Featured in this week’s digest, district startups and organizations push to combat COVID-19 and support businesses recover from the pandemic; Tenera care gets accepted into the CDL recovery program and many more.
This week in our District Digest, Local startups reach higher heights in national awards and regional competitions; B4 launches contactless payments to support the hospitality industry and many more.
In this week’s digest, local companies Appili Therapeutics and Proposify raise seven-figure funds; Bursity and Electric Puppets offer support during the COVID-19 pandemic and many more.
As part of the Ocean’s Week celebration our weekly digest features, local companies and organizations supporting the ocean economy. It highlights new partnerships with COVE and IGNITE, the new Ocean Startup Challenge, and much more.
With oceans week coming up, the growth in our oceans sector made news last month. New programs in the District are supporting diversity and inclusion and companies continue to collaborate and partner to battle the pandemic and support the health sector.
Featured in our weekly digest, Local companies deepen partnerships to tackle COVID-19 and food waste, Deloitte opens applications for 2020 Technology Fast 50 program and many more.
In this week’s digest, Halifax Partnership and Volta provide continuous support for businesses amidst COVID-19. Health Canada clears Appili’s drug trial and Dalhousie and Squiggle Park join a nation-wide educational research project.
This week’s Digest highlights how established companies, startups, and researchers are supporting the fight against COVID-19. Tranquility Online is supporting healthcare workers, while the Halifax Seaport Farmers Market goes virtual, and more.
Looking for the right connections to make your big ideas a reality? You’ve come to the right place. We can help you find the support you need in Halifax.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency helps grow Atlantic Canada by giving businesses tools to be more competitive, innovative, and productive.
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Representing Nova Scotia's health and life sciences sector, BioNova helps companies succeed through events, connections and business resources.
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The BBI is committed to growing a stronger Black presence in Nova Scotia’s business community.
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Build Ventures is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is focused on early stage technology companies across the Atlantic region.
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BDC supports small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice.
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Canada Business Network provides business with resources, including a wide range of information on government services, programs and regulations.
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Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is an industry-led transformative cluster model that offers a number of programs for the Innovation Ecosystem. Including the recent Ocean Startup Project which aims at doubling the number of high-quality, ocean technology startups thriving in Atlantic Canada.
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CEED works to increase the number of entrepreneurs operating in Nova Scotia through training, financing and networking opportunities.
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The Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE) is a collaborative facility for applied innovation in the ocean sector.
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The Centre for Women in Business is the only university business resource centre in Canada dedicated to helping women knock down barriers and succeed as entrepreneurs.
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Part consultancy, part educator, part social impact incubator, offering a full range of social enterprise consulting, training and coaching services.
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CDL-Atlantic fosters the creation of powerful “blue-green” technology ventures through strategic alignment with Dalhousie’s world-class research expertise.
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Cultiv8 is a collaborative program that offers both Dalhousie and Acadia students access to business mentors and entrepreneurial resources.
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As Atlantic Canada’s leading research university, we excel in collaboration with industry and opportunity for discovery.
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With expertise in data and oceans, DeepSense works with leaders in artificial intelligence, machine learning and applied ocean research to develop commercially useful applications.
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Digital Nova Scotia (DNS) is the industry association for Nova Scotia’s $2.5 billion ICT and digital technologies sector.
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Divert NS is a not-for-profit championing recycling and offering education and awareness programs, stewardship agreements, R&D, and the development of value-added manufacturing.
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We are entrepreneurs, helping new founders build.
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ESL Technology Inc. provides environmental testing services for your company to meet stringent product qualification, certification, validation and regulatory requirements
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Futurpreneur is the only national, non-profit organization that provides financing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18-39.
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Nova Scotia is creating one of the most competitive and business-friendly environments in Canada.
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The Halifax Partnership is Halifax's economic development organization and helps businesses access talent, new markets and commercialization opportunities.
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Halifax Public Libraries provide services, resources, and experiences for everyone. They offer free support for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
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The IdeaHUB helps students and faculty develop entrepreneurial and innovation capacity, design and build prototypes, and launch startups with a focus on “tough tech”.
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Innovacorp is Nova Scotia's early stage venture capital organization. It finds, funds and fosters innovative Nova Scotia start-ups that strive to change the world
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LearnSphere provides practical, affordable and accessible learning and development solutions that help businesses and organizations prosper.
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Mitacs is a national not-for-profit that facilitates multi-disciplinary research collaborations between partner organizations and academia.
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Working with clients and partners, the NRC provides innovation support, strategic research, scientific and technical services.
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The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada provides research grants in natural sciences and in engineering.
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NSBI works towards a strong, thriving and globally competitive Nova Scotia through attracting global investment and working with companies to be more successful exporters.
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Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) excels at working with industry to improve products, enhance processes, develop new technologies, and grow their business.
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Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) provides opportunities for research and development in the health sector. They operate hospitals, health centres and community-based programs across the province.
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The NSPDDC is a design engineering lab at Dalhousie University that consults and develops products and processes for companies to solve real, industrial problems.
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The Office of Small and Medium Enterprises helps enterprises participate in the federal government procurement process through to information and training services.
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Propel ICT helps entrepreneurs build high-value tech companies through our redesigned virtual accelerator Incite.
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Saint Mary’s University is Nova Scotia’s second largest university and a Canadian leader in international education and partnerships.
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Science Atlantic is a federally incorporated and registered charitable association for scientists, faculty, and students in Atlantic Canada.
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ShiftKey Labs coordinates a diverse program of sessions and initiatives to encourage, develop and promote the entrepreneurial and innovative talents and ambitions of students.
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Springboard Atlantic bridges academia and business and brings world class ideas to the marketplace while solving some of the most significant challenges facing industry.
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SURGE is an innovation sandbox and collection of programs aimed at delivering innovation and entrepreneurship training to science trainees across all levels.
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada is an arm's-length foundation created by the Government of Canada to fund new clean technologies.
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The Bays at Innovacorp in Dartmouth targets companies in clean technology and a variety of other knowledge-based sectors.
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The Founder Institute is the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, having helped launch over 4,000 companies across 185+ cities and six continents.
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The Labs at Innovacorp in Halifax offers specialized scientific infrastructure to early stage life sciences companies.
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The Spark Zone brings together students and community members to create, develop and ultimately launch business ideas and social innovations.
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Volta provides world class mentorship and support to new and growing startups and is a place where they can learn from each other, grow and expand to global markets.
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