The heads of four Atlantic Canadian companies have been named to the short-list for the 2019 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards, which presents cash prizes of up to $100,000 to winners.

The award organizers this week announced a list of leaders from 18 companies across the country, who are the “qualifying nominees” for the awards this year. The Manning Awards usually hold a reception in

Just months after opening, the cavernous COVE (Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship) building in Dartmouth is feeling lived in, with residents gathering over screens and sharing pizza. But there is room for more innovators and the newest are invited to take their ideas to COVE’s Start-Up Yard incubator.

Managed by Innovacorp, Start-Up Yard has been established to help early-stage

In the heady days of the first dot-com boom, a sketch on a napkin and a sparkle in a coder’s eye could net a nice seed round from angel investors. Subsequent rounds, it seemed, would flow like chocolate at a fondue party.

Then the bubble burst and napkin sketches turned into business plans and three-year forecasts. Investors became a little more sophisticated and entrepreneurs had to learn to

Thank you very much to everyone who has already taken the time to fill out our 2018 survey. And we’re asking founders  and CEOs who haven’t yet got round to it to please take two minutes to fill it in.

Early next month, we will contact founders, asking them to answer the 15 questions in the survey. It’s a huge help to us if startups would fill in the survey before we bother you. You can find our

Matt Zimola and Hossein Salimian have post-graduate degrees in computer science, yet they have found themselves immersed in the world of aquaculture.

They are two of the co-founders of ReelData, a Halifax startup that uses artificial intelligence to collect and analyze data for fish farms. Their software can analyze video from fish pens and produce meaningful data on the weight distribution of

The Emera ideaHUB, Dalhousie University’s new incubator for companies building physical products, has accepted its first seven resident companies, and has room for more.

The goal of ideaHUB is to provide working space and mentorship for companies that aim to produce and sell physical products, not just software. The facility aims to link its resident companies with experts at the Faculty of

For the second year in a row, a team of under-graduates from Saint Mary’s University's Sobey School of Business has placed second in the New England edition of the world’s largest venture capital competition.

Students from seventy universities competed in the Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC, where they acted as managers for mock VC funds and were judged on their performance by

Dash Hudson, the fast-growing visual marketing company, has a pair of openings at its Halifax headquarters, and they headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

The Halifax-based company has an opening for a Sales Development Representative and a Junior Product Manager.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social

It’s a big deal when a startup finds a partner with global reach, but AVSS of New Brunswick has just found a partner whose operations extend to the far reaches of the galaxy.

Rothesay-based AVSS announced this week that it is working with the National Aeronautic and Space Administration, or NASA, and others on a pioneering project to ensure drone safety in urban environments.

The two-year-old

Volta, Canada’s East Coast innovation hub, has opened applications for the fourth edition of its Volta Cohort pitching competition, which promises investment of as much as $25,000 to each winner.

Halifax-based Volta began the Volta Cohort two years ago to provide pre-seed funding for early-stage companies, so that companies have enough capital to develop a product and get off the ground. Since