Armando Balboni, the CEO of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics is leaving his role to become the company’s chairman and rejoin the United States military as Director of the Life Sciences Research Center at the United States Air Force

The PEI BioAlliance has received $3.18 million in funding from the governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island to help fund the next iteration of its Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator.

The federal government’s Atlantic Canada Opportunities

My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid

But a token

MESH/Diversity, the New Brunswick company whose software helps organizations improve diversity and inclusion, has launched a new program to help human resource executives and others improve their skills.

The company announced recently that it is

The fourth annual Atlantic Technology Summit takes place next week in Halifax with highlights including a fireside chat between Dragons’ Den investor Michele Romanow and CBC host Nora Young.

Taking place next Wednesday, Nov.16, online and at the

Halifax edtech company Shoelace Learning, which specializes in the gamification of learning, has announced the $3 million first close of its seed round, which it hopes will soon reach $4.5 million.

The company plans to use the money to add three

Innovacorp has revealed it invested a total of $2.1 million in nine companies in what was likely its final complete fiscal year, and admits the totals were lower than expected.

The Nova Scotia government’s venture capital agency recently released

Halifax-based Sustane Technologies has won the Innovator of the Year category at the 2022 Mobius Awards for Environmental Excellence, presented last week by Divert Nova Scotia.

The company has developed technology that transforms curbside garbage

Halifax-based Adaptiiv Medical Technologies has revealed it closed a Series A funding round worth “less than $10 million” in the past year and a half, and is planning on a Series B raise next year.

Adaptiiv CEO Alex Dunphy revealed the funding

Startup Genome, the Silicon Valley group that ranks innovation ecosystems, has released its first ever blue economy report. And Canada, particularly the Atlantic provinces, made a strong showing.

The Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Blue Economy

Drinkable Water Solutions on Thursday took home the $55,000 prize in the annual BioInnovation Challenge, which will help finance the commercialization of its consumer-friendly water-testing device.  

Halifax-based Drinkable has developed a device

Nominations will remain open for another week for the inaugural InnovateNB Awards, which will recognize leaders in innovation and entrepreneurship in New Brunswick.

The nominations – the forms for which can be found here – are open until Nov. 10,