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ImmigrateAI Global Targets Those Seeking Permanent Residency

  • Jun 27, 2025
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2025 Atlantic Technology Summit in Two Provinces

  • Jun 25, 2025
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Invest NS Accelerate Opens Applications

  • Jun 25, 2025

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ImmigrateAI Global Targets Those Seeking Permanent Residency

  • Jun 27, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based ImmigrateAI Global has launched PR Compass, a platform geared toward immigrants already in Canada – particularly those in healthcare, construction, and other high-demand sectors – who are attempting to gain permanent residency. 

“If

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2025 Atlantic Technology Summit in Two Provinces

  • Jun 25, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

This year’s Atlantic Technology Summit will be held in Dartmouth, N.S., and Dieppe, N.B. at the same time. The event will take the theme "The Atlantic Edge: Talent, Growth and Sustainability".

Writing on LinkedIn, organizers said the theme covers:

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Invest NS Accelerate Opens Applications

  • Jun 25, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Invest Nova Scotia is looking for early-stage tech companies to take part in Accelerate, its milestone-based program that helps Nova Scotia founders get investment-ready.

The program is delivered virtually over five months. Organizers are looking

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Spark Nova Scotia Winners Named

  • Jun 24, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Spark Nova Scotia has announced this year’s winners. The contest for rural and coastal high-potential, knowledge-based businesses is run in three regions — Cape Breton, North, and Southwest — and offers winners up to $50,000. Each geographical

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Top 7 Over 70 Coming to Halifax

  • Jun 23, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The Calgary-based non-profit Top 7 Over 70 will hold its fifth awards ceremony in Halifax in May next year. The group runs an awards program that celebrates the new successes of adults over 70 and it is the first time the awards will be held in

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Cashew Wins Profitual’s No-Pitch Competition

  • Jun 22, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Calgary-based Cashew Research, a startup offering AI-driven market research, has won Profitual’s first No-Pitch Competition, which was designed to assess companies based on their fundamentals, not their verbiage.

Profitual is a Fredericton-based

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Propel Welcomes 12 Startups to Traction & Growth

  • Jun 19, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Propel, Atlantic Canada’s virtual accelerator for tech-enabled companies, has announced the latest cohort joining its Traction & Growth Program. This group of founders represent a range of industries, from AI and health tech to retail, education,

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Scotiaderm Gains Funding from Natural Products Canada

  • Jun 19, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Port Williams, NS-based Scotiaderm, which produces a natural skin barrier formulation that protects against skin damage caused by exposure to urine, feces, sweat and chaffing, is one of five Canadian companies to receive funding from Natural

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NBIF’s White Sees Startup Rebound

  • Jun 18, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Jeff White, the CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, has posted a blog saying his organization is noticing a rebound in the startup community in the launch of new ventures and fundraising by portfolio companies.

The article highlights a

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Kraken Robotics Raising About $100M

  • Jun 18, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics, which specializes in next-generation sonar systems and unmanned platforms to carry them, is in the process of raising about $100 million by selling shares on the TSX Venture Exchange.

The company issued a statement

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Axis Accelerator Seeks Applicants

  • Jun 17, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The Axis Accelerator at University of New Brunswick Saint John has seats available for its six-month program for business-to-business startups from across Atlantic Canada looking to grow their revenues and prepare to raise capital.

The program will

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B. Corp Status Fuels Ethical Swag

  • Jun 16, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Cape Breton–based sustainable promotional products company Ethical Swag is navigating the current economic chaos through the B-Corp certified systems it already had in place.

The Sydney company helps organizations make their values visible through

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