The Atlantic Venture Forum is coming back to Halifax this June and has announced 14 keynote speakers so far.

The seventh annual forum features networking opportunities, an Atlantic Canadian technology showcase, and information sessions.

The AVF

Nextleaf Solutions, co-founded by Saint Mary’s University alum Paul Pedersen in 2015, will raise $4 million through the sale of new shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange this week. This brings the total funds raised by the Vancouver-based

The Creative Destruction Lab has opened applications for its 2019-20 cohort, at its Atlantic Canadian pod and other locations across Canada and in New York and Oxford, England.

The applications can be found here and are open until Aug. 12.

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Dartmouth-based LeeWay Marine has borrowed $290,600 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to speed up the refit of its newest research ship, the LeeWay Striker.

ACOA issued a statement Friday saying the company, which specializes in

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian ITC accelerator, has named veteran entrepreneurs Derek Latham and Gordon McArthur to its stable of entrepreneurs-in-residence.

The company released a press release last week saying Latham and McArthur have joined

The University of New Brunswick’s TME group has revealed the seven companies in its Summer Institute, an accelerator that emphasizes the human aspects of entrepreneurship, such as marketing and design.

Officially called the J. Herbert Smith Centre

One constant factor in the Atlantic Canadian startup story in the past decade has been a strong underlying economy in key export markets – but that could change soon.

Robust economic growth, especially in the U.S., has provided primed markets for

Applications for Innovacorp’s Sprint competition for Nova Scotia technology startups opened Wednesday and will remain open until May 15.

Winners will receive up to $25,000 each in non-dilutive, non-repayable funding and business guidance from

The Halifax Partnership has announced the appointment of Wendy Luther as President and CEO, effective June 3. Luther has 17 years of experience in representing Nova Scotia nationally and internationally.

The Halifax Partnership works to grow

Fourteen Atlantic Canadian early-stage startups will vie for a total of as much as $125,000 at the spring edition of the Volta Cohort pitching event on May 22 in Halifax.

Volta, the Halifax-based startup hub, began the Volta Cohort in 2017 to

The sixth annual Maritime DevCon, a conference for software developers, is coming to Fredericton in June.

Maritime DevCon is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting a strong software development community on the east coast of Canada, and

Showing the effects of its recent marketing launch, Halifax-based home-concert organizer Side Door more than tripled the number of performances it arranged in March compared with February.

The company – whose online platform matches entertainers