Venture Grade, a student venture capital fund based at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, has invested $12,500 in online life insurance distributor Emma Labs.

Based in Montreal, Emma Labs targets younger life insurance buyers, aged 29 to 40, who

Provincial venture capital crown corporation Innovacorp is organizing a panel discussion on raising capital in the blue economy, to be held at Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, as part of its Business over Breakfast series.

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for companies to participate in its next quarterly Pitch Competition, but entrepreneurs who want to participate must apply in the coming week.

The competitions offer budding founders the chance to practice

As of Nov. 3, Atlantic Canada will have watched three of its startups pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists on the CBC’s popular reality show Dragons' Den this fall, with two of the three companies having so far secured investment.

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The annual Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which offers companies up to $50,000 of non-dilutive funding, has announced the winners for two of its three regional categories: Nova Scotia Southwest and Nova Scotia North. The Cape Breton division

St. John’s-based ReportMate, which sells software for cleaning up disorganized medical records, has rebranded as SiftMed as it enters commercialization.

The newly dubbed SiftMed’s artificial intelligence platform automatically organizes medical

Dalhousie University’s Emera IdeaHUB has announced the latest cohort of its BUILD accelerator, with artificial intelligence playing a role in the underlying technology behind at least four of the 10 companies.

BUILD, previously called Design2Build,

CoLab Software, the St. John’s-based maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, has been accepted into the Lazaridis Institute’s prestigious ScaleUp program for growth-stage companies in the wake of its best quarter ever.

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Sherbrooke, Quebec-based Oneka Water Technologies, which received a $1 million investment from Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp in 2021, has won the Innovation Award at the International Desalination Association Conference.

Honolulu, Hawaii has become the fourth city to sign on to New York- and Halifax-based edtech startup Pressto’s Junior Journalist Program, aimed at helping youths develop media literacy, as the company readies a new product offering for school

We have posted articles recognizing and thanking many people who supported Entrevestor Live, which was held Thursday at Volta. But there were a few people working behind the scenes that deserve our sincere thanks.

Entrevestor Live was a showcase

Moncton startup hub Venn Innovation’s Atlantic Fintech initiative has announced the Atlantic Canadian companies attending the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas this week.

The delegation is being backed by the governments of the four Atlantic