Provincial economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the next cohort of its GreenShoots accelerator, which offers up to $40,000 of funding.

GreenShoots offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies funding and

Invest Nova Scotia will host a virtual Investor Showcase presentation showcasing 17 of its portfolio companies to an audience of international investors Feb. 6 at 1:00 p.m.

The provincial agency, which invests in startups via its venture capital

Memorial University’s Centre for Social Enterprise is looking for applicants to its year-long Social Ventures Incubator, which offers $2,500 of funding.

The program is open to current Memorial students and alumni who graduated within the last 12

Invest Nova Scotia spent $8.8 million across 16 venture capital deals for its 2022-2023 fiscal year, which ended last March, and dispersed just under another $6.5 million to VC funds.

With another year-end on the horizon for Invest Nova Scotia,

Spellbook, the St. John’s legal software-maker, has raised a US$20 million or about C$27 million Series A funding round after being approached by returning investor iNovia Capital with an offer late last year.

The deal, which was signed just before

Memorial University and the Ocean Startup Project have announced the 19 companies in the latest cohort of their seven-week Lab2Market Oceans program.

Part of a national group of accelerators, Lab2Market Oceans is aimed at helping academic

Saint John-based diversified technology company Mariner Partners has named its Co-Founder and Chair Gerry Pond to the new position of Chair Emeritus two decades after he helped to found the company. 

Pond has spent decades as one of Atlantic

Halifax-based Saint Mary’s University has extended the application deadline for its biggest pitching contest, formerly March Madness, now The Arena.

The month-long contest offers the best student entrepreneur a grand prize of $10,000, and is

Virtual startup accelerator Propel has announced the companies participating in its Vision and Validation program for very early-stage founders.

Nova Scotia companies have made a particularly strong showing, comprising eight of the 14 participants,

Despite short-term economic uncertainty, Newfoundland and Labrador industry group techNL is preparing for long-term growth in the sector and increasing demands on the labour force, CEO Florian Villaumé said in an interview last week.

The

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is loaning a Saint John co-working space $472,000 to fund a 12-month pilot project for a suite of new training, networking and mentorship programs for entrepreneurs in the area.

The program, called the

Rise, the Fredericton B-Crop specializing in sustainable home renovation materials, reached $3 million of revenue in its second year of sales and hit break-even.

The progress comes as Rise looks to concurrently raise $850,000 from angel investors