Energia Ventures, the University of New Brunswick’s cleantech accelerator, will hold the Demo Day for its second cohort Wednesday night at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton.

Six companies will present at the event, which begins at 6 pm. You can register to attend here.

The UNB Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program launched Energia about two years ago to help energy,

Atlantic Canada recorded almost twice the venture capital investment in the first nine months of 2018 compared with the same period last year, powered by record funding in New Brunswick.

The Canadian Venture Capital Association on Monday released its funding data for the third quarter, which said the region booked about $41 million in 16 VC deals. The big news was that New Brunswick, which had a

After taking his online treatment for anxiety through an initial pilot, Joel Muise is now working with those at the coalface of anxiety—entrepreneurs—before launching TranquilityOnline to the general public in the new year.

TranquilityOnline aims to make getting treatment for anxiety affordable and timely by allowing users to access online support through a coach rather than a therapist. Coaches

HotSpot, the Fredericton company whose app allows for easy transportation payments, has established its first beachhead outside Atlantic Canada with a service for Peterborough, Ont.

The announcement Friday of a new service for metered and pay-and-display parking in Peterborough was one of several notices in the last month that show the expansion of the company. HotSpot also issued statements

Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, President and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, has been named a Top 100 Award Winner in KPMG’s Women's Executive Network (WXN) 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women event. It is the fourth year in a row she has made the list and so has been inducted into the WXN Hall of Fame.

The list of Top 100 Winners recognizes outstanding women across Canada who have advocated for workplace

Bo Simango is $70,000 away from deploying new technology that could improve the efficiency, security and safety of a hospital in Haiti, a developing country still recovering from a devastating 2010 earthquake.

Simango is the Co-Founder and CEO of SIA, a St. John’s company that is developing a Bluetooth-enabled tool that can help people in large facilities find equipment quickly. He and his team

Dalhousie University has doubled the number of women entering its computer science program, fulfilling a commitment it announced in 2017 in celebration of the university’s 200th anniversary.

Female enrolment numbers are now 144 percent higher than they were when the goal was set internally in 2016.

Computer science workers are in high demand and the field remains dominated by male graduates, so

Halifax-based Panag Pharma, which is making pain-relief products from natural compounds found in cannabis plants, has agreed to be bought for as much as $27 million by Ontario’s Tetra Bio-Pharma.

Based in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans, Tetra is a drug discovery company that specializes in developing treatments based on such compounds – known as cannabinoid-based drug discovery. The company, which

Innovacorp has awarded a total of $725,000 to 17 different companies under its Accelerate Program and Start-Up Yard Cohorts.

The Nova Scotia Crown corporation last week revealed the winners of the two programs, which provide non-dilutive funding, incubation space and mentoring to young MedTech, OceanTech and CleanTech companies. The members of the Startup Yard cohorts will also get space at the

BreatheSuite is about to launch a 30-person test of its new inhaler technology, whose purpose is to ensure people use common inhaler devices correctly.

BreatheSuite is a new company based in St. John’s that has developed software and hardware that aim to correct the improper use of inhalers. If successful, it could improve treatment for the millions of people who suffer from asthma and chronic