The federal government has announced $14 million in funding for a new institution in Charlottetown that will encourage the commercialization of products developed from natural substances.

Federal Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains made the announcement at the Atlantic Veterinary College last week as part of a wave of funding announcements in Atlantic Canada. Natural Products Canada will research, develop and market natural products and technologies in such fields as neutraceuticals, cosmetics, food, agricultural and veterinary care.

Natural Products Canada

We’re extremely proud today to publish our first quarterly Entrevestor Intelligence report on the Waterloo Region, which highlights the need for KW and Toronto to develop Canada’s Tech Supercity.

This report is now on our site, and printed copies are now available free in such strategic locations as the Accelerator Centre, the Communitech lobby and Velocity. They will soon be available at the

After a dramatic change in its business model last autumn, Halifax-based Clean Simple has raised $575,000 in equity funding, becoming the first Atlantic Canadian portfolio company of the venture capital fund Highline.

Clean Simple licenses software to commercial cleaners that help them communicate and improve efficiency. The company had previously offered a residential cleaning service that took

This week in Jobs of the Week we are featuring two positions located in Halifax, from Proposify and Gracenote, and one opportunity from St. John’s-based Software-as-a-Service company HeyOrca.

Proposify is a Halifax-based SaaS company, and creators of a document-editing software specifically tailored for writing digital proposals. Proposify also captures analytics information such as win/loss

A Halifax-based team that’s developing a treatment for a rare childhood blindness is hoping an international accelerator will help them get their technology to the global market.

Members of a research team based at Dalhousie University, have made it into OneStart, a program which claims to be the world’s largest life sciences and healthcare startup accelerator.

From Feb. 19 to 20, Gordon Simms

We have a request for all new startups in Atlantic Canada: let us know you’re out there.

We’re now developing our list of startups and high-growth companies in Atlantic Canada – all those that were active as of Jan. 31, 2015. We have a list of about 300 companies that we’re familiar with. But the nature of the startup world is that companies are always being formed. So we want to know about new

Spring Loaded Technology has launched the sale of its acclaimed bionic knee brace in a crowdfunding campaign that aims to raise at least US$75,000 – which it almost reached in its first day.

The Dartmouth company announced Wednesday that its Levitation knee brace — which strengthens the joint as well as stabilizes it — is now available through a campaign on Indiegogo. The Levitation normally

It seems I can’t escape a “Best of 2015” or “Trends for 2016” post, so I guess if I can’t beat them, I might as well join them… even if I am a little late to the party.

Here are five predications for startup growth and marketing in 2016.

1. We’ll see less reliance on paid channels.

Paid channels are a go-to acquisition method for many startups.  They fuel quick wins, can easily be adjusted,

The story of Clockwork Fox is the story of a film company that wanted a digital product and ended up with an educational technology startup backed by a $1 million equity investment.

St. John’s-based Clockwork Fox made headlines in business circles last month when it closed a million-dollar round of funding, led by Killick Capital and Venture Newfoundland and Labrador.

It was the latest chapter

The federal government has provided $500,000 to the Halifax startup house Volta Labs as part of a round of funding for growth companies and their ecosystem in Nova Scotia.

As well as a grant to Volta, the government also announced it is lending $244,000 to b4checkin, a Halifax company that provides reservation systems to hotel chains, through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Business