PolyUnity Links with Eastern Health
St. John’s-based PolyUnity has joined Eastern Health Authority’s Living Labs initiative, which will support the young company in its mission to help train doctors around the world with the aid of 3D...
View ArticleAquaHacking Launches in Region
The AquaHacking Challenge, a national competition that encourages post-secondary students to find solutions to problems plaguing freshwater supplies, has launched in Atlantic Canada. The East Coast...
View ArticleXplornet Reportedly in US$2B Sale
Woodstock, NB-based Xplornet Communications Inc., which owns a hiybrid fiber wireless and satellite network, has reportedly agreed to be bought by a private equity investor for about US$2 billion...
View ArticleGrowing Fintech in Atlantic Canada
Having worked for decades in the technology industry in Israel, Alicia Ismach sees huge opportunities for Atlantic Canada’s tech sector in general and financial technology, or fintech, in particular....
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Clean Energy Alliance Launched
A new alliance of representatives for clean energy development was announced on Monday. The Atlantic Clean Energy Alliance will work to foster energy innovation in the New Brunswick economy....
View ArticleLeBrun, Newton, join Potential Motors
Not only has Potential Motors pivoted to become a software company, but the Fredericton startup has brought two of New Brunswick’s most successful tech entrepreneurs on to its team. Chris Newton and...
View ArticleJobs: SnapAp, Dash Hudson
Our Jobs of the Week column today features openings for a pair of positions in the marketing sphere -- Director of Marketing at Moncton-based SnapAp, and Performance Marketing Manager at Dash Hudson of...
View ArticleRevolve Buys Code + Mortar Book
Halifax-area marketing agency Revolve has bought the book of business of web development company Code + Mortar, formerly called Norex, for an undisclosed price. The two parties announced the...
View ArticleNSHA Unveils Medtech Pitch Events
The Nova Scotia Health Authority will organize five startup pitch competitions this year, aimed at identifying new technologies to help address growing problems faced by the provincial medical system....
View ArticleScale-Up Hub Applications Open
The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is accepting applications for its 2020 program, which helps scaling tech companies from the four Atlantic Provinces to grow in the Boston area. Nova Scotia Business...
View ArticleACOA Aids Bio Startups with $1.8M
The federal government on Monday announced $1.75 million in loans to four Halifax-area life sciences companies to help with their expansion. The four companies are Motryx (which will receive $500,000),...
View ArticleShawn Smith Inks Deal with UConn
Shawn Smith, a Fredericton-based neurodiversity consultant, has been recruited by the University of Connecticut to participate in a $2 million, five-year initiative to increase the participation of...
View ArticleIWave Wins Bronze at Stevie Awards
Charlottetown-based iWave, which provides fundraising intelligence solutions, has won a bronze award in the Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy category in the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Sales and...
View ArticleSona, GE Partner on Covid-19 Test
Sona Nanotech has announced a partnership with GE Healthcare Life Sciences to produce a rapid-response test for the Covid-19 coronavirus, which has sent Sona shares up into uncharted territory. The two...
View ArticleFeds Back Swarmio and Orenda
Orenda Software Solutions Inc. and Swarmio Inc., two Cape Breton IT companies, have received grants and loans totalling almost $1.5 million from the federal government to help them grow. The government...
View ArticleCraig, Jewkes Aim for Growth in NS
On the surface, MotionHall is a Silicon Valley tech company that helps people in the pharma and biotech spheres complete transactions more quickly. But CEO Rachael Craig likes to emphasize that her...
View ArticleJaza Energy Closes $1.7m Round
Jaza Energy has closed a $1.7 million round of seed funding that will help it to install more green energy stations in Tanzania in Sub-Saharan Africa. Based in Halifax and Tanzania, Jaza Energy sets up...
View ArticleJobs: CDL-Atlantic, Dash Hudson
Openings for the role of Director of the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic, which is hosted by Dalhousie University, and for a Product Designer at Halifax-based Dash Hudson headline our Jobs of the...
View ArticleLindsay-Sinclair Wins Rising Star
Eilidh Lindsay-Sinclair, Director of Marketing at Halifax-based SaaS tech consultancy CloudKettle, has won a Rising Star Leadership Excellence Award from Women in Communications and Technology (WCT)....
View ArticleMetamaterial Trading Set To Begin
Metamaterial Inc., the company that grew out of Metamaterial Technologies Inc., expects its shares to begin trading this week, now that it has completed its merger with Continental Precious Minerals...
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