Nova Scotia Business Inc. on Tuesday named 10 Atlantic Canadian companies to the Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge, which helps scaling companies find clients in the New England market.

For the past two years, the Scale-Up Hub has helped participating companies to establish a base in Cambridge, Mass., and generate sales in the New England market. The project aims to give growing tech companies long-term

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth-based marketing automation company, is aiming to hire 100 interns in 2021 to help post-secondary students thrive during the pandemic.

The company said in a statement on Tuesday that it will start by taking on as many as 30 students for a four-month work term during the coming winter semester. With new intakes in the summer and autumn semesters, the company hopes to

St. John’s-based Oliver POS has partnered with Nexcess, a major web-hosting company specializing in ecommerce, to help distribute its technology to more ecommerce merchants.

Oliver has developed a Software-as-a-Service product that enhances retailers’ point-of-sale, or POS, capabilities. Its sales – which now extend into more than 70 countries – have surged with the global wave of merchant

Mitacs and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, or NBIF, have announced a joint initiative that will pay $860,000 toward research internships at New Brunswick companies.

The two organizations announced Monday that NBIF is contributing $160,000 to the Mitacs research internships program, which will allow Mitacs to increase its funding in New Brunswick by $700,000.

The statement said the

Charlottetown-based contract research organization Pegasus Biotech is the latest bioscience company to join Emergence, the P.E.I.-based national bioscience business incubator.

Founded last year, Pegasus offers services that help to develop vaccines and biotherapeutics for the human and animal health sectors. The company’s current work includes consulting on a COVID-19 vaccine development project

St. John’s-based Mysa has pre-launched a new control for air conditioners, the third product in its suite of smart home temperature controls, and is reporting great demand in the pre-orders.

The company – whose corporate name is Empowered Homes – already has been selling smart controls for homes with high-voltage heating systems, such as electric baseboard heaters and in-floor heating. Now, with

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Friday announced funding for three projects with a total value of $6.6 million led by innovation-driven groups based in St. John's.

The Atlantic Canadian group dedicated to funding ocean-related R&D projects in marine industries held a press conference in St. John’s to unveil the three initiatives. The Supercluster’s Accelerated Ocean Solutions Program will pay $4

The Block One Incubator has opened in Saint John, providing the Port City with a facility offering programs and working space for growing startups.

Five companies are now working at the 2,735-square-foot facility at 40 King Street, in the former Scotiabank building on King’s Square. What’s special about Block One is it shares the Uptown premises with the University of New Brunswick Saint John

For the second year in a row, the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, has been named a finalist in the Outstanding Emerging Centre category of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers awards.

The GCEC held its annual conference late last month, and handed out 2020 awards in nine categories to recognize the best of university entrepreneurship worldwide. For the second time in

Airesun Global, a Cape Breton company that makes industrial oils, cleaners and lubricants out of seed oil, has signed two contracts worth a total of almost $160 million.

The Sydney-area company held a press conference Tuesday announcing it had signed a two-year, $150 million agreement under which Jolomi Engineering Services of Delta State, Nigeria, will adapt Airesun’s processor/extractor