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

Propel CEO Barry Bisson has announced he will retire in the fall of this year, so the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator has begun its search for his replacement.

The pan-regional organization issued a statement Monday evening, saying its board of

Appili Therapeutics said Monday it will sponsor the first clinical trial in Canada evaluating Fujifilm Toyama Chemical’s drug Favipiravir for the prevention of COVID-19.

The Halifax company dedicated to fighting infectious diseases last November

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is seeking applications from across Canada for short-term, innovative projects that will help stimulate economic activity.

Under the Accelerated Ocean Solutions Program, the federally backed supercluster—which partners

Dalhousie University has been recognized by Times Higher Education magazine for its work on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The publication’s University Impact Rankings rated Dalhousie 85th out of 767 universities that

Science and technology accelerator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is launching a new program focused on bolstering efforts to fight COVID-19.

CDL Recovery will be a joint project with Montreal-based artificial intelligence hub Scale AI. It will aim

St. John’s-based retail software company Oliver POS has won Propel’s Gerry Pond Sales Award for 2020.

Created last year to honour the chairman of Saint John technology company Mariner Partners, the award grants one member of Propel’s Incite II

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, held its annual Demo Day on Friday, during which nine founders from the latest Incite II cohort presented their companies.

As may be expected during the pandemic, it was an online event, with the