As it plots the expansion of its Cannaplex innovation hub, Dartmouth-based Dispension Industries has also just installed its first Verified Identity Dispenser, or VID, in a pilot project in Vancouver.

Dispension created the VID to allow authorities to distribute regulated substances like cannabis or opioids to registered users, and only those users. The machines use scanning sensors to take

The presentations of our 2018 Atlantic Canada Startup Data research will continue with a luncheon event in Sydney on Dec. 10.

Cape Breton Partnership and OnSide are hosting my presentation of our latest startup data at noon at the Verschuren Centre for Sustainability at Cape Breton University.

Each year, Entrevestor charts the growth of the startup community, collecting data on such metrics as

We’re launching something new today on Entrevestor – our first Atlantic Canada Ecosystem Roadmap.

The Roadmap is designed to help anyone find information about the startup ecosystem in the region. It’s a new section on our website that helps you find out information on the organizations that support startups. Just click on the icon on the right of our home page to visit the Roadmap.

We’ve

After being elected Premier of New Brunswick, Brian Gallant gave himself the job of Minister of Innovation within his cabinet, and today he’s continuing that focus in a new role.

After being out of office for almost a year, Gallant last month was named a special adviser to the President of Toronto-based Ryerson University, focusing on innovation, cybersecurity and law. He was also selected as an

Energia Ventures next month will hold the Demo Day for its third cohort – a group rich in cybersecurity expertise.

Overseen by the University of New Brunswick’s Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program, Energia is an annual accelerator that works with startups involved in energy, smart grid, cleantech or cybersecurity. These are sectors in which Fredericton has strong expertise.

This

Chief Terrance Paul of Nova Scotia’s Membertou First Nation has been awarded the 2020 Aboriginal business award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.

Paul has been Chief of Membertou First Nation for 35 years and is CEO of Membertou Development Corporation, which is the first Indigenous organization in the world to receive an ISO 9001 certification and was

Appili Therapeutics Inc., the Halifax drug-discovery company that listed its shares in Toronto last spring, has acquired the rights to develop a new anti-fungal drug candidate from a Japanese drug company.

Appili issued a statement Thursday saying it has signed an agreement with Fujifilm Toyama Chemical Co. of Tokyo to develop an anti-fungal drug that can be used to fight such hard-to-cure

Verafin’s record-breaking venture capital deal showed up big-time in the most recent quarterly data report by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

The CVCA’s third-quarter data shows that Atlantic Canadian companies raised $532 million in venture capital in the third quarter, almost all of it attributable to Verafin’s $515 million equity and debt deal reported in

Five founders carted off very big cheques worth a total of $125,000 at the standing-room-only Volta Cohort pitching competition in Halifax on Wednesday night.

In its fifth pitching event, the Volta Cohort invested $25,000 in each of five companies, meaning it has now channeled a total of $650,000 into 26 startups based in Atlantic Canada. Volta, the Halifax startup hub, organizes the event twice

St. John’s-based Oliver POS is taking on about 10 clients a week for its online point-of-sales systems, so it now has clients on six continents. And it’s hoping to ramp that number up to 30 per week soon. The company, which began last year, says these sales have come about through customers seeking the company rather than the other way around.

“We’ve never spent a dollar in marketing,” said CEO