The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has named the finalists for its 2018-2019 Breakthru entrepreneurship competition.

The provincial innovation agency said Tuesday the five teams will compete for the Grand Prize, Second Place and the CBC Viewers’ Choice awards, with prizes ranging from cash investments by the NBIF and Opportunities New Brunswick to professional services from contributing

A team of researchers in Halifax are on the brink of releasing a pocket-sized medical device that can generate test results in mere minutes, using only a pinprick of blood.

Alentic Microscience is a Halifax-based microscopy company that has developed a new imaging device that instantly reads patients’ results at the point of care, using only a drop of fluid, without the need for bulky

Charlottetown-based drug-manufacturer BioVectra Inc. on Monday announced a five-year, $144.6 million expansion project in its facilities on P.E.I. and in Windsor, N.S.

The company issued a statement saying the funding will include a $37.5 million contribution from the federal government’s Strategic Innovation Fund – the fund’s largest financing ever in Atlantic Canada.  

BioVectra is a contract

Halifax-based LifeRaft, a Software-as-a-Service security company, has struck a partnership with Denver-based information security company DarkOwl, which will improve its ability to find information on the dark web.

LifeRaft’s main product is Navigator, which helps large organizations and other clients to scan social media and other online material to detect threats against them. Under the new

The United Nations Development Programme has won an Innovation in Recruitment Award, using the software of Moncton-based video interview company VidCruiter.

The UN agency announced last week that it received the honor at the 15th annual Career Development Roundtable of International Organizations, held recently in Lisbon. It won the award after successfully hiring 126 people to become resident

Openings for Backend Web and Hybrid App Developers at Halifax-based Code + Mortar headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Code + Mortar is a development company that provides web apps, mobile apps and websites for its customers. The company prides itself on its innovation, and has spun out such successful startups as the educational software company Squiggle Park.

The Job of the Week column

For the second year in a row, a company from Newfoundland and Labrador is a finalist for the US$1 million #DisruptMining competition.

Mining giant Goldcorp Inc. said this week that Anaconda Mining of St. John’s is one of three finalists in the competition for mining technology startups, which will be decided Sunday. The winner will win the opportunity to negotiate a C$1 million investment from

The heads of four Atlantic Canadian companies have been named to the short-list for the 2019 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards, which presents cash prizes of up to $100,000 to winners.

The award organizers this week announced a list of leaders from 18 companies across the country, who are the “qualifying nominees” for the awards this year. The Manning Awards usually hold a reception in

Just months after opening, the cavernous COVE (Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship) building in Dartmouth is feeling lived in, with residents gathering over screens and sharing pizza. But there is room for more innovators and the newest are invited to take their ideas to COVE’s Start-Up Yard incubator.

Managed by Innovacorp, Start-Up Yard has been established to help early-stage

In the heady days of the first dot-com boom, a sketch on a napkin and a sparkle in a coder’s eye could net a nice seed round from angel investors. Subsequent rounds, it seemed, would flow like chocolate at a fondue party.

Then the bubble burst and napkin sketches turned into business plans and three-year forecasts. Investors became a little more sophisticated and entrepreneurs had to learn to