Volta, Canada’s East Coast innovation hub, has opened applications for the fourth edition of its Volta Cohort pitching competition, which promises investment of as much as $25,000 to each winner.

Halifax-based Volta began the Volta Cohort two years ago to provide pre-seed funding for early-stage companies, so that companies have enough capital to develop a product and get off the ground. Since

Influitive, a Toronto-based customer advocacy platform provider, is in the process of opening a Halifax office, which it refers to as its second Canadian headquarters.

The company was in the news last week when it announced a $10 million equity and debt funding round, led by Canadian growth equity firm Georgian Partners and Dallas-based Comerica Bank. They were joined by Relay Ventures and

If a pre-seed company can raise $125,000 from angel investors in 10 minutes, it’s obvious the company has done something right.

In the case of Maritime BioLoggers, what they did right was pivot to help hospitals and pharmaceutical companies improve the transportation of blood samples.

The Halifax company got started a few years ago to help chart the movement of marine species, but last year it

Bounce Health Innovation, the life sciences support group in Newfoundland and Labrador, will hold its second annual Hacking Health St. John’s Hackathon on March 1-3.

Like Startup Weekend, Hacking Health is an international organization that brings together people for a single weekend with the aim of producing healthcare innovations in less than three days.

The event will host healthcare

A New Brunswick entrepreneur wants to change the way people approach treating muscle pain.

Curtis Kennedy is the founder of Vertiball, a portable, mountable, rolling massager. The company launched its Kickstarter campaign to manufacture its first order on Tuesday.

Vertiball started out of a personal need for Kennedy. He was looking for a better way to care for his back and muscles after

Jake Swan started Liftoff Capital to help entrepreneurs link up with investors, peers and mentors, but now he sees it as part of the legacy of his late father, the Saint John tech entrepreneur John Swan.

Jake Swan grew up hearing his father, a serial entrepreneur who was Executive Chairman of the tech consultancy Encore Interactive, say entrepreneurs’ greatest challenges are finding investors

Student entrepreneurs from across the country will be in Halifax on Tuesday to begin working with experienced entrepreneurs at the Starting Point Entrepreneurship Conference at Saint Mary’s University.

Starting Feb. 19, the three-day conference will bring student entrepreneurs from post-secondary institutions and high schools together to work with entrepreneurs, CEOs and startup experts. 

The

Sydney-based Securicy, which helps medium-sized enterprises meet the cybersecurity requirements of larger customers, has launched free tools to help startups protect their data.

The company announced Wednesday that its new platform is now live, and that it can help young companies understand what they need to do to protect themselves from cyber-criminals.

Securicy was formed in 2016 with the

Halifax-based breast imaging analytics company Densitas has announced a collaboration with TeleMammography Specialists of Decatur, Georgia, that will improve the quality of breast screening offered to more than 60,000 women annually.  

TeleMammography Specialists is an international teleradiology services provider and will be the first U.S. beta user for the new densitasquality solution, the

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, has almost doubled the size of its board with the appointment of new directors, drawing from its pool of graduates and the broader business community.

The group said its 14-member board includes members beyond Atlantic Canada and features experts with strong involvement in entrepreneurship and the startup community.

“Over the past year, Propel has