Yarmouth-based Ignite Labs has opened a second rural innovation hub in Pictou County to support the startup community in the northern part of Nova Scotia.

Ignite is a rural innovation hub that provides mentorship and opportunities for startups. The new space at 39 Acadia Avenue in Stellarton will provide low-cost office space and internet, equipment and professional services to reduce the

MESH/diversity, the Moncton company that helps organizations measure and improve diversity, has raised a $950,000 equity funding round, including a $250,000 contribution from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

This is the first time NBIF has invested in MESH/diversity. The other investors in this round are the Saint John investment group East Valley Ventures – which invested in the company

Halifax-based Dash Hudson, the fast-growing visual marketing SaaS company, has launched a new product to measure Pinterest campaigns for major brands.

Dash Hudson helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos. So far Dash Hudson has been known for monitoring

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is continuing to add staff:  the company's opening for an Account Executive headlines our Job of the Week column today.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos

Startups in Atlantic Canada attracted a record $166.6 million in private capital in 2018, while increasing their revenues strongly and adding about 1,000 employees, according to a new study from Entrevestor, which provides news and data on East Coast innovators.

Entrevestor on Friday released its Atlantic Canadian Startup Data Report 2018 – the most thorough assessment of the performance and

Two new initiatives were unveiled at the Innovate Atlantic conference on Thursday that are designed to further enrich the startup ecosystem in Atlantic Canada.  

Allen Nizi, Partnerships Lead at Microsoft for Startups, announced a new partnership with Volta. The Microsoft for Startups-Volta partnership will provide resident companies with access to technology, experts, events and resources that

In announcing its whopping $515 million equity-and-debt deal on Wednesday, St. John’s-based fintech company Verafin revealed more about its stellar operations than about the deal itself.

Other than the headline number, the highlight of the announcement is that the company’s founders, management and staff are still the largest shareholding group. That indicates the performance of the underlying

St. John’s-based Verafin, the world’s largest financial crime management software company, has closed a $515 million equity and debt recapitalization, which it says is one of the largest growth financings ever by a Canadian software company.

In a statement, Verafin, whose software helps banks battle fraud and money-laundering, said it has enjoyed tremendous growth in recent years, hitting $100

As evidence of its growing momentum, St. John’s-based Mysa Smart Thermostats has been named to two elite pan-Canadian programs this month.

On Wednesday, the company was one of 10 Canadian companies named to the Lazaridis Institute’s Scaleup Program, which helps leading tech companies increase their sales. Three weeks earlier, Mysa was among the 20 companies named to the Canadian Innovation

Medusa Medical Technologies, the Halifax company that builds communication software for paramedics, is developing a new generation of software that customers can use on a range of platforms.

In an interview at the Invest Atlantic conference called Funding Founders, Medusa Chair Glen Dexter said the current version of the solution operates off a Windows-based operating system. The new version,