The annual Smart Energy conference has opened applications for its startup competition, the Smart Energy Pitch Challenge.

The winner of the competition, which is presented by OKR Financial, will bag a $5,000 cash prize from Innovacorp. The

When Saint John-based Millennia Tea brought its frozen tea products to market in the depths of the pandemic, CEO Tracy Bell had a problem: how to entice potential buyers in a world where the usual promotional methods were unworkable.

Food companies

Mastercard will sponsor the University of New Brunswick’s Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, or CIC, to the tune of $1.75 million, with the money going towards establishing a security research chair and funding scholarships.

The CIC’s new

Guelph, Ont.- and Bible Hill, NS-based vertical farming startup GoodLeaf Farms has inked a $2.5 million deal with data analytics firm Adastra to develop an artificial intelligence system for determining optimal growing conditions for plants.

The

A new program from the federal government is offering small- and medium-sized businesses grants to pay for digital technology.

The Canadian Digital Adoption Program, or CDAP, offers grants up to $2,400 to build e-commerce storefronts and up to

The most significant effect of the technology sector labour shortage for startups is not problems accessing talent, but rather the price of workers and its knock-on effects for capital raises, according to Propel CEO Kathryn Lockhart.

In an

Halifax Regional Municipality’s new economic growth strategy is gunning for a 100,000-person population increase in the next five years, as the city looks to solve the skilled labour crunch that has left local startups scrambling for employees.

The

On the back of launching its living lab at the Port of Halifax’s PIER innovation centre, building management startup B-Line has been accepted into the National Association of Realtors’ REACH scale-up program in the U.S.

REACH and its sister

The industry group Eastern Canada Oilseed Development Alliance, or ECODA, and supercluster Protein Industries Canada have inked a deal with Dalhousie University and the University of Prince Edward Island to research plant protein-based food

Saint John-based Innovatia Accelerator, which makes software for information management and communication in industrial settings, has been acquired by Swedish automation and remote monitoring giant Hexagon AB for an undisclosed price.

Innovatia is

Two Atlantic Canadian startups have inked collaboration deals with foreign companies: Halifax construction fintech specialist Harbr and Fredericton- and Miami-based sales software-maker Introhive.

Introhive sells artificial intelligence technology

After six years leading the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, Florian Villaumé has been selected as the new CEO for techNL, the Newfoundland and Labrador association for digital industries.

The techNL board’s search committee had been working