The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship on March 25 will host the 2021 Mel Woodward Cup, which will hand out $40,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students.

The virtual event will be a pitching competition for student

Snorble, an automated bedtime companion for children, has been chosen for a high-impact campaign on Indiegogo, says its Halifax-based designer Mike Rizkalla.

Snorble is a soft toy, about the size of a teddy bear, that uses voice recognition

For eight years, BioNB and partners have held the bioeconomy conference Atlantic BIOCON. For this year's event, the partnership is expanding to include the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub, CCNB-INNOV and IGNITE Atlantic, and young researchers are being

By being named to the Globe and Mail’s inaugural list of 50 Canadian Changemakers, Charles Milton hopes he can shine a spotlight on the dearth of domestic Black entrepreneurs in the Nova Scotian startup community.

Milton, the Co-Founder and CEO of

A surprising corporate deal took place last week which will result in a new data centre in Grand Falls, NB, being part of an environmentally sustainable cryptocurrency operation.

Vancouver-based HIVE Blockchain Technologies, which is listed on the

Our Jobs of the Week column today features postings at En Point and MindSea in Halifax, and the Memorial University Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, in St. John’s.

The mission of the MCE is to inspire and enable aspiring entrepreneurs and to

Vertical farm operator GoodLeaf Farms has received a $30 million investment from McCain Foods, which will allow it to build two more Canadian farms this year.

The company was launched several years ago in Truro, NS, as TruLeaf by serial

Metamaterial Inc. is borrowing US$10 million from Plano, Texas-based oil and gas producer Torchlight Energy Resources, the company it hopes to merge with in the coming months.

Meta, as the Dartmouth company is known, announced in the autumn that it

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a $27 million project that will help improve the aquaculture industry through data analytics and increased connectivity.

The group that supports the country’s ocean economy issued a statement on Thursday

Halifax-based Talkatoo is one of four Canadian startups accepted into the first cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Voice AI.

Google announced this week that 12 North American companies would attend the 10-week accelerator, which aims to

Halifax- and Calgary-based Arolytics, whose software helps oil and gas companies track their methane emissions, has raised $710,000 in equity financing, which the company says will help it to scale quickly.

The company issued a statement saying it

Having raised more than $400,000 in equity funding, Halifax’s Clever Fruit Products has announced new directors to its board who it says will add top-flight expertise and connections.

The company, which is developing new berry-based food