Recent Post

hero image

Blue Charm Closes $4M Seed Round

  • Sep 11, 2025
hero image

CropMind, QuickFacts Accepted into US Programs

  • Sep 10, 2025
hero image

Atlantic Canadian AI Ventures Heading to ALL IN

  • Sep 09, 2025

recent news

Ubique Sets Up Halifax Office

  • Dec 20, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Ubique Networks Inc., a growing tech startup that improves the efficiency of eSports, is opening an office at Volta Labs in Halifax, its third Canadian office.

The company announced this week that it plans to employ about a dozen IT professionals

read more

Protocase Seeks Partner in Intersect

  • Dec 19, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Having grown to a 200-person operation in 17 years, Sydney-based mass-customization manufacturer Protocase wants to expand into new product lines and is looking for a team of entrepreneurs to help.

The company, known for its customized electronics

read more

Curwin Steps Down as TruLeaf CEO

  • Dec 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Gregg Curwin has stepped down as CEO of AgTech company TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, paving the way for McCain Foods to steward the company through a phase of expected “exponential” growth.

In an interview last week, Curwin said it was his

read more

SMU Alters MTEI Startups’ Funding

  • Dec 16, 2018
  • Avery Mullen

Ellen Farrell believes recent funding changes have improved the quality of startups in Saint Mary’s University’s MTEI program and a new relationship with Mitacs will improve them further.

Farrell, the Co-Director of SMU’s Master of Technology,

read more

Bereda’s New Peer-to-Peer Product

  • Dec 13, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Bereda Training, the Halifax company that helps endurance athletes, is launching a new product to blend its data and planning platform with a peer-to-peer support function.

The company recently announced its new business model on its website, with

read more

Xocean Ponders Base in Halifax

  • Dec 13, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Since touching down in Halifax earlier in the autumn, James Ives has been wondering if the East Coast city could make a suitable North American base for his company, which uses unmanned boats to gather ocean data.

Ives is the co-founder and CEO of

read more

MicroWise Taps Halifax Expertise

  • Dec 12, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The fact that Pia Haecky and Jone Jacobsen were sitting in a coffee shop in Halifax demonstrated the international appeal of their company, and how the oceantech cluster is progressing in Atlantic Canada.

Haeky and Jacobsen are senior partners in

read more

NBIF Funding Rose 8.8% in 2017-18

  • Dec 12, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested $6.2 million in 24 companies in the 12 months to March 31, 2018, with the value of deals increasing 8.8 percent over the previous fiscal year.

The non-profit that oversees early-stage venture capital

read more

Milk Moovement Eyes Expansion

  • Dec 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Robert Forsythe hopes his company Milk Moovement will have 10 clients within two years, which would mean having coverage right across Canada.

The St. John’s-based company has developed a cloud-based reporting system that helps dairy boards give

read more

Dal Joins Women Founder Project

  • Dec 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Dalhousie University has been selected as one of eight Canadian universities to join a research project into women’s entrepreneurship.

The university said its Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship will join other institutions from across Canada

read more

ILokol Lands 1500 Clients in 6 Months

  • Dec 10, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

There’s often a moment of stunned silence after the founders of iLokol pitch, as if judges and audience members are wondering if they understood the pitchers properly. No one is used to seeing the numbers that Halifax-based iLokol presents from a

read more

Venture Grade Invests in Cribcut

  • Dec 10, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Saint Mary’s University’s Venture Grade Fund – a VC fund managed by students – is investing $15,000 in Cribcut, an online marketplace for hair stylists willing to make house calls.

“Cribcut has a novel business model that we are proud to support,”

read more