Martha Casey, CEO of Volta, said in an interview Monday that the Halifax startup hub’s finances and community engagement levels are in good shape despite COVID-19.

Volta, which originated in 2013, provides office space as well as incubator and

Halifax startup hub Volta has announced the 16 finalists for its Volta Cohort pitch competition, to be held virtually on Nov. 24 with a combined $125,000 in potential prizes for up to five winners.

Volta started holding its Cohort events nearly

The staff of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the wider startup community were saddened by the passing last week of John Kavanagh, who had been a mainstay of ACOA’s Halifax office for decades.

Kavanagh died peacefully from lung cancer

Six Atlantic Canadian startups will present in a special East Coast panel at the annual Canadian Innovation Exchange conference to be held on Wednesday.

The CIX is a Toronto-based group that supports and promotes the country’s most promising

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested about $4.35 million in equity funding rounds for the province's startups in its 2020-21 fiscal year, as it focused on inking deals to stabilize its existing portfolio companies during the pandemic.

Fredericton-based startup accelerator Energia Ventures has announced its five-company fall cohort -- the second this year, as the program moves to offer more frequent programming in response to increased demand.

The accelerator is run by the

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia has honoured five people or organizations for their contributions to diversity and inclusion in Nova Scotia’s tech sector in a ceremony held as part of the Centre for Women in Business’s Innovate online event.

Halifax data analytics startup Affinio and its 12-person team are being bought by fellow big data company NowVertical Group in a deal worth US$7.3 million or about C$9 million.

The purchase price includes US$6 million cash and US$1.3 million of

CoLab Software, the St. John’s-based maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, has raised a US$17 million (C$21 million) Series A funding round on the back of a fiscal year in which its revenue grew 609 percent.

The round was led by New

We’d like to draw your attention to two pieces of content that will be of interest to people who follow the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

Vanessa Balintec of CBC New Brunswick on Monday reported on the under-representation of female and

Jason Trask, the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, has landed a spot for his new rodent deterrent company in the federal government’s CTA AgTech Accelerator.

A serial entrepreneur, Trask has run companies

Moncton-based startup hub Venn Innovation will lead an Atlantic Canadian delegation to the world’s largest fintech conference -- Money20/20 in Las Vegas.

The delegation is being backed by the governments of the four Atlantic Provinces and will