The Halifax Innovation District has just posted an article on its website showcasing the Emera IdeaHUB – Dalhousie University’s incubator for hardware startups – and one of its resident companies, OceanSync Data Solutions.

The article – written by

Atlantic Canada’s life sciences startups face a labour crunch possibly even more complex than the one gripping the information technology sector, but short-term training and upskilling programs could offer a partial solution, observers say.

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Commercial spaceflight startup Maritime Launch Services has completed its reverse takeover of now-defunct merchant bank Jaguar Financial Corp., and in a departure from common practice, listed its shares on Toronto’s specialist NEO Exchange for

Halifax’s Zen Electric Bikes, which works with prominent Dalhousie University battery scientist Jeff Dahn, has won $100,000 of non-dilutive funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC.

Founded last year by battery scientists and

In a deal that aims to make Barcelona a leading hub for the Blue Economy, the World Ocean Council has agreed that the 2022 Sustainable Ocean Summit and inaugural Global Blue Finance Summit will be held in Barcelona. 

The agreement with Barcelona

Charlottetown-based PayTic, whose product streamlines the back-office operations of payment companies, has raised $2.95 million in its initial funding round.

The company, which had previously been in stealth mode, issued its first press release on

Halifax-based advanced materials startup Nova Graphene has bagged a pair of defence contracts to develop graphene-based materials for protecting helicopter rotors from sand, ice and water damage.

Founded in 2017, Nova Graphene’s flagship offering

Fredericton’s Picketa Systems, which makes fertilizer analysis technology for the agriculture industry, has raised a $300,000 round of angel funding that gives the company about a year of runway.

Chief Executive Xavier Hébert-Couturier said in an

Halifax equipment rental platform Frenter  has closed the $350,000 second tranche of a two-part funding round worth a combined $620,000.

Frenter raised on the back of monthly revenues well into the four digits, CEO Zach Laberge said in an

The Nova Scotia Innovation Hub will host a bioeconomy summit at Saint Mary’s University’s Sobey School of Business May 19, marking one of the first forays back into real-world events for the life sciences community after COVID-19.

The summit will

St. John’s-based Cyno, which has developed a healthcare platform for corporations, has raised a $2.3 million seed round led by the Venture NL fund, which is managed by Pelorus Venture Capital, along with a handful of angel investors and industry

Mitacs is eyeing a potential funding increase from the Nova Scotia government as it plans to nearly double the number of STEM internships it offers in the province over the next four or five years.

New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and