Veer Group, the Lunenburg, NS, startup that plans to build hydrogen- and wind-powered container ships, has signed a €50 million, or about C$73.2 million letter of intent with a European backer to finance its first two vessels.

Founded by shipping

Fredericton-based Picketa Systems, maker of the LENS hardware and software suite for analyzing plant tissues, is expanding the system’s capabilities to include analysis for corn crops, in addition to its original focus on potatoes.

The upgrade will

With Atlantic Canadian startups raising more than $237.6 million in equity funding this year, improving on last year’s total, the region’s venture capital landscape remains bifurcated between established businesses with traction and young startups

Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the winter cohort of its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, which offers startups up to $50,000 of funding.

The money can go towards assessing a product’s market potential,

The Halifax Partnership has announced the six winners of its Circular Food Solution Challenge, which will each receive $5,000 to pilot or test circular economy technologies for the food sector over the next three months.

The competition was hosted

ASETS-CA hopes to make engineering work as simple as playing a video game, according to CEO Ashwini Oke, and the Fredericton maker of computer-aided design, or CAD, software now has significantly more funds with which to achieve that goal after

Fintech startup Woveo, which was originally founded in P.E.I. and is now headquartered in Calgary, has raised a $2.3 million seed round.

Woveo is a platform that lets users pool their money and take turns borrowing from the collective fund without

Infusd Nutrition has raised a round of angel funding and is working with 10 international beverage ingredient-makers to implement its technology in their businesses under licensing deals, just months after the Halifax startup launched.

Infusd was

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to its annual Democamp, which gives young companies the chance to showcase their technology for investors and other innovation community members.

Slated to be held at Volta’s new, Argyle Street

Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub, held a demo day for graduates of its Evolution accelerator last week, with seven companies participating.

Evolution is a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young companies for longer

While large language models and neural networks have been the forms of artificial intelligence dominating headlines this year, a Fredericton company has been busy deploying a system for modelling human behaviour using a very different type of AI.

Economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to its Digital Marketing Asset Development Program, which is a training program for product-based companies looking to attend national or international sales events within the