The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency last week announced loans totalling $664,000 for two Halifax-area companies, Meridian DLT and Nautics Group.

The federal government’s regional development agency issued the loans through the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program.

ACOA said it is lending $363,750 to Meridian DLT, based in Lower Sackville, N.S. It has developed a digital data

Our Jobs of the Week column today showcases an opening for the CEO of Charlottetown’s Startup Zone and a Content Marketing Manager at Foundation Marketing in Halifax.

Foundation is a content marketing agency that collaborates with ambitious B2B brands looking to create and distribute content that inspires action. The agency says it believes that content has the ability to shape culture inside

St. John’s-based BreatheSuite, whose technology helps people to use inhalers properly, has closed a $1.2 million equity financing round, led by Venture NL, the fund overseen by Pelorus Venture Capital.

The company issued a press release on Thursday announcing its second round, which follows on from a $550,000 round in October 2019, which was also led by Venture NL. The investors in the current

Fredericton-based PLATO Testing has received a $500,000 investment from Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, which it will use to train and hire more Indigenous people to test software.

PLATO was founded five years ago by Fredericton’s PQA Testing with a mission of developing a team of First Nations software testers. The company has been owned by PQA, whose core business is software-testing, and

Charlottetown-based ScreenScape Networks,  which makes technology for video displays, has been acquired by Tampa, Fla.-based Spectrio for an undisclosed price.

Founded by CEO Mark Hemphill in 2007, ScreenScape helps businesses and organizations that want to advertise on location-based video monitors. The company, which employs 25 people, offers an easy-to-use, cost-effective product that is well

TrojAI, which is developing a cybersecurity platform for artificial intelligence, has closed $750,000 of an equity funding round that its Co-Founders hope will reach $1 million.

The company now has investment from Concrete Ventures of Halifax, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Techstars AI, as well as a few angel investors. Co-Founders James Stewart and Stephen Goddard are talking to a

Halifax-based Talkatoo, which provides transcription software for the veterinary market, has formed a partnership with Greely, Co.-based Patterson Veterinary, under which the U.S. company can distribute Talkatoo’s products.

The two companies announced the new relationship in a press release on Tuesday, saying Patterson’s customers will now be able to use Talkatoo on any practice management

Venn Innovation has accepted five companies into its Set to Scale Program, which helps established companies increase their sales.

The New Brunswick innovation hub last year called for applications for the program, which uses the Scaling Up methodology of Verne Harnish, a noted author, speaker and scale-up expert. Venn said thousands of companies around the world have used this methodology to

Late in 2020, DeCell Technologies released a flourish of announcements – including a unique patent approval – that position the Halifax-area life sciences company for growth in 2021.

The company, which makes a natural regenerative scaffolding for wounds, said in November that it had obtained patents for its “prECM decellularization technology” in the U.S., Canada, and five European countries –

Not many tech entrepreneurs will tell you their total addressable market comprises 47 potential clients, but Ivan Zak states the number unequivocally – and five of them are already his customers.

He adds, of course, that the total addressable market will grow as his company Veterinary Integration Solutions enters new verticals.

Saint John-based VIS has developed methodology and software that