Dane Creek Capital Corp. this week agreed to buy pet-related assets of Dartmouth-based Nature’s Way Canada in its latest step in building up a Nova Scotia-based portfolio of sustainable pet food products.

Dane Creek is a Mississauga, Ont.-based merchant bank specializing in pet-related businesses, and in the last nine months it has done three deals in Nova Scotia.

As a result, it has

The fifth annual Big Data Congress, to be held in Halifax in November, will feature something that none of the previous four have – a focus on specific sectors.

Alternating between Saint John and Halifax, the Congress is an annual celebration of data analytics, and its goal is to help traditional businesses, government and organizations understand how Big Data can assist them. The theme this

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is replacing its Research & Development Corporation with a new body called InnovateNL, whose first chair is Killick Capital President Mark Dobbin.

In a statement last week, the government said the creation of InnovateNL is the next step in its plan to foster greater innovation and accelerating business growth in the province. InnovateNL will fall under

Last Friday, Halifax’s Trip Ninja integrated its travel-planning platform with Galileo, a computer reservations system owned by the international travel service company TravelPort.

It was one more step in a three-year process in an entrepreneurial journey that began when co-founder Andres Collart tried booking a trip to several European cities and learned of the difficulties in doing so. Since

Moncton-based RtTech Software announced last week that its Cipher platform has received a major certification for interoperability in the industrial automation space.

The Industrial Internet of Things company, whose products help industrial companies reduce their energy consumption, announced that the OPC Foundation has certified its Cipher Embedded OPC UA Linux Connector.

OPC is the

Dash Hudson continues to grow its staff, and its opening for a Sales Development Representative in Halifax is the focus of this edition of Job of the Week.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps its corporate clients to create and distribute photos and video, then analyze their impact. The system is an integrated solution to predict, measure, and

Attitudes and expectations within Atlantic Canada’s innovation community need to change to improve entrepreneurs’ well-being, writes researcher Michael DeVenney in the sixth and final part of his report into entrepreneurship and mental health.

Halifax-based entrepreneur DeVenney began The Mindset Project survey in May 2016. He received 485 replies to his extensive questionnaire, 80 percent of

LaunchDal graduated its summer cohort of entrepreneurs on Wednesday night with pitches from 11 teams that were heavily weighted in hardware and oceans technology.

Almost all the teams Dalhousie University's LaunchPad program are working with or have lined up early adopters, and some have already raised capital from sources other than the university.

Led by entrepreneurship professor Mary

With a couple of clients in the bag and some leads in the sales funnel, Isaac Adejuwon has a singular goal for his company Metricsflow to reach by year-end – $10,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

The company began last year and has made rapid progress in developing its tool to help companies convert their content-marketing audience into clients. The five-member team has produced its minimum

In a deal that will triple its capacity, Volta Labs has signed a lease to take out 60,000 square feet of space in the Maritime Centre in Halifax.

The startup house this winter will take over the ground, mezzanine and second floors of the 19-storey office tower on Barrington Street. It has signed a new lease with Slate Office REIT, which owns the building, to establish Volta as a cornerstone of