There was somberness in the air at the Moncton chamber of commerce luncheon on Monday. The New Brunswick business community had just lost a large presence. Yves Maillet, the Vice-President of Business Growth at Opportunities New Brunswick (ONB), passed away in an accident on Saturday at the age of 49.

“This past weekend we lost a great friend. Yves Maillet was more than just a leader at ONB,

If Norm Couturier has his way, Startup New Brunswick will become an umbrella organization for all entrepreneurship in the province, then expand to include the other Atlantic Provinces.

Couturier is a serial entrepreneur who has been through the entire startup process, from concept to exit, more than once, and he perceives the need for a single group that oversees all the components of the

Spring Loaded Technology, the Dartmouth company that makes knee braces that add power to the joint, has hired a new Vice-President of Sales based in the U.S.

The company issued a statement Thursday saying it has hired Joe Khalifa, a Washington, D.C.-based sales exec who has many years experience in the orthopedic device and brace markets. Spring Loaded said he has a successful track record with

There are a lot of impressive numbers in the Vertiball story, and perhaps the most impressive is 1,100.

That’s the number of units of its back-massage device that the Fredericton-based company has pre-sold before its official launch.

Vertiball is a portable, wall-mounted device that people can use to massage their back and reduce pain. It features a mounting device that fastens to a wall so

Less than a year after its most recent expansion, St. John’s-based Genesis is growing again by taking over the city’s co-working space, Common Ground Coworking.

Common Ground opened in 2013 on Harvey Road when a group of nine volunteers established a space where entrepreneurs, freelancers and creatives could work. Overseen by a non-profit organization, it became a startup hub in the downtown

As it continues to nurture early-stage companies in its incubator, the Joint Economic Development Initiative is working on new and enhanced programs to support First Nations entrepreneurs, even pondering a native-focused angel network.

Based in North Fredericton, the Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, fosters economic growth for First Nations communities. It offers a range of

Routinify, a software company that uses data to help with the care of seniors, has launched its product in New Brunswick.

Founded by serial entrepreneur Pat Kelly, the company has dual headquarters in Fredericton and Kelly’s home of Denver, and it is beginning to market its WellAssist product in New Brunswick and Colorado. Routinify plans to expand into other jurisdictions in the coming months.

When Scott Everett started pitching his company, Eigen Innovations, more than five years ago, he was trying to explain to rooms of manufacturing executives and potential investors about the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

It was an industry that was going to be worth huge amounts of money, and he knew it.

“I remember some of the first pitches that I

Soon to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Pond-Deshpande Centre is planning to offer programs and services across Atlantic Canada to meet the changing needs of entrepreneurs.

The centre opened at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton in 2010 with a goal of promoting entrepreneurship among students and beyond the university. It was to place a special emphasis on social

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship on Thursday handed out $35,000 in prize money to five startups at the 2019 Mel Woodward Cup, with a special emphasis on the MedTech and life sciences space.

The three main winners, each of whom captured $10,000 in development funds as well as in-kind services, are: Duff: Ocean Resources; UnBound Chemicals; and Poly Unity. According to an article in the