Marketswell Solutions has accepted twice as many companies as expected into its first CMO Accelerator Program due to strong demand.

The program launched by David Alston, one of the most experienced marketing execs in the region, had expected to accept about five people into its accelerator for chief marketing officers. However, the demand was strong enough that it has accepted 10 CMOs.

With 10 portfolio companies backed by its $4.25 million first fund, Island Capital Partners is preparing to raise a larger second fund next year.

The Charlottetown-based group was formed in 2017 by a group of Islanders with deep backgrounds in international business and entrepreneurship to provide early-stage financing and mentorship. It intended at that time to build up a portfolio of 12 to 13

Halifax-based Tranquility Online, a web-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) program, has partnered with Maritime researchers and government to investigate how the pandemic is impacting the mental health of caregivers.

The research will look at the implementation and evaluation of e-mental health care for parents and caregivers struggling with anxiety and depression arising from the

Canada’s innovation superclusters are lagging behind their intended goals, and the poorest results so far have been produced by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

The PBO this week filed a report on the five superclusters, saying that as of March they had funded fewer projects than expected when the program was announced. The government had projected $104

Three companies in the pet industry have signed up to reduce the environmental impact of feeding pets by partnering with Outcast Foods.

Shameless Pets, Earth Animal and Cannabiscuit Canada will be using Outcast Foods' dehydrated fruit and vegetable ingredients in their products 

Dartmouth-based Outcast uses misfit, unsellable or cast-off produce and turns it into sustainable, nutrient-dense

Nextcheck, which is developing maintenance software for aircraft, has won the 2020 Pitch & Pick competition at Genesis and been accepted into the St. John’s  innovation hub’s Enterprise program.

The company’s three co-founders are building a digital solution to replace paper-based aircraft maintenance logs, which are often missing critical information for a host of reasons. Not only does this

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Dalhousie University psychologist and researcher Dr. Christine Chambers has spent more than 20 years studying pain management in children. But it was the birth of her own kids that spurred her to create her non-profit: Solutions for Kids in Pain.

Chambers is a professor in Dalhousie’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, as well as its Department of Pediatrics.

She is a

Halifax-based Rimot.io has developed a new device to screen people entering workplaces for COVID-19, and Halifax Partnership and Volta have signed up as early adopters.

Rimot’s core business is a monitoring technology that helps organizations ensure their critical infrastructure in remote locations is working. When the pandemic broke out, the company saw an opportunity to make workplaces safer

Energia Ventures has selected five companies for the 2020 cohort of its accelerator, which supports startups involved in energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

The three-month program, which began Sept. 30, is part of University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship, commonly known as TME.  This is the fourth year the

TrojAI, a Saint John company that provides cybersecurity for artificial intelligence, has been accepted into Montreal Techstars, the national program specializing in AI products.

The company's co-founders previously worked on EhEye, a Saint John startup that developed video-recognition software for public security. EhEye was acquired by Patriot One Technologies of Toronto for more than $3.2