The funeral industry ranks among the most staid bastions of the traditional economy, with practices that have changed little in centuries. To one Halifax startup, it looks ripe for disruption.

Dear Life’s goal is to move the process of

ONSIDE, the Nova Scotian organization that works to develop the startup ecosystem, has established five regional groups to bring the teachings of the MIT REAP program to communities across Nova Scotia.

MIT REAP is the Massachusetts Institute of

Sandpiper Ventures, Atlantic Canada’s female-led investment fund, announced Thursday it has made its first investment -- in Halifax-based DeNova.

The early-stage venture capital fund, which is managed by women and targets female-led companies, is

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For Dalhousie PhD student Raphael Ofoe, participating in Dal Innovate’s Lab2Market program was not just a path to creating a viable business, it was a way to accelerate his work on solving one of the most pressing challenges

Memorial University of Newfoundland has launched a pilot project that will help graduate commerce students work with startups on business development.

The Supporting the Local Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem project has a budget of

Having already signed on about 40 American law firms as clients, legal software maker Rally has inked a deal with the Atlantic Canadian law firm Cox & Palmer to help provide legal services to the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

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Eight companies have been named to Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta, a new program that helps high-growth Atlantic Canadian companies increase their sales in the U.S. Southeast.

In the Scale-Up Hub program, which began in 2018 in Cambridge, Mass., Atlantic

The Halifax Innovation District has posted a new feature on CarbonCure Technologies, which compares the Halifax cleantech company’s recent Carbon XPRIZE win with Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Atlantic Canadian companies secured a better-than-average $35 million in venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2021, and continued to attract private equity financing, said the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association on

The Halifax Innovation Outpost, a joint project between the city and the Halifax Partnership think-tank, has announced that it will back construction fintech startup Harbr and mental health app Tranquility in a bid to help the two companies scale

Two Nova Scotian groups supporting startups will hold virtual demo days in the next week, showcasing a total of 37 companies based in the province.

The Emera IDEAhub, Dalhousie University’s hardware incubator, will host its first IDEA Demo Day on

A pair of openings at Halifax-based medtech company Adaptiiv – for a Senior Software Engineer and a DevOps Engineer – headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing last year, has developed a