The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship will hold the Mel Woodward Cup pitching competition on June 16 – a virtual presentation of the biggest event on its calendar.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the St. John's-based MCE postponed the Woodward Cup

Sydney’s Navigate Startup House has signed a memorandum of understanding with regional tech accelerator Propel, under which they will work together to encourage tech entrepreneurship in Cape Breton.

The two groups issued a statement saying they

With its annual recurring revenue hitting $8 million, Halifax-based Proposify has closed a substantial funding round led by Toronto-based Canadian Business Growth Fund, or CBGF.

The parties declined to reveal the size of the round, though CBGF says

The Ocean Startup Project, an initiative helmed by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, is accepting applications for a competition in which would-be entrepreneurs can compete to solve problems faced by oceans companies.

Donald Grant, the project’s

A new partnership between Atlantic Canadian governments, industry and post-secondary institutions is aiming to address tight labour supply in the biotech sector.

The federally backed Future Skills Centre has announced that it will invest $1.5

Having placed in the top five in the recent Techstars Startup Weekend international event, Sydney-based Rest Assured has also been accepted into Dalhousie University’s Ready2Launch program this summer.

Rest Assured, which is headed by Cape Breton

Halifax-based biotech company Adaptiiv Medical Technologies continues to grow and is hiring a Quality Manager, a posting that headlines our Jobs of the Week column.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing earlier this year, has

Venture capital investment in Atlantic Canada was already weakening before the COVID-19 crisis sent shockwaves through the economy, new data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association shows.

In fact, if you consider the

Noted asthma and COPD expert Dr. J. Mark FitzGerald has joined the advisory board of St. John’s medtech startup BreatheSuite.

FitzGerald earned his medical degree from University College in Dublin, and is now listed as the director of the Centre

St. John’s telehealth startup Cyno has inked a deal with e-learning and professional development company Bluedrop Performance Learning, also of St. John's.

Cyno will allow Bluedrop employees to access medical services remotely, including via live

A new app that monitors the health of elderly people has been launched by Miramichi, New Brunswick-based Unicare Home Health Care and sister company Uniclean Solutions.

The app, WellCheck, was developed by CEO and owner Lisa Williams to track

Halifax tech consultancy CloudKettle has announced the addition of a new executive, Eliot Harper.

Harper is a noted expert on Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud platform, having written several books on the topic and worked directly with Salesforce.