Dartmouth-based Aruna Revolution, a women-led company that makes compostable sanitary products from plants, has won the $100,000 Impact Investment Prize at Startupfest 2025.

In Montreal last week, the well-known event that brings together

St. John’s-based innovation hub Genesis is seeking founders to participate in Evolve, a six-week program for early-stage tech founders. Entrepreneurs can join virtually or in person and will be helped to: 

* Clearly define the problem the startup

Bounce Health Innovation, the Newfoundland and Labrador life sciences and medtech organization, has named seven companies that have graduated to Phase Two of the Scale-Up Cambridge program.

The program is designed to help leading Atlantic Canadian

Fredericton-based ASETS-CA Inc. has closed a funding round from strategic investors, and plans to use the money to enhance its engineering design software and increase sales.

The company, whose technology improves workflow for people involved in 3D

Last week’s MTME pitching event at University of New Brunswick was won by golf swing solutions company MULLI. DeepREM, a company developing a sleep solution, placed second. The new ventures won $1,500 and $1,000 respectively.

The winners were among

Led by the McKenna Institute and Mariner Partners, an effort is under way to raise $250,000 to $500,000 to endow the Gerry Pond Professional Sales and Business Development Experiential Learning Fund.

It’s intended the endowment will uphold the

Halifax-based carbon capture venture pHathom Technologies has struck a deal with Frontier to remove 510 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere using the startup’s technology.

Frontier works with some of the world’s largest companies to encourage the

Halifax-based edtech venture Shoelace Learning has been named one of the Top 30 Startups globally in the inaugural Global EdTech Prize and will now enter the finals.

In a post on LinkedIn, CEO Julia Rivard Dexter said Shoelace is the only Canadian

Halifax-based Alaagi, a sustainable packaging startup created by Saint Mary’s University graduate Sheheryar Khan, has advanced in the global Hult Prize competition.

Launched in July 2024, Alaagi produces a fully compostable bioplastic made from

In examining Atlantic Canada’s oceantech sector, one fact that is often overlooked is how tantalizingly close it is to boasting its first unicorn – a company valued at $1 billion.

While this article is largely a summary of the oceantech sector in

A month after drawing investment from TLT East Ventures, Fredericton-based fintech company SnapTrade has partnered with Tickblaze Partners to help the Houston-based futures-trading app to expand into equities and cryptocurrencies.

SnapTrade – the

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has completed a $115 million funding exercise on the TSX Venture Exchange, hitting the top of a funding range it outlined last month.

Kraken, which specializes in next-generation sonar systems and unmanned platforms