The Province of Nova Scotia will contribute about $11 million to a new facility for entrepreneurship and innovation at St. Mary’s University.

On Thursday, the provincial government made the announcement as part of a $244 million wave of funding

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation on Monday announced five Research Innovation Awards finalists for this year’s R3 Innovations in Aging Gala, which is set for April 12 in Fredericton.

The awards will be presented to three of the finalists for

After a few years of dormancy, Moncton-based medical technology company Picomole is once again in operation and developing its breathalyzer device that detects early signs of cancer.

In partnering with the New Brunswick health authority Horizon

In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting openings with HeyOrca in St. John’s and Envenio in Fredericton.

HeyOrca is a Newfoundland Software-as-a-Service startup that built a social media planner specifically for marketing agencies.

LightSail Energy, the Silicon Valley cleantech company co-founded by Dartmouth-born Danielle Fong, has shut down, meaning Innovacorp will write off its $2-million investment in the company.

Based in Berkeley, Calif., LightSail was working on an

The second annual Millennial Business Pitch Competition is scheduled for June 1, at Planet Hatch. This competition is designed for Fredericton-area high school students to connect with the business community and show industry sponsors their ideas.

To reverse the declining numbers of young Canadian farmers, Halifax-based Nexus Robotics is developing a weed-picking robot that makes the physical farm labour less grueling.

“Picking weeds sucks,” said Teric Greenan, the founder of Nexus.  “It

Two New Brunswick startups have merged and are now offering their products under a new company name.

BrewHopper, a craft beer tourism tech company and ReadyPass, a smart software company for transit agencies, are now being run by a new company

Halifax-based Harbr has closed a $1.75 million round of funding, having assembled a blue-chip roster of Atlantic Canadian business people as the core of its investor group.

The company is developing mobile technology that uses artificial

Fredericton-based SomaDetect, an agricultural data company that analyzes cow’s milk to moniter health and increase milk quality, has been growing fast and is showing no signs of slowing down.

The company has announced that it is expanding its

QRA Corp, an emerging design verification technology firm, has received funding of up to $749,068 from the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program.

The Halifax company builds solutions for manufacturers and engineers that

After two years of development, Dartmouth-based Rimot.io last week launched its Internet-of-Things product for monitoring remote infrastructure, like communications transmitters.

At the International Wireless Communications Expo in Orlando, the