The Halifax Partnership economic development organization has announced a collaboration with BoomersPlus to offer online consulting services to entrepreneurs struggling to navigate the pandemic.

BoomersPlus matches retired professionals who are at

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ONSIDE, a new not-for-profit organization supporting innovation-based companies in Nova Scotia, knew from the outside that it was not working with a blank slate as it plotted ways to work collaboratively to improve the innovation

A new survey of Atlantic Canadian startups shows that CEOs remain optimistic about their prospects for 2020, but also reveals that most have less than nine months of runway.

Halifax-based venture capital firm Concrete Ventures conducted the survey

The federal government has expanded eligibility for its small-business loan program, allowing more SMEs to borrow money to help them through the COVID-19 emergency.

At his daily briefing on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said more

Dartmouth-based drug discovery company IMV Inc. has enough cash to finance its operations until mid-2021 now that it has closed a $25.1 million private placement of shares and warrants.

The company, whose shares are listed on the TSX in Toronto and

Two Cape Breton University nursing students have placed first in the Canadian division of the Techstars Startup Weekend.

Held via video-conference on April 24 and dubbed “Unite to Fight COVID-19,” the competition saw aspiring entrepreneurs divide

The Cape Breton office of Innovacorp is offering a series of virtual meetings featuring leaders in communications and strategy free of charge in order to help entrepreneurs understand the importance of story-telling.  

The series, which is open to

Five startups each won $25,000 worth of investment in a remote version of the Volta Cohort pitching competition on Wednesday night.

The winners were chosen from a field of about 30 initial applicants, 15 of whom were selected to give three-minute

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, or ACOA, will be distributing $110 million of federal funding to small and medium-sized companies that do not qualify for other forms of emergency bailouts.

ACOA said in a press release Wednesday that the

Dartmouth-based SimplyCast, a multi-channel marketing company, has been awarded the Canie Award for Global Entrepreneurship for the Atlantic Region by the Innovators & Entrepreneurs Foundation. a national charity dedicated to supporting

Despite COVID-19 necessitating logistical changes, 2020 is shaping up to be a landmark year for the Atlantic division of science and technology accelerator Creative Destruction Lab.

The cohort that finished the program on May 5 was the first to

The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund and its Alberta counterpart are forming a new organization that they hope will become a nationwide vehicle for supporting female-led businesses.

The new group Canada51 is now a partnership between the AWVF and the