Two Atlantic Canadian oceantech companies – Graphite Innovation and Technology, or GIT, of Dartmouth and QualiTEAS of St. John’s – have joined the Eastern Pacific Accelerator in Singapore and received funding from the program.

Eastern Pacific

A standardized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Reporting Template for general partners of venture capital funds and their portfolios has been launched by BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The tool is

Fredericton electric vehicle startup Potential Motors has raised US$3.2 million or C$4.07 million from investors that include Montreal- and Toronto-based Brightspark Ventures and Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures.

Founded in 2018 by a team of

Sally Ng, Chief Operating Officer for newly created BIPOC industry group Tribe Network, has been nominated for the Women of the Year award from Ryerson University startup incubator the DMZ.

New this year, the award will honour International Women's

Nova Scotia Health Authority is launching its new Innovation Hub, which has a mandate to partner with the private sector on technology and research initiatives and is helmed by former Dalhousie University professor Gail Tomblin Murphy.

Tomblin

A consortium of companies – some backed by billionaire John Risley – has unveiled a $65 million project that aims to produce low-carbon marine fuel made out of waste from forestry and agriculture.

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Tuesday announced

The federal government’s Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, has announced that it will give $52.3 million in grants to a slate of companies whose technology could help the country meet its climate goals, with Atlantic startups

Halifax’s KorrAI, which uses artificial intelligence to help assess satellite images of mining sites, has joined the latest cohort of Y Combinator, arguably the world’s most prestigious tech accelerator.

The AI company joined the accelerator’s

Truro’s Clever Fruit Products, which is developing new berry-based food ingredients, has landed a spot in Emergence, the Atlantic Canadian bioscience incubator.

Founded in 2017 and led by President Liam Tayler and Executive Chairman Sean Sears,

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a basket of five projects worth a combined $29 million, of which the Supercluster will pay $12.52 million, with the participating companies spread across Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia.

CEO

When health insurance giant Green Shield Canada bought virtual therapy startup Tranquility Online in August, the players stayed mum on the specifics of the deal. But at an event Thursday, Tranquility Co-Founder Joel Muise told the story of the

In the past year, Fredericton fintech specialist Passiv has raised an $800,000 funding round, grown its assets under management to nearly $2 billion and been accepted into the globally recognized Y Combinator startup accelerator.

Passiv has