Charlottetown-based Nautilus Biosciences Canada Inc., a marine biotechnology company, said Monday it has been purchased by the British specialty chemical-maker Croda International Plc for an undisclosed price.

Founded in 2007 by University of Prince Edward Island Professor Russell Kerr, Nautilus focuses on using marine microbial organisms to discover new bio-medical materials and other products.

Since winning the 100 Seeds Atlantic pitching competition last year, Cat Adalay, the founder and CEO of Aurea Technologies, has taken off with her company, which aims to outfit high-rise buildings with modular wind turbines.

In an interview Adalay discussed how 100 Seeds, a pitching event in which 100 attendees donate $100 dollars to make up the $10,000 cash prize, was the first step in

The need to develop international sales is a hot topic in the region. Entrepreneurs often need to work hard to win introductions. When Danish-born Pernille Fischer Boulter arrived in Nova Scotia, she wrote letters introducing herself to 100 of the province’s top CEOs.

In her new book, Tales from an Immigrant Entrepreneur, the author describes how this enabled her to meet influential people,

The Joint Economic Development Initiative is starting the new cohort of its accelerator for indigenous entrepreneurs today, with a special focus on scaling and exporting.

JEDI, a non-profit that aims to foster Indigenous economic growth, said the 10-week program will accommodate seven companies, ranging in specialties from software development to 3D printing.

Unlike previous iterations of its

We’re about to ramp up our campaign to ask the founders and CEOs of Atlantic Canadian startups to take two minutes to complete our 2017 survey.

We’re working with partners across the region to enhance our annual analysis of the Atlantic Canadian startup community. We believe it will help improve the ecosystem.

Now we need your help. We’ve already received responses from a lot of founders, and

Innovacorp is calling for proposals from private fund managers to oversee an early-stage venture capital fund – a fund whose value has been boosted by 50 percent.

The Nova Scotia government’s VC agency said last month it would invest $10 million in an early-stage fund. But when it released its request for proposals on Friday, Innovacorp said the fund will actually be worth $15 million.

The

Dash Hudson has posted an opening for a Sales Development Representative while Modest Tree Media is looking for an Intermediate eLearning Software Developer in our Jobs of the Week column today.

Modest Tree is a Dartmouth-based Software-as-a-Service company that offers 3D simulation and training software with its Modest3D suite. In today’s column we’re highlighting its search for a software

The Genesis Centre, the venerable startup house in St. John’s, will launch a new diversity program on Monday to offer support to more startups founded by women and immigrants.

Dyanna McCarthy, who has worked for the past four-and-a-half years with the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology Industries, will head up the three-year program. She will be charged not only with developing

Clients of SimplyCast would have noticed a big change in their SimplyCast360 application yesterday.

The Dartmouth-based company, which aims to simplify and automate communication flows for businesses ranging from startups to enterprises, revealed the worldwide update of its 360 Marketing Automation Manager with the new Automation Flow Editor.

The 360 communication application lets users map out

SkySquirrel Technologies, the Bedford, N.S. company that uses aerial imaging to improve vineyard productivity, has raised $3 million and merged with its Northern California research partner VineView Scientific Aerial Imaging.

The new company will be known as VineView and will change its business model so it uses high-altitude images taken from airplanes to map entire grape-growing districts.