Kitchener-based Clearpath Robotics Inc. said  Wednesday it has raised US$30 million (C$39.5 million) in a follow-on round led by iNovia Capital of Montreal.

The funding is on top of a $14 million round it closed early in 2015.

The other investors

About four years ago, a trio of game developers came together to form a Bedford-based gaming studio called Alpha Dog Games, and quietly began to grow.

The team started with three founders – two of whom, Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods, are still with

As a former cabinet minister in New Brunswick, Craig Leonard knows how quickly and decisively public opinion develops on social media. It helps him as the CEO of Eyesover, a new Fredericton-based social media monitoring company.

Eyesover is the

Propel ICT is looking for a few good startups – with the potential of becoming a few great companies.

The regional Atlantic Canadian accelerator is hoping to identify successful startups that would be candidates for the Propel Growth program. This

Soricimed Biopharma Inc., the Moncton-based biotech company developing peptide-based cancer treatments, has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation to its flagship compound for the treatment of pancreatic

Our Jobs of the Week column this week features opportunities for a data scientist in Fredericton and sales executive in Halifax.

SimpTek Technologies, a Fredericton startup that helps utilities and homeowners better understand and predict their

Atlantic Canada should foster urbanization in order to build the kind of capital-attracting, wealth-creating culture the region needs, says New Brunswick-based academic and writer, Prof. John McLaughlin.

Exciting urban centres would be especially

Invest Atlantic, the pan-Atlantic conference for startups and investors, will open Wednesday in Moncton with a range of speakers from around the region and other startup centres.

The 2016 event – the first held outside Halifax – has assembled a

Dozr Inc., which has developed an online heavy equipment marketplace, has closed a $2.5 million equity financing round from FairVentures Inc., the innovation initiative of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. 

As part of the deal, Toronto-based Fairfax

To truly appreciate the uniqueness of the JEDI Aboriginal Business Accelerator Program, it’s a good idea to spend time with Cameron Paul.

Paul is the Economic Development Officer at the Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, which fosters

Natural Products Canada, the Charlottetown-based organization that supports businesses that commercialize natural products, has fleshed out its staff and is ready to help build a vibrant, pan-Canadian ecosystem.

The organization announced this week

There was something interesting on display at DemoCamp Halifax on Thursday night: Four of the 10 presenters were serial entrepreneurs who are back in the arena with new ventures.

It’s a trend in the East Coast startup hub, and is especially