Organizers say this year’s event will focus on the theme “Secure Velocity,” examining how organizations can adopt artificial intelligence and other digital technologies while maintaining security, trust and operational discipline.

The summit is aimed at founders, executives, IT leaders, security professionals and other technology decision-makers from across Atlantic Canada.

The conference agenda will feature discussions on practical AI adoption, cyber

The company unveiled XGIT-VORTEX, a three-layer propeller coating system, at the recent Posidonia 2026 shipping exhibition in Greece, during a ceremony with classification society Lloyd's Register. GIT said the product is designed to help shipowners maintain propeller performance between drydockings by reducing fouling, resisting cavitation-related damage and preserving surface smoothness over time.

The Validate program, hosted by Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador is designed to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset among post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and faculty. Participants receive a $15,000 stipend for the program, which is part of the national Lab2Market network. Organizers recommend participants first take part in its precursor the Validate Foundations program.

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Two-year-old Sound Blade Medical said it had closed a US$16.5 million Series A funding round, which would help fund development and clinical trials of its product, an “advanced hand-held histotripsy technology”. (In the simplest terms, the company had developed a compact tool that uses sound waves to cut flesh, including tumors.)

The company was co-founded by CEO Jeremy Brown, who had also been a Co-Founder of Halifax-based Daxsonics, which also works with

The 25th annual BioPort Atlantic will take place Sept. 22 to 24 at the Halifax Convention Centre, bringing together members of the life sciences sector from across Atlantic Canada and beyond. Organizers expect more than 300 attendees at the three-day event.

Applications are now open for the conference's Innovator Showcase, which gives early-stage life

Co-Founder and CEO Megan McCarthy took in the opening sessions last week at the headquarters of the global brewer AB InBev in Belgium.

The 100+ Accelerator has accepted 47 startups from around the world into its seventh cohort, including ROCarbon. As well as providing up to US$100,000 in funding to each participant, it offers startups a chance to integrate their products with the enterprise

Applications are open until July 17, and organizers are encouraging participants from a range of disciplines to submit proposals highlighting innovative research, business models or social initiatives. 

Research Nova Scotia is hosting this year’s competition with support from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to

Melamoon is a national opportunity for Black founders who are ready to scale, Halifax-based Tribe Network, a support group for founders who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Colour, said in its newsletter.

Backed by FACE Coalition and BLAXPO, the idea is to spotlight, support, and scale ideas rooted in community and culture.

This year, Melamoon is travelling across Canada, connecting with founders through a series of city

We first posted on Entrevestor on Aug 13, 2011, and about 7,000 articles later we’re ready to call it a day. It’s been a tremendous ride and we couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve accomplished over the past 15 years. Now we’re keen to retire and pursue other projects, including writing our books. So on Sept. 30, we will post our final article on this site.

Does this mean the end for Entrevestor? We hope not. The Atlantic Canadian startup community needs an independent source of news and data, covering

The country’s most easterly province has been going through a tech boom the likes of which has never been seen in the region. It has produced a multi-billion-dollar exit in Verafin, a publicly listed oceantech company in Kraken Robotics with a billion-dollar-plus valuation, and two AI companies (CoLab AI and Spellbook) that raised more than $50 million each last year.

Can the NL innovation community keep it going? Various