Pain Coach, an app that aims to guide surgery patients with post-operative pain management, took first place at Halifax startup hub Volta’s annual Virtual Pitch Competition last week.

The company is the brainchild of Emily Johnston, a clinical

Memorial University has partnered with the Association for New Canadians, or ANC, to offer entrepreneurship training for immigrants.

Under the agreement, participants in the ANC Newfoundland chapter's Newcomer Entrepreneurship Training Program will

A quartet of startups delivered pitches of about half an hour each to an audience of investors and ecosystem members Thursday night in Halifax at an investment club event hosted by SUMS Capital, a platform for early-stage companies to communicate

The University of New Brunswick’s Energia Ventures accelerator for energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence companies is looking for applicants for its spring cohort.

The accelerator, which is based in Fredericton at UNB’s J.

Halifax’s SimplyCast, which sells a platform for companies to consolidate and automate their marketing efforts and communications, is expanding its Canadian server group in response to growing demand.

Chief executive Saeed El-Darahali said in an

Two years after it announced it would open a branch office in Halifax, international technology consultancy and services company Cognizant plans to double its presence in the city, adding another 1,000 jobs.

When Cognizant originally announced it

Eight startups presented Thursday at Halifax innovation hub Volta’s annual Democamp event, showcasing their technology to an audience of investors and ecosystem members.

Held at Volta’s new offices overlooking Argyle Street, one of the event’s core

Dalhousie University’s Emera ideaHUB has opened applications for this year’s ideaBUILD accelerator — a 10-month program meant to help deeptech startups develop and manufacture their products.

The program lasts 10 months and offers participating

Seven months after it won United States Food and Drug Administration approval, St. John’s-based Sparrow Bioacoustics has launched its stethoscope app for smartphones in the United States.

The app, called Stethophone, uses a phone’s internal

Invest Nova Scotia, the provincial business development agency, is seeking applicants to its Market Entry Development Program, which helps businesses establish a virtual presence in Europe or Asia in preparation to begin exporting.

The program,

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced seven “commercialization-ready” academic research projects receiving a combined $540,000 from this year’s Climate Impact Grants.

NBIF and economic development agency Opportunities New Brunswick

Halifax startup hub Volta will host a Women Taking over the World with Tech, or WTWT, pitch competition next Tuesday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m.

The competition, to be held virtually, will invite female founders to deliver three-minute pitches and