Virtual startup incubator Propel has bagged $1.05 million of funding from the Nova Scotia government over three years, with CEO Kathryn Lockhart saying some of the money will go to expanding the organization’s five-person coaching staff.

She

A surge of new, headline-making artificial intelligence products from global leaders like OpenAI and Google have thrust the field into the public consciousness like never before. End users can now command AI systems vastly more versatile and

Information technologies industry group Digital Nova Scotia has opened applications across Atlantic Canada for its new, $3.7 million jobs training program, which it announced earlier this year.

Dubbed Skills for Hire Atlantic, the initiative is a

All-female venture capital fund Sandpiper Ventures has won Best Investment Innovator from this year's Canadian Business Innovation Awards, run by Canadian Business magazine.

Founded in 2020 by former Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Cathy

Charcoal Marketing has announced that Mike Cyr, long a pillar of the organization, is its new Chief Operating Officer.

Cyr has been an integral part of the Charcoal team for five years. He is a specialist in digital media and played a key role in

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has announced about $2.8 million worth of loans for a quartet of cleantech startups, including Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, which last month closed a $10.2 million series A funding

Canada's Ocean Supercluster is asking for project proposals related to scalable renewable energy projects.

The Supercluster, which arranges joint funding agreements with private sector consortiums, is particularly interested in backing projects

Two years after Dartmouth construction technology startup CarbonCure won the internationally noted NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, another Atlantic Canadian company, Halifax’s Smallfood, is one of six finalists in the competition’s US$15 million foodtech

The Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which last fall held two pitching events on the province’s mainland, has announced its Cape Breton winners, both software companies: artificial intelligence bookkeeping startup Bank Scan Pro and festival

A quartet of oceantech and computer vision startups, two each from Canada and England, will receive a combined $500,000 to develop sensor and decision-making technology for uncrewed marine vessels under a partnership between the Ocean Technology

Halifax startup hubs Volta and the Emera ideaHUB on May 23 will host a free seminar on media relations for startups, delivered by Entrevestor Co-Founder Peter Moreira.

Slated to be held at noon at the IdeaHUB on Dalhousie University's Sexton

St. John’s-based Mysa Smart Thermostats has bought the intellectual property of Zen Ecosystems, with plans to incorporate the Costa Mesa, Calif. startup’s offerings into its own product line and ramp up efforts to land commercial clients inside of a