Halifax startup hub Volta has made interim CEO Matt Cooper’s posting permanent, as the former entrepreneur eyes expanded support for more mature startups, increased collaboration with other ecosystem support organizations and a more data-driven approach to advising founders.

Cooper, who joined Volta last year as Chief Innovation Officer, previously co-founded Swept, a cleaning company that went

InnovateCare, a Dartmouth-based conference that discusses medical care and support for seniors through an innovation-focused lens, has announced this year’s keynote speakers.

Slated to be held Oct. 26 at the DoubleTree hotel on Wyse Road, InnovateCare will be headlined by Dr. Saskia Sivananthan, chief science and knowledge translation officer at the Alzheimer Society, and Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, a

Fredericton-based Passiv has closed a US$2.2 million or roughly C$3 million seed funding round following the fintech startup's graduation from the prestigious Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator.

Passiv plans to spend the money developing its new product, SnapTrade, which is an API, or application programming interface. It is intended to allow app developers to connect their software to

At Entrevestor Live on Thursday, we’re teaming up some of the region’s top founders and their investors to tell about their companies’ stories together.

Entrevestor Live is a half-day conference at Volta that showcases some of the greatest successes in the East Coast startup community. It features fireside chats with co-founders from Sonrai Security, Eyeread/Dreamscape and Milk Moovement. Each

CareerBeacon’s purchase of Toronto’s Ruutly, the Moncton recruitment company’s second acquisition this year, was aimed at consolidating pieces of technology that work better as a software suite than as individual tools, according to the heads of both companies.

Ruutly, founded in 2016 and led by CEO Ryan Porter, allows companies to show prospective employees job postings tailored to their

Entrepreneurs and investors converged on Sydney this week for Bring It Together, Navigate Startup House’s inaugural “reverse pitch event.”

Founders who have already raised capital delivered the pitches they used during recent funding rounds, and investors explained why they bought in. The event was moderated by Danielle Strachman, founder of the San Francisco-based 1517 Fund and a former senior

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia has announced the finalists for its Tech Forward Awards, honouring players in the province’s information technology community.

The event will be held Nov. 17 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront at 5:30 p.m. Attendance will cost $80 per person or $720 for a table for Digital Nova Scotia members, or $95 and $855 for non-members. More information and a

Moncton-based online recruitment company CareerBeacon has bought Toronto’s Ruutly, which allows employers to create interactive job ads.

Co-founders Yves Boudreau and Benoit Bourque started what's now CareerBeacon in 2014 to make backend software for online job boards. The company was originally called Qimple, but has since undergone two rebrandings, with the latest having been to adopt the name

Malcolm Fraser, the last CEO of Innovacorp, has taken a new position as Managing Director of NPC Ventures, the new venture capital arm of Charlottetown-based Natural Products Canada.

NPC Ventures aims to be a $50 million fund that invests in companies making products out of natural materials, with a special emphasis on nutrition, human and animal health and agtech. The fund now has $20 million

Entrevestor Live is the best opportunity you’ll find to hear how to build a successful company in Atlantic Canada.

In just three hours, you can hear from 10 East Coast companies that have raised a total of $200 million, and they’ve done it by building operations here in Atlantic Canada.

Entrevestor Live will take place on the afternoon of Oct. 20 – a live event that showcases success in the