Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners has pledged to donate a portion of its profits to the Discovery Centre science museum, also in Halifax, in a move that looks to be aimed at least partly at increasing the talent pipeline for STEM jobs in Atlantic

Halifax-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies has begun applying its environmentally friendly, fuel-saving marine hull coatings to the ships of maritime services company KOTUG Canada.

GIT has applied its coatings to more than 20 vessels now,

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is eyeing sales to private healthcare facilities in the United States after receiving $50,000 from Kaleidoscope Social Impact, a Saint John-based social impact investor that offers loans

Last summer, Fredericton-based cybersecurity startup Beauceron Security quietly raised an oversubscribed $3.1 million equity funding round that included strategic investors from the world of community banking.

The round was led by Utah-based

Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation,

A $50 million funding package to create a new BioAccelerator life sciences hub on Prince Edward Island, announced Friday, is set to become the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in the province’s history.

Spearheaded

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are giving the Université de Moncton a combined $324,000 worth of grants to create a new artificial intelligence hub at its Shippagan, New Brunswick campus.

Dubbed

For a week this March, entrepreneurs, students and researchers will gather in Fredericton for the city’s Boost Ideation Camp with the aim of developing new ways to track and reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Backed by Fredericton business

Dartmouth’s CarbonCure Technologies has managed to successfully sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide in concrete as part of a joint project with Brisbane, California-based Heirloom, in what both companies have described as a world first.

CarbonCure

Cross-border business development accelerator Scale-up Hub: Atlanta, has announced its nine-company winter cohort.

The group includes five companies from New Brunswick, two from Nova Scotia and one from Prince Edward Island, as well as one

St. John’s-based SiftMed, which sells software for cleaning up disorganized medical records, has raised a $2.7 million seed round led by the Atlantic Canadian female-focused VC fund Sandpiper Ventures. 

Chief Executive Holly Hill said in an

Halifax-based social network for medical professionals The Rounds has closed two follow-on investments to a prior Series A funding round, bringing the company's total capital raised since its founding in 2012 to around $9.4 million.

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