SeafarerAI, a young Saint John-area company that uses artificial intelligence to improve port operations, will lead a project supported by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster to use AI in port dredging.

The Supercluster, a federal agency that partners with the private sector and academia to support Canada’s ocean economy, announced the $964,388 Port Watch AI Dredging Project on Thursday. It was one of

Halifax-based Sperri, which makes plant-based meal replacements, has closed a fresh round of funding worth “millions” of dollars led by Nàdarra Ventures and supported by Invest Nova Scotia.

Sperri said it would use the money to support its expansion into the United States and drive new product innovation. The U.S. expansion has already begun as the product is now available on Amazon.com.

We're delighted to welcome Grant Thornton as a platinum sponsor of Entrevestor Live, and to announce that JP Furey, a partner in the firm's assurance practice, will lead a discussion with senior executives of Halifax IT company Dash Hudson. 
Grant Thornton told us they're sponsoring the event because they see the role innovation plays in driving growth not only in our region, but across Canada. 

Profitual, a financial intelligence startup that specializes in working with other young companies, is revamping its branding and has launched a new, free product. 

In an interview Tuesday, CEO Raymond Fitzpatrick said the Fredericton-based company has tweaked its business development strategy after completing this year’s AI cohort from accelerator NEXT Canada. Fitzpatrick was speaking from

There's one week left to buy tickets for Entrevestor Live, our showcase for the best and the brightest of the Atlantic Canadian startup community 

The half-day conference, to be hosted by Saint Mary's University Professor Ellen Farrell, will take place Sept. 17 at Volta in Halifax. The program includes a lunch hosted by Tribe at 12:30, followed by six sessions with leading innovators. 

A team from Saint Mary’s University will travel to Kazakhstan in three weeks to compete in the World Cup finals of the Enactus student entrepreneurship competition, for which it has already won the Canadian division.

Founded in 1975 and based in New York, Enactus is a global network of charity and experiential learning programs for post-secondary students, with a particular focus on social

Dependbuild, the St. John's maker of cloud software to help municipalities and infrastructure developers assess risks to construction projects, is among four companies chosen by the city of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to join its new living lab program.

The announcement comes about six months after dependbuild’s beta launch. As part of Myrtle Beach’s smart city initiative, dependbuild will

Virtual startup incubator Propel ICT will present its annual Gerry Pond Sales Award in Moncton on Sept. 17, recognizing its program members that have excelled at selling their product. 

The Gerry Pond Award is an annual, $25,000 cash prize in honour of former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Gerry Pond, who went on to co-found Saint John-based Mariner Partners and Propel itself. Pond is a

This year’s BioPort Atlantic life sciences conference will include a venture capital panel discussion, as well as a pair of pitch sessions featuring pre-seed and seed-stage startups from the region.

When BioPort attendees gather at the Halifax Marriot September 19, the VC panel will feature investors from firms such as Vancouver-based Pender Ventures and Quebec specialist fund AmorChem.

The

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre, the Fredericton university's entrepreneurship hub, has announced a partnership with Harvard University to bring the Ivy League institution’s prestigious public and planetary health accelerator to Canada.

Created by Harvard College's Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the