David Howe wants to do for haircuts what Uber did for transportation.

The CEO of Halifax-based Cribcut gets that it’s a bit of a cliché to say your startup can do what Uber did, but it conveys his message: he hopes that Cribcut can change the way

The organizers of the 18th annual Kira Awards have announced the finalists for the awards, which recognize success in New Brunswick’s knowledge industry.

The awards committee said in a statement the winners will be named at a gala in Fredericton on

A team of researchers at Mount Allison University was searching for a waste remediation product for miners last year when they struck gold.

Literally.

As a result, they have formed Kasis Environmental, a Sackville- and Moncton-based company that

Much venture capital funding in Atlantic Canada comes from government sources.  That can have its drawbacks, so the challenge is to attract more private-sector investment to bring badly needed diversity to the region, say some investors.

Metamaterial Technologies Inc., the Halifax company that makes artificial materials that can alter light, has closed an $8.3 million round of funding, led by Toronto-based venture capital fund Radar Capital Inc.

MTI company said that Radar Capital,

A blockchain-based financial exchange launched last month, powered by technology developed in New Brunswick.

The company is Braveno (pronounced Bra-VEH-no), and its initial product is an exchange for trading Bitcoin (the so-called crypto-currency

Chinova Bioworks has been accepted into the first cohort of a Silicon Valley food and agtech accelerator, during which it plans to prove it can produce its chitosan-based preservative at a large scale.

The Fredericton company, which was spun out of

Innovacorp is looking for a new President and CEO to take the helm of Nova Scotia’s innovation agency in the spring of 2018.

Current CEO Stephen Duff will complete his five-year term next March and is not seeking a second term. So the agency is

Cora Cole is moving on to the national Fundica Roadshow finals, where she will be pitching for a chance to win $1 million.

Cole is the Founder and CEO of Grey Lit Matters, a Halifax startup whose platform provides researchers with a targeted

After a career that has included devising an experiment for the space station and creating the first carbon-fibre hockey stick, Stephen Fitzgerald intends to boost the bionic knee brace produced by Spring Loaded Technology.

Fitzgerald recently took

When the organizers of Montreal’s International Aerospace Week wanted to showcase 11 global startups in the aerotech space this week, the group of presenters included three companies from Atlantic Canada.

Agile Sensor Technologies of St. John’s,

We hear about it all the time. It’s the curse of the modern office worker. We’re sitting ourselves to death.

So we see standing desks, treadmill desks and bike desks attempting to counteract the effects of sitting for hours on end. But a Dieppe,