Brilliant Labs, a New Brunswick-based non-profit organization that works with schools to teach students about robotics and coding, is looking to hire seven program specialists across the region.

The candidates will help facilitate Brilliant Lab’s school and community activities, and provide support to teachers, school boards and the provincial Departments of Education.

“Those positions will be

Dash Hudson, a Halifax Software-as-a-Service company that helps corporate clients optimize and manage visual marketing strategies, hopes to hire a Customer Success Representative.

The CSR will help train and engage potential customers during a trial period with its software.

With its platform, Vision, Dash Hudson provides a one-stop spot for its clients to manage, source and engage with the

We’re in the middle of our campaign to get Atlantic Canadian startup founders and CEOs to complete our survey. We’re thrilled by the response and want to remind all startups that haven’t completed the 18-question questionnaire to please do so.

We’ve contacted a lot of people personally, and we’ll be posting reminders throughout this week to complete the survey. There are some companies that we

Securicy, the Cape Breton company that helps SMEs implement cybersecurity plans, has been accepted into TechStars Boston as it launches its first product, Policy Builder.

The Sydney company issued a statement Thursday with the announcements, highlighting an acceleration of its growth over the past two years.

“In general, everything seems to have hit a fast track since we landed here on the 17th

As it expands into the U.S. by opening a Wyoming subsidiary, BlockCrushr Labs and its TokenClub unit have been accepted into the prestigious Techstars accelerator.

Halifax-based BlockCrushr is a skunkworks for blockchain. Established two years ago, it aims to produce various projects and companies based on blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It’s gaining

Onset Communication Inc., a Charlottetown company that enhances communication within film crews, has raised $230,000 from Island Capital Partners.

The P.E.I. investment group, led by local tech and investment veterans, issued a statement this week announcing the investment.

Onset has developed The Visual Assistant, a visual communication tool that reduces miscommunication, delays and mistakes

Halifax-based QRA Corp announced Thursday the successful sale of its QVscribe software to the Canadian Department of National Defence.

QRA develops software that helps businesses across industries make better design choices and streamline design processes. The company sold an advanced version of its commercially available QVscribe for Microsoft Word and Excel to be used by The Royal Canadian Air

Financial Post columnist Diane Francis popped a few entrepreneurial noses out of joint this week by saying Canada’s innovation craze is creating government-funded “Bombardier-like boondoggles”.

The founders and supporters of startups have taken issue with her claim that governments across the country are propping up “fake startups.” Francis’ main target is the National Research Council’s

Memorial University of Newfoundland will launch Canada's first MBA program in social enterprise and entrepreneurship this year, and is already receiving applications for the program. 

The St. John's university is hoping for at least 20 students to enrol in September in the first year of the program, which it refers to as MBA-SEE, said Isabelle Dostaler, the Dean of MUN’s Faculty of Business

At this very moment, some $16 million in Canadian retirement accounts are being managed with the aid of a new investment tool managed by a young Fredericton company.

The company is Passiv. It’s the brainchild of Brendan Lee Young and Brendan Wood, two passive investors who wanted a better, more cost-effective tool to make sure their investment accounts were always properly balanced.

They built