Dalhousie University and the University of New Brunswick are looking for applicants to their 16-week Lab2Market Validate startup program this fall.

Aimed at scientific researchers looking to evaluate the market potential of their work, the program

Springboard Atlantic, an industry network that aims to foster the commercialization of research, including by helping young businesses develop intellectual property strategies, is receiving $9.8 million of operating funding over the next three years

Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub, is looking for applicants to the Summer 2024 cohort of its 10-week Evolution accelerator, which will start in June.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young

Concrete additive-maker alterBiota will aim to grow its staff from nine people to 20 or more by the end of this year with the help of a $4 million equity funding round led by Invest Nova Scotia.

Chief Executive Mark Masotti, a chemical engineer who

Potential Motors, the Fredericton maker of control software for off-road electric vehicles, has raised $2 million as CEO Sam Poirier looks to scale the company’s technical capacity in anticipation of major production deals with manufacturers.

The

It must be a decade ago that Ross Simmonds began espousing his DREAM mantra in his marketing seminars. It stood for “Distribution Rules Everything Around Me.”

Years have passed and Simmonds is still preaching about the importance of distribution,

Two East Coast businesses, Halifax’s EmployNXT and St. John’s-based qualiTEAS, will participate in events hosted by startup support organizations outside Atlantic Canada in the coming weeks.

EmployNXT, which sells an AI system that matches

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based startup house focused on supporting BIPOC founders, will award $15,000 at the finals of its Youth Climate Pitch Competition on May 9.

Slated to be held at Tribe’s offices on Barrington Street at 1:00 p.m., the event

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has announced a $17.5 million equity funding deal with a syndicate of investors led by Toronto’s Cormark Securities, with plans to spend some of the money in expanding its manufacturing capacity and physical capital.

Invest Nova Scotia has announced the 13 companies joining the latest cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Now in its fourth year, Accelerate offers participating startups four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding.

Three of the five startups chosen to pre-sell carbon credits to Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District under its Mission From Mars program are based in Halifax -- Carbon Run, Planetary Technology and Gaia Refinery.

The pre-purchase deals will involve

As Ukraine’s healthcare system grapples with the effects of the war, its cardiologists are receiving a helping hand from an unlikely source: St. John’s-based Sparrow Bioacoustics.

Led by CEO Mark Attila Opauzsky, Sparrow has been piloting its