St. John’s innovation hub Genesis has appointed Ed Martin, formerly Director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, its new President and Chief Executive Officer.

Before working as director at MCE, Martin co-founded and led Clockwork Fox Studios, creator of the popular education platform Zorbit's Math Adventure, leading the company through to its acquisition in 2021. He also worked as

Dependbuild, the St. John's maker of cloud software that helps municipalities and infrastructure developers assess risks to construction projects, has been accepted into TechStars accelerator in Ohio State University in Columbus.

The accelerator for nascent companies offers a three-month program, USD$120,000, mentoring and access to an extensive network.

Dependbuild Chief Operating

The University of New Brunswick's 2024 Future of Innovation Conference in Fredericton will focus on solutions for problems that are persistent throughout Canada and the world.

The annual conference, hosted by the university's J Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship, takes place this Friday, October 11, at UNB’s Wu Centre from 8:30am to 5:00pm. Each session will

It was a willingness to pivot based on market feedback that helped propel Halifax-based Dash Hudson to an enterprise employing 220 people, but it may have been a resolute focus on human resources that made the business sustainable.

Audiences at Entrevestor Live last month heard from Co-Founder Tomek Niewiarowski and Vice-President of Operations Jill Hennigar that while Dash Hudson was founded in

Having just closed $10 million in funding, Sparrow BioAcoustics is setting its sights on building the world’s biggest databank of cardiological recordings, and helping doctors and patients understand how that can help them.

Last week, the five-year-old St. John’s medtech company announced it had closed a $13 million seed round, led by Killick Capital, Klister Credit and Pelorus Ventures. In an

St. John’s-based Mysa has closed an $11 million round of funding, which is a continuation of the $20.3 million Series B round it announced in 2021.

The investors in the continuation round are all returning from the previous funding round: Climate Innovation Capital (CIimateIC), Cycle Capital, Bruce Croxon’s Round 13 Capital, Business Development Bank of Canada, and Killick Capital. The original

As he mourns his late wife, educator Mary Kilfoil, Ed Leach focuses on their joint commitment to boosting entrepreneurship and employment among older workers. It’s an issue of fairness, but Leach stresses that prolonged working is also better for the individual and the nation.

“Employing older adults can have a positive impact on the economy, particularly in boosting GDP,” Leach told

Two weeks after it won entry to a high-profile American accelerator, Halifax-based Wellnify has announced a partnership agreement with another Nova Scotia company, outdoor gym equipment-maker Outdoor-Fit Exercise Systems.

Under the deal, 61 schools in Milwaukee where Outdoor-Fit has already installed its exercise equipment will have access to Wellnify’s app, which aims to use gamification and

Two weeks after Dartmouth-based Aurea Technologies opened its Kickstarter campaign for the next generation of its portable wind turbines, the company has raised over 13 times its goal, as CEO Cat Adalay eyes deliveries in January or February.

The campaign to fund production of the Shine 2.0 originally had a target of $30,000, but Aurea actually received $405,000 worth of pre-orders for 600

Invest Nova Scotia has announced the 10 companies joining the latest cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Now in its fourth year, Accelerate offers participating startups four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding. It is completely virtual and aimed at companies that have already established market opportunities for products based on science or engineering-related