Lisa Williams, Founder of Unicare Home Health Care, has been named Startup Canada’s 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year, one of three New Brunswickers to capture national awards from the organization this year.

The umbrella organization for entrepreneurship in Canada held its national Startup Awards gala in Ottawa on Thursday, followed Friday with its Startup Canada Day on the Hill festival at the

Moncton-based VidCruiter is plotting to expand its marketing department in the coming year as CEO Sean Fahey is determined to improve the company’s revenue growth.

In an interview at the company’s headquarters on Wednesday, Fahey admitted the profitable provider of video interview software had a slowdown in revenue growth in the fiscal year ended June 30.

Sales growth decelerated, he said, to

The Sara Burns Police Memorial Fund has raised $136,000 during a one-month donation-matching campaign supported by Fredericton IT and cybersecurity company, Bulletproof. 

All of the funds raised by the campaign will go to helping people in need in New Brunswick.

“We were really inspired to be a part of this effort to make a lasting impact on the community with a fund like this,” said

As it prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary, the TME program at University of New Brunswick is launching a new accelerator to help high-growth companies in Atlantic Canada to scale.

The Fredericton university has teamed up with Boston-based Babson College – long recognized for its entrepreneurial program – to offer Scale Up Atlantic Canada. The accelerator will be led by Babson professor

After two years of bootstrapping, Talem Health Analytics of Sydney is eyeing a paid pilot project early in the new year that would bring in revenue and hopefully pave the way to investment.

Founded two years ago by physiotherapists Paul Travis and Matthew Kay, Talem has developed software that can help auto insurers understand the time and costs of an individual recovering from a car accident.

Small business in Canada has a problem with adopting digital technologies, and one of the worst offenders is Atlantic Canada.

That is the finding of a new report by the Business Development Bank of Canada that assesses the digital maturity of small and medium-sized businesses in this country. It found that 15 percent of SMEs in Atlantic Canada could be considered digitally mature. That ranks

Marcato Digital Solutions, the Sydney company that provides administrative software for music festivals, has been acquired by Pittsburgh-based Patron Technology for an undisclosed sum.

Patron, which announced the acquisition in a press release Monday, provides customer-facing software such as ticketing, marketing and fan engagement, to entertainment clients and others. The company will offer a

A range of international speakers will converge on Fredericton this weekend for the Future of Innovation Conference, hosted by the University of New Brunswick’s TME program.

The conference at the Delta Fredericton Hotel on Friday and Saturday will feature such headline speakers as Afghan champion of female education Sakena Yacoobi and the father of the lean canvas, Steve Blank.

The conference

Fredericton-based Internet of Things company Eigen Innovations has closed a $3.5 million round of funding, led by Toronto-based tech specialist Globalive Technology.

The New Brunswick company uses artificial intelligence to help machines manage large amounts of data and improve their productivity. When CEO Scott Everett was nominated for the Manning Award for Innovation in June, he told

Our Job of the Week today is an opening for Research Funding Program Manager at Sydney-based Protocase.

Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom manufacturing to the engineering, design, and research industries.  The company has more than 175 employees and 12,000