The organizers of the first InnovateNB Awards, which will be handed out at a gala in Saint John on Tuesday, have announced the shortlist.

The shortlist features three finalists in each of eight categories, which include such fields as diversity and inclusion and most innovative startup. In addition to these categories, the winners of the Premier’s Award for Innovation and the Hall of Fame will

Halifax dental technology startup PhotoDynamic has hired a new CEO to steer the company through the commercialization process.

Ying Tam, whose last job was as managing director of health at Toronto startup hub MaRS Discovery District, succeeds Martin Greenwood.

Tam’s first major initiative is to take PhotoDynamic’s flagship product, PhytoLight, to market in what he describes as a “controlled

Fredericton’s Symbodi and Halifax’s Milk Moovement were named to Deloitte Canada’s 2022 Companies To Watch list, after reporting revenue growth of 3,084 percent and 246 percent respectively over the past three years.

The global services company named St. John's-based Mysa Smart Thermostat to its Clean Technology list after the company posted revenue growth of 307 percent over four years.

Jevon MacDonald, one of the pre-eminent tech entrepreneurs in the region, has launched a new venture after teaming up with two co-founders in the San Francisco area.

MacDonald, the former CEO of Manifold and GoInstant, earlier this year co-founded Tier, which has developed a tool that helps Software-as-a-Service companies figure out their price points and simplify their billing processes.

The Black Startup Project is inviting BIPOC entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada to submit a two-minute video pitch on which they will receive personalized feedback from Black mentors, entrepreneurs, facilitators, and industry allies.

The top five pitches will each win $500 to put toward their business, organizer Alfred Burgesson, CEO of the organizing Tribe Network said in an email.

Pitches are

St. John’s-based PragmaClin Research is preparing to test its system for monitoring Parkinson’s Disease patients in both Newfoundland and Labrador and Britain on the back of raising more than $1 million of non-dilutive funding since its founding.

Created in 2020 by Memorial University PhD candidate Bronwyn Bridges and Gord Genge, a Parkinson’s sufferer, PragmaClin uses depth-sensing cameras and

Armando Balboni, the CEO of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics is leaving his role to become the company’s chairman and rejoin the United States military as Director of the Life Sciences Research Center at the United States Air Force academy. He will also oversea a deal that will see Appili produce a tularemia vaccine for the Department of Defence.

The deal, worth US$14 million

The PEI BioAlliance has received $3.18 million in funding from the governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island to help fund the next iteration of its Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator.

The federal government’s Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency issued a press release on Thursday saying it would provide $2.35 million through the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program. The

My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

 

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid

But a token still

As on Calvary Hill

Of the greater sacrifice made.

 

It stands as a lonely sentinel

O’er the place where the hero sleeps

‘Neath a lowly

MESH/Diversity, the New Brunswick company whose software helps organizations improve diversity and inclusion, has launched a new program to help human resource executives and others improve their skills.

The company announced recently that it is now offering the new DEI Builder program, a three-week course that helps to train people in the skills needed in diversity, equity and inclusion, or