Venture capital investment in Atlantic Canada was already weakening before the COVID-19 crisis sent shockwaves through the economy, new data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association shows.

In fact, if you consider the funding announcements of the past two months, it’s a safe bet that Atlantic Canadian VC funding will be larger in the second quarter – when the shutdown was

Noted asthma and COPD expert Dr. J. Mark FitzGerald has joined the advisory board of St. John’s medtech startup BreatheSuite.

FitzGerald earned his medical degree from University College in Dublin, and is now listed as the director of the Centre for Heart and Lung Health at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, as well as a member of the University of British Columbia Faculty of

St. John’s telehealth startup Cyno has inked a deal with e-learning and professional development company Bluedrop Performance Learning, also of St. John's.

Cyno will allow Bluedrop employees to access medical services remotely, including via live video and text-based messaging.

Cyno was founded in 2017 to help physiotherapists service patients outside of clinic and office hours, and has since

A new app that monitors the health of elderly people has been launched by Miramichi, New Brunswick-based Unicare Home Health Care and sister company Uniclean Solutions.

The app, WellCheck, was developed by CEO and owner Lisa Williams to track important health information and to allow it to be shared with family members and healthcare providers. 

Williams was inspired to develop the app after

Halifax tech consultancy CloudKettle has announced the addition of a new executive, Eliot Harper.

Harper is a noted expert on Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud platform, having written several books on the topic and worked directly with Salesforce.

Marketing Cloud offers automation and analytics services for advertisers. CloudKettle provides consulting services to large SaaS companies, many of which

Dartmouth-based Metamaterial Inc. has named Keith Abriel as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Mark Gosine as Corporate Secretary.

With more than 25 years of experience, Abriel has served as CFO for several publicly traded, private equity-backed, and venture-backed technology companies. He was previously the CFO of WildBrain (formerly DHX Media Ltd.), which was listed on the NASDAQ and TSX

Halifax artificial intelligence startup Invisible Agents is trying to raise a $500,000 funding round to help increase its staff from three to as many as seven people.

Founder Stuart Boyd started the company in Austin, Texas, in 2018, before relocating to Halifax with Innovacorp as its sponsor in the federal government’s Startup Visa program. The other two employees are based out of the United

As Halifax’s Bloxo Inc. pivots in response to COVID-19, the online fitness startup has won the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 2020 Startup Spotlight pitch competition.

Five companies competed in the event for votes from an audience of 60 to 70 spectators. Normally held in person at the university’s Enterprise Forum innovation hub, the event went virtual because of the pandemic.

Bloxo’s

The Nova Scotian sandboxes – entrepreneurial groups at the province’s post-secondary institutions – are looking for applicants for the Sandbox Ignition program.

The program, which will offer online curriculum this year, is an accelerator for college, university or high school students with an idea for a business or community project.  

The program will run from this month to August 28 and

Vancouver-based responsible business consultancy Decade Impact Strategy & Activation is rolling out its Getting to 80 corporate training program in Atlantic Canada.

The course’s new East Coast iteration is recruiting applicants and will hold its first session on June 24. Like the West Coast version, it will help participants prepare to apply for the internationally noted B Corporation ethical