The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the seven finalists in the 2017 Breakthru competition – seven from New Brunswick and two in the national category.

NBIF holds its Breakthru competition every second year to find the hottest new startups in the province. It will announce the winners – who will divide a cash pot of about $1 million – at the Breakthru gala in Fredericton on

Fredericton’s SimpTek, a startup that aims to help utilities and customers understand energy usage through data collection, has been boosting sales in recent months.

The company produces software that acts as a bridge between utilities and consumers. It provides power management solutions that deliver knowledge, convenience, and control to consumers, while also offering insights about power

James Stewart is a former cop, a specialist in data analytics and one damned persistent entrepreneur.

Having worked on two previous tech startups, he is now back with EhEye, a company that improves the performance and efficiency of surveillance video.

The Saint John-based company has produced technology that notifies authorities if there is something suspicious caught on the video. In other

Techsploration, a Halifax-based organization that encourages female high school students to pursue careers in science, trades and technology, has named Arylene Reycraft as its new Executive Director.

After spending 13 years as the Program and Fund Development Manager, Reycraft is familiar with the non-profit organization. She succeeds Techsploration’s founder, Tricia Robertson, who is leaving

The news has leaked out in the last 10 days that STI Technologies of Halifax has been bought by the American multinational QuintilesIMS, and now it’s time to draw lessons from the sale.

The U.S. company, a global leader in services and data for bio-medical research, closed the deal this month. STI, which helps drug companies distribute samples efficiently, will maintain its operations in Halifax

This week, we’re rerunning a few of our recent postings for our Jobs of the Week column.

We’re highlighting openings we’ve posted in the past month from MASITEK, Leadsift, Dash Hudson and Repable.

The Jobs of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps

SimplyCast on Thursday launched its new EmergHub platform, fulfilling a promise that the company’s founder Saeed El-Darahali made to himself on the night of the SwissAir Flight 111 air tragedy.

EmergHub is a military-grade platform that allows optimal communications between key personnel during an emergency. It adds nine new communications channels to the original SimplyCast suite of

Charlottetown indie video game development studio Mighty Pebble Games has launched its first game, Miner Meltdown.

The company, which last year went through Propel ICT’s Launch program, said in a statement on Thursday the game was launched to the Early Access channel on the gaming platform Steam.

Miner Meltdown is a two-dimensional team-based competitive multiplayer game. Players must scour the

Having taken home $5,500 at a pitching competition already this year, Lisa Pfister is now hoping her company Pfera can capture 67 times that amount in New Brunswick’s premier startup competition.

Pfera is a Fredericton-based biotech company that helps horse owners predict precisely when their mares will give birth. It sounds simple, but it alleviates a big problem in a wealthy industry.

The

American multinational QuintilesIMS, the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services, has identified itself as the buyer of Halifax-based startup STI Technologies Inc.

The U.S. company put out a statement Wednesday confirming that it closed the purchase of STI on Feb. 10, though it declined to reveal the details of the transaction.