In the wake of a PEI BioAlliance white paper that described systemic barriers to recruiting life sciences talent from outside Atlantic Canada, startup community observers say the same stumbling blocks exist for information technology companies across the region.

But the Atlantic provinces still enjoy comparative advantage even in some domains where they are troubled — a distinction industry

The four Atlantic provinces have launched a new initiative to collaborate on clinical trials for medtech and pharmaceutical research, dubbed the Atlantic Clinical Trials Network, or ACTN.

Health authorities from each province, along with industry groups BIOTECanada and Innovative Medicines Canada, have said they will “streamline” the clinical trial process and reduce barriers to patients

Karina LeBlanc, Executive Director of the Fredericton-based Pond Deshpande Centre is leaving her role at the head of the socially conscious group after 10 years with the organization.

PDC is part of the University of New Brunswick and was established by entrepreneurs Gerry Pond and Desh Deshpande to find solutions to complex social issues. Recently, PDC announced it is moving to a revenue-driven

The University of New Brunswick, its new McKenna Institute and TechImpact have announced two initiatives to help prepare New Brunswickers for the growing employment opportunities in information technology. 

The first is a new Coding Boot Camp. The program is a partnership between UNB’s College of Extended Learning for adults not interested in pursuing a four-year degree, the university’s McKenna

Charlottetown’s BioVectra, which manufactures pharmaceutical ingredients and is owned by Miami-based private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, has been included in Waterloo incubator Communitech’s inaugural Team True North list of startups that are on track to reach $1 billion in annual revenue.

To qualify for the 35-company list, businesses must show growth rates equal to the top one percent of

For the third year in a row, Atlantic Canada has failed to rank among the world’s top 100 emerging startup ecosystems in The Global Startup Ecosystem Report from Startup Genome, the Silicon Valley group that assesses innovation communities.

Startup Genome each year ranks innovation ecosystems around the world according to criteria such as the performance of their startups, their success at

The Lazaridis Institute at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo is looking for 10 companies to join its next cohort of the Lazaridis ScaleUp program, which helps promising Canadian companies to increase their revenues. 

Through the program, selected teams receive the mentorship and support they need to succeed at a global level, organizers said in a statement. The program is free and

A troubling divergence has developed in the Atlantic Canadian startup community as early-stage companies have difficulty launching even as their elder comrades grow rapidly.

This is the main conclusion of the 2021 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, which we are unveiling today. This is the first of our annual data reports in which we have warned about early-stage founders experiencing undue

With one of only three bioreactors in Canada, Sydney’s Verschuren Centre, which helps cleantech companies develop sustainable technologies and bring them to market, has received funds to expand its lab facility and increase its bioreactor capacity by 10 times.  

The centre, which  is working with more than 40 companies to develop new bioeconomy and green energy ideas, has received a grant of $2

Cybersecurity company Verafin, which became the most valuable startup in Atlantic Canadian history when it exited to Nasdaq in 2021 for US$2.75 billion, is continuing to grow its staff in its home city of St. John’s, reaching 900 employees last week.

Founded in 2003, Verafin provides more than 2,000 financial institutions in North America with a cloud-based platform to help detect,