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Invest Atlantic To Focus on Fundraising

Invest Atlantic, the pan-Atlantic conference for startups and investors, will open Wednesday in Moncton with a range of speakers from around the region and other startup centres. The 2016 event – the...

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McLaughlin Calls for Urbanization

Atlantic Canada should foster urbanization in order to build the kind of capital-attracting, wealth-creating culture the region needs, says New Brunswick-based academic and writer, Prof. John...

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Job Openings: SimpTek, Dash Hudson

Our Jobs of the Week column this week features opportunities for a data scientist in Fredericton and sales executive in Halifax. SimpTek Technologies, a Fredericton startup that helps utilities and...

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FDA Grants Soricimed Orphan Status

Soricimed Biopharma Inc., the Moncton-based biotech company developing peptide-based cancer treatments, has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation to its...

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Propel Growth Seeks Candidates

Propel ICT is looking for a few good startups – with the potential of becoming a few great companies. The regional Atlantic Canadian accelerator is hoping to identify successful startups that would be...

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Eyesover Exceeds 2016 Sales Target

As a former cabinet minister in New Brunswick, Craig Leonard knows how quickly and decisively public opinion develops on social media. It helps him as the CEO of Eyesover, a new Fredericton-based...

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Startups Help To Retain Young People

About four years ago, a trio of game developers came together to form a Bedford-based gaming studio called Alpha Dog Games, and quietly began to grow. The team started with three founders – two of...

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Clearpath Raises US$30M in VC

Kitchener-based Clearpath Robotics Inc. said  Wednesday it has raised US$30 million (C$39.5 million) in a follow-on round led by iNovia Capital of Montreal. The funding is on top of a $14 million round...

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Squiggle Park Joins Fierce Founders

As it launches the pilot of its first product, Halifax-based Squiggle Park has been accepted into the Fierce Founders Accelerator, a new program in Kitchener-Waterloo for female tech entrepreneurs. The...

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Sullivan Balances Appili’s Risks

Pathogens’ growing antibiotic resistance is a global concern. Halifax drug discovery firm Appili Therapeutics Inc. is developing its own solutions, and scouring the world for potential drugs with which...

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Cape Breton Startups on Display

Cape Breton startups had to compete with Donald Trump, Jeff Hutcheson and Jim Balsillie at the Cape Breton Partnership’s Investor Summit on Thursday, but the young companies more than held their own....

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Job of the Week: Resson Growing

Our Jobs of the Week column this week features an opportunity for a developer interested in working for one of the hottest tech companies in the region. The Fredericton agriculture technology company...

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Wise: Best Time Ever for Startups

A familiar face on the East Coast startup circuit, Sean Wise had a limited time to answer a range of questions at Invest Atlantic and summed them up in a simple sentence: it’s a great time to be an...

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Athletigen Releases Flagship Product

Athletigen Technologies, a Halifax company dedicated to genetics for athletes, on Monday released its flagship product Iris. Iris produces human performance insights developed from partnerships with...

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Innovacorp’s Oceans Adopter Program

Six Nova Scotia ocean technology companies have been selected to participate in Innovacorp’s Early Adopter Program, the provincial innovation agency said. Each of the companies in the program will...

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What’s Next for Karma Gaming?

Karma Gaming has sold its portfolio of lottery and instant games to Scientific Games Corp. of Las Vegas for an undisclosed price. Scientific Games, which is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange,...

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ProductCamp To Be Held Oct. 22

The third annual ProductCamp Atlantic, a gathering for product managers, marketing professionals, agile technology innovators, and thought leaders from across the region, will be held at the Innovacorp...

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Lockheed Martin Supports Jedi

Lockheed Martin Canada said today it will expand its partnership with the Joint Economic Development Initiative, or Jedi, a not-for-profit organization that fosters economic development for First...

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5 Startups in Cleantech Accelerator

Five Nova Scotia clean technology companies have been selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of Innovacorp’s CleanTech Accelerate Program, the Nova Scotia innovation agency has announced...

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Big Data Congress Opens Monday

The fourth annual Big Data Congress opens in Saint John on Monday, once again bringing some of the world’s leading thinkers on technology to the region. The tech consultancy T4G began the conference in...

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