An ambitious Halifax startup that aims to make it easier for the world’s 1.7 million airline employees to take vacations, will be one of the pitchers at the Propel ICT Demo Day on tonight.

Danna Lavallee, an airline industry veteran, will present GoBumpFree, which allows airline employees and their families to book last-minute hotel rooms and, if needed, cancel them at a moment’s notice. The

Startup Kitchen to Livestream Propel Demo Day

Anyone who can’t attend the Propel ICT Demo Day in Halifax on Tuesday will be able to see it live online.

Our friends at Startup Kitchen will be livestreaming the event here.

Propel last week named the 11 companies that will present at its Demo Day, which will be held Tuesday, starting at 5:30 pm at Pier 21. It will feature the four graduates from

Openings for sales people and customer engagement reps across the region highlight our Jobs of the Week column today.

Dash Hudson of Halifax is looking for a sales development representative and a customer success representative. Dash Hudson helps clients analyze their Instagram and SnapChat data. It collects data on how major brands are connecting with customers on Instagram. The photo-sharing

So much is happening at CarbonCure Technologies these days that the best way to illustrate the Dartmouth cleantech company’s progress is to zero in on its customer and revenue growth.

We could highlight that CEO Robert Niven was one of four winners of the recent Manning Awards for Innovation. Or that Team CarbonCure is a semifinalist in the global US$20 million NRG COSIA Carbon Xprize.

But what

There’s an industrial segment in which Atlantic Canada excels. The companies in this space have raised more than $30 million in 2016 alone. They are establishing offices in Silicon Valley. They’re gaining worldwide clientele.

The segment is the intersection between digital technologies and life sciences. I’m not sure that even is a segment, but maybe we should make it one and start to play it up

Chris Gardner has been named the acting CEO of St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, taking over from the company’s first CEO, Tyler Wish.

The company released a statement Wednesday saying that Gardner had assumed the position, and spokeswoman Karen Moores said that Wish is still an employee of the company. The two co-founders formed the company in 2013, carrying on the next step of genetic research

Today we’re launching our fourth Entrevestor Intelligence report of 2016.

The cover story is something that I’ve been talking about lot lately in conversation: the intersection of information technology and life sciences. It’s an ill-defined segment, but it’s the hottest portion of the startup community right now.

Jesse Rodgers, the recently appointed CEO of Volta Labs, weighs in with his

BDC Capital today unveiled a new $135 million venture capital fund to support Canadian energy, industrial and cleantech start-ups with global potential.

The BDC Capital Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology Venture Fund II will follow on the first fund of the same name, which has invested in 18 Canadian companies, including CarbonCure Technologies of Dartmouth.

These funds are not exactly

Eyesover Releases Issue Discovery Module

Fredericton-based Eyesover Technologies Inc. has released its new Issue Discovery module as the latest addition to its online media monitoring system.

Using Eyesover’s proprietary artificial intelligence, Issue Discovery provides customers with a predictive tool that identifies online discussions or mentions of new issues that are relevant to the

Propel ICT, the regional accelerator, has announced the 11 companies that will present at its latest Demo Day, to be held Tuesday, Nov. 29, in Halifax.

Demo Day, to start at 5:30 pm at Pier 21, will feature the four graduates from the advanced Build Program, as well as seven companies that have gone through the Launch program, which is designed for younger companies.

Propel ICT alumnus Adrian