Mariner Partners, the 350-person firm founded by former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Gerry Pond, along with execs Bob Justason and Curtis Howe, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

The three men founded Mariner in Saint John without a specific market offering, but with a goal of using innovation to increase the prosperity of Atlantic Canada.

Today, Mariner is the umbrella corporation

Halifax-based Shoelace Learning has attracted investment from BDC Capital’s Thrive Venture Fund, closing out an oversubscribed seed round that the edtech company had originally targeted at $4 million. 

Shoelace previously announced a US$3 million first close of the round in November, and said at the time it expected the round to reach US$4.5 million. The round was led by female-focused venture

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship plans to roll out a system to digitally monitor Halifax harbour with an eye to commercial applications, initially under a partnership with local data company CarteNav Solutions.

Under its Digital Harbour: Seabed to Space program, COVE plans to gather data from buoys, underwater sensors, land-based and aerial sensors and

Atlantic Canada's Sandpiper Ventures, the female-focused venture capital fund, has made an investment of an undisclosed amount in Toronto’s Gotcare, which is developing an artificial intelligence system for home healthcare services.

Gotcare, founded by CEO Chenny Xia, has grown from $100,000 in annual revenue to $4 million today, Sandpiper said in a statement.

The company works with insurance

Dartmouth’s Nxtgen Care, which sells technology for tracking the activities of staff and residents in assisted living facilities, is expanding into Florida and Louisiana as CEO David Burke eyes about US$2.5 million in new sales in 2023.

Nxtgen is used in care homes in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, as well as in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee — the result of a United States

With the video game industry enjoying increasing prominence in Atlantic Canada, Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Computer Science is getting in on the action with an event from Feb. 3 to 5 that promises to teach novice developers the basics of coding video games.

Global Game Jam, as Dalhousie dubs the event, will last 48 hours and teach participants to design and develop a video game from

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship hosted eight United Kingdom-based companies at a pitch event Monday as part of a broader partnership with British government agencies Innovate UK and Innovate UK Edge.

The eight innovative businesses, some of which are recently founded and some of which are more established players bringing new technologies to market, comprised

A community fridge in Halifax that is used and stocked anonymously by local citizens is in need of donations due to growing demand.

Founded a year ago by students and recent grads, the fridge is located outside the Glitter Bean Café off Spring Garden Road. Keeping it filled is increasingly difficult, said board member and spokesperson Rhyan Schennery.

“Over the last year, we have noticed

Commercial space flight startup Maritime Launch Services is eyeing suborbital rocket launches from its under-construction facility in Canso, Nova Scotia, this year, as the federal government promises to modernize aerospace regulations to accommodate the private space industry.

MLS Chief Executive Steve Matier said in an interview that his company is taking a “crawl, walk, run” approach to its

The Singapore-based Liveability Challenge is seeking entrants -- including bluetech companies -- for its competition for technlogy that can battle climate change and/or improve food production. 

Founded five years ago to address major challenges, the Liveability Challenge is this year doubling its prize money for a grand prize of up to $1 million for the winners of each of two tracks: climate