Modest Tree Media Inc., a Dartmouth-based simulation and training software company, has teamed up with RaceRocks 3D Inc., a Victoria-based education technology company. Together, they will work on the training for a upcoming Canadian defence procurement, Project Resolve. 

Chantier Davie, Canada's largest shipbuilder, and Project Resolve Inc. recently acquired a European container ship and

Affinio, the Halifax-based company that uses social media analysis to identify communities for marketers, has raised a $4 million Series A venture capital round led by Whitecap Venture Partners of Toronto.

The other members of the investment group are Halifax-based Build Ventures – which was the lone investor in Affinio’s $1.5 million seed round two years ago – New York-based Social Starts,

In his new role as a diplomat, David Alward was relaxed and jovial as he welcomed a busload of startup founders to the Cambridge Innovation Centre, just across the Charles River from Boston.

The former New Brunswick premier is now Canada’s consul general in the Massachusetts capital, and part of his job is overseeing the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston. New Brunswick politicians

Innovacorp on Monday released the list of finalists for the regional and sectoral contests in the I-3 Technology Startup Competition.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia innovation agency, holds the competition every second year with the goal of encouraging aspiring entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into businesses as they go through the contest. Some 188 companies entered the competition, and

Entrevestor and Qimple are delighted to announce the launch of our joint job board, which will be the region’s first job posting site targeting the technology, innovation and startup sectors.

The Entrevestor Job Board, powered by Qimple, is now live on the Entrevestor site. It offers the most cost effective way to broadcast your hiring needs and is now offering a special introductory

As a digital research firm operating out of Atlantic Canada, we at Thistlwood wanted to attempt to understand the primary issues and concerns of entrepreneurs and start-ups in Halifax and largely Nova Scotia. We did this by analyzing discussions and commentary from social media and other digital channels online.

This infographic aims to provide a visual sense of the primary concerns of

You’re probably never going to meet two happier entrepreneurs than Kousha and Ehsan Nakhaei, and not just because their startup MouseStats has attracted blue-chip clients.

They’re elated just to be in Nova Scotia.

The Nakhaei brothers arrived in Halifax from Iran this month, having been accepted in the Canadian government’s Start-up Visa program, which allows entrepreneurs to move to

Biofix Medical Technologies, a Halifax company development a bone cement, has won the $45,000 BioInnovation Challenge for 2015.

BioNova, the Nova Scotia Life Sciences association, announced the winners at its annual BioPort Atlantic conference Wednesday in Halifax.  The winner of the fifth annual BioInnovation Challenge will take home $15,000 in a cash investment to cover development costs

When Matt Daigle learned there wasn’t a tool to help home renovators find the most environmentally friendly products on the market, he decided to build one himself. Thus Rise was launched.

Daigle and his three co-founders are creating an online platform to inform renovators about the best materials. They recently took Fredericton’s Rise through the Propel ICT Launch program at Planet Hatch in

Three Nova Scotian biotech companies will compete today for $45,000 in prizes in the BioInnovation Challenge.

The finalists, selected from a final round of six competitors, are Biofix Medical Technologies, Help Method and RetiCAD.

The fifth annual BIC competition is organized by BioNova, BioNB and PEI BioAlliance and is the pitching component of BioPort Atlantic, the annual life sciences