The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the dozen finalists for the 2017 Breakthru competition in the build-up to revealing the winners in late March.

Breakthru is the innovation agency’s flagship competition, held every second year. It aims to bring entrepreneurs into the startup community and usher them through the early stages of starting a business.

To reach the semi-finals,

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re showcasing an opening for software developers (Computer Vision) with one of the regions hottest startups, Resson.

Fredericton-based Resson launched four years ago to create software that would assess data from a range of sources on a farm. They developed a system called RAMAS, which collects data from such sources as tractors, sensors buried in the

A four-member group of Atlantic Canadian members of Parliament has wrapped up a tour of the region to hear the concern of innovators and entrepreneurs from the oceans, tech, clean tech, and social innovation sectors.

Andy Fillmore (Halifax), Matt DeCourcey (Fredericton), Sean Casey (Charlottetown), and Nick Whalen (St. John’s East) sought feedback from stakeholders that will form policy

Mathias Nielsen is like a one-man diversity project. Born in Denmark, Nielsen once developed an app in China that gauged the authenticity of expensive alcohol. Now he’s based in St. John’s where he’s launched technology that helps mink farmers better manage their operations.

The Mink Manager technology provides farmers with services such as analytics, reports, medical test tracking and

Propel ICT, the regional accelerator, has released a tentative schedule for the Build Program in its coming cohort.

Build is the program for scaling companies, those with revenues and looking to grow their businesses. The next 12-week program will be held this winter, and applications for the Build and Launch programs are available here and open until Jan. 31. Launch is the program for new

Digital Nova Scotia and Women in Communications and Technology are pleased to announce a partnership agreement.

Under the partnership, the two non-profit organizations will collaborate on a number of initiatives, including their respective awards programs and an industry roundtable session to be held in Halifax in March 2017.

Award recipients of DNS’ Digital Diversity Awards will automatically

BlueLight Analytics Inc., a Halifax company that helps ensure the proper curing of dental fillings, has partnered with industrial giant 3M Corp. to greatly expand the startup’s sales power in the U.S.

The two companies announced the partnership on Wednesday. Under the terms of the deal, 3M salespeople will offer BlueLight’s flagship product checkMARC, which helps to ensure dentists use their

The Fundica Roadshow, now in its fifth year, has launched its $1 million pitching competition, and will have a session in Halifax on April 6.

The Halifax pitching event will be held at the Innovacorp Enterprise Centre. You can apply to pitch here.

Presented by Intuit and its partner First Stone Venture Partners, the Fundica Roadshow is a national competition that offers an investment award of $1,000,000 to Canada’s most promising startup.

With 10 stops from Halifax to Victoria, a select group of early-stage innovators will get a chance to pitch their business to a panel of angels, VCs,

There’s something I hate about this time of the year – even more than shoveling.

I have to pester people about filling in our survey. So this post is a not-so-subtle request to fill our survey in before I start contacting people and asking them directly. I hate doing it, and really appreciate everyone who completes the survey unnagged.

You can find our survey here.

A key component of our

The Business Development Bank of Canada is seeing growing optimism among Canada’s small- and medium-sized businesses, with particular strength in the national technology sector and across Atlantic Canada.

The BDC, the business-focused financial institution owned by the federal government, on Monday released its annual survey of 4,000 of those businesses and their intentions for the coming year.