Events in Fredericton this Week

The Startup Canada Awards on Tuesday evening are just one of a series of events taking place in Fredericton this week.

Startup Canada, the national organization dedicated to developing startups, will hand out their Atlantic Canadian regional awards at a ceremony at the Fredericton Convention Centre starting at 5:30 pm on Sept. 13. Tickets are available here.

St. John’s-based entrepreneur Chris Gardner is doing a lot to foster and grow his community. He, in turn, will need community support if his biotechnology company Sequence Bio is to succeed.

Gardner and co-founder epidemiologist Tyler Wish aim to study the genetic profiles of 100,000 Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.

The company is developing systems that use machine-learning and artificial

Ella, the Saint John-based app-developer that helps women sell their used clothing, has opened a retail outlet where women can get together to close more sales.

Founder and CEO Kelly Lawson announced Thursday that the company is opening a store called Ella: The Shop at 101 Prince William Street in Uptown Saint John. It will sell high fashion clothing, but it will also serve as a meeting place

When the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative holds its first summit this month, one speaker will be a New Brunswick entrepreneur who aims to use data analytics to alleviate world hunger.

Chris Baker, CEO of the Saint John data analytics company IPSNP Computing, will outline how his Big Data product can analyze agricultural data in real time to help small farmers improve

Innovacorp has launched a new competition called Spark West to identify and provide seed capital for startups in western Nova Scotia.

Spark West is the counterpart to Spark Cape Breton, which for the past three years has been helping to launch companies in Cape Breton and the Mulgrave area. Each year, it has awarded development capital of up to $50,000 to companies that have the potential to

Government, private investors and academia came together Tuesday to announce $220 million in funding for the Ocean Frontier Institute, a new research group led by Dalhousie University.

The OFI, which is a partnership between Dal, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Prince Edward Island, promises to be one of the world's most significant ocean science research organizations.

Our Jobs of the Week column today highlights a couple of postings by iWave Information Systems, a P.E.I. company that helps non-profits with their fundraising efforts.

Based in Charlottetown, iWave has developed software that helps researchers, fundraisers and other development professionals learn more about their prospects and donors.The company is now looking for a sales manager and an acting

Innovacorp and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency last week awarded a total of $225,000 in development money to seven winners of their 2016 Spark Cape Breton Innovation Challenge.

The Spark competition is designed to find promising young companies in Cape Breton and the Mulgrave area and provide a bit of seed capital to allow them to grow. The cash prizes this year range from $20,000 to

John McLaughlin, Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of the University of New Brunswick, has been awarded Startup Canada’s 2016 Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement Award for the Atlantic Region.

The national organization dedicated to developing startups announced McLaughlin’s award and the other Atlantic Canadian Startup Canada Award winners last week. The awards will be presented at a

Palmer to Head Propel ICT’s Growth Program

Propel ICT, the Atlantic Canadian regional accelerator, has named Steve Palmer as the head of its new Growth Program.

The Growth Program, which the organization announced earlier in the year, is designed to help Propel alumni and other scaling companies to grow from mature startups into bona fide corporations. The plan is to help them continue to grow