In the past year, Fredericton fintech specialist Passiv has raised an $800,000 funding round, grown its assets under management to nearly $2 billion and been accepted into the globally recognized Y Combinator startup accelerator.

Passiv has

Jason Pearson, Co-Founder of Charlottetown edtech startup Stemble, has won Propel’s 2022 Gerry Pond Sales Award, which comes with a $25,000 cash prize.

Stemble is developing e-learning software for post-secondary applications, particularly in the

Dartmouth’s Dispension Industries, which makes smart kiosks for dispensing pharmaceutical products and controlled substances, has installed two automated Narcan-dispensing kiosks in Philadelphia with plans to add eight more in the coming months.

Three years after it began investing in startups, Halifax’s Concrete Ventures has booked its second exit. Whitehorse-based Proof, which specialized in automating government processes, has been bought by Toronto’s Daylight.

Daylight Co-Founder and

Two teams of students from the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University have placed second in Boston University’s edition of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition.

In claiming two silver medals, the graduate and

Dalhousie University’s latest Lab2Market cohort has a new objective: supporting women in research.

Announced Tuesday, the new cohort includes 11 graduate and post-graduate level women researchers from five Canadian universities, mostly in Atlantic

Sandpiper Ventures has joined a US$1 million (C$1.27 million) funding round recently closed by Begin AI, whose software helps to personalize applications for consumers without needing expensive artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Sandpiper, an

Rural innovation hub Ignite has partnered with the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development to host a virtual accelerator, Amplify, for startups across Nova Scotia.

The accelerator -- which is now open for application -- will include

Though a foreign company's plan to hire more than 1,000 people in a tight job market may worry other employers, the arrival of tech consulting company Cognizant in Nova Scotia could represent a net benefit for startups, observers have said.

Martha

Preliminary data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association offers a look into one of the best years for venture capital in national history and reinforces the promise of strong numbers for Atlantic Canada in 2021.

The early

Research funding from external sources at Dalhousie University rose by about $13 million to $194 million in 2021, according to the school’s annual Research and Innovation Report.

In the report’s introduction, Vice President of Research and

Saint Mary’s University is calling for startups to apply to participate in the only Canadian edition of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, even as its own student-run venture capital fund prepares to compete in the VCIC’s