Today, we’re launching our campaign to ask the founders and CEOs of Atlantic Canadian startups to take two minutes to complete our 2018 survey.

We’re working with partners across the region to enhance our annual analysis of the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

We need your help. In the next week, we will contact founders, asking them to take two minutes to answer the 15 questions in the

Halifax-based Harbr has been recognized as one of this year’s Top 10 Construction Technology Solution Providers by CIO Applications, a Silicon Valley-based technology magazine.

Harbr’s recognition is based on an evaluation of its capabilities in retail artificial intelligence for the construction industry.

“Being amongst this prestigious group of construction innovators is tremendous

Three openings in Halifax headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Digital health company Adaptiiv is in the market for an Operations Associate, while visual marketing SaaS company Dash Hudson is looking for a Junior Customer Success Representative. Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic, an accelerator that operates out of Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business, has an opening for a

A Halifax-based company has created a new skin care line that claims to treat your skin from the inside out. 

Bend Beauty is a high-end skin-care company that produces ingestible supplements that reduce inflammation in the skin and build its resistance against UV radiation.

Customers take a daily dose of the supplements, in liquid or capsule form. The company says this will improve elasticity

The idea for one of Fredericton’s latest tech startups was dreamed up on a hike in Scotland.

As Duncan McSporran and Ryan Groom, the co-founders of Kognitiv Spark cleared their heads in the outdoors and talked about augmented-reality software that could be used for industrial-worker support. McSporran, then in the military, thought it could have the potential for the armed forces.

“It was

The Social Enterprise Network of Nova Scotia and the national Social Enterprise Ecosystem Project have joined up to launch the province’s first impact investment fund, the Social Enterprise Impact Investment Pilot.

The two groups issued a press release Wednesday saying they worked collaboratively to bring the national funds to Nova Scotia to help people looking to start a social enterprise.

The

Halifax-based non-profit Genome Atlantic has announced the development of a $1.4 million research project to develop new surveillance tools to help identify and track genes involved in superbugs.

In a statement, Genome Atlantic said that bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, posing an enormous risk to the agri-food industry and to the health of Canadians.

A team of

Halifax-based Beyond Food Inc. has closed a $1 million funding round to help it launch its system that will convert aging supermarket produce into a powdered food supplement.

The company issued a press release this week saying it raised the money from a range of investors, including several National Hockey League players. The company’s website shows that it plans now to develop its first Zero

Any time an economic metric more than quadruples in one year, you have to figure it was a pretty good year. So, 2018 was definitely a good period for funding by New Brunswick startups.

Though all the funding from last year has yet to be announced, the deals that are already public amount to about $69 million in 2018. This compares with the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association

As it extends its mandate beyond the university’s business school, the Saint Mary’s University Entrepreneurship Centre is focusing more heavily on helping students launch social enterprises.

Founded almost two decades ago as the Sobey School Business Development Centre, the SMU Entrepreneurship Centre helps students learn about entrepreneurship and start their own businesses. It is now