Oris4, the Halifax software company that has developed a cloud-based document-organization system, has raised $1.3 million in funding from Nova Scotia Business Inc. and GrowthWorks Atlantic.

NSBI announced Wednesday it would make its first investment of $1 million in the company, whose corporate name is 2nd Act Innovations. GrowthWorks invested in the company previously and has added to its stake with a $300,000 investment.

The funding comes as the company is increasing its reach in the U.S. with the opening of its first New York office. The firm already has a presence in Silicon

A young New Brunswick company is making it easier for employers to extend their reach when looking for new employees.

Moncton-based Qimple has developed an automated process that helps employers to carefully assess where they are posting their job openings. It automatically posts jobs in the best places possible and screens the responses – all with the goal of increasing the likelihood of finding top-flight candidates.

Employers looking for employees these days usually post their vacant positions on job boards, hoping that the perfect candidate will pop up. But the problem is there are

Smart Skin Technologies, the Fredericton company that has commercialized a pressure-sensitive surface material, issued the following press release last week:

Smart Skin Expands Global Reach with New Executive Vice President for Europe

Brewing Expert Dr. Ing. Andreas Weideneder joins the Smart Skin Team

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada -- Smart Skin Technologies Inc., the global leader in pressure management solutions for the bottling and packaging industries, announced today that Dr. Ing. Andreas Weideneder, of Gammelsdorf, Germany, has joined the company as Executive Vice President

The organizing committee for the KIRA Awards– which recognize excellence in the knowledge industry in New Brunswick – has named its 2014 finalists, which include several members of the startup community.

The winners will be named May 15 at a dinner at the Fredericton Convention Centre. Following is the announcement from the organizing committee:

Fredericton—April 14, 2014 –The KIRA Organizing Committee is pumped to announce the 2014 KIRA Finalists (With a Little Help From Our Friends)

“This year marks the 16th Annual KIRA Awards and again we are impressed with the number of

Even in the 21st century, female computer scientists are few in number and women founders of tech startups are even scarcer, but Ozge Yeloglu doesn’t find her position lonely. The co-founder and CEO of Halifax-based data analytics venture topLog is focused on building her company, mentoring young women in computer science and teaching men in the field how to be less sexist toward their female

Mark Hobbs and Chris Kolmatycki knew they were on to something with FundMetric when clients said they would sign up for the product that helps charities improve their fundraising before it was even completed.

The two former advertising execs realized a few years ago that charities they were working with needed an online tool that would help them communicate with donors at the best time possible, and help them to organize their fundraising campaigns.

They gravitated toward the startup world with the encouragement of several people, including Milan Vrekic, the Executive Director of the

When Canada’s Business Model Competition was held at Dalhousie University in March, the leading Atlantic Canadian entry was a team from Memorial University that had only been working together for two months.

StudentFresh is a platform designed to link up businesses needing contract work with students that have the skills to provide the work. And it is working toward a product that will tell businesses instantly how other employers have rated the student’s work.

“From talking to businesses, we found that they wanted to hire based on talent that’s validated by previous work,” Co-Founder

Two years after the company he co-founded was bought out by Salesforce.com, Gavin Uhma is giving back to the community with a new educational initiative that will help teach aspiring tech entrepreneurs how to build companies.

Uhma is still the chief technical officer of GoInstant, a Halifax company that has developed tools that allow people on different computers to work together on the same screen. But in his spare time, he’s working with others to develop an online course to help teach technology and entrepreneurship.

“We’re looking to people within the business community, proven

Compilr, a Halifax startup that teaches people how to code, has been acquired by lynda.com, a Carpinteria, Calif.-based online education company, for an undisclosed sum.

Founder Patrick Hankinson said last September he was willing to sell all or part of Compilr, and that he would be willing to continue with the company as a standalone company if he didn’t receive the price he wanted. Obviously, Lynda.com stepped forward with the right price.

Founded in 1995, lynda.com provides individual and enterprise customers with access to the lynda.com video library, which provides training in