After helping Nova Scotian researchers become entrepreneurs for 15 years, the Early-Stage Commercialization Fund is moving into New Brunswick.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, or NBIF, announced Monday that it is launching the fund in New Brunswick with $500,000 in support from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, or ACOA. Halifax-based Innovacorp has been operating the fund in Nova

The National Angel Capital Organization, or NACO, will hold its virtual Atlantic Summit on Thursday, and aims to attract not only Atlantic Canadian viewers but also national attendees.

Amber Mac, former co-host of BNN’s App Central and Bloomberg Brink, will lead discussions on mobilizing capital, leveraging national connectivity, and evaluating global perspectives on angel investing.

NACO has

CyberNB Inc. will launch a new accelerator for cybersecurity companies early next year, offering up to 20 companies a year programming, mentorship, and a six-figure funding opportunity.

The New Brunswick group that promotes the cybersecurity industry is hoping that CyberHatch, which is set to launch in the first quarter, will hold four cohorts a year, with each cohort accommodating as many as

St. John’s-based ClearRisk, which provides risk-management software, has won the 2020 RBC Business Resilience Awards in Newfoundland and Labrador in the Community Champion category.

Competing against a range of Newfoundland and Labrador organizations, ClearRisk won the award for offering a pandemic risk management product free to the business community and supporting local community

From his base in Truro, N.S., Brad Tousenard has built his IT company Delicious Brains into a global enterprise over seven years with about 10,000 clients in 140 countries and sales increasing each year.

And there are two things about his story that stand out: first, his staff is spread across three countries; and second, he hasn’t taken on a nickel of outside investment.

Tousenard doesn’t like

Even if Verafin did not exist, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup community would have had a really good year in 2019.

Of course, Verafin does exist, and it did raise $515 million in equity and debt in September 2019. Wrapping up our look at startup data in the four Atlantic Provinces, we’re examining the data in Newfoundland and Labrador, the province that drove the startup agenda in 2019.

A Halifax human resources firm is pioneering a new service for clients that it calls “cluster employment”, which it hopes will improve working conditions for part-time or gig workers.

Placemaking 4G has launched the service that’s helping workers land positions with benefits for multiple employers, and it has already had success in finding jobs for people.

The system allows employers who only

Energia Ventures will hold a virtual demo day on Dec. 16, featuring the five companies from three countries that are completing its latest three-month cohort.

The program, which began Sept. 30, is part of University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship, commonly known as TME.  This is the fourth year the university has held the accelerator,

There’s no shortage of winners from Verafin’s pending sale to Nasdaq, and one of the big ones is the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. The provincial government may haul in $100 million from the deal at a time when it could really use the cash.

St. John’s-based Verafin, the anti-fraud software maker, agreed last month to be taken over by Nasdaq, for US$2.75 billion in cash. They also

It would have been difficult for New Brunswick in 2019 to outdo its performance of 2018, especially in terms of funding.

The province in 2018 generated $84.7 million in equity funding, including three investment rounds worth more than $10 million each, by Sonrai Security, Introhive and Resson. Funding in 2019 fell by three-quarters, down to $19.5 million. It seems like a disappointment, but we