Halifax-based Scient is soft launching its technology for analyzing mining core samples by setting up its equipment for a limited time at a facility in the town of Stellarton, NS.

The Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources Core Library stores

Almost two-thirds of the entrepreneurs supported by Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch last year were new immigrants, a little under 40 percent were female and just over 10 percent were Indigenous, according to the organization’s annual

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $230 million in venture capital in 2022, showing greater resilience than other parts of Canada amid the global slowdown, according to data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

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Fredericton-based Kognitiv Spark has launched a sweeping revision of its main product offering that it says includes more robust spatial computing abilities, referring to the process of visualizing a digitally rendered object in a real-world

Jennifer Wager, formerly the president of Dartmouth cleantech star CarbonCure Technologies, has a new role as a fellow at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a VC firm led by such business titans as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg.

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Halifax-based Tribe Network is inviting Black founders aiming to bring a basic product to market to apply to its BUILD program, which begins mid-March.

Founded in 2021 by social entrepreneur Alfred Burgesson, Tribe offers support and training

Nevada-based Movella, which makes motion-tracking technology and bought Halifax’s Kinduct in 2020, has gone public on the Nasdaq stock exchange via a reverse acquisition.

Movella, at the time called mCube, bought Kinduct and its health data

Halifax business consultancy Imaginal Ventures and British Columbia-based national cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada are collaborating to launch Foresight’s eight-month accelerator program in the Atlantic Provinces.

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Canada has sent a deep roster of oceantech industry members and ecosystem support players to this year's Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, which is underway this week.

Twenty Canadian exhibitors — many of them startups, and

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