With galloping revenue growth, Toronto-based aquaculture software maker Wittaya Aqua is planning to open its first international office in Singapore this spring and is working on a $3 million raise.

The company, which has an employee based at the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship in Dartmouth, makes software that helps businesses throughout the aquaculture supply chain increase

Venn Innovation, the New Brunswick startup hub, has added five early-stage startups to its Venn Garage incubator via its latest open pitch day — up from two companies from the previous, November pitch competition.

Beginning last year and so-far held online because of COVID-19, the Open Pitch Competitions require entrepreneurs to submit a five-minute video pitch and answer 10 minutes of questions

Saint John Energy, New Brunswick’s second-largest utility after NB Power, has inked a deal to pilot a suite of smart water heating and energy forecasting technology developed by a Norwegian consortium.

The technology was developed by Hokksund, Norway-based internet-of-things specialist OSO Energy, AI startup Kongsberg Digital and Epos Consulting. The pilot project will see Saint John Energy

Dalhousie University has opened applications for the third cohort of its Ready2Launch accelerator for Atlantic Canadian university students and recent graduates looking to commercialize their academic research.

The three-month program for technology-based ventures will be offered virtually again this year and run from June 6 to Aug. 26, with a final pitch day on Sept. 22. Undergraduate, graduate

As the PEI BioAlliance industry group looks to expand the province’s biotech manufacturing capacity, it has opened a new $6.5 million Biomanufacturing Incubator with room for six companies in the BioCommons Research Park in Charlottetown.

The incubator includes 20,000 square feet of floor space for biotech companies looking to pilot their manufacturing processes. It was funded by the Atlantic

Thank you to all the founders and CEOs – all 120 of ‘em -- who took the time to fill in our survey in the past two weeks.

Because of your assistance, we’re announcing today that we’ll donate $1200 to the Canadian Mental Health Association -- $10 for every qualifying survey response we received by last weekend. We didn’t round this off – we got precisely 120 responses.

This marks an increase

Innovasea, the Halifax- and Boston-based company that monitors conditions in aquaculture pens, is rolling out a full suite of monitoring equipment at an aquaculture site in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, as part of a $27 million Ocean Supercluster consortium.

The Supercluster initiative, dubbed the Integrated Operations and Real-Time Analytics Project, was announced a year ago. The

The Ocean Startup Project, a national organization focused on boosting bluetech, is looking for participants for its Ocean Idea Challenge, a competition that connects aspiring entrepreneurs with potential co-founders and encourages them to identify an ocean sustainability problem.

The group is looking for individuals or teams who are interested in exploring ideas around reducing industries' the

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As it celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Pond-Deshpande Centre (PDC) at the University of New Brunswick is completing its transition to a new business model, which allows it to maintain its focus on pressing social issues.

Created at UNB, the PDC acts as a catalyst to advance innovation and entrepreneurship by inspiring and engaging youth, promoting entrepreneurship as a

Kognitiv Spark, the Fredericton maker of augmented reality software, has raised $4.7 million from London-based Foresight Group and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation as it aims to expand its push into the British and American markets.

Lead investor Foresight Group made a $4.2 million investment with money from its Foresight Williams Technology Fund, a joint venture between Foresight and