The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator, is launching its newest chapter in Halifax and has opened applications for its winter 2020 cohort.

With plans to host two semesters annually, the Silicon Valley-based organization aims to launch more than 20 meaningful and enduring technology companies per year in Halifax.

The Founder Institute’s step-by-step program provides

Halifax-based VineView, which provides remote sensing technology for vineyards, has extended its blanket flyover coverage to the California communities of Edna Valley, Monterey, Paso Robles and Santa Barbara.

For years, VineView has flown most of Napa Valley and Sonoma County twice annually – once during bloom, and again during veraison, or the onset of ripening – capturing data on each vineyard

MentorCamp took place in Charlottetown on Monday, bringing together seven companies for an intense day with 28 mentors from Atlantic Canada and other parts of the world.

Launched in Halifax in 2011 by investor and consultant Permjot Valia, MentorCamp assembles promising companies and schedules rotating meetings throughout one day with about two dozen mentors, who meet the entrepreneurs in groups

Swedish ed-tech company Binogi has opened a mobile app and animated content creation facility at Volta, Halifax's startup hub. The new space will support its e-learning platform. The company is also hiring staff, aiming to raise its three-person Halifax operation to 40 people by early in 2020.

Binogi is recruiting writers, animators, developers and voice actors to help in the creation of their

A crowd of startup enthusiasts in Charlottetown on Sunday night heard what it takes to raise funding in every band imaginable.

The event at Startup Zone was the opening phase of MentorCamp 2019, which will take place in the P.E.I. capital today. MentorCamp CEO Permjot Valia came up with the idea of an event that could tell founders what to expect in their fundraising efforts, regardless of the

SimplyCast, the automated marketing company based in Dartmouth, has announced a $100,000 fund to benefit young people as the central part of its 10th anniversary celebration.

President and CEO Saeed El-Darahali said at an anniversary party in Halifax on Friday that the Youth First Fund would be used to award scholarships and bursaries to students, finance internships and help graduates pay off

A project that allows disabled seniors to live more independently has resulted in the company behind the core technology – Novalte – moving from Ontario to Halifax to take advantage of the opportunities and older demographic the province offers.

The Maritimes has the oldest population in North America, on a par with Japan. Novalte has developed technology that interacts with smart devices to

Atlantic Canada’s post-secondary institutions graduated only about two-thirds of the IT personnel required by industry, says a new report from the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council, highlighting the tight labour market in IT.

The report Digital Technology Firms: Their Importance and Role in Atlantic Canada’s Economy, says there were 1,358 graduates from “digitally focussed” programs at

Atlantic Canada’s digital technology industry accounted for $6.1 billion in revenue in 2017, up from $5.2 billion in 2014, says a new study of digital industries in the region by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council.

The study titled Digital Technology Firms: Their Importance and Role in Atlantic Canada’s Economy was commissioned by TechImpact, the Fredericton-based organization that promotes

There’s a new, community-based startup group in St. John’s that aims to tackle some of the gaps in the local ecosystem and support young companies.

ConnectioNL (pronounced “Connectional”) is a volunteer group that now totals about 200 members, and they are working together to improve the ecosystem in three areas: mentorship, access to capital and skills.

“We started in March with 12 people at