Ellen Farrell: 'It’s really a motivator for students now". Ellen Farrell believes recent funding changes have improved the quality of startups in Saint Mary’s University’s MTEI program and a new ...

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has announced a $17.5 million equity funding deal with a syndicate of investors led by Toronto’s Cormark Securities, with plans to spend some of the money in expanding ...

One of the bright spots of the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2019 was the strong showing by rural innovators, especially in Nova Scotia. A stalwart of the startup community once told ...

Medtech is one of the fastest-growing segments of the Atlantic Canadian innovation community, and we’re recognizing it with a special discussion at Entrevestor Live. A wave of new companies are ...

Halifax-based Electric Owl is preparing to launch a digital garden management platform targeted at the 46 million households in North America that grow their own food. The social enterprise aims to ...

We’re delighted to announce that our second annual Entrevestor Live event will be held on the afternoon of Oct. 20, and it will be hybrid so you can attend live or online. Showcasing some of the most ...

Innovacorp has revealed it invested a total of $2.1 million in nine companies in what was likely its final complete fiscal year, and admits the totals were lower than expected. The Nova Scotia ...

Entrevestor Live, our third annual conference on Atlantic Canada's most successful startups, is coming to Halifax startup hub Volta Nov. 14. This year's theme is Going Global. The half-day, hybrid ...

As improbable as it sounds, Doug Jones has turned a love of sports into a licencing business, then into an innovation hub in Yarmouth and then into an entrepreneurship network for rural Nova Scotia.

Dartmouth Ocean Technologies, or DOT, has moved into new office and manufacturing space on Brownlow Avenue in Dartmouth, as CEO Arnold Furlong looks to scale the company in response to strong demand ...

Bedford, N.S.-based Ashored Innovations will be the only Atlantic Canadian company among the Top 20 early-stage startups to watch at this year’s CIX Summit in Toronto. The CIX conference, organized by ...

A Nova Scotia oyster farm is retooling its business model with the help of a novel financing method. Sober Island Oysters is aiming to borrow $100,000 from investors on Goparity Canada, a British ...