Aqualitas, the Liverpool cannabis producer, is set to close a $6.5-million funding round with private investors next month, with the hopes of getting to market next year.

The close of this funding round will bring the total equity capital raised by CEO Myrna Gillis to about $11.5 million — an audacious number for a three-year-old Nova Scotia startup. But the interesting part of the story — at

Chris Gardner, the co-founder and CEO of Sequence Bio, a Newfoundland and Labrador genomic data company, has been appointed to the newly created federal Health/Bio-sciences Economic Strategy Table.

“Canadians are known for finding the better, smarter way - and it’s time we brought that thinking to health care,” Gardner said in a statement. “I’m proud to join this team of disruptors to drive

Like the other managers of Nova Scotia’s innovation-promoting sandboxes, Darren MacDonald is an entrepreneur. He’s an ergonomist with more than 20 years’ experience of design thinking and seeing experiences from the perspective of the user. It’s a skill set he shares in his role as manager of Cape Breton’s Island Sandbox. 

“I try to teach user-centred design—how to ask good questions, look at

Instead of startups pitching to one big audience, the folks from PropelICT have partnered with BrewHopper to offer something very different for its coming Regional Demo Day.

Pints and Pitches, which will take place in Fredericton on Dec. 12, is the new spin on the regional ICT accelerator’s big Demo Day, where about a dozen startups from around the region pitch to investors, alumni, and

Densitas, a software company that analyzes the density of breast tissue, has signed a contract that will help integrate its flagship product DM-Density into customers’ imaging systems.

The Halifax company signed the integration agreement with Cambridge, Ma.-based EnvoyAI, an artificial intelligence distribution platform, which is dedicated to incorporating software like DM-Density into health

Halifax has slipped two places to eighth spot in CBRE ranking of Canadian tech talent markets, as the strong hiring boom of 2013-2015 lost its oomph.

CBRE Canada last week issued the report titled Scoring Canadian Tech Talent, which ranked Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver as the top three centres for human resources in technology in Canada. Halifax had claimed the No. 6 spot in the same report last

Halifax-based Affinio has announced a US$9 million (C$11.4 million) Series B funding round, with which it hopes to gain deeper penetration brand advertising for its consumer-analytics solution.

The venture capital round – the second-largest this year in Atlantic Canada – was led by Toronto-based Round13 Capital, a new investor in the company. The other participants in the round are Whitecap

Late in an interview about his SaaS product for the oil and gas industry, Steve Taylor began to describe bringing in artists on his staff to enhance the software development process.

Taylor is the CEO of radient360, the St. John’s startup that announced a $3.3 million funding round from Build Ventures and Killick Capital last week. He thinks deeply and with originality about the management of

There’s a lot of buzz in St. John’s right now about a young company called CoLab Software, and a big reason is the story of how this startup started up. 

Founded by Memorial University engineering grads Jeremy Andrews and Adam Keating, CoLab is developing collaboration software for people working with 3D designs. Its product Gradient allows mechanical engineers, interior designers or others to

Techsploration, an organization that aims to attract young women to science-related careers, is expanding its scholarship program with the launch of its 20 Scholarships to Celebrate 20 Years campaign.

The campaign has already received more than $20,000 in total scholarship commitments, marking the organization’s largest scholarship total to date.

“Our aim is to help remove financial barriers to