Spotful, the ecommerce augmentation company that began life as the Maritime startup Spot Interactive, took a major leap forward on Friday when it went live on the budding ecommerce giant Shopify.

Based in Montreal and Halifax, Spotful allows people to execute an interactive function while watching an online video, with virtually no interruption in the film. That means they can purchase an

The Next 36, a national entrepreneurship program for Canadian university students, has issued the following press release:

The Next 36 Launches National Campus Tour in Search of Canada’s Top Young Entrepreneurs

Events Scheduled from Coast to Coast for High Potential Innovators

(Toronto – September 14, 2015) Canada’s premiere founder development program for young entrepreneurs is hitting

People who can’t travel to Moncton this month for the Propel ICT Demo Day will still be able to watch the festivities live, thanks to Startup Kitchen.

The Fredericton-based venture that produces TV shows about Atlantic Canadian startups will live stream the presentations through its partnership with Bell Aliant FibreOp. Everyone is welcome to watch the event here, regardless of whether

SimpTek Technologies, a Fredericton maker of energy monitoring software, announced Thursday that it will undergo a three-month pilot project with 150 NB Power customers with the aim of validating its product.

Founded by University of New Brunswick alumni Asif Hasan, Lionel Fernandes and Keelen Gagnon, SimpTek has developed a product that can assess the energy usage throughout a home. It gives

When Scott Moffitt returned to Atlantic Canada after 12 years away, the life sciences specialist wrote a note to himself that “Atlantic Canadians must do a better job of understanding the meaning of the word ‘urgency.’”

Moffitt, the managing director of BioNova, Nova Scotia’s biotechnology and life sciences association, wrote his thought on a Post-it Note and stuck it in his day planner.

The Rounds, the social network for Canadian doctors, on Wednesday launched The Clerks, a parallel community for the country’s medical students.

With 13,000 active members, The Rounds has established itself in just four years as the main online community for Canadian doctors, a place where they can find information to help patients. Now the Bedford-based company is expanding with the

Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator, has named six companies from its Launch program to present alongside members of the more advanced Build cohort at its Demo Day on Sept. 22 in Moncton.

The current Propel cohort consists of 33 teams, and six of them are in the Build program – designed for the more advanced companies. These companies were almost guaranteed to pitch at Demo Day, and

The Moncton area economic development agency 3+ Corporation is kicking off a day of startup festivities on Sept. 22 with a lunch featuring two renowned experts in startups.

The Billion Dollar Lunch will be highlighted by talks by American entrepreneur and author Brad Feld and Sen Wise, Startup Canada’s Mentor of the Year. The lunch will wrap up a few hours before the regional accelerator

Gemba Software Solutions, a Saint John IT startup that helps big business employees navigate their company’s operations, has received $1.5 million in funding to help it spin out from parent company Innovatia.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation provided half the funding, highlighting a recent emphasis in the innovation agency’s work – helping established New Brunswick companies launch

There is still more than a year left before the Genesis Centre staff pack up the boxes at their St. John’s Bruneau Centre office and move to new digs at the Battery. But that’s certainly not to say change is not afoot at the Memorial University of Newfoundland incubator.

The centre is under new management, is expanding to a new town and has different entrance criteria.

“We’re working with