Colin Deacon, the Halifax startup founder turned senator, says Nova Scotia should privatize its venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and instead become a limited partner in a basket of private-sector VC funds.

Deacon co-founded BlueLight Analytics in 2009 and was appointed to the senate in June, 2018, where he now serves on the standing committee for banking, trade and commerce.

For most of academia, the pandemic has been a trial by fire, as researchers grappled with the question of how to do science without ready access to labs. Last spring, Katie McKearney was no exception.

A master’s candidate and psychology researcher-in-training at Saint Mary’s University, she was fulfilling the research requirements of her degree program by working as an electroencephalography

Fredericton’s Parados Cerebral Solutions is preparing for a beta test of its data analytics platform for tracking and preventing head injuries in sports, likely beginning in the fall.

Founded in 2020, Parados is using sensors in mouthguards and along athletes’ spines to measure the force of head impacts, such as when football players tackle each other.

The technology is being developed as part

St. John's-based Kraken Robotics said Monday it has closed a deal, announced last week, to raise $10 million from a consortium of investment bankers, who will then have the option to sell their stock on the TSX Venture exchange.

The $10 million raise was a “bought deal,” meaning that although Kraken shares are already publicly traded, the newly issued stock was sold to underwriters, rather than

Nova Scotia venture capital agency Innovacorp's portfolio is performing so well that the provincial Crown corporation is hoping to self-finance its operations going forward without government support, according to Vice-President of Investment Andrew Ray.

In a wide-ranging interview Monday, Ray said Innovacorp's portfolio is the strongest it's ever been, boosted by an exit, a few public listings

Charlottetown-based life sciences company AffinityImmuno Inc. is teaming up with the University of Western Ontario to conduct animal tests on a compound they believe can battle COVID-related viruses.

Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan and Amir Zuccolo, AffinityImmuno specializes in antibodies, which are proteins used by the human body’s immune system to search out “foreign

Moncton startup hub Venn Innovation has been honoured by the Technology Councils of North America as part of their third annual TECNA Innovation Awards, winning the Innovative Member & Client Services award for its Venn Garage incubator.

Venn Garage, unlike most incubators, is not cohort-based. Instead, it is self-paced, and companies compete to gain entry at quarterly pitch competitions. The

The University of New Brunswick has named the nine Atlantic Canadian companies going through the second cohort of Scale Up Atlantic Canada, which helps companies accelerate their revenue growth.

In 2018, the university’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship – commonly known as TME – teamed up with Boston-based Babson College to create its new accelerator. It is

EY Canada has named seven winners in the Atlantic division of the 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

The global consultancy this week revealed the winners for all Canadian regions, including the Atlantic winners. These regional winners will now move forward to compete at the national awards celebration in November, where 10 national winners will be named.

These winners will include

Having sold its Squiggle Park online reading game, Halifax-based edtech company Eyeread is planning to focus on developing a platform that can be used to deliver educational content, including games, to students.

Bellevue, Wash.-based DreamBox Learning issued a statement Tuesday announcing the acquisition of Squiggle Park from Eyeread, though it did not disclose a price. Before the sale, which