The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship hosted eight United Kingdom-based companies at a pitch event Monday as part of a broader partnership with British government agencies Innovate UK and Innovate UK Edge.

The eight

A community fridge in Halifax that is used and stocked anonymously by local citizens is in need of donations due to growing demand.

Founded a year ago by students and recent grads, the fridge is located outside the Glitter Bean Café off Spring

Commercial space flight startup Maritime Launch Services is eyeing suborbital rocket launches from its under-construction facility in Canso, Nova Scotia, this year, as the federal government promises to modernize aerospace regulations to accommodate

The Singapore-based Liveability Challenge is seeking entrants -- including bluetech companies -- for its competition for technlogy that can battle climate change and/or improve food production. 

Founded five years ago to address major challenges,

Halifax medtech startup NovaResp, which is developing an algorithm to help manage sleep apnea, has raised a $2 million funding round led by pre-seed venture capital firm Concrete Ventures as it eyes commercialization in 2024.

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Three innovation economy players took home silverware Thursday night at the Halifax Business Awards, hosted by the city’s chamber of commerce.

ESG Partners, an environmental, social and corporate governance consulting firm, won New Business of the

Stockholm-based business intelligence company University Business Incubators Global, or UBI, has named Memorial University’s Genesis startup hub as a “top challenger” for its annual list of the top 10 university-affiliated startup incubators

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is lending a total of $1.7 million to three Halifax biotech companies: ClearDynamic, AGADA Biosciences and NovaResp Technologies.

ClearDynamic is taking home the lion’s share of the funding, $948,750, to

Immigrant founders and veteran entrepreneurs are making a strong showing among remote startup accelerator Propel’s resident companies, as the organization mobilizes to meet spiking demand for its services.

Founders over the age of 40 will make up

If you founded or co-founded a startup in Atlantic Canada in 2022, this note is addressed to you.

We're adding new startups to our databank and we want to make sure we have as many new companies as possible, including those still in stealth mode. 

Five startups received grants of $25,000 each from Innovation PEI last fall as part of its Ignition Fund, the agency has announced.

Launched in 2014, the fund has so far backed 80 companies. Several of this round of recipients, including Jems

Pressto, the New York- and Halifax-based maker of edtech software, has opened early access to its artificial intelligence system for teachers.

The system offers teachers personalized prompts for their students, as well as generating lesson plans,