Halifax-based Kinduct Technologies has signed a contract with the Nova Scotia Health Authority that will allow the roll-out of a new program to improve the treatment of orthopedic patients in the province.

The contract nails down the details of an agreement announced in April, when the NSHA teamed up with Kinduct, Montreal-based Emovi Inc., and Halifax’s OrthoMX to reveal a new suite of digital

Cirrus9, a Saint John-based managed cloud and data center operator, has been acquired by Carbon60 for an undisclosed price, and will now grow as part of Carbon60’s coast-to-coast operation.

Founded nine years ago by CEO Fred Bullock, Cirrus9 operates data centres, managed enterprise cloud infrastructure and related hosting services and support. It serves customers in both the public and private

There have been two main trends in the Newfoundland and Labrador startup community in recent years – the flood of new companies, and the accelerating advance of its most successful ventures.

This is rare. Some communities do a great job of nurturing their best companies, but without bringing in a new wave of entrepreneurs. Others continue to encourage and train new entrepreneurs, while their

The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development and BoomersPlus.com have teamed up to develop a network of mentors to support the startup ecosystem in Nova Scotia.

CEED and BoomersPlus issued a press release Tuesday saying they’re now involved in two pilot programs in which experienced business people are helping entrepreneurs to launch and/or grow their businesses.

Halifax-based

My wish-list for the Cape Breton startup community in 2020 (or shortly thereafter) is short and sweet – 1. a university computer science program, and 2. an angel group.

These points came up in the discussion after I delivered Entrevestor’s startup data presentation at Cape Breton University’s Verschuren Centre in Sydney last week. The presentation, sponsored by Onside and the Cape Breton

For cloud-computing startup Manifold, a new business model is offering a path to faster growth.

Manifold’s online platform gives tech companies the ability to purchase software for their computer programmers, track how much money is being spent on the software and distribute in-house programming tools.

Now, the four-year-old business is testing a new sales strategy in which its marketplace will

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Performance Marketing Strategist at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos.

It was bad luck for Enginuity that it scheduled its Robotics and Automation Day on Nov. 28, the day an early snowstorm made travel to its Spryfield headquarters a bit tricky.

But the Halifax-based engineering and design company had provoked enough curiosity about its robotics shop that it attracted a good crowd not once but twice. Some supporters braved the elements on the original date, and

St. John’s-based legal-tech company Rally has raised $750,000 in equity funding, with which it plans to expand its development and sales teams.

The company on Wednesday held a press conference at the Emera Innovation Exchange in St. John’s to announce the funding. Venture NL (the fund managed by Pelorus Venture Capital) and St. John’s-based Killick Capital both invested $250,000 in the company,

Applications have opened for Innovacorp’s Sprint competition, which awards a total of $100,000 to early-stage innovation-driven startups in Nova Scotia.

The applications are open until midnight Jan. 6 and can be found here. Winners will be notified Jan. 17.

“The goal of Sprint is to find and support high potential, early stage knowledge-based companies, and encourage entrepreneurial activity in