Having refocused its business on products for farmers, Cascadia Seaweed is setting out this year to raise about $10 million to fund a bioprocessing plant and the exponential growth of its seaweed production.

The Sidney, BC-based company, which

Halifax-based Smallfood is one of eight Canadian startups to receive a combined $2.5 million of funding from industry group the Canadian Food Innovation Network.

Smallfood is taking home $98,932, just seven months after the company and one of its

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Kognitiv Spark, the Fredericton maker of augmented reality software, will jointly fund a new augmented reality lab at the University of New Brunswick.

Dubbed the Spatial Computing Education, Training &

Four Atlantic Canadian startups are among a group of 25 companies nationally to receive funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to develop cleantech or circular economy products.

The federal agency thia week announced grants of

The Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax will host this year’s Canadian edition of the Venture Capital Investment Competition on March 3 and is calling for startups to participate.

The VCIC is an international competition

Halifax’s Milk Moovement is embroiled in a trade secrets and antitrust legal battle in the United States with one of its competitors, Texas-based Dairy LLC.

Milk Moovement, which last summer raised a US$20 million Series A funding round, was sued

Fredericton startup hub Planet Hatch has opened applications for its Business Immigrant Essentials Accelerator, which promises entrepreneurship training tailored to the specific needs of new Canadians.

The five-week program will offer participants

Dr. Karen Cross, the CEO of Volta resident company MIMOSA Diagnostics, has made The Toronto Star’s list of fourteen Canadian entrepreneurs to watch this year.

Cross, a native of Newfoundland and Labrador who is now based in Halifax, is a plastic

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has hired a new chief technology officer in the wake of finishing its absorption of fellow Newfoundland and Labrador company PanGeo Subsea and increasing its annual revenue by more than 50 percent.

Founded by former

Industry group Atlantic Fintech and incubator Fintech Cadence have inked a deal to make the Montreal innovation hub’s online training and support services available to East Coast startups.

The Fintech Hub, as Fintech Cadence dubs its service, is a

Dal Innovates has opened applications for the winter cohort of its Collide training program for budding entrepreneurs.

Aimed specifically at university students, the Collide program promises to teach participants the basics of customer discovery

ReelData, the Halifax company that makes artificial intelligence for land-based aquaculture, has raised a US$8 million (C$10.7 million) Series A funding round as it looks to commercialize its second product offering next quarter.

ReelData’s first