Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe said Thursday it will be the first casino in the Lake Tahoe area to install b4easypost, the credit card authorization payment and posting platform developed by Halifax’s b4checkin.

The hotel said in a statement it partnered with b4checkin to ensure customers have peace of mind when making various types of payments at the property. b4easypost allows people to

Students from Wolfville’s Acadia University won an undergraduate venture capital contest at a recent event, with a team from  Mount Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick, taking second.  Teams from other regional schools also won accolades.

The international Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) was held March 8 at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.  The school hosted ten teams of venture

TotaliQ, a St. John’s IT company that helps businesses use the expertise of their workforce, has struck a partnership with Université de Moncton to develop artificial intelligence for the product.

The company is currently working on an implementation project with the St. John’s engineering firm Cahill Group. It hopes that Cahill will be the first adopter of the technology and that more clients

Led by an off-the-charts performance in New Brunswick, Atlantic Canada recorded $158 million in venture capital investment in 2018, accounting for its biggest ever proportion of Canada’s VC funding.

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, known as the CVCA, released its annual data on Wednesday, which showed that VC funding in Atlantic Canada rose by 60 percent from $99

The National Angel Capital Organization wants to help nourish local investment groups in Atlantic Canada, but its CEO stresses that the development of angel groups in the region has to be organic.

In an interview in his Toronto office last week, Yuri Navarro said the Canadian umbrella organization for angel investment groups has been focusing on Atlantic Canada lately. The goal is to provide the

In what is described as a first for Canada, the Atlantic Canada Marketing and Export Centre, or AMEC, is opening a virtual centre that will support the marketing efforts of small and medium-sized enterprises in New Brunswick. 

The aim is to help SMEs pursue international business opportunities. The Government of Canada is providing a grant of $147,000 for the project through the Atlantic Canada

Having secured such enterprise clients as TD Ameritrade and the Globe and Mail, stock market analysis company Patchell Brook Equity Analytics is expecting dramatic growth in 2019.

The Miramichi company’s product is StockCalc—an automated service designed to calculate the intrinsic value of publicly traded companies and exchange traded funds.

“Every night we run six different valuation models on

Fredericton-based Eigen Innovation has received financing of more than $800,000 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, which will fund marketing programs.

ACOA issued a statement on Tuesday saying the company would receive a conditional loan of $708,067 through the agency’s Business Development Program. It will also receive two $50,000 grants to help the company hire a lead data

Fredericton-based Sapien has launched its Lightdogs app on Apple’s App Store, and people in several countries have downloaded the app in the hope it will ease them off their cell phone addictions.

Sapien’s mission is to encourage people to spend less time on their phones – and odd as it may sound, it’s invented a mobile app to accomplish the task.

Its new app lets people build up points the

Cribcut, whose online platform connects mobile hair stylists and clients, has raised $1.06 million in equity funding to help finance its expansion across Canada and the U.S.

The Halifax company issued a statement saying that it has closed a second pre-seed round of $800,000, bringing its total pre-seed funding up over the million-dollar mark.

Investors in the round include Ramen Ventures,