Moncton edtech company EduCode Academy has named Foreign Scope Consultants as its first national franchisee for India.

EduCode creates online courses that help children learn to code, and its international sales soared last year as the result of a free service it offered in the depths of the pandemic. That offer ended in June, but sales continued to increase.

Led by Subhojeet Sadhu, Foreign

The Rounds, the Halifax company that operates social networks for healthcare professionals, is gearing up for a major push into the U.S.

The company thrived in 2020 as the pandemic encouraged Canadian physicians to use a site on which they could work together to solve the immense healthcare challenges. With revenues growing, the company in the autumn was able to close a funding round mainly

A Halifax startup and a team of Nova Scotia Community College students are working together to help IKEA Canada assess what to do with the excess solar power produced at its Dartmouth location.

The retail outlet near Dartmouth Crossing is the Swedish company’s most sustainable location in Canada – often producing more solar energy than it can use. Unfortunately, it’s unable to return that excess

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is lending $1.3 million to three Dartmouth companies to help them launch or expand their operations.

The federal government’s regional development agency issued a press release last week announcing the financing for Global Spatial Technology Solutions Inc., Reftek Systems Inc., and Sensor Technology Ltd. The loans were issued under the federal

Saint John-based Four Eyes Financial doubled its business in 2020, and its founders see no sign of its growth trajectory flattening this year.

Co-founded in 2018 by Lori Weir and Kendall McMenamon, Four Eyes Financial set out to develop a digital platform to allow efficient communications between financial advisers, the firms they work for, and their clients. The founders had a background in

Innovacorp has announced seven winners of its latest Sprint competition, and will award $25,000 to each of them.

The Nova Scotia early-stage venture capital agency said Friday it selected the winners from 40 applications for its winter intake. As well as the cash, each winner will work with Innovacorp’s mentors.

Sprint is a funding program that provides as much as $25,000 in non-dilutive

A pandemic is a dodgy time to open a restaurant, but chef Jason Bourgoin knew he needed to leave the oil patch and get back in the kitchen. The result is CHARBOYZ boxed local meats that come with cooking tips, sauces and seasonings, delivered to homes or picked up in the Halifax area.

Halifax-based Bourgoin started CHARBOYZ in May with his wife Katelyn Bourgoin, a well-known marketing expert.

Planetary Hydrogen, a cleantech company that has just moved most operations from Ottawa to Halifax, has declared the lofty ambition of removing a gigaton of carbon from the atmosphere annually by 2035.

The cleantech company, which launched in Ottawa two years ago, has devised a system that has two components that can improve the environment and make money. First, it produces hydrogen, which is

Halifax-based Manifold has been acquired by Snyk, marking the second time in less than a decade that a company led by Jevon MacDonald has exited.

Snyk Founder Peter McKay posted a blog Tuesday saying his company – whose platform allows programmers to embed cybersecurity functions into their development process – had acquired Manifold. McKay did not reveal how much his company paid for Manifold,

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods has partnered with SportChek in a deal that makes the sports retailer Outcast's biggest national retail partner and puts Outcast products in 150 SportChek stores across Canada. 

Outcast uses misfit, unsellable or cast-off produce and turns it into sustainable, nutrient-dense food for wholesale, retail and consumer use, preserving nutrients and extending shelf life