The Volta Cohort program awarded a total of $150,000 to six companies on Wednesday night, handing out an extra $25,000 bundle due to the strength of the pitches.

In its third pitching event, the Volta Cohort advertised that it would invest as much as $25,000 to as many as five companies, but it added a bonus investment to a sixth company at the event. Volta Labs, the Halifax startup house,

Dental technology company BlueLight Analytics has closed a $3 million funding round and plans to use the money to launch a new data analytics product that can be installed in any dental office.

The Halifax company released a statement Wednesday saying the lead investor in the funding round was CIC Capital Ventures, the North American venture capital arm of French private equity firm CM-CIC

EhEye, the Saint John company that has developed video recognition software for public security, has been purchased by Patriot One Technologies of Toronto for more than $3.2 million in stock.

The companies announced Tuesday that Patriot One would integrate the New Brunswick company’s software, which allows video surveillance systems to recognize guns or other threats, with its Patscan

Energia Ventures, the University of New Brunswick’s cleantech accelerator, will hold the Demo Day for its second cohort Wednesday night at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton.

Six companies will present at the event, which begins at 6 pm. You can register to attend here.

The UNB Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program launched Energia about two years ago to help energy,

Atlantic Canada recorded almost twice the venture capital investment in the first nine months of 2018 compared with the same period last year, powered by record funding in New Brunswick.

The Canadian Venture Capital Association on Monday released its funding data for the third quarter, which said the region booked about $41 million in 16 VC deals. The big news was that New Brunswick, which had a

After taking his online treatment for anxiety through an initial pilot, Joel Muise is now working with those at the coalface of anxiety—entrepreneurs—before launching TranquilityOnline to the general public in the new year.

TranquilityOnline aims to make getting treatment for anxiety affordable and timely by allowing users to access online support through a coach rather than a therapist. Coaches

HotSpot, the Fredericton company whose app allows for easy transportation payments, has established its first beachhead outside Atlantic Canada with a service for Peterborough, Ont.

The announcement Friday of a new service for metered and pay-and-display parking in Peterborough was one of several notices in the last month that show the expansion of the company. HotSpot also issued statements

Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, President and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, has been named a Top 100 Award Winner in KPMG’s Women's Executive Network (WXN) 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women event. It is the fourth year in a row she has made the list and so has been inducted into the WXN Hall of Fame.

The list of Top 100 Winners recognizes outstanding women across Canada who have advocated for workplace

Bo Simango is $70,000 away from deploying new technology that could improve the efficiency, security and safety of a hospital in Haiti, a developing country still recovering from a devastating 2010 earthquake.

Simango is the Co-Founder and CEO of SIA, a St. John’s company that is developing a Bluetooth-enabled tool that can help people in large facilities find equipment quickly. He and his team

Dalhousie University has doubled the number of women entering its computer science program, fulfilling a commitment it announced in 2017 in celebration of the university’s 200th anniversary.

Female enrolment numbers are now 144 percent higher than they were when the goal was set internally in 2016.

Computer science workers are in high demand and the field remains dominated by male graduates, so