as Canada’s largest AI event, scheduled for Sept.24-25. The two-day gathering is expected to attract more than 4,000 participants and over 200 speakers from around the

In a challenging funding environment, Halifax-based RFINE Biomass Solutions has closed an over-subscribed equity funding round worth $1.7 million.

Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic posted on social media that RFINE – which upcycles spent coffee grounds into nutritious food ingredients – closed the round recently, having originally set out to raise $1.5 million. RFINE graduated from the CDL

Two Atlantic Canadian women are finalists for the 2025 edition of the Top Women in Tech, a national competition presented by Toast and Betakit.

Jane Crowell, who is the CEO of Particle, and Alicia Roisman Ismach, the head of Atlantic FinTech, are among the 25 finalists for the competition, which recognizes female leaders in the Canadian technology industry, according to social media posts.

Dartmouth-based Planetary Technologies has signed a US$31.3 million (C$43.2 million) agreement with Frontier to remove 115,211 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere between 2026 and 2030.

Blue-chip companies that back Frontier will pay Planetary to scale up its ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) operations in one of the world’s largest OAE projects to date.

Frontier works with some of the