Having backed four companies through its first fund, the Cape Breton Capital Group is now raising its second fund and seeking out investors.

A group of 26 investors created the investment vehicle in 2022, forming a fund of $1.3 million to invest in

Applications are sought for Foresight Canada’s 2025 Cleantech Awards with organizers planning to recognize ventures and ecosystem leaders that are advancing innovation and growth in Atlantic Canada.

BC-based Foresight Canada is a cleantech

We have an urgent need for young companies to complete our short, confidential survey so we can get an accurate picture of whether the Atlantic Canada startup community is growing or shrinking.

We’ve been working on our startup databank and have

Dartmouth-based Aruna Revolution, a women-led company that makes compostable sanitary products from plants, last week raised money on the popular television show Dragons’ Den.

The Aruna team asked the Den’s investors for $250,000 for a 10 percent

Spellbook, the St. John’s maker of AI-driven tools for lawyers, has announced a new product for in-house counsels – the lawyers whose only client is the enterprise they work for.

This week, the company – which has raised more than $40 million in

As we research our Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report, which we’ll publish in the spring, we think it’s more important than ever that startup founders or CEOs complete our short survey.

Why more important than ever? Because the startup community

We’d like to start 2025 with a piece of news we missed late last year: Site 20/20 of Dartmouth and WeyMedia of Dieppe, N.B., were both named to Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 50 list of Canada’s fastest-growing startups.

Site 20/20 placed

Nivatha Balendra, founder and CEO of Laval, Quebec-based Dispersa, has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2025 in the Science category.  

Cleantech startup Dispersa runs its Sydney operation out of the industrial bioprocessing facility

We’re calling on all startups to complete our latest quick-and-confidential Atlantic Canadian startup survey, which is the backbone of our coming 2024 Entrevestor Atlantic Canada Startup Data report.

The startup report provides a benchmark used by

We'd like to wish all our readers a happy holidays, and to say we hope you thrive in the new year. 

We’re putting down the phones and shutting down the laptops for a few days, as we do every year at this time. We will begin reporting news again on

St. John's-based medtech startup BreatheSuite, which helps people with respiratory problems, is working on a $1.77 million project to use artificial intelligence to operate more efficiently.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government put out a press

Halifax-based LED Roadway Lighting, a maker of innovative streetlights, has announced that founder Chuck Cartmill will step down as CEO on January 1.

LED Roadway Lighting began as a business Cartmill founded in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 2002,