With entrepreneurship gaining momentum in St. John’s, Memorial University of Newfoundland has promoted in-house to fill its new position of Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Paula Mendonça received her PhD in biology from MUN and she has been working in the university’s Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office, or TTCO, for several years.

In her new position, Mendonça aims to

Later this year, Ulaş Güntürkün hopes to have a product on the market that can dramatically improve performance and cut costs of communications between autonomous underwater vehicles and other submarine equipment.

Güntürkün is the Founder and CEO of Halifax-based Marecomms, which has devised a product called the Robust Acoustic Modem, or ROAM. This modem uses sound waves to transmit and receive

Thank you to everyone who has filled out our survey! You’ve helped us generate metrics on the region’s startup ecosystem and you’ve helped Australians recover from devastating wildfires.

When we launched our survey this year, we promised to donate $10 to the Canadian Red Cross’s Australia Wildfire Relief campaign for every completed survey we accepted by Feb. 10. We’ve kept that promise. On Wednesday, we donated $1,330 to the Red Cross to help alleviate the suffering in Australia -- $10 for each of the 133 surveys we accepted by the deadline.  

But we still need more surveys. And I’ll

The federal and Nova Scotia governments on Wednesday announced more than $1.4 million in funding for two ocean-related companies and a support organization.

Halifax-based life sciences company DeNova, which is developing a sustainable source of protein for fish feed and animal food, received the lion’s share of the funding with more than $900,000. Sedna Technologies, based in Dartmouth, received

Dartmouth-based Sona Nanotech is developing a rapid screening test for the Coronavirus, a fatal disease that has spread around the world.

Sona is using its nanotechnology in the development of a rapid screening test for the novel Coronavirus, known as nCoV19, the company said in a statement.

The virus was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December. There have since been more

Away from the glitz of this week’s Academy Award ceremonies, one story that didn’t get covered by the global media was a budding partnership that shows how quickly a young Cape Breton company is growing.

Tara Milburn, the Founder and CEO of Sydney-based Ethical Swag, was in Los Angeles and meeting with Red Carpet Green Dress, a global organization that advocates sustainable design in the fashion

Construction AI startup Harbr will see its technology used on projects owned by rental housing giant Killam Apartment REIT, as part of a pilot deal announced in January.

The news comes as Harbr ramps up its business-to-business marketing efforts and restructures to place a greater emphasis on its sales force.

The Harbr app allows for more efficient communication between construction project

There’s still time to complete our survey, so please do it today if you head a qualifying startup.

I’ve been calling and contacting startups to prod them, and the comment I keep hearing is: ‘I’ve been meaning to get around to it but it slipped my mind.’

Please just take two minutes right now to complete the survey. It helps the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem and the effort to help

A new course that helps entrepreneurs cope with the stresses of forming their own businesses has got off to a promising start at the University of New Brunswick.

Organizers hope that Entrepreneurial Resilience, which is a full-credit course, will help students avoid falling prey to common problems like sleeplessness, poor exercise and eating habits, and social withdrawal.  

“Sleep is number

Propel, the regional tech accelerator, is looking for an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in Halifax, and that opening headlines our Job of the Week column today.

The pan-regional organization offers a virtual accelerator called Incite – Phase 1 helps entrepreneurs find their product-market fit; and Phase 2 helps them to scale and gain international markets. As well as the online curriculum, Propel has