Ocean Sonics – the young sister company of Instrument Concepts of Great Village, NS – is planning to launch a new product called icTalk in the autumn to complement its successful icListen smart hydrophone.

Begun by marine engineer Mark Wood in

Now that he’s able to drive past buildings made of his green concrete blocks, Robert Niven is gearing up for CarbonCure Technology’s second round of funding, which he hopes will raise $3 million to $5 million.

Niven, an environmental engineer

Greg Phipps, the man who once brought BDC Venture Capital to Radian6, has taken a leave of absence from Innovacorp to join Livelenz Inc. as its president.

Phipps said in an interview Friday he will be away from Innovacorp, where he serves as an

The federal government’s announcement Thursday of $1.2 million in loans for four Halifax-area tech companies highlighted the benefits of both debt and equity financing from public and private sectors for the region’s startups.

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BoomersWork, a Halifax company that matches retired executives with projects for businesses or organizations, is developing a pricing model for startups to allow young companies to benefit from the experience of seasoned corporate vets.

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A pair of researchers from Dalhousie University has struck a partnership with a venture capital fund from Toronto to commercialize their pneumatic rotary engine and develop other projects.

Braden Murphy, a Masters student in mechanical

When Trevor MacAusland participates in the prestigious Grow conference in Vancouver this month, it will provide a break from the task of building PropelICT into an organization whose influence spreads well beyond New Brunswick.

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When Dalhousie Professors Mary Kilfoil and Ed Leach recently posted a landing page for an innovative entrepreneurship course they’d developed together with their team, they were hoping it would generate some buzz. They didn’t expect more than 85

If Jeff Thompson hadn’t had so much trouble checking in online for a flight to Australia last autumn, New Brunswick might have missed out on one of its most exciting new startups.

As repeated error messages kept popping up on his screen,

The revitalization of the Newfoundland and Labrador Angel Network is gaining traction, as can be seen in the numbers. Membership last year tripled from 10 to 30, and the group that had no financing deals in 2011 is now preparing to close its third

Innovacorp’s announcement Wednesday that it will boost its funding for Halifax biotech DeNovaMed to $500,000 is further evidence that 2012 will be a strong year for venture capital funding in Nova Scotia.

The provincial innovation agency said in

As it moves toward its Phase I regulatory trials, Halifax-based biotech DeNovaMed is showing admirable flexibility in its financing options.

The company, which is developing compounds that can battle “superbugs”, sprang to prominence in January