Institutions that foster education and innovation are banding together to run the China Program, a series of free events for innovators in the Halifax area.

The programming begins on Feb. 26 and runs on a further five days through March.  It is designed to give attendees a better understanding of China, with the possible aim of exporting their technology into the vast Chinese market.

Organizing

When the chatbot-building company ChatFuel held a global competition for chatbot development recently, Halifax's Janet Chiang was delighted that her company, GoSky AI Digital Marketing, placed fourth. 

Taiwan-based GoSky is a global digital marketing and ad optimization company that builds chatbots, and has offices all over the world. Chiang, a graduate of the Sobey School of Business at St.

Shea Balish did at Super Bowl LII what Tom Brady couldn’t: he came away with a win.

Balish, who cut his entrepreneurial teeth at LaunchDal and Propel ICT, is now the Co-Founder and CEO of Toronto-based Curv, which uses artificial intelligence to help athletes improve performance and avoid injury.

Last weekend, the company was in Minneapolis to participate in a pitching event hosted by the

Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics Inc., has raised $4.3 million in equity financing to further its operations and add to its number of drug candidates.

The company said in a press release it raised the money through a private placement, which was over-subscribed. It received money from new and existing investors, including Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s innovation and venture capital

The startup community in Fredericton is organizing Startup Weekend New Brunswick: Social Impact Edition, to take place Feb. 23 to 26.

Startup Weekends are part of a global movement in which people with an interest in starting a business come together for one intensive weekend to work on the early stages of a startup. On the Friday evening, they present ideas and break into teams. By Sunday, they

Though his main goal is to help web designers collaborate more efficiently with their clients, Shane Long could provide a few lessons for entrepreneurs on bootstrapping.

Long is the Founder and CEO of Fredericton-based Prooflo, which is developing a Software-as-a-Service product that will help website designers communicate and collaborate with their clients. With a background in design, he has

The Sobey School of Business at St. Mary's University this month will host the 2018 Starting Point Student Entrepreneurship Conference, a three-day event that brings together student entrepreneurs for a series of classes, seminars, and presentations.

The conference will host many events for its student participants, including master classes, funder speed-dating and an entrepreneur

Four Halifax clean technology startups have been accepted into Innovacorp’s CleanTech Development Program.

The provincial venture capital and innovation agency established the program to help early-stage companies meet technical and business goals. It awards each winner as much as $50,000 in non-dilutive, non-repayable funds to help them bring their products to market. The goal is to help these

A team from the Sobey School of Business had an exciting weekend at the Venture Capital Investment Competition in Boston, taking home the silver medal and beating teams from prestigious schools like Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dartmouth.

The team from the St. Mary's University business school, comprising students from the university’s venture capital fund Venture Grade,

The Ulnooweg Development Group, a non-profit organization that encourages economic development among the Mi’kmaq people, will lead an initiative to teach digital skills to First Nations children in Atlantic Canada.

Chris Googoo, the chief operating officer of Ulnooweg, said the initiative will focus on key sectors like animation, big data, robotics, artificial intelligence and web development.