Fredericton’s PLATO Testing, an Indigenous information technology services and training company, has raised $2 million from Vancouver-based Raven Indigenous Capital Partners and plans to roughly double its staff over the next year.

The deal is a

TechImpact, a New Brunswick industry group for information technology, is at the forefront of a private sector movement in the province to help resettle and employ knowledge workers displaced by the war in Ukraine.

The organization has created a

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster said Tuesday it will spend $750,000 on a program to help Indigenous people transition to careers in the ocean economy, topped off with another $250,000 from the Vancouver-based Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine

Atlantic Canadian startups booked a solid $64 million worth of capital raises in the first quarter of 2022, according to data released Tuesday by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

It was the best fundraising quarter since

The Samqwane’jk Ocean Partnership Initiative, a joint project between Ulnooweg Development Group and Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, has announced an undisclosed amount of funding for a trio of Indigenous-run

Precision BioLogic, a Halifax medtech company that sells diagnostic testing supplies, has launched a new product for the bleeding disorder Hemophilia B.

The Hemophilia test, recently approved by Health Canada, is in response to increasing market

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub has put out a call for applications for the summer cohort of its eight-week Evolution startup accelerator, with a May 18 deadline.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare

Halifax-based Adaptiiv Medical Technologies, the Halifax company bringing 3D printing to bear on cancer treatment, has inked a collaboration deal with printer giant HP and Palo Alto, California medtech specialist Varian Medical Systems.

Under the

Researchers are invited to apply for Lab2Market-NSERC, Canada’s first national research commercialization program.

Lab2Market, a program developed by several universities to commercialize research, has partnered with the Natural Sciences and

Boston-based Innovasea has begun testing a new tagless technology that can detect, count and classify fish in real time using a combination of imaging sonar, optical cameras and artificial intelligence. 

The technology has been shown in early

Halifax’s Drinkable Water is opening pre-orders for its on-the-spot water quality testing device with deliveries scheduled to begin next April.

The launch comes as Drinkable looks to raise a $350,000 funding round to extend its runway while Chief

Halibut P.E.I., a fish farm that had been leaning heavily on innovative, land-based aquaculture techniques, has been bought by Norway’s Amar Group four months after filing for bankruptcy.

The Norwegian private equity company, which specializes in