For the second year in a row, students from Saint Mary’s University have been named Canada’s national champions in a countrywide competition. This means Saint Mary’s will represent Canada at the Enactus World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, in September,

The recent difficulties in pre-seed and seed funding have continued into 2025 in both Atlantic Canada and the country as a whole, new data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) indicates.

The national organization

Halifax-based Freshr Sustainable Technologies, which makes all-natural food packaging, announced Tuesday that it has closed a seed round, with which it hopes to expand manufacturing and sales.

The company said in a press release that returning

Emerging from the Energia Ventures accelerator, Moncton-based recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is working on closing a pending investment round with a target of about $500,000.

In an interview following the Energia Demo Day,

Dalhousie University’s Emera ideaHUB has announced the launch of its Spring 2025 ideaBUILD cohort, welcoming 10 deep tech startups that are building solutions to improve global health.

The ideaBUILD accelerator helps deeptech startups develop and

Halifax-based ONSIDE is offering a free AI program for early-stage female founders with under $1 million in annual revenue and 1 to 10 employees.

Held in Halifax, the Early AI Adoption Lab is an in-person program designed to teach early-stage

We’re pleased to announce that Entrevestor’s 2024 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report will be launched May 20 in a presentation at Planet Hatch in Fredericton.

Our 11th annual startup data report will highlight trends last year in the Atlantic

Regional virtual accelerator Propel has announced the fledgling ventures taking part in its new Validation cohort.

Validation is the first step on the Propel path, allowing participants to validate business ideas with customers using lean startup

Less than two years after Saint Mary’s University professor Ellen Farrell began commercializing a software product aimed at helping women founders, she has revealed that 20 initial participants have raised almost $25 million in dilutive and

Fredericton-based fintech company Profitual has launched a startup competition that assesses founders’ business models rather than their talent for spinning a yarn.

Entries for the “No-Pitch Competition” are open until the end of the month, and the

The Council of Canadian Innovators has released its policy report, A Mandate to Innovate, which the group describes as a set of recommendations for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mandate letters to his new cabinet. 

The group, which represents over

St. John’s-based Data Farms is working on a funding round with a target of $900,000 to refine its product and boost its use among farmers practising regenerative farming, which focuses on soil and ecosystem health and regeneration.

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