A new Halifax-based network called Tribe has been established to act as a national entrepreneurship and innovation hub for BIPOC entrepreneurs.

Founded by social entrepreneur Alfred Burgesson, the network has established partnerships with major incubators and accelerators in Atlantic Canada, including Volta, Startup Zone PEI, Venn Innovation and Genesis Centre. Other partners include Dalhousie

Halifax-based Pocket Finance, which is developing an app that provides consumers and financial advisers with better data, will soon beta-test the product and anticipates a full launch by the fall.

Founder and CEO Sheldon Brow was driven to produce Pocket Finance after working for years in the financial service industry and witnessing “clients making $500,000 a year who were living paycheque to

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Marketing Coordinator at Halifax-based medtech company Adaptiiv.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing last year, has developed a system that 3D prints a bolus – a piece of plastic that is placed over the cancerous area in a patient undergoing radiation therapy. The radiation hits the bolus, builds up and is transferred

An investment of $2.2 million over four years will create the new NB Power Artificial Intelligence Centre, to be located on the Moncton campus of the Université de Moncton.

The Centre will leverage expertise at the Université de Moncton to improve reliability, reduce costs and improve employee safety for NB Power.

In recent years, the Perception, Robotique et Intelligence Machine (PRIME)

By the end of this year, the Co-Founders of Cape Breton-based Maskwiomin hope to have a staff of up to 20 people producing traditional Mi'kmaq skincare products, and doing so in accordance with Indigenous business practices.

The company is commercializing an indigenous process for extracting compounds from birchbark and using them in soap, shampoo, cream and lotions. As its Co-Founders Dr.

REDspace, the Bedford, NS, IT company that employs more than 200 people, captured the Business of the Year Award at the Halifax Business Awards on Thursday.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary last year, REDspace builds flexible platforms for global enterprises, with a special strength in video platforms. In the past few years, it’s experienced strong growth with the advent of streaming services

Moncton-based EduCode Academy has signed a distributorship agreement with Sebit Education and Information Technologies, which will be the company’s representative in Turkey.

EduCode creates online courses that help children learn to code, and its international sales soared last year as the result of a free service it offered in the depths of the pandemic. That offer ended in June, but sales

When the pandemic hit last year, Laura Simpson knew she would have to change Side Door’s business model. What surprised the company’s Co-Founder and CEO was the resulting 3,000 percent increase in ticket sales.

Since 2017, the company had offered a matching system that allowed musicians and other artists to hold live events in small venues – usually people’s homes. In March 2020, Co-Founder and

Canada's Ocean Supercluster, which is dedicated to modernizing the country’s ocean economy, has announced three new projects based in Nova Scotia with a value of almost $10 million.

The Atlantic Canada-based organization issued three press releases on Wednesday outlining the projects, which involve enhancing data analytics in ports, a nutritious oil made from algae, and an underwater acoustic

Natasha Dhayagude, Co-Founder and CEO of Chinova Bioworks, a Fredericton-based company that uses mushrooms to reduce food waste, has had her work celebrated by FoodHack, a global network of food entrepreneurs and innovators.

Dhayagude is one of 80 women the group named, with her contribution being cited for reducing, repurposing or revitalising food waste. On its site, FoodHack said foodtech has