Organizations supporting the ocean economy in Atlantic Canada are working to increase equity funding for oceantech companies, and they’re heartened by the growth of international funds targeting maritime innovation.

Malcolm Fraser, CEO of

Dalhousie University plans to markedly increase Computer Science enrollment in the coming years with the $13.3 million in funding from the Nova Scotia government, said the university’s President Deep Saini.

In an interview after hosting Premier

A new Halifax-based network called Tribe has been established to act as a national entrepreneurship and innovation hub for BIPOC entrepreneurs.

Founded by social entrepreneur Alfred Burgesson, the network has established partnerships with major

Halifax-based Pocket Finance, which is developing an app that provides consumers and financial advisers with better data, will soon beta-test the product and anticipates a full launch by the fall.

Founder and CEO Sheldon Brow was driven to produce

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Marketing Coordinator at Halifax-based medtech company Adaptiiv.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing last year, has developed a system that 3D prints a bolus – a piece

An investment of $2.2 million over four years will create the new NB Power Artificial Intelligence Centre, to be located on the Moncton campus of the Université de Moncton.

The Centre will leverage expertise at the Université de Moncton to improve

By the end of this year, the Co-Founders of Cape Breton-based Maskwiomin hope to have a staff of up to 20 people producing traditional Mi'kmaq skincare products, and doing so in accordance with Indigenous business practices.

The company is

REDspace, the Bedford, NS, IT company that employs more than 200 people, captured the Business of the Year Award at the Halifax Business Awards on Thursday.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary last year, REDspace builds flexible platforms for global

Moncton-based EduCode Academy has signed a distributorship agreement with Sebit Education and Information Technologies, which will be the company’s representative in Turkey.

EduCode creates online courses that help children learn to code, and its

When the pandemic hit last year, Laura Simpson knew she would have to change Side Door’s business model. What surprised the company’s Co-Founder and CEO was the resulting 3,000 percent increase in ticket sales.

Since 2017, the company had offered a

Canada's Ocean Supercluster, which is dedicated to modernizing the country’s ocean economy, has announced three new projects based in Nova Scotia with a value of almost $10 million.

The Atlantic Canada-based organization issued three press releases

Natasha Dhayagude, Co-Founder and CEO of Chinova Bioworks, a Fredericton-based company that uses mushrooms to reduce food waste, has had her work celebrated by FoodHack, a global network of food entrepreneurs and innovators.

Dhayagude is one of 80