What’s truly fascinating about the story of how Educated Beards coped with the COVID-19 pandemic is it shows the value of a superior branding program.

The maker of organic beard-grooming products is known for its strong branding well beyond its home market of Fredericton. Anyone familiar with the company can instantly recognize its iconic image of a bearded gentleman in black tie against a

Adam Harris, who has served as Managing Director of Fredericton-based C-Therm Technologies since its inception in 2007, has bought the company from founder Charles Cartmill.

The company released a statement on Wednesday saying Cartmill sold ownership of the company to his top executive for an undisclosed price.

In an interview, Harris said he and Cartmill (who’s best known as the Founder and

The Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University is looking for three startups to pitch at the Venture Capital Investment Competition taking place in Halifax on March 5.

The VCIC is an international competition in which teams of graduate and undergraduate students compete to see which one makes the best mock venture capital investment. As it has for the past few years, the Sobey School of

Green economy companies and organizations are invited to apply for the Employers for the Clean Leadership Summer Internship Program, which this year sees an African Nova Scotian internship stream join regular and Indigenous streams.

The youth program, run by Dartmouth-based Clean Foundation, offers 15-week and nine-week internships for Nova Scotian youth in ventures working in areas such as

Halifax-based Sona Nanotech, which makes rapid diagnostic tests, has been granted regulatory approval to sell its rapid test for COVID-19 in the European Union.

The company said in a statement New Year’s Eve that its rapid, COVID-19 antigen test had received CE Mark status, meaning the test kits can be sold in the EU and other territories where the CE Mark is recognized. The tests can produce

Ideally, my wish list for the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem for 2021 would begin with an East Coast angel network.

But I’m growing more pessimistic about an angel network coming to fruition in the near future, so what’s needed this year is to lay the groundwork for an angel network. That means we need to move closer to a regional investment tax credit by improving the lobbying effort for

The governments of Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada last week announced almost $800,000 in financial support for four startups based in St. John’s.

The provincial Department of Industry, Energy and Technology said it would provide more than $535,000 in grants, while the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program, or IRAP, is contributing $246,075.

“This support is

We're signing off on 2020 with a wish for happy holidays for all our readers. 

We're really looking forward to 2021, and not just because it has to be better than 2020. We're looking at some interesting projects, and will be fascinated to learn how East Coast startups perform during the recovery. 

We'll be taking the next week off and will return with fresh news and insights on Jan. 4. In the

Schools have a new tool to help them handle the pandemic now that Eyeread has named interactive novel Ready R Naught the winner of a contest to create School Covid Care Packages.  

In a collaboration with NSCAD University, Eyeread, a digital literacy company, asked teams of NSCAD students to develop digital care packages that would help children aged 11 to 13 understand and feel part of limiting

Saint John Energy, the municipal utility that sells electricity to residents of greater Saint John, is partnering with several innovation-driven companies in the region with the goal of improving service and profitability.

In November, the company announced it is working with the Liveable Cities division of Halifax-based LED Roadway Lighting on a project that would install sensors in LED