What is Ignite?
Ignite is Nova Scotia’s rural innovation hub where entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses work together. By providing structure, mentorship, and opportunities for startups to operate, grow, and create, Ignite is encouraging everyone to explore entrepreneurship as a career path without restrictions.
Ignite encourages the growth of entrepreneurship in Nova Scotia across industries, including technology sectors, oceans sectors, and tourism sectors. By engaging youth, communities, and businesses to find solutions for challenges being faced in the region, Ignite is creating a culture of entrepreneurship in rural Nova Scotia.
Ignite Labs partners with Perennia and ACOA on Lobster Bait Challenge
Ignite Labs and Perennia are pleased to launch an Innovation Challenge for the seafood industry. The challenge is to develop a lobster bait that will use bi-products from the ground fish processing industry but in a more sustainable way. Currently, the seafood...
Volta Presents 5 Ecosystem Awards
by Peter Moreira entrevestor.com Volta presented Ecosystem Impact Awards to five companies or organizations Thursday to acknowledge their contributions to nurturing startups in Atlantic Canada. The Halifax startup hub initiated the awards this year to recognize groups...
Watch technology that detects man overboard receives additional funding.
Halifax, NS — A wristwatch-like safety device designed to locate fishermen when they fall overboard received $25,000 of funding at a pitching event May 22 at Volta. The Volta Cohort program is a pitching event to help out early-stage companies with equity investment...