Halifax food delivery startup Smooth Meal Prep has hired organizational design firm Symplicity Designs to help with a franchising strategy and is eyeing expansion into a second community.

CEO Nevell Provo told Entrevestor in an interview that he

New Brunswick startup hub Venn Innovation has added a new board member: Welkom-U Chief Executive Oluwatosin "Tosin" Ajibola, whose company finished a closed test of its software last month.

Ajibola, a recent immigrant to Canada, started Welkom-U

Here are two ways to look at the funding environment in Atlantic Canada in 2021: it will likely be the second-best year ever, or it will likely be the worst year since 2014.

If you dive into data provided by the Canadian Venture Capital & Private

Halifax startup hub Volta has opened applications for its free LEAP program, which aims to prepare entrepreneurs to submit an application to a startup accelerator, such as Creative Destruction Lab or Techstars.

Created in 2019 and headed-up by

Halifax’s Centre for Women in Business will launch a virtual accelerator for women tech entrepreneurs beginning Feb. 25. Its aim is to introduce founders of companies with revenues to the fundamentals of running a business before they join more

Halifax science museum The Discovery Centre and rural innovation hub IGNITE have announced a joint project to encourage Grade 12 students to pursue careers in “STEAM” fields -- science, technology, engineering, arts and math.

The Discovery Centre

Guelph, Ont.- and Bible Hill, NS-based vertical farming startup GoodLeaf Farms has inked a deal with Alberta for the provincial government to pay $2.73 million towards a 74,000-square-foot facility in Calgary.

GoodLeaf, a subsidiary of TruLeaf,

Venn Innovation, a New Brunswick startup hub, has added a pair of ideation-stage software companies to its Venn Garage incubator via one of its open pitch events. Judges chose Oz Health and DYOFOX from a field of largely immigrant-led businesses.

Nova Scotia Business Inc.’s Scale-up Hub: Atlanta program has announced its six-company fall cohort -- down from eight participants in the spring session -- with four startups from Nova Scotia, one from Newfoundland and Labrador, and one from New

Milk Moovement, which makes supply chain management software for the dairy industry, now controls about 10 percent of United States milk production and has bagged a $1.5 million grant from federal agency Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

Fredericton-based accelerator Energia Ventures will hold its second demo day of 2021 on Dec. 9, showcasing a roster of five companies from four countries.

Energia is hosted by the University of New Brunswick’s Technology, Management and

Almost three months after Halifax travel scheduling startup Trip Ninja announced it was ceasing operations, an eleventh-hour buyout has saved the company and the jobs of both its founders and employees.

In September, CEO Andres Collart said he was