by Peter Moreira

Metamaterial Technologies Inc. plans to raise more than $10 million in fresh capital when it lists its shares on the Canadian Security Exchange later this year.

The Dartmouth-based company, which makes synthetic materials that can alter the properties of light, announced Friday night that it plans to merge with Continental Precious Minerals of Toronto and together they will

Metamaterial Technologies Inc. is going public.

News of the Dartmouth-based company’s plan to go public broke Friday night when publicly listed Continental Precious Minerals Inc. issued a statement saying the two companies would merge and list on the Canadian Securities Exchange.

MTI, which makes products that can alter the properties of light, is one of a parade of Atlantic Canadian

Resqunit Canada Inc., the North American subsidiary of Norwegian oceantech company Resqunit A/S, is setting up in Halifax as a base for its growth in Canada and the U.S.

The parent company has developed a floatation device that can be attached to lobster traps and other equipment to ensure these traps are not lost on the ocean floor. Resqunit has already sold 5,000 units of the product and will

Fredericton-based Beauceron Security, which helps clients improve their cybersecurity culture, has agreed to offer training services through the organization that oversees the .ca domain registration.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority, or CIRA, issued a statement Wednesday saying it has launched its new D-Zone Cybersecurity Awareness Training platform. It will use the Beauceron

Halifax-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies and three partners plan to apply to Canada’s Ocean Supercluster for support for R&D into GIT’s product, a coating that protects ships and equipment from the sea.

GIT, which uses the innovative material graphene as the basis of its coating, announced Wednesday that it had joined a partnership to assess how well its product works in ocean

As Fredericton-based Rise prepares to monetize its online platform, it will do so with a newly acquired environmental certification.

Rise runs a website that offers home-building and renovation advice for environmentally conscious consumers. It has now been certified as a “B Corporation” by Pennsylvania-based nonprofit B Lab.

B Corporations are required to pass a stringent certification process

Proof, whose SaaS platform helps governments make better decisions, can add another trophy to the cabinet, having won the Pitch@Palace event in Toronto last month.

The company, which is a resident of Volta in Halifax, has quietly been building a list of national programs that it has entered and excelled in.  The latest was the Canadian leg of Pitch@Palace, an international competition championed

Fredericton-based eChart Healthcare, whose technology improves communication in long-term care facilities, has raised an $800,000 funding round that includes $200,000 from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

EChart has developed an innovative digital patient-charting system that simplifies the way long-term care facilities track the health of their patients. The cloud-based system allows

The Halifax Partnership unveiled its Halifax Index on Monday, revealing that surging population growth, especially among young people, has led to an increase in GDP.

The annual assessment of the economy of the Nova Scotian capital shows that the population increased by 2 percent in 2018, and the strongest growth was in the 25- to 39-year-old age group. That population increase contributed to a

Atlantic Canada has the world’s fourth best “activation stage” ecosystem for startups, says Silicon Valley think tank Startup Genome.

The organization each year ranks startup ecosystems around the world, and Innovacorp signed up Atlantic Canada to be included in the 2019 study. Startup Genome has classified Atlantic Canada as an “activation phase” ecosystem, meaning its support system is