Entrepreneurs and mentors from across Atlantic Canada came together Tuesday to learn winning methods to ramp up their sales from global (and local) leaders in the field.

They were in Halifax to attend the second annual Amplify event, organized by Propel, the regional IT accelerator.

The highlight was undoubtedly the international experts brought in to explain best practices in sales and growth

Fifteen Atlantic Canadian startups will pitch at Volta Cohort’s fall pitch event on Nov. 28 in Halifax, and as many as five of them will receive $25,000 each in investment, mentorship and resources.

The event at Pier 21 marks the third intake to Volta Cohort, which is a funding and mentorship program that provides investment and resources for early-stage Atlantic Canadian technology startups. In

Educational groups First Mobile Education of Fredericton and Binogi of Stockholm have announced the signing of an international partnership.

In a statement, the companies said the partnership will help create a multi-linguistic, multi-year, educational curriculum delivered via 2D animated digital video, to be offered across Canada and world-wide.

Gary Stairs, First Mobile’s CEO, said the

After a few years of ups and downs, Halifax-based DeCell Technologies Inc. has struck an agreement that should result in its natural skin grafts reaching the Canadian market in April or May.

Last week, the company struck a deal with RegenMed of Thunder Bay to manufacture and distribute the DeCell product DermGen. RegenMed is the largest tissue bank in Ontario and has deals with other tissue

I had a whirlwind visit to St. John’s last week, touring the new Genesis facility and delivering my presentation on Entrevestor’s 2017 startup data. Here are three things I observed during the trip:

1. There are a LOT of new companies.

The St. John’s ecosystem is accelerating its production of new companies. The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, has now been going for a couple of

Halifax Biomedical Inc. has received U.S. regulatory clearance to use its latest advanced imaging technology with x-ray equipment produced by GE Healthcare.

HBI, which is based in Mabou, Cape Breton, issued a press release Friday saying it has been granted 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Halifax Radiostereometry Upgrade.

Hospitals add this technology to GE

I’m thinking today of two distant cousins I never met because they sacrificed their lives in battle more than 40 years before I was born.

William and Nigel Boyd grew up Edinburgh, the only sons of William Boyd and Pictou, NS-native Laura (Crerar) Boyd. She was the sister of my great-grandmother, Jane (Crerar) MacKeen.My own link to them was a battered footlocker that was in our house until last

Picomole of Moncton won the $65,000 first prize at the BioInnovation Challenge on Thursday, the money will help the company conduct clinical trials on its device that detects cancer through breath samples.

Held during the BioPort Atlantic conference, the BioInnovation Challenge is the region’s main pitching competition for life sciences companies. This year, the winner of the competition

Three women with a range of international startup experience have recently joined support organizations in New Brunswick, greatly enhancing the expertise in the ecosystem.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation announced this week that Laura Richard, who received her PhD in chemistry from Oxford University, has joined the organization as its new Director of Research. And Venn Innovation has

After raising $450,000 from specialist angels who can help the company, St. John’s-based Cyno this week is planning the soft launch of its digital platform for physiotherapy clinics.

Cyno is a year-old Software-as-a-Service company that helps physiotherapists to work with the patients outside of their clinics and outside of office hours. It has developed a digital platform that includes a secure