SimplyCast, a Dartmouth-based automated marketing company, has launched a new solution to help businesses offer contact tracing services during the pandemic.

The company issued a statement last week saying the new mobile solution will help small and large businesses, as well as other organizations, register people who visit their premises using their cell phones. It is offering the service free

Atlantic Canadian startups are on track to raise more than $100 million in equity financing this year now that the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association said the region attracted $79 million in venture capital in the first three quarters.

The Association, which is known as the CVCA, released its third-quarter statistics on Thursday, and they show a huge leap in funding in Nova

CyberNB, the New Brunswick group that promotes cybersecurity, has signed a multi-year agreement with Ukraine, which will help its partners bid for work in the country.

CyberNB is a non-profit that coordinates industry, government, and academia to encourage innovation and maturity in cybersecurity for critical infrastructure protection. The organization has a group of partners across Canada that

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Venture Manager at the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic in Halifax, and the deadline to apply is end-of-day Monday.

The CDL Atlantic, housed at the Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie University, provides startups with access to a network of accomplished entrepreneurs and investors. Originally conceived at the University of Toronto’s

Five early-stage startups -- three of them from outside Nova Scotia -- received $25,000 each in equity funding from the Volta Cohort Pitch Event on Wednesday.

This marks the seventh time that Volta Cohort has staged a pitching event to provide seed funding for Atlantic Canada companies. At each pitch event, as many as five companies are chosen for up to $25,000 in funding. They also receive

CarbonCure Technologies believes it can accelerate its plans to reduce carbon in the atmosphere because of an unexpected entrant this year into the fight against climate change – Big Tech.

The world’s biggest technology companies in 2020 launched plans to become carbon neutral and purchase millions of dollars of carbon offsets. That has transformed the global outlook for carbon removal, one of

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster announced Wednesday a new program to help young people across the country to find employment and pursue careers in the ocean economy.

The total cost of the new program, called the Blue Futures Pathways Project, is $2.4 million, of which the Supercluster will provide $1.5 million.

The goal of Blue Futures Pathways is to connect Canadians aged 18 to 30 with education

A group of Dalhousie University scientists is working with an Ohio biotech company on using a molecule found in Arctic fish to prolong the life of human cells.

The company, Marietta, Ohio-based ProtoKinetix, has isolated and patented a molecule it calls AAGP, which it derived from fish swimming in sub-zero temperatures. The company says this “anti-freeze protein” can prolong the life of a cell

Health Canada has approved Appili Therapeutics’ application to begin Phase 3 trials for tablets that should help prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the disease.

The Halifax-based drug discovery company issued a statement Tuesday saying it had initiated its tests to evaluate Avigan, the name of a tablet that contains Favipiravir, a broad-spectrum antiviral that Appili has licenced from

Maritime Gourmet Mushrooms of Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, has received a $200,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to meet the growing demand for its exotic varieties of mushrooms.

The company was established in 2014 and began selling in 2015.  It produces 11 types of fresh mushrooms, which are sold in farmers’ markets, restaurants and specialty retailers throughout Atlantic