The deadline is fast approaching for young life sciences companies in the Maritimes to apply for the BioInnovation Challenge.

To enter the $30,000 pitching competition, companies from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island must

Bolstered by a local partnership agreement, Charlottetown-based Origins Xtractions Ltd. is planning to raise money to finance a new commercial facility in the P.E.I. capital for extracting compounds from natural materials.

The three-year-old

Dalhousie University’s Launchpad accelerator graduated 10 teams of entrepreneurs in a ceremony last week. During the ceremony, Professors Mary Kilfoil and Ed Leach outlined a series of new initiatives that together will be known as Launch Dal.

Startup Canada has issued the following press release:

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE 2015 STARTUP CANADA AWARDS

Celebrating the best in Canadian entrepreneurship

OTTAWA – July 13, 2015 – Startup Canada opened nominations today for the second

There was no surprise this year when Magnet Forensics captured the Computer Forensic Software of the Year this month at the 2015 Forensic 4cast Awards in Austin, Texas. It had after all won the award the two previous years.

What was special this

Al Sturgeon, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Propel ICT, wants all Atlantic Canadians to know that if they have an idea for a business, Propel and its partners can help them explore and possibly develop it.

Propel ICT is an Atlantic Canadian

Now that Volta has found a temporary headquarters, there are two more important questions to be resolved for the Atlantic Canadian startup community in the second half of 2015.

First, there will likely be an announcement on a university program

While many cleantech companies encourage environmentally friendly practices in new construction, Halifax-based PowerWHYS is in the early stages of creating a system that recommends energy-efficient products for renovations.

The PowerWHYS system

Volta, the startup house in central Halifax, is moving to a temporary new location and doubling its size and capacity in the process.

The group’s administrators and tenants later this month will move to 20,000 square feet of space on the sixth

Richard Hurley can envision a day when orthopedic surgeons design and 3D print implants right in their office. In fact, his startup, Conceptualiz, has already prototyped a product that enables the design work.

An orthopedic surgeon himself, the

P&P Optica of Waterloo is pressing forward with its business plan even though its members last month literally witnessed two years of work go up in smoke.

P&P Optica is a 20-year-old venture dedicated to making cutting-edge spectrometers, which

Several members of the Atlantic Canadian startup community have been named as finalists at this year’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year awards for the Atlantic Region.

EY, the global accountancy and consultancy firm, has selected 28 finalists in