The University of New Brunswick’s Apex Business Plan Competition -- which features $30,000 in prizes -- will be held using a hybrid online and in-person model in January after taking place virtually in 2022.

The event, organized by UNB’s

On Thursday, three of the seven companies pitching in the Canadian finals of the Entrepreneurship World Cup will be from Atlantic Canada: St.John’s-based PragmaClin Research, and Halifax’s MOC Biotechnologies and Hollo Medical.

The competition is

Good Robot Brewing, the popular Halifax seller of craft beer, is opening a new production facility aimed at sharing manufacturing resources among the region’s beverage makers and allowing them to achieve the scale necessary to target international

Guelph, Ont.- and Bible Hill, NS-based vertical farming startup GoodLeaf Farms has announced that it will open a production facility in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil with the help of a $7 million loan from the Government of Quebec.

Slated to

Halifax- and Ontario-based GreenSage Prebiotics has been accepted into Charlottetown’s Emergence virtual incubator for life sciences companies and is raising a $700,000 angel round as it prepares to commercialize its fish food supplement in early

Montreal-based Whale Seeker has been awarded a $529,000 contract from Innovative Solutions Canada to use its artificial intelligence technology to analyze Arctic marine mammal stocks.

The parties issued a press release last week saying Whale Seeker

Six teams will vie for a $2,000 first prize at Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub Genesis’s next Pitch & Pick competition, the culmination of its eight-week Evolution accelerator, on Dec. 13.

There will also be a $1,000 second prize and a

Atlantic Canadian venture capital deals have so far mostly defied the industry’s global slide, as the region’s companies raised more money in the third quarter than in either of the two prior, according to data released Thursday by the Canadian

Kyle Burton, a blue economy veteran with experience working for multiple startup support organizations, is launching his own company to build subsea computer data centres.

Gazpek, as Burton dubs his ambitious new business, hopes to place server

The University of New Brunswick’s Pond-Deshpande Centre, or PDC, has named Katie Davey, a former executive at Ottawa-based think tank Public Policy Forum, as its new executive director.

Davey holds a political science degree from UNB and a Master

Tidal Venture Partners, the recently created pre-seed- and seed-stage venture capital fund based in Halifax, has announced one of its first investments: TheProgram.ai.

Founded earlier this year and also headquartered in Halifax, TheProgram.ai is a

An extraordinary panel discussion took place at the InnovateNB event in Saint John on Tuesday -- extaordinary because it showed how the venture capital community in Atlantic Canada is changing.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation hosted a