When Scott Moffitt returned to Atlantic Canada after 12 years away, the life sciences specialist wrote a note to himself that “Atlantic Canadians must do a better job of understanding the meaning of the word ‘urgency.’”

Moffitt, the managing director of BioNova, Nova Scotia’s biotechnology and life sciences association, wrote his thought on a Post-it Note and stuck it in his day planner.

The Rounds, the social network for Canadian doctors, on Wednesday launched The Clerks, a parallel community for the country’s medical students.

With 13,000 active members, The Rounds has established itself in just four years as the main online community for Canadian doctors, a place where they can find information to help patients. Now the Bedford-based company is expanding with the

Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator, has named six companies from its Launch program to present alongside members of the more advanced Build cohort at its Demo Day on Sept. 22 in Moncton.

The current Propel cohort consists of 33 teams, and six of them are in the Build program – designed for the more advanced companies. These companies were almost guaranteed to pitch at Demo Day, and

The Moncton area economic development agency 3+ Corporation is kicking off a day of startup festivities on Sept. 22 with a lunch featuring two renowned experts in startups.

The Billion Dollar Lunch will be highlighted by talks by American entrepreneur and author Brad Feld and Sen Wise, Startup Canada’s Mentor of the Year. The lunch will wrap up a few hours before the regional accelerator

Gemba Software Solutions, a Saint John IT startup that helps big business employees navigate their company’s operations, has received $1.5 million in funding to help it spin out from parent company Innovatia.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation provided half the funding, highlighting a recent emphasis in the innovation agency’s work – helping established New Brunswick companies launch

There is still more than a year left before the Genesis Centre staff pack up the boxes at their St. John’s Bruneau Centre office and move to new digs at the Battery. But that’s certainly not to say change is not afoot at the Memorial University of Newfoundland incubator.

The centre is under new management, is expanding to a new town and has different entrance criteria.

“We’re working with

Innovacorp has launched its fifth I-3 Technology Startup Competition, in which startups from across Nova Scotia vie for as much as $950,000 in development funding.

The Nova Scotia innovation agency kicked off the competition last week with a series of events across the province that are continuing this week.

Like the Breakthru competition hosted by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation,

The 2008 recession hit Iceland very hard. Entrepreneur Haukur Gudjonsson lost his business. But his loss led him to create Bungalo, a rental company that’s expanding into Canadian cottage country.

Gudjonsson established Bungalo in 2010 to link cottage owners and vacationers. He said it is now the largest supplier of cottages for rent in Iceland.

He is excited about the Canadian cottage

MedMira, a publicly listed  medical device maker, has issued the following press release:

MedMira Targets Technology Promotion with Latest Investment from OnSite Lab

Company Focuses on Business Development Activities to Capitalize on Technology Platform Opportunities and Adds Industry Expertise to Support Continued Innovation

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA–(Marketwired – Sept. 2, 2015) – MedMira Inc. (MedMira) (TSX VENTURE:MIR) is entering into a CAD $5 million investment with OnSite Lab Holding AG (OnSite Lab) to increase promotion and brand building to position the Company’s proprietary Rapid

When Gordon McArthur presented Forerunner Research at the Atlantic Venture Forum in June, he revealed the tremendous sales growth of the company, whose technology detects gases in soils.

Revenue at Forerunner, which grew out of research conducted at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, increased 150 percent in 2014, and was on pace to rise 80 percent this year. The company is