Pens made from recycled pop bottles and lanyards formed from factory scraps don’t sound particularly appealing. But Jane Mitchell, owner of Oyster Promo Inc., is building a business around companies’ desire to promote their environmental consciousness.

Oyster Promo provides sustainable promotional products. Mitchell established the Halifax-based company just over a year ago. She said business

Affinio announced this week that it is launching a new product that assesses business sentiment by studying data produced by LinkedIn.

The three-year-old Halifax company has developed an advanced database technology that allows low-cost, real-time processing of social network data to determine how every person on the web is connected. It mines publicly available social media posts and other

WellTrack, the Fredericton company that provides online help with mental health issues, has been accepted into the prestigious 500 Startups accelerator in Silicon Valley – only the second Atlantic Canadian company to do so.

The accelerator group announced Wednesday through a post on TechCrunch that it had named 44 companies to its 20th cohort, one-third of them from outside the U.S. WellTrack –

Keith Flynn is starting 2017 with more optimism than 2016.

The president and founder of RtTech Software, the Moncton-based company specializing in the Industrial Internet of Things, is bursting with good news. The company spent the last year forming partnerships with several international players, and those relationships are turning into sales.

The company’s products are now being used in 28

Halifax-based Immunovaccine Inc., a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, has announced that its main drug candidate for battling cancer will go through a Phase 2 clinical trial.

The publicly listed company said this week that its DPX-Survivac cancer vaccine candidate and a product of the New Jersey-based pharma giant Merck will be the subject of a Phase 2 trial at the Princess Margaret Cancer

Halifax-based QRA Corp., which helps manufacturers eliminate design flaws early in the development process, has launched a new tool to ensure everyone working on a project can understand the written requirements.

After a successful beta program, QVscribe is now available to defense, aerospace, and automotive industries customers looking to improve their requirements documents. If left untouched,

When Denis Carignan met Keith McIntosh 18 months ago, they didn’t realize their encounter would lead to a new business that has the potential to employ 1,000 indigenous people across Canada.

The business is Plato Testing, a Fredericton company that is building a network of aboriginal software testers. It is set to have 50 employees by June, based mainly in New Brunswick and Vancouver, and its

The Atlantic Lottery Corp. will soon pilot a new product that came into being because it placed a bunch of geeks at the heart of Halifax’s innovation Hub.

The lottery organization, which is owned by the four Atlantic Provinces, will begin a 1,500-person pilot project this month for its new product Winvelope. It is the first product to come out of the Crown corporation’s innovation outpost at

The focus of the Job of the Week column this week is an opening for a software engineer at Halifax-based LeadSift.

LeadSift is building a sales intelligence platform that searches social media to help corporations understand people’s buying intentions and find the best candidates for a sale. It assesses a prospect's interests, mindset and willingness to buy. The LeadSift system identifies these

The Money Finder has found money.

The Money Finder, the Halifax startup that helps financial advisers plan cash flow for their clients, has landed $1.75 million in venture capital financing from Build Ventures and Innovacorp.

Innovacorp invested $250,000 in the firm in September. And on Tuesday night, the startup closed a $1.5-million equity financing round with Build Ventures, the Atlantic