Regional tech accelerator Propel ICT has rounded out its management team by hiring Gillian McCrae, former CEO of Charlottetown-based GetGifted, as a vice-president.

Now based mainly in Halifax, McCrae will work with President Gary Dinn and the

The announcement last week of up to $9.7 million in funding for Kitchener-Waterloo accelerator programs could have profound implications for the region’s economy, and on how startups are developed in Canada.

If successful, the programs will help

With the signing of the Toronto Blue Jays as a client, Travis McDonough’s decision to build Kinduct Technologies in Halifax has received further validation.

The major league baseball team joins other high-profile users of the Kinduct software.

The new Venture Newfoundland and Labrador fund has announced its first investment is in St. John’s-based Sequence Bioinformatics, which analyzes genetic data to help prevent diseases.

Venture NL said Tuesday it has invested $300,000 in Sequence

Saint John-based Xiplinx Technologies Ltd. has partnered with U.S. distributor R.V. Evans Co. to help increase sales of its flagship product Siteflo.

It is the fourth distribution partnership for Xiplinx, whose technology helps manufacturing

Social Navigator, a Halifax startup that warns authorities of threats on social media, has issued the following press release:

Social Navigator launches LifeRaft™ cyberbullying and threat detection solution for schools and law enforcement

Assuming all goes well with its Phase 1 trials this year, Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc. expects to select a major drug-maker as a partner with which it can take its flagship product Soricidin through Phase 2 trials.

SOR-C13 is a

Verafin, the St. John’s startup whose software fights financial crimes, has received a $6 million non-repayable loan from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador to help increase its workforce.

The government said Tuesday the loan would help

The deadline is fast approaching for young life sciences companies in the Maritimes to apply for the BioInnovation Challenge.

To enter the $30,000 pitching competition, companies from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island must

Bolstered by a local partnership agreement, Charlottetown-based Origins Xtractions Ltd. is planning to raise money to finance a new commercial facility in the P.E.I. capital for extracting compounds from natural materials.

The three-year-old

Dalhousie University’s Launchpad accelerator graduated 10 teams of entrepreneurs in a ceremony last week. During the ceremony, Professors Mary Kilfoil and Ed Leach outlined a series of new initiatives that together will be known as Launch Dal.

Startup Canada has issued the following press release:

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE 2015 STARTUP CANADA AWARDS

Celebrating the best in Canadian entrepreneurship

OTTAWA – July 13, 2015 – Startup Canada opened nominations today for the second