The federal government’s Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, has announced grants for four Atlantic Canadian startups: Hampstead, N.B.’s PLAEX Building Systems, and Halifax-based ZeroIN Foods, Drinkable Water Solutions and OceanSync

Atlantic Canada's IT accelerator Propel has announced seven graduate companies from the latest cohort of its Traction and Growth program.

The Traction and Growth program is meant for startups that have already completed Propel’s more basic Vision

Virtual Hallway has helped doctors to schedule more than 500 meetings with specialists through a pilot program with Nova Scotia Health’s Innovation Hub since the end of May.

The six-month program will evaluate whether the province should partner

Invest Nova Scotia Executive Chair Tom Hickey has resigned, citing other professional commitments, mere weeks after his appointment to helm the new amalgamation of Innovacorp and Nova Scotia Business Inc.

Progressive Conservative Premier Tim

When IBI Group bought Fredericton transportation software-maker HotSpot in June for its recurring revenue business, the Toronto engineering and technology company agreed to pay a total of $5.74 million, regulatory filings reveal.

IBI paid $2.76

The annual Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which offers winners up to $50,000 of non-dilutive funding, will hold three pitching events in different regions of Nova Scotia this fall.

Now in its ninth year, the Spark program aims to nurture

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With its impressive cybersecurity strength and talent development history, New Brunswick is implementing a strategy to become the world’s most innovative and collaborative cybersecurity ecosystem by 2030.

New Brunswick became a

Tosin Ajibola, whose Fredericton startup Welkom-U is an online platform that aims to help foreign students acclimatize to their new surroundings, has been declared by Western Union’s Canadian Immigrant periodical to be one of Canada’s top 25 new

Sandpiper Ventures, Atlantic Canada's female-focused venture capital firm, has closed its flagship SVF fund, having raised over $20 million.

The SVF fund is the second-largest female-focused VC fund in Canada, Sandpiper said in a statement, after

The Halifax-based Canadian Blk Women in Excellence Society is launching a pitch competition for black female entrepreneurs with the help of a $52,920 grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

Founded in 2020, the Blk Women in Excellence

Recimply, which is developing “smart receipt” software, has won the $2,000 first prize at St. John’s-based startup hub Genesis’s Pitch & Pick competition — the culmination of its eight-week Evolution accelerator.

The company was founded by Tyler

Halifax cybersecurity company NewAE Technology, which manufactures products to study "hardware hacking", has been acquired by Britain's lowRISC C.I.C., with the aim of accelerating growth. 

LowRISC, which was founded at the University of Cambridge