Halifax-based QRA Corp. said Tuesday it has received $3 million in funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and gave its first indications that its two main products are finding a home with customers.

In a ceremony in Halifax, Treasury

Innovation PEI’s Ignition Fund deadline on Friday

Applications for Innovation PEI’s Ignition Fund – which offers $25,000 to launch or expand a business on P.E.I. – must be submitted by Friday.

“The fund is proving popular again this year as

Kevin Sullivan had the pride of a guy showing off his new Cadillac. But it wasn’t a car he was displaying, it was the new laboratory that his company had recently moved into.

The company is Halifax-based drug discovery outfit Appili Therapeutics

Halifax native Rebecca Haliburton moved to Vancouver to work as the marketing manager for the tech education company, Lighthouse Labs. Six weeks later, the company told her that they would be expanding their software and app development bootcamps to

The Velocity Fund on Thursday awarded $125,000 to seven startups based at the University of Waterloo to help them with their product development.

The Velocity Fund Finals are held three times a year to find and reward the best young companies

Young Atlantic Canadians, and the region’s economy, are missing out because young people don’t understand the rewards of a career in sales, according to professionals at executive search firm Venor.

“Many youth are unaware of sales, and some are

The University of New Brunswick’s Summer Institute will hold its graduation Friday night, with presentations by seven companies spanning the entrepreneurial spectrum.

Organized by the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and

With the passing of Neville Gilfoy, Atlantic Canada has lost three types of people that are in short supply – journalists, salespeople and genuine wits.

Gilfoy was the founder and publisher of Progress Media, and I had the pleasure of writing for

The Invest Nova Scotia Fund on Tuesday announced a pair of grants totaling more than $1.5 million that will support the ecosystem for startups, especially in Cape Breton.

The fund — which aims to invest in the ecosystem rather than in individual

A Halifax medical technology company has a basic aim: to make anesthesia safer.

DMF Medical plans to release its signature product, Memsorb, in the next year and hopes it will improve the process of removing carbon dioxide from the system that puts

Flixel wins StartupFest Pitching Competition

A company with New Brunswick roots walked away from StartupFest on Friday with the $160,000 first prize at the Montreal festival’s pitching competition.

Toronto-based Flixel, which began life in

There can’t be many technology blogs that also offer reviews of summer shoes and proclaim a girl’s right to feel sexy, but Sage Franch is known for celebrating her love of tech and her femininity.

Franch, a.k.a. the Trendy Techie, is a computer