We’ve been inundated in the past few days with press releases about what Atlantic Canadian startups are doing to provide products and services to help with the Covid-19 crisis.

Consider Prince Edward Island. We’ve heard from individual companies,

Halifax-based Side Door, an online platform that matches musical artists to small, intimate physical venues, is getting around the pandemic by offering online concerts and raising money for charity.

Last Saturday, Side Door Co-Founder and

As the Covid-19 crisis has deepened, a growing number of physicians and healthcare professionals have been signing up to The Rounds and its sister platform QID to exchange information on the growing challenge of treating patients.

Based in Halifax,

Two Nova Scotia entrepreneurs are partnering with a North Carolina life sciences startup to develop a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly system for baiting lobster traps.

Vince Stuart is the president of Clare Machine Works and Matt

Halifax-based SalesRight, which helps software companies simplify their pricing models, has closed a $600,000 round of funding, building on the momentum of the $325,000 it raised last year.

The latest round was co-led by returning investor Concrete

The pandemic has led the pan-regional Ocean Startup Project to cancel its in-person Engage Café events and allow virtual participation through a weekly #OceanofOpportunities webinar series.

The interactive webinar is designed for those who have

A research team affiliated with Charlottetown-based Fieldetect Inc. has received a $355,000 federal grant to convert its veterinary product to a medtech device that could test for Covid-19 in humans.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, or

ShiftKey Labs, the Nova Scotia post-secondary sandbox focusing on digital technologies, is planning a “virtual hackathon” to find tech solutions to social problems created by the Covid-19 crisis.

The group has hosted several hackathons in the past

Halifax-based eOceans, which is developing an online platform for gathering ocean data, has launched its app early to gather data on how the Covid-19 crisis is impacting the oceans and people who live near them.

Founder and CEO Christine Ward-Paige

Some businesses are continuing to grow during the current downturn, and Halifax-based CloudKettle is one of them. Its opening for a Business Analyst is our Job of the Week column today.

Halifax-based CloudKettle is a consulting company that helps

Research Nova Scotia is contributing $600,000 in rapid response match funding to Dr. David Kelvin of Dalhousie University who is looking for biomarkers that indicate the severity of the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

Kelvin and his

Dartmouth-based drug discovery company IMV Inc. said Wednesday that it is making advancements on a possible vaccine for Covid-19.

The company said it will use its DPX delivery platform, which releases drugs in doses over an extended period of time,