Having finally secured seed funding of $650,000, Newfoundland startup HeyOrca! is looking to take on more staff and increase the sales of its marketing collaboration platform.

Until recently, the company had just three people on staff Co-Founders Joseph Teo, Sahand Seifi and web developer Nadia Sajjadi. Now it is in the process of bulking up to a five-member team, as well as adding some co-op

The University of New Brunswick Wood Science and Technology Centre is hosting a conference on March 1 and 2 titled Looking Ahead: Opportunities in Value-Added Wood.

The conference will look at the rapid innovation in the design and manufacturing of wood products, and the need for Atlantic Canada’s forest and wood product industries to keep abreast of trends. You can register for the event here.

The University of New Brunswick is now accepting applications for the 2016 cohort of its Summer Institute, which will include for the first time a program in clean technology.

The Summer Institute is a three-month accelerator in Fredericton, in which participants pursue entrepreneurial endeavours with a focus on artistry and passion rather than analytics and data.

Through this approach, the

Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc. has received positive initial readings from the Phase 1 trials of its flagship compound SOR-C13, including indications that it can stabilize some cancer tumours.

Sor-C13 is a peptide, or a naturally occurring biological molecule, that clings to the calcium in a cancer cell and deprives it of oxygen, thereby killing the tumour. Soricimed hopes to

B4checkin Launches b4golf and b4spa

Halifax-based b4checkin, Inc., which provides cloud-based hospitality software, has announced the release of two new products – b4golf and b4spa.

B4golf is a tee-time reservation platform that provides members, hotel guests and other golfers with a graphic booking system that can be stylized to match any golf course or property’s branding. Similarly, b4spa is

The origin of Orenda Software Solutions — Cape Breton’s top entry in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition — dates back to the days when Tanya Collier MacDonald was working in public relations for the Sydney Tar Ponds cleanup.

Part of her job was to monitor public perception of the $400-million task of cleaning up the industrial waste left by a century of steel production in the city. She wished she had a tool that could gauge what the public thought of the project.

“I kept thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to be able to measure it, or to illustrate what a public healthy reaction

Sociallogical, the Saint John-based social media consultancy, has issued the following press release:

Social Media Crash Course Set for Toronto

TORONTO, ON -- Canadian social media strategy firm Sociallogical will teach attendees of a three-day crash course exactly how to create strategies for their clients.

Aimed at new and established business owners who want to own this important piece of

Alpha Dog Games has released its newest mobile game MonstroCity: Build and Destroy in the Philippines, as a prelude to a global launch.

The Bedford-based mobile game company and its German online game publisher Gameforge hope to position MonstroCity in the top 10 games in the Apple and Google app stores worldwide.

Founded by Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods in 2012, Alpha Dog has developed console

A pair of job openings at Saint John-based ProcedureFlow head this week’s postings in Jobs of the Week, which highlights postings on the Entrevestor Job Board. They are joined by postings from Brampton, Ont.-based Prism Tradeshow Lighting and STI Technologies Ltd. of Halifax.

ProcedureFlow is a SaaS program that guides employees through everyday business operations.

Prism Tradeshow Lighting is a full-service tradeshow lighting company operating in the U.S. and Canada, offering a line of lighting products for consumer and trade shows.

STI Technologies develops solutions for the

After building a successful music school, St. John’s-based Lisa Gillam is taking the advice of her advisory board and developing her online digital music store for the global market.

Gillam’s Munchkin Music Factory has already been successful in St. John’s, where it was established in 2010, after an earlier launch year in Fredericton.

Gillam and her team of certified music teachers work from