St. John’s-based Safa, which uses an artificial intelligence solution to help companies retain employees, has launched its product Safa Insight and is already working with its first enterprise client in the U.S.

The company issued a press release last week that also said it has been accepted into Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley organization that runs a series of accelerators for

The startup ecosystem in the region’s largest city got a boost Thursday with the launch of two initiatives overseen by the Halifax Partnership – the Halifax Innovation Outpost and the Halifax Innovation District.

Located at Volta, the Halifax Innovation Outpost is a new office whose mission is to nurture innovation that can improve the lives of Haligonians and help the city’s innovators work

A pair of openings at Halifax-based Dash Hudson and an opportunity at Dalhousie University’s Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

The Newman Centre is Dalhousie’s hub for entrepreneurship, assisting students and staff across the university’s faculties who are interested in pursuing business ideas. The centre is looking for an Associate Director of

One of the highlights of 2019 for me was transcribing a bunch of old family papers, including correspondence from the First World War when my grandfather and his brother were artillery officers.

Each Remembrance Day, I always think of my grandfather H.P. MacKeen, and his service in the Great War. This year I know more about his time overseas than ever before because I went through his letters

Relationship intelligence company Introhive has placed No. 10 in the 2019 Deloitte Technology Fast50, the first Atlantic Canadian company to break the top 10 in the prestigious pan-Canadian competition.

The global consultancy Deloitte on Thursday announced the winner of the Canadian program, which ranks tech companies based on four years of revenue history. Introhive, based in Fredericton and

Fifteen Atlantic Canadian tech startups have been selected to pitch at the fall 2019 Volta Cohort Pitch Event on Wednesday, Nov. 20 in Halifax.

As many as five companies will receive $25,000 in investment as well as mentorship, office space and other benefits.

Volta Cohort launched in 2017 to address the lack of early-stage investment and resources available to young tech startups in the

Fredericton-based augmented reality company Kognitiv Spark has been named to the Companies-to-Watch list as a part of Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast50 Awards.

The Companies-to-Watch award highlights emerging Canadian tech companies that exhibit strong growth and show potential to be a future candidate for the Technology Fast50 award.  Like the main Fast50 list, the results are based on revenue

Motryx, the Halifax company whose technology improves the transportation of blood samples, has won the $55,000 BioInnovation Challenge, Atlantic Canada’s top pitching competition for life sciences companies.

Co-Founder and CEO Franziska Broell pitched the company at the finals on Wednesday at BioNova’s Bioport Atlantic competition. The other finalists were Charlottetown-based AgTech company

Please join us Nov. 13 for Entrevestor's State of the Startup Community presentation at the Wu Centre at University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

Each year, Entrevestor charts the growth of the startup community, collecting data on such metrics as company launches, funding, employment and revenue. I will present our findings for the region overall and focus on the metrics for New Brunswick.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the keynote speakers at its R3 2020 gala will be Jeff Dahn, the NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair at Dalhousie University, and Vincenzo Guida, research fellow for Procter & Gamble.

First held 11 years ago, R3 is a biennial event that recognizes leaders in applied research at New Brunswick universities and research institutions.