Fredericton-based Kognitiv Spark has launched a sweeping revision of its main product offering that it says includes more robust spatial computing abilities, referring to the process of visualizing a digitally rendered object in a real-world environment.

RemoteSpark, as Kognitiv dubs its software, uses augmented reality and mixed reality to help remote workers use complicated equipment. If a

Jennifer Wager, formerly the president of Dartmouth cleantech star CarbonCure Technologies, has a new role as a fellow at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a VC firm led by such business titans as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg.

Wagner, who lives in P.E.I., is tasked with offering support and guidance to startups working on cleantech for sectors with emissions that are particularly

Halifax-based Tribe Network is inviting Black founders aiming to bring a basic product to market to apply to its BUILD program, which begins mid-March.

Founded in 2021 by social entrepreneur Alfred Burgesson, Tribe offers support and training services for Black-owned companies. One of its initiatives is the Black Start-Up Project, which aims to foster Black founders through such programs as

Nevada-based Movella, which makes motion-tracking technology and bought Halifax’s Kinduct in 2020, has gone public on the Nasdaq stock exchange via a reverse acquisition.

Movella, at the time called mCube, bought Kinduct and its health data technology for an undisclosed price. Kinduct CEO Travis McDonough told Entrevestor at the time the deal was worth more than the $70 million sale of GoInstant

Halifax business consultancy Imaginal Ventures and British Columbia-based national cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada are collaborating to launch Foresight’s eight-month accelerator program in the Atlantic Provinces.

Participating companies in the Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge will compete for the chance to be one of five to pitch to a mix of accredited and

Canada has sent a deep roster of oceantech industry members and ecosystem support players to this year's Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, which is underway this week.

Twenty Canadian exhibitors — many of them startups, and all but one from either British Columbia or Atlantic Canada — are attending, along with a roster of ecosystem delegates from organizations like

Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners has pledged to donate a portion of its profits to the Discovery Centre science museum, also in Halifax, in a move that looks to be aimed at least partly at increasing the talent pipeline for STEM jobs in Atlantic Canada.

The Discovery Centre mostly offers educational programming for children, and a frequent refrain from innovation economy observers is that the

Halifax-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies has begun applying its environmentally friendly, fuel-saving marine hull coatings to the ships of maritime services company KOTUG Canada.

GIT has applied its coatings to more than 20 vessels now, having inked partnerships last year with Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, whose Techstars-backed startup accelerator it joined last year, and

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is eyeing sales to private healthcare facilities in the United States after receiving $50,000 from Kaleidoscope Social Impact, a Saint John-based social impact investor that offers loans and training programs to entrepreneurs.

CandidateHub CEO Brad DiPaolo said in an interview that his company is aiming to help private hospital

Last summer, Fredericton-based cybersecurity startup Beauceron Security quietly raised an oversubscribed $3.1 million equity funding round that included strategic investors from the world of community banking.

The round was led by Utah-based BankTech Ventures, with the Independent Community Bankers of America, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the Arkansas-based Venture Center and