We were shocked and saddened to learn this week that Dr. Mary Kilfoil, one of the pioneers of the Atlantic Canada startup community, had passed away peacefully at home last week.

A woman of great kindness and generosity, Kilfoil is best known in our circles as the leader of Starting Lean, the ground-breaking entrepreneurship program she founded with her husband Ed Leach at Dalhousie University

This year’s BioPort life sciences summit in Halifax came complete not just with a selection of presentations from pre-seed and seed-stage startups, but also an announcement: provincial industry group and conference organizer BioNova is now Life Sciences Nova Scotia.

Chief Executive Sean Awalt, who has held the role for a year, announced the rebrand to a sold-out conference at the Halifax Marriot

Some of the most successful Atlantic Canadian startup founders in the region's history will headline the 2023 edition of Entrevestor Live, our three-hour conference that showcases the biggest and best of the region’s high-growth companies.

This year's discussions will be hosted by noted academic and entrepreneur Dr. Dhirendra Shukla, and will feature iconic East Coast innovation companies like 

Acuicy, the Halifax-based maker of business intelligence software for emissions reduction, is demoing its technology with double-digit numbers of enterprise clients on the back of completing its minimum viable product last spring.

Chief executive Allison Murray founded the company with chief innovation officer Dawne Skinner last year to aggregate business intelligence data related to greenhouse

Nova Scotia supply chain analytics specialists BlueNode and the Port of Halifax are finalists for the International Association of Ports and Harbors’ Sustainability Awards, to be presented at the World Ports Conference in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 1.

Founded in 2018 by CEO Louis Beaubien and COO Grant Wells, BlueNode has developed a supply chain analytics SaaS product for shipping companies. The system

Halifax-based Reazent, the maker of organic alternatives to conventional fertilizer products, has beat out hundreds of other competitors internationally to become one of four finalists in Saskatoon agtech giant Nutrien’s Radicle Inclusion Challenge.

Reazent will pitch at the Women in Agribusiness Summit in Nashville, Tennessee on Sept. 28 for a chance to win one of two US$750,000 prizes. Nutrien

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a joint call for proposals with British government organization Innovate U.K. under its newly created Canada-UK: Collaborative Ocean Innovation Solutions Program.

The two groups are looking for private sector research and development partnerships on the topics of clean energy, aquaculture, seaweed cultivation, carbon capture and storage, robotics and

Two East Coast innovation hubs are looking for applicants to their startup support programs.

Invest Nova Scotia has put out a call for entrepreneurs interested in its GreenShoots funding and mentorship program, which offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies up to $40,000 in grants — though there are only a few days left to apply.

And Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup support

Saint Mary's University in Halifax has launched a new version of its Bachelor of Commerce curriculum.

SMU’s Sobey School of Business, led by interim dean Mark Raymond, bills its revamped BComm program as offering a high level of customization and flexibility, including letting students choose whether to participate in a work co-op program, as well as international learning experiences like a

Halifax-based Frenter, which sells an asset-management and geofencing software platform for heavy equipment, is deploying its hardware and software suite in the field for the first time on the back of raising $1.4 million and accumulating six figures worth of pre-sales.

Chief executive Zach Laberge said in an interview that the first unit will be deployed next week, with about another 100 in the