Optical technology company Coloursmith Labs has a new home.

On Thursday, the developer of specialized contact lens filters held an opening ceremony for its new headquarters in The Labs at Innovacorp—a facility on the edge of the Dalhousie University campus that provides laboratory space to life science startups.

The opening of the new location comes on the heels of a $600,000 fundraising round

Our Job of the Week column today showcases the opening for a Venture Manager at the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic in Halifax.

CDL-Atlantic is an accelerator that brings startups from the region and elsewhere together with some of Atlantic Canada’s most successful business people, who act as mentors and investors. It is part of the CDL organization, which began a few years ago at University

Two pan-regional programs for technology and entrepreneurship – Propel and Brilliant Labs – are receiving a total of about $5 million in funding from federal and provincial governments.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency said Thursday it would contribute a grant of $2.3 million over three years to Propel, which provides accelerator programs for startups across Atlantic Canada.

ACOA also

Editor's note: This is the second in a two part series on our interview with Francis McGuire.

Francis McGuire draws an analogy with baseball to describe the Atlantic Canadian startup community, saying a lot of young entrepreneurs have hit singles and now they have to progress toward home plate.

In a wide-ranging interview, the President of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency said the

University of New Brunswick on Thursday held its annual summer extravaganza in Fredericton, showcasing the companies graduating from two of its programs, including an all-female cohort at its Summer Institute.

The UNB Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program began by staging the final pitches by 10 entrepreneurial teams who have completed their Masters in TME. Then, in the evening,

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on our interview with ACOA President Francis McGuire.

To Francis McGuire, the growth of Atlantic Canada’s startup community is above all a youth retention strategy, and he wants to accelerate the training of young people to support more high-growth companies.

In a wide-ranging interview this month, the President of the Atlantic Canada

Nautel Ltd., the Nova Scotia-based maker of AM and FM radio transmitters, has promoted Philipp Schmid to Chief Technology Officer.

Nautel said Schmid was most recently leader of the company’s digital systems team. In his new role, he will lead research teams in the development of new technologies for broadcast, navigation, sonar and high-power RF applications.

Schmid will remain active in

Six First Nations students will graduate Friday from a Collėge communautaire du Nouveau Brunswick program in cybersecurity -- the first graduates in a new suite of programs to help indigenous youth participate in New Brunswick’s burgeoning cybersecurity industry.

The Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, said the six students with a background in information technology have completed

We’re closing in on Demo Day for the University of New Brunswick’s Summer Institute.

The event will take place Thursday night at the Boyce Farmers’ Market in Fredericton. Doors open at 6 pm and the presentations begin around 7.

Now in its sixth year, the Summer Institute is a three-month accelerator for entrepreneurs with an innovative idea and the passion needed to turn that idea into a

Fredericton-based Smart Skin Technologies has received about $4.5 million in funding to help develop new quality assurance products for the pharmaceutical and beverage industries and expand its markets.

The 11-year-old company has developed a product called Quantifeel – a pressure-sensitive container that can be fed through a production line and warn packagers of costly bottlenecks. It is now