A new $50 million investment fund has been launched by Natural Products Canada Ventures to invest in early-stage Canadian companies developing naturally derived alternatives to synthetic products.

NPC Ventures has secured a non-binding term sheet

St. John’s-based SkillsHawk – the new name for Creatros Technologies – is reporting strong sales of its talent-mining technology more than three months after its official launch.

The company came together more than four years ago at Memorial

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Stephanie Arnold’s path to entrepreneurship has included not just a business degree, but also a PhD program, a rotating house and Prince Edward Island’s most famous export.

The environmental sciences PhD candidate and researcher

Halifax-based immersive technology specialist Modest Tree on Tuesday announced the launch of Xplorer 2.0, the latest iteration of its extended reality enterprise software.

Modest Tree’s Xplorer solution allows the use of extended reality (XR) – a

St. John’s-based ClearRisk, which provides risk-management software, is hoping to accelerate its recent 30 percent annual growth rate on the back of a $2.5 million round of growth capital and a few landmark sales.

The company said Monday its bank

Twenty-three teams from 11 universities have been accepted into the Winter 2021 cohort of Lab2Market at Dalhousie University – the biggest representation of institutions in the program’s history.

Modeled on I-Corps in the U.S. and ICURe in the

TechCrunch, the bible of the Silicon Valley startup cluster, published a long-form article on the Atlantic Canadian startup community this weekend, showcasing the growth of the segment in the world’s biggest tech centre.

Titled “Does Atlantic

Planetary Hydrogen, which plans to capture carbon in the world’s oceans, claimed the $2,000 first prize at the annual Start-Up Yard Pitching Event on Thursday.  

Start-Up Yard, Innovacorp’s oceantech hub on the Dartmouth waterfront, brought

Various national groups have announced funds that boost funding opportunities for diverse founders.

Toronto-based Bay Mills Investment Group has launched its Bay Mills Diversity Fund, which focuses on strengthening investment into BIPOC founders

Jason Pearson is a chemistry prof with a big sales job ahead of him.

Pearson is the Founder and CEO of Charlottetown-based Stemble, whose digital platform aids the remote teaching of chemistry to post-secondary students. The system is now used by

In its second Atlantic Canadian deal in a week, Arlene Dickinson’s District Ventures Capital has invested in Fredericton-based manufacturing company Vertiball, whose product helps ease back pain.

The Calgary-based investment group headed by

University of Toronto and University of Waterloo were the big winners at the 2021 Canadian finals of the Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC.

The Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University hosted the event last weekend, with