Mariner Partners-owned Shift Energy has reached a deal to roll out its artificial intelligence technology for managing electricity consumption across 10 Toronto area buildings owned by commercial property giant Cadillac Fairview.

Shift’s

Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, has inked a two-year deal to apply its new coating for ship propellers to 25 vessels owned by London, U.K.-based tanker company Stolt Tankers.

Stolt Tankers is the shipping division of

Veer Group, the brainchild of Lunenburg, N.S.-based shipping entrepreneur Danielle Southcott, is raising capital and searching for a manufacturing partner for its planned hydrogen- and wind-powered container ships.

So far, CEO Southcott said in an

Virtual startup accelerator Propel has announced the finalists for its annual Gerry Pond Sales Award, with food-related startups making a strong showing.

The Gerry Pond Award is an annual, $25,000 cash prize in honour of former NBTel CEO and Aliant

Martha Casey, the former CEO of Halifax startup hub Volta, has been named interim co-CEO of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, replacing Richard Florizone, who she also worked under at Dalhousie University.

Casey joined the

This year’s Canadian Women in Ocean Industries Leadership Conference, or CWOIL, will be in St. John’s from May 9 to 11, with the aim of fostering blue economy participation by women.

CWOIL aims to increase the competitiveness of the oceans sector

The David Sobey Centre National Retail Innovation Awards recognized three Canadian startups last week for improving customer service and product accessibility.

The David Sobey Centre for Innovation in Retailing and Services at Saint Mary’s

We’re extending by two weeks our offer to make a $10 donation to the Canadian Mental Health Association for every completed survey we receive from Atlantic Canadian startup CEOs.

We’re delighted with the responses we’ve received so far in our

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

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

Chantal Brine, CEO of Halifax-based mentorship software startup EnPoint, has won the Universal Women’s Network’s Women of Inspiration Mentorship Award.

Based in Calgary, the Universal Women’s Network is a global association for female executives

The Irving family of New Brunswick has donated $5 million to the Saint Mary’s University Entrepreneurship Centre, with the money going towards hastening an already underway expansion.

The project is also being renamed the Arthur L. Irving

Halifax-based Reazent has joined the P.E.I. BioAlliance’s Emergence startup incubator as it seeks regulatory approval to sell its sustainable fertilizer products in Canada and finishes raising a seed round.

Chief Executive Sumit Verma said in an