Well-known entrepreneur Tracy Bell is joining UNB Saint John-based Wallace McCain Institute as Executive Director, taking up her role over the next few weeks.

Bell who is from Rothesay, NB, first joined the institute in 2019 as a member of its Entrepreneurial Leaders Program, the institute said in a press release.

Bell co-founded a startup called Millennia TEA in 2017 and led that company until

Collide, an initiative that provides entrepreneurship programming for students, is being rolled out across Atlantic Canada following a year-long pilot project. 

Collide was developed at Dalhousie University to mirror the national research commercialization accelerator Lab2Market which is designed for graduate students and faculty looking to commercialize their research.

Similarly, Collide

Spellbook, the St. John’s legal software-maker that earlier this year raised US$20 million, has announced it has integrated content from Thomson Reuters Practical Law to allow clients to leverage the capabilities of both platforms.

Users now have access to thousands of Practical Law’s attorney-editor created standard documents and clauses directly within Spellbook’s AI-powered contract drafting

With its first NOVAC holographic display table in operation, Avalon Holographics of St. John’s is preparing to ramp up sales in the coming year and deploy working models to the U.S.

The company, which can legitimately claim to be a global leader in holographic display technology, received a $1.02 million grant from the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Industry, Energy and Technology in

Invest Nova Scotia has recovered almost all the $573,000 stolen from it in a phishing scam this past spring, the economic development agency said Friday.

In July, the economic development agency said an imposter posing as a venture capital executive stole the money, which was intended for the investment group Sandpiper Ventures. The theft was the work of a hacker using a Russian VPN.

On Friday,

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based startup support organization for BIPOC founders, is seeking participants for several of its programs.

The 15-week BSP BUILD program is a virtual offering that provides expert coaching in key disciplines like leadership, marketing, business development, finance and more.

To be eligible, you must be an early-stage Black or racialized entrepreneur in Atlantic

A new idea that supports rural Nova Scotians has won the International Palliative Care Innovator of 2024 award in Montreal.

The Grief Library allows patients and their loved ones to borrow books on grief and grieving free of charge. Books are received and returned in the mail, something that is of particular benefit to Nova Scotians who live in rural areas.

The idea was created by Sarah Scott

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) is lending a total of more than $6 million to seven small and medium-sized businesses to help them scale up and modernize their operations.

The following companies are receiving loans through the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program:

Farnell Packaging is receiving $3,000,000 to purchase and install automated processing and printing

Virtual Accelerator Propel has announced the eight companies that make up its Fall 2024 Traction and Growth cohort.

Traction and Growth is for later-stage founders who have proven recurring revenue and appear poised to become high-growth companies.

“With the industry's challenges of keeping up with rapidly growing demand, it's no surprise to see a number of strong industrial and construction

Dalhousie University and the University of New Brunswick have accepted 19 teams into their Fall 2024 Lab2Market Validate cohort, which helps researchers assess the commercial viability of their work.

One of several Lab2Market programs, the 16-week Validate program brings together researchers and business development specialists and lets them work with mentors. The goal is to determine whether