Squiggle Park has struck a partnership with the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, which will place the company’s edtech product in some of the most disadvantaged schools in Canada.

The Halifax company’s online games, which help children to learn to read, are now used in 3,000 schools, concentrated in North America but including such markets as Oman and China. And the company recently received

A Nova Scotian agritech company that first began at the Perennia Innovation Centre is now looking forward building farms across the country with their advanced crop growing systems.

TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture’s systems are now in use at their subsidiary company GoodLeaf Farms, an idea that first came about to address food security issues in Nova Scotia.

TruLeaf manager of business

Dash Hudson is continuing to expand its staff, and today we’re highlighting an opening at the social media analytics company for an account executive.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps its corporate clients to create and distribute photos and video, then analyze their impact. The system is an integrated solution to predict, measure, and enhance

All children need to learn computer science, but minority groups often have fewer opportunities to do so. A new five-week program in New Brunswick is helping boost knowledge among First Nations’ elementary and middle-school children.

The program, Computer Science to First Nations Schools, is being run by CyberLaunch Academy, which was founded last year to provide opportunities for children to

The University of New Brunswick on Thursday launched Canada’s first research centre for 3D metal printing for the marine and defence industries.

The Fredericton university said in a statement the new Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence is the first Canadian such organization to combine research, commercialization and workforce development and training.  The initiative is the

Swept, the Halifax company that makes janitorial software, has been accepted into 500 Startups, the second Atlantic Canadian startup to be accepted into the prestigious program this year.

The Silicon Valley-based program on Wednesday announced the 31 companies that will comprise its 21st cohort. The announcement in TechCrunch noted that 43 percent of the companies are from outside the U.S., as

WellTrack, the Fredericton company that provides mental health software for university students, has reached $400,000 in annual recurring revenues and sees a clear path to $1 million this summer.

Founder and CEO Darren Piercey revealed the company’s progress in generating sales during his two-minute pitch for the 500 Startups Demo Day, which took place last week. WellTrack was one of

The Atlantic Venture Forum has announced the 12 companies that will present at the 2017 conference, which this year will include a special stream for life sciences and health technology companies.

As well as providing a range of speakers, the AVF works to link investors inside and outside the region with some of Atlantic Canada’s leading startups or high-growth companies. Each year, there are

Labfundr, a Halifax startup that has developed a crowdfunding site for scientific research, has launched its first campaign, which will help develop a databank of blood samples for Canadian children and teens.

Founded by scientific researcher Eric Fisher, Labfundr is designed to help scientists raise funding by seeking support from a broad range of people who understand the value of the

Atlantic Canada is making a push to establish a “pan-Atlantic oceans cluster” with the hope of tapping the $950-million supercluster program announced in the last federal budget.

There’s been some scuttlebutt in economic development circles lately about such an effort. Now a subcommittee of Liberal MPs from all four provinces has trumpeted the oceans cluster as one of five of its recommendations