Atlantic Canada’s cluster of service and data-related oceans companies is comparable in size to the largest American clusters, such as Massachusetts, and its growth has accelerated since the opening of COVE, a study by the Dartmouth-based bluetech

We hope founders and startup enthusiasts in New Brunswick will tune in this morning when we present a New Brunswick-focused version of our 2020 Atlantic Canada Startup Data.

The one-hour event is organized by Planet Hatch in Fredericton.

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Putting paid to the notion of Atlantic Canada as a marginal player in the world of startups, Entrevestor Live on Wednesday showcased some of the region’s highest-flying young companies.

A multi-billion-dollar, sector-pioneering materials business

Dartmouth-based carbon sequestration specialist Planetary Hydrogen has won as much as $200,000 from the Ocean Startup Challenge competition, along with 39 other bluetech companies that bagged a combined $1.4 million in smaller prizes.

The Ocean

Dartmouth-based advanced materials specialist META has closed a deal to buy British Columbia’s Nanotech Security Corp. for $90.8 million, as the maker of security holograms for bank notes and government ID cards announced it has inked a

Irish marine robotics company XOCEAN, which maintains a branch office in Dartmouth, has raised €8 million or C$11.7 million in a funding round that valued the startup at about €100 million or C$ 146.2 million.

Founded in 2017 and based in Louth,

Atlantic Canadian companies are among the 100 winners of the Blueprint: Backing BIPOC Businesses awards, run by the DMZ, an award-winning startup incubator at Toronto’s Ryerson University, and funded by American Express.

The 15-week program offers

The Newfoundland and Labrador government will kick in $10 million to the first close of the Venture Newfoundland and Labrador II fund, adding on to a $6.3 million private sector funding raise.

Like the first Venture NL fund, Fund II will be managed

I’m going to say something you’d expect me to say: the content at Entrevestor Live will be outstanding.

Entrevestor Live is a virtual conference starting at 1 pm AST on Wednesday that will demonstrate how Atlantic Canadian startups have grown into

In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re showcasing openings for a Head of Design, Venture Studio, at Highline Beta in Toronto and a Manager of Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement at Canada’s Ocean Supercluster.

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster

Female-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund Sandpiper Ventures has closed the first $10 million of a planned $20 million funding round for its flagship SV Fund, with the backers including 30 women and Scotiabank’s Roynat Capital.

Founded last

An Antigonish company developing lobster bait that relies on sound instead of fish, circumventing bait shortages, is preparing to start testing its technology this fall.

Peter Nicholson is the majority owner of Acoustic Bait Technologies, which he