Spring Loaded Technology of Halifax on Thursday won the third annual BioInnovation Challenge, capturing the $35,000 first prize and gaining further validation of its innovative knee  brace technology.

The top prize at the pitching competition at

The energetic startup community in St. John’s, N.L., will stage its first Startup Weekend next month, and has already sold out more than half the spots available for the 54-hour technology-business competition.

Jason Janes, a co-founder of

Refuel Systems, a Dartmouth fuel filtering outfit, is looking to increase the deployment of its filtering devices that are now on active service across the U.S. and Canada.

The group builds devices that “polish” fuel, which means they solve a

Late last month, USA Today published my latest story on Canadian technology, which featured InteraXon of Toronto. You can find it here. This is a really cool company, headquartered in the trendy neighbourhood around Spadina and King, just down the

Last week, I wrote that more institutional money is coming into Atlantic Canadian startups, which is good because the world of funding is changing.

That was the good news. But it is counterbalanced by some bad news, which is that too many

We want to offer huge congratulations to Tim Houston, a member of the startup community who was elected to the Nova Scotia legislature last night.

Running for the Progressive Conservatives, Houston won the Pictou East seat in last night’s

We’ve been getting requests to remind the startup community that deadlines are approaching for some high profile competitions, and people should get their names in. With luck, they’ll be as successful as Mindful Scientific has been in a recent

When Charles Benaiah visited Dalhousie University to tell students about his experience founding and selling a startup in New York, he didn’t expect he’d soon be planning to establish his development team in Halifax.

But Benaiah, who received

A group of seasoned investors and entrepreneurs will launch a new angel investment group in Halifax today with a pledge that they will not charge companies any fees to pitch to the group.

Having already attracted about 30 investors, Atlantic

Money and how to obtain it will be one of the themes of this year’s BioPort Atlantic Conference, which will take place at Halifax’s Westin Nova Scotian hotel on October 9 and 10.

“Putting more focus on money reflects what we’re hearing from our

As part of the province’s innovation strategy, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation last week launched a new graduate and doctoral scholarship initiative mainly aimed at students in the sciences.

The provincial innovation agency is

Grey Island Energy, a St. John’s, N.L., clean tech company, is on a mission to raise $750,000 to finance a series of tests to validate its wave energy technology.

The company, which operates out of the Genesis Centre at Memorial University of