Dalhousie University’s Emera ideaHUB has announced the launch of its Spring 2025 ideaBUILD cohort, welcoming 10 deep tech startups that are building solutions to improve global health.

The ideaBUILD accelerator helps deeptech startups develop and manufacture their products, providing funding, engineering expertise, and venture coaching. The program is designed to support startups developing

Halifax-based ONSIDE is offering a free AI program for early-stage female founders with under $1 million in annual revenue and 1 to 10 employees.

Held in Halifax, the Early AI Adoption Lab is an in-person program designed to teach early-stage entrepreneurs practical AI skills.

"No tech jargon, no complex theories, just clear, actionable strategies you can put in place right away," the group

We’re pleased to announce that Entrevestor’s 2024 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report will be launched May 20 in a presentation at Planet Hatch in Fredericton.

Our 11th annual startup data report will highlight trends last year in the Atlantic Canadian startup community, including the number of companies, launches and failures, employment, revenue growth and funding. We have already reported

Regional virtual accelerator Propel has announced the fledgling ventures taking part in its new Validation cohort.

Validation is the first step on the Propel path, allowing participants to validate business ideas with customers using lean startup methodology. Generally, the course is for pre-revenue companies or those making less than $1,000 monthly.

The latest early-stage ventures represent a

Less than two years after Saint Mary’s University professor Ellen Farrell began commercializing a software product aimed at helping women founders, she has revealed that 20 initial participants have raised almost $25 million in dilutive and non-dilutive funding.

Farrell, a key figure behind the Sobey School of Business's entrepreneurship and venture capital programming, devised Investor Q&A to

Fredericton-based fintech company Profitual has launched a startup competition that assesses founders’ business models rather than their talent for spinning a yarn.

Entries for the “No-Pitch Competition” are open until the end of the month, and the winner of the $10,000 first prize will be announced on June 16.

Profitual, a financial intelligence startup that specializes in working with other

The Council of Canadian Innovators has released its policy report, A Mandate to Innovate, which the group describes as a set of recommendations for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mandate letters to his new cabinet. 

The group, which represents over 170 of Canada’s fastest-growing technology companies, said national sovereignty depends on economic competitiveness, and economic success is driven by

St. John’s-based Data Farms is working on a funding round with a target of $900,000 to refine its product and boost its use among farmers practising regenerative farming, which focuses on soil and ecosystem health and regeneration.

Climate change and soil and ecosystem degradation make regenerative agriculture of growing interest to farmers, but gathering and analysing the data created by soil,

For the second year in a row, Fredericton-based Anessa has won an export award from Opportunities New Brunswick, this time an Exporter of the Year Award for export sales under $5 million.

The New Brunswick economic development agency announced the winners of its annual export awards last week. A year ago, Anessa also captured an ONB export award for Innovative Exporter of the Year.

Founded by

Saint John-based healthcare procurement company MedReddie is celebrating getting into the Roux Institute of Healthcare Founder Residency based in Maine.

The program, designed in partnership with Northern Light Health, MaineHealth, and Maine Venture Fund, is said to be the first of its kind in northern New England and aims to accelerate the growth of digital health, healthcare technology,