Event for Tech Cos Keen to Expand in U.S.
Fredericton's entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch and the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) have announced a lunch-and-learn event for scaling tech companies interested in learning how to scale...
View ArticleBreatheSuite Preps 30-Person Test
BreatheSuite is about to launch a 30-person test of its new inhaler technology, whose purpose is to ensure people use common inhaler devices correctly. BreatheSuite is a new company based in St. John’s...
View Article17 Startups Tap Innovacorp Programs
Innovacorp has awarded a total of $725,000 to 17 different companies under its Accelerate Program and Start-Up Yard Cohorts. The Nova Scotia Crown corporation last week revealed the winners of the two...
View ArticlePanag To Be Sold for up to $27M
Halifax-based Panag Pharma, which is making pain-relief products from natural compounds found in cannabis plants, has agreed to be bought for as much as $27 million by Ontario’s Tetra Bio-Pharma. Based...
View ArticleDal Doubles Computer Science Women
Dalhousie University has doubled the number of women entering its computer science program, fulfilling a commitment it announced in 2017 in celebration of the university’s 200th anniversary. Female...
View ArticleSIA Aims To Help Hospital in Haiti
Bo Simango is $70,000 away from deploying new technology that could improve the efficiency, security and safety of a hospital in Haiti, a developing country still recovering from a devastating 2010...
View ArticleBahr-Gedalia In WXN Hall of Fame
Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, President and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, has been named a Top 100 Award Winner in KPMG’s Women's Executive Network (WXN) 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women event. It is the fourth...
View ArticleHotspot Expands into Ontario
HotSpot, the Fredericton company whose app allows for easy transportation payments, has established its first beachhead outside Atlantic Canada with a service for Peterborough, Ont. The announcement...
View ArticleTranquility Tackles Founders’ Anxiety
After taking his online treatment for anxiety through an initial pilot, Joel Muise is now working with those at the coalface of anxiety—entrepreneurs—before launching TranquilityOnline to the general...
View ArticleCVCA Data Shows Strength in NB
Atlantic Canada recorded almost twice the venture capital investment in the first nine months of 2018 compared with the same period last year, powered by record funding in New Brunswick. The Canadian...
View ArticleEnergia Demo Day Set in Fredericton
Energia Ventures, the University of New Brunswick’s cleantech accelerator, will hold the Demo Day for its second cohort Wednesday night at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. Six companies will...
View ArticleEhEye Sold for $3.2M-Plus in Stock
EhEye, the Saint John company that has developed video recognition software for public security, has been purchased by Patriot One Technologies of Toronto for more than $3.2 million in stock. The...
View ArticleBlueLight Raises $3M, Led by CIC
Dental technology company BlueLight Analytics has closed a $3 million funding round and plans to use the money to launch a new data analytics product that can be installed in any dental office. The...
View ArticleVolta Cohort Puts $150K into 6 Teams
The Volta Cohort program awarded a total of $150,000 to six companies on Wednesday night, handing out an extra $25,000 bundle due to the strength of the pitches. In its third pitching event, the Volta...
View ArticleSomaDetect Reveals Early Adopters
SomaDetect, an AgTech company that launched in Fredericton two years ago, has begun installations of its Version 2 in-line milk monitoring system at Cornell University, marking the beginning of its...
View ArticleLast Day To Apply for Export Igniter
Today is the last day for Fredericton companies to apply for the Export Igniter, a 12-week program to help companies sell effectively in foreign markets. Organized by Ignite Fredericton and Planet...
View ArticleMindsea’s Wilson Starts SalesRight
Bill Wilson, the founder of Mindsea, has handed management of the mobile app developer over to his former technology chief so that he can focus on a new product-based company SalesRight. Halifax-based...
View ArticleKraken Announces Sales Worth $7M
Kraken Robotics, the St. John’s-based OceanTech company, announced two sales last week, the total value of which is worth more than all tits revenues in its most recent quarter. Publicly listed Kraken,...
View ArticlePauley Leads PEI’s Hostetter Centre
Matthew Pauley has been around the world studying entrepreneurship, and now he’s set up shop in Charlottetown where he wants to help new businesses launch and young businesses thrive. As well as being...
View ArticleWe Need Branham, Fast 50 Entries
Two lists of Canadian high-growth companies in the past few months have highlighted the fact that Atlantic Canada is still a long way from building tech companies with a truly national and global...
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