Recent Post

hero image

Retellio Closes $1.3M VC Round

  • Jan 15, 2025
hero image

BMO Apex Startup Challenge Coming to Fredericton

  • Jan 15, 2025
hero image

Cape Breton Capital Raising Fund 2

  • Jan 14, 2025

recent news

Strong Growth Continues at Kraken

  • May 29, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has extended its run of strong sales growth, the company announced Wednesday, reporting its best-ever financial results for the first quarter with revenue up 175 per cent compared to the same period last year.

About

read more

Train With Me Wins at Volta Pitch Competition

  • May 28, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Sports- and fitness-focused social media startup Train With Us won Halifax startup hub Volta’s quarterly Virtual Pitch Competition on Wednesday.

Founded by athletics entrepreneur David Rafuse, who holds a degree in kinetics from St. Francis Xavier

read more

Invest Nova Scotia, ACOA Seek Oceans Companies

  • May 28, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and their partners are seeking oceantech companies to co-exhibit with a Canadian government contingent at the OCEANS 2024 conference in Halifax this fall.

Slated to be held Sept. 23 to

read more

Entrevestor Live Returns Sept. 17

  • May 27, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

We're thrilled to announce that Entrevestor Live -- the only conference dedicated exclusively to Atlantic Canada's greatest startup successes -- will return for a fourth year this autumn, packing a superb program of speakers into a single

read more

Supercluster Backs Supply Chains, Propulsion, Climatetech

  • May 27, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a trio of new projects worth $14.2 million: one developing electric propulsion technology, one to help optimize maritime supply chains and one to study kelp’s role in carbon sequestration and marine

read more

eOceans Nominated for Earthshot Prize

  • May 26, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A Nova Scotia research startup is in the running for an international environmental prize worth more than C$1.7 million.

Halifax-based eOceans has been chosen by McGill University to compete in Prince William’s Earthshot Prize, which awards five

read more

STEED’S, Pilot X Victorious at Innovate and Elevate

  • May 24, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A combined bed and bottle feeder for puppies and a transportation and courier marketplace were the victors of Thursday’s Innovate and Elevate virtual pitch competition from Halifax-based Tribe Network.

STEED’S Baby Bottle Bed Founder Rosalind Steed

read more

Genesis Extends Evolution Deadline

  • May 23, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub, has extended the deadline to apply for the Summer 2024 cohort of its 10-week Evolution accelerator to June 7.

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

read more

Life Sciences NS Names Grant CEO

  • May 22, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Industry group Life Sciences Nova Scotia has named a new CEO: Doris Grant, previously its Vice President of Business Development and Strategy.

Grant has worked in the industry for nearly 30 years and held private sector, public sector and academic

read more

Hope Blooms Plans Green Mobile Music Studio

  • May 22, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A Halifax social venture is giving youths the chance to participate in community development initiatives while enjoying a taste of entrepreneurship.

Launched in 2008, Hope Blooms works with teenagers in the city’s historically diverse North End to

read more

Atlantic Startups Raised $35M of VC in Q1

  • May 20, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Atlantic startups have posted their weakest first quarter fundraising performance since the depths of the pandemic, according to new data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, though Newfoundland and Labrador is a bright

read more

AVF Announces 32 Participating Companies

  • May 20, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The Atlantic Venture Forum, or AVF, has announced 32 showcase companies that will be highlighted at the two-day conference this June.

The AVF will be held June 5 and 6 at the Halifax Convention Centre. Backed by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities

read more