Openings for Backend Web and Hybrid App Developers at Halifax-based Code + Mortar headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Code + Mortar is a development company that provides web apps, mobile apps and websites for its customers. The company prides itself on its innovation, and has spun out such successful startups as the educational software company Squiggle Park.

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For the second year in a row, a company from Newfoundland and Labrador is a finalist for the US$1 million #DisruptMining competition.

Mining giant Goldcorp Inc. said this week that Anaconda Mining of St. John’s is one of three finalists in the competition for mining technology startups, which will be decided Sunday. The winner will win the opportunity to negotiate a C$1 million investment from

The heads of four Atlantic Canadian companies have been named to the short-list for the 2019 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards, which presents cash prizes of up to $100,000 to winners.

The award organizers this week announced a list of leaders from 18 companies across the country, who are the “qualifying nominees” for the awards this year. The Manning Awards usually hold a reception in

Just months after opening, the cavernous COVE (Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship) building in Dartmouth is feeling lived in, with residents gathering over screens and sharing pizza. But there is room for more innovators and the newest are invited to take their ideas to COVE’s Start-Up Yard incubator.

Managed by Innovacorp, Start-Up Yard has been established to help early-stage

In the heady days of the first dot-com boom, a sketch on a napkin and a sparkle in a coder’s eye could net a nice seed round from angel investors. Subsequent rounds, it seemed, would flow like chocolate at a fondue party.

Then the bubble burst and napkin sketches turned into business plans and three-year forecasts. Investors became a little more sophisticated and entrepreneurs had to learn to

Thank you very much to everyone who has already taken the time to fill out our 2018 survey. And we’re asking founders  and CEOs who haven’t yet got round to it to please take two minutes to fill it in.

Early next month, we will contact founders, asking them to answer the 15 questions in the survey. It’s a huge help to us if startups would fill in the survey before we bother you. You can find our

Matt Zimola and Hossein Salimian have post-graduate degrees in computer science, yet they have found themselves immersed in the world of aquaculture.

They are two of the co-founders of ReelData, a Halifax startup that uses artificial intelligence to collect and analyze data for fish farms. Their software can analyze video from fish pens and produce meaningful data on the weight distribution of

The Emera ideaHUB, Dalhousie University’s new incubator for companies building physical products, has accepted its first seven resident companies, and has room for more.

The goal of ideaHUB is to provide working space and mentorship for companies that aim to produce and sell physical products, not just software. The facility aims to link its resident companies with experts at the Faculty of

For the second year in a row, a team of under-graduates from Saint Mary’s University's Sobey School of Business has placed second in the New England edition of the world’s largest venture capital competition.

Students from seventy universities competed in the Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC, where they acted as managers for mock VC funds and were judged on their performance by

Dash Hudson, the fast-growing visual marketing company, has a pair of openings at its Halifax headquarters, and they headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

The Halifax-based company has an opening for a Sales Development Representative and a Junior Product Manager.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social