Charlottetown-based life sciences company AffinityImmuno has met with good results in preclinical trials for an antiviral compound that shows promise against COVID-19, with infected mice seeing as much as an 81 percent reduction in the amount of

Halifax-based Marine Thinking, which sells tracking and navigation software and hardware for marine environments, is launching commercial trials of its tagging system for preventing lost fishing equipment, known in the industry as ghost gear.

The

Saint Mary’s University has launched a new diversity, equity and inclusion program for student entrepreneurs via its Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre.

The Entrepreneurship Inclusion Initiative, funded with $200,000 from TD Bank, will have

St. John’s-based PolyUnity Tech, which uses agile manufacturing to make products rapidly for hospitals, has been named the CAN Health Network’s Company of the Year, which it hopes will help attract investors and clients.

PolyUnity works with

Two central players in the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem are taking home some award hardware this week: TechImpact CEO Cathy Simpson and the Verschuren Centre bioprocessing hub in Cape Breton.

International industry group the Women’s

Foundry, the Massachusetts-based owner of Halifax’s LeadSift, will host an artificial intelligence-focused hackathon at Dalhousie University Nov. 12 alongside Halifax startup hub Volta.

The day-long hackathon will invite coders to develop a new

Invest Nova Scotia has announced the 12 companies joining the second 2023 cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

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

Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub Genesis will host a revamped version of its Pitch & Pick startup competition, named the Pitch & Pick Invitational, on Nov. 15. This time, there will be a $15,000 prize pool now on offer, including $10,000 for

We want to say a special thanks to the sponsors of Entrevestor Live and highlight the unique role played by our new class of silver sponsors.

Entrevestor Live, a four-hour hybrid event on the afternoon of Nov. 14, will be the best display of

Keith McIntosh, the CEO of Fredericton-based software-testing specialists PLATO, is the overall winner of global consultancy EY’s prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year award in its Atlantic Canadian division.

Founded by McIntosh in 2015, PLATO

Net Zero Atlantic, a cleantech industry group that aims to spearhead applied research projects, is looking for applicants to its Net Zero Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program in New Brunswick.

The Net Zero ECT-NB Research Program,

Charlottetown’s BIOVECTRA has reached a key milestone in its plans to develop one of Canada’s first mRNA vaccine manufacturing facilities, having inked a deal with pharma startup Acuitas to use the Vancouver-based company’s manufacturing technology.