The Province of Nova Scotia is spending $16.8 million to allow four Nova Scotia universities to expand and improve their computer science programs.

In a statement, the province said COVID-19 has accelerated digital adaptation and that producing more digital talent will strengthen the startup ecosystem across all areas from cleantech to agri-food and ocean sciences.

The four universities –

HB Studios, a Lunenburg, NS, gaming studio with a staff of about 80, has agreed to be acquired by New York-based Take-Two Interactive Software for an undisclosed price.

Take-Two, which is listed on the Nasdaq with a valuation of almost US$20 billion (C$24.8 billion), announced the deal Monday as it also said it has struck a partnership with iconic golfer Tiger Woods. The winner of 15 Majors will

Halifax-based Innovation hub Volta is inviting applications for its Women Taking over the World with Tech pitch competition.

The contest is for founders identifying as female working within the Atlantic Canadian tech ecosystem and offers feedback from experienced entrepreneurs, potential investors and community leaders. Competitors also have the chance to win a $500 Visa gift card.

The free

A new $50 million investment fund has been launched by Natural Products Canada Ventures to invest in early-stage Canadian companies developing naturally derived alternatives to synthetic products.

NPC Ventures has secured a non-binding term sheet with a significant anchor investor and is actively fundraising toward a first close in the fall, Charlottetown-based NPC said in a statement. 

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St. John’s-based SkillsHawk – the new name for Creatros Technologies – is reporting strong sales of its talent-mining technology more than three months after its official launch.

The company came together more than four years ago at Memorial University and set out to solve a problem that plagues many teams of programmers – understanding the skillsets of all the team members. It’s common that a

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Stephanie Arnold’s path to entrepreneurship has included not just a business degree, but also a PhD program, a rotating house and Prince Edward Island’s most famous export.

The environmental sciences PhD candidate and researcher is developing irrigation management software to help potato growers know when and how much to water their crops — an increasingly thorny problem in

Halifax-based immersive technology specialist Modest Tree on Tuesday announced the launch of Xplorer 2.0, the latest iteration of its extended reality enterprise software.

Modest Tree’s Xplorer solution allows the use of extended reality (XR) – a blanket term for augmented reality, virtual reality and other technologies that immerse the user in a virtual world – for help in training, sales or

St. John’s-based ClearRisk, which provides risk-management software, is hoping to accelerate its recent 30 percent annual growth rate on the back of a $2.5 million round of growth capital and a few landmark sales.

The company said Monday its bank account recently swelled by $3.3 million due to the fundraising exercise and three large sales that add up to $800,000.

The growth capital is mainly a

Twenty-three teams from 11 universities have been accepted into the Winter 2021 cohort of Lab2Market at Dalhousie University – the biggest representation of institutions in the program’s history.

Modeled on I-Corps in the U.S. and ICURe in the U.K., Lab2Market started last year as a Canadian program that helps academic researchers assess whether their research could be the foundation of a

TechCrunch, the bible of the Silicon Valley startup cluster, published a long-form article on the Atlantic Canadian startup community this weekend, showcasing the growth of the segment in the world’s biggest tech centre.

Titled “Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?”, the article was written by Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo, a graduate of Fredericton’s St.