Concrete Leads SalesRight’s Round
Halifax-based SalesRight has raised $250,000 in a pre-seed round led by Concrete Ventures, the first investment made by the new Atlantic Canadian venture capital fund. Concrete Ventures, which has more...
View ArticleScreenScape Launching Redesign
Charlottetown-based digital signage company ScreenScape Networks has soft-launched its ScreenScape5 initiative, which will offer greater flexibility to users. A pioneer in digital signage in public...
View ArticleNSBI Accepts 6 into Scale-Up Hub
Nova Scotia Business Inc. has selected six companies to join the latest cohort of its Scaleup Hub: Cambridge program. NSBI launched the program last year as a vehicle to help scaling companies...
View ArticleSimplyCast Partners With CSCNS
SimplyCast has partnered with the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia to provide data collection tools and communications support to Nova Scotian non-profit organizations. The partnership, called...
View ArticleJobs of the Week: 2 at Protocase
Protocase of Sydney is looking for a CNC Profile Operator and a CNC Machining Specialist, two openings that are our Jobs of the Week this week. Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic...
View ArticleThird Intersect Event Set for Sydney
Innovacorp's Intersect Challenge III launches Monday in Sydney. The competition challenges entrepreneurs and startups to solve a problem for an established Cape Breton business. This round’s...
View ArticleVolta Holds Awards for Ecosystem
Volta has opened nominations for its first Ecosystem Impact Awards. The Awards recognize the local leaders and supporters who are helping to grow the startup ecosystem in Atlantic Canada. “We all have...
View ArticleNaveco Power Wins Rising Star Award
Fredericton-based Naveco Power, a clean energy developer, has received the Rising Star Award at New Brunswick Power’s Energy Efficiency Excellence Awards. The Rising Star Award recognizes an individual...
View ArticleMcCrae, Barbara Headline Volta Talk
Startup community vets Rob Barbara and Gillian McCrae highlighted concerns about two parts of the funding regime in Atlantic Canada during a talk at Volta last week – a discussion that’s available...
View ArticleCDL-Atlantic Graduates 11 Teams
Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic has revealed the 11 companies that have graduated from its 2018-19 cohort. Operating out of Dalhousie University, the CDL-Atlantic just finished its second cohort,...
View ArticlePEI’s Kay MacPhee Mourned
The loss of Kathleen "Kay" MacPhee is being widely felt in the startup community, following the recent passing of the educator and force behind two literacy-focused ventures. A former teacher who used...
View ArticleNB’s Precision Medicine Centre
The New Brunswick Center for Precision Medicine in Moncton will open this year. It was built as a collaboration between the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute and the Université de Moncton. It’s the...
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NB Hosts Virtual Job Fair
Like a lot of tech companies in New Brunswick, Introhive has been facing the challenges of finding New Brunswick-based talent to join their team. “The reality is we have some really great talent here...
View ArticleSmartpods Gains With The Pulse
After a modest change to its business model of making automatically adjusting desks, Smartpods is reporting higher sales with particular success in selling to the federal government and the new market...
View ArticleKyriakidis Joins Feds’ AI Council
Jordan Kyriakidis, CEO of Halifax-based QRA Corp, has been appointed to the Federal Government’s new Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence. He will be advising on how to build on Canada’s...
View ArticleACOA Lends Eadie Tech $300K
Halifax-based medtech company Eadie Technologies has received a $153,000 loan from the federal government to help finance the design and development of its device for testing glaucoma patients. The...
View ArticleCDL Angels Invest $7M in 2 Years
In less than two years, the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic has established itself as the main angel funding group in Atlantic Canada, with its members investing about $7 million into 23 companies –...
View ArticleEnergia Seeking Cohort Members
Fredericton-based accelerator Energia Ventures is inviting applications from companies in the smart-grid, energy, cleantech, and cybersecurity sectors. A Global Accelerator Network (GAN) member,...
View ArticleMoltex Eyes Power from Nuke Waste
A British company is developing a 300-megawatt power plant in New Brunswick to source electricity from spent nuclear fuel, and says it could make Saint John a hub for similar zero-carbon plants around...
View ArticleSolid State’s Staff To Rise to 40
After receiving and rejecting four buyout offers in five years, Solid State Pharma is moving to bigger facilities on the Halifax waterfront and planning a hiring binge. The company has outgrown its...
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