Nova Scotia venture capital agency Innovacorp has won the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s Venture Capital Deal of the Year award for its headline-making $104 million exit from advanced materials startup Meta Material.

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Dartmouth’s CarbonCure Technologies, which sells carbon sequestration technology for the concrete industry, has won another accolade. This time, it is among 10 companies recognized by federal agency Sustainable Development Technology Canada as

Saint John-based TrojAI, which makes cybersecurity software for artificial intelligence systems, has been recognized as one of the 100 most promising AI startups in the world by New York startup intelligence group CB Insights.

CB Insights this week

Several startup organizations have come together to generate a major Atlantic Canadian presence at Startupfest in Montreal this summer and are branding the initiative Startup Atlantic.

In particular, the organizers are hoping business accelerators

Fredericton’s PLATO Testing, an Indigenous information technology services and training company, has raised $2 million from Vancouver-based Raven Indigenous Capital Partners and plans to roughly double its staff over the next year.

The deal is a

TechImpact, a New Brunswick industry group for information technology, is at the forefront of a private sector movement in the province to help resettle and employ knowledge workers displaced by the war in Ukraine.

The organization has created a

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster said Tuesday it will spend $750,000 on a program to help Indigenous people transition to careers in the ocean economy, topped off with another $250,000 from the Vancouver-based Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine

Atlantic Canadian startups booked a solid $64 million worth of capital raises in the first quarter of 2022, according to data released Tuesday by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

It was the best fundraising quarter since

The Samqwane’jk Ocean Partnership Initiative, a joint project between Ulnooweg Development Group and Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, has announced an undisclosed amount of funding for a trio of Indigenous-run

Precision BioLogic, a Halifax medtech company that sells diagnostic testing supplies, has launched a new product for the bleeding disorder Hemophilia B.

The Hemophilia test, recently approved by Health Canada, is in response to increasing market

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub has put out a call for applications for the summer cohort of its eight-week Evolution startup accelerator, with a May 18 deadline.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare

Halifax-based Adaptiiv Medical Technologies, the Halifax company bringing 3D printing to bear on cancer treatment, has inked a collaboration deal with printer giant HP and Palo Alto, California medtech specialist Varian Medical Systems.

Under the