ABK Biomedical has raised more than $9 million in an over-subscribed round of equity funding that closed last August.  The larger equity base has allowed the company to borrow $3 million from the Atlantic Innovation Fund.

The Halifax-based medical device maker revealed that it closed the Series A funding round – one of the largest in Atlantic Canada last year – during discussions about its

In our Jobs of the Week column today, Halifax-based Dash Hudson and HeyOrca of St. John’s are both looking to hire account executives to work with their sales teams.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing strategy company. Its visual intelligence platform, Vision, provides a one-page solution for its clients to manage visual marketing.

HeyOrca developed a social media planner built specifically for

Here’s a little-known fact about children’s animation company DHX Media — its fastest-growing segment is the one that posts free content on YouTube.

The Halifax- and Toronto-based company released results last week for the quarter ending Dec. 31, and the company said its organic revenue growth (which excludes acquired businesses) was 37 per cent. But what’s interesting is WildBrain, DHX’s wholly

A city councillor in Saint John has put forth a motion for the city to create an early adopter program that could help budding businesses find and land government contracts.

Councillor Greg Norton presented this motion to council early February. He says the program would create a mutually beneficial relationship between the city and its innovative entrepreneurs.

“The city has problems that

Having raised US$2 million late last year, janitorial software producer Swept is now beefing up its team and aiming to hire just the right staff.

And the Halifax-based company is also doing its best to make sure the hires take place in Atlantic Canada.

Matt Cooper, the COO and co-founder of Swept, told about 40 Dalhousie University students and entrepreneurs at Launch Dal’s Fireside Chat last

The fourth annual Starting Point Student Entrepreneurship Conference is coming to a close today and organizers say the number of participants reached a record this year.

A total of 185 students registered for the three-day conference put on by the Sobey School Business Development Centre at St. Mary’s University, and more showed up at the door. The theme of this year’s conference centred on

Startup Canada, the organization that promotes entrepreneurship across Canada, has opened applications and nominations for the 2018 Startup Canada Awards.

Anyone who wants to nominate themselves or someone else for an award can do so here before April 3.

As part of the awards celebrations, Startup Canada will hold regional presentation ceremonies across the country and then a final national

Fredericton-based KnowCharge Inc. is suing the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the First Angel Network, and some of their current and former officers, seeking $11 million in damages.

KnowCharge, a 10-year-old company that makes static-electricity-resistant packaging for the electronics industry, filed the suit last month in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Fredericton, naming five defendants: 

Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Computer Science, is approaching its goal of doubling the proportion of female students entering its programs in 2018-19.

As part of the university's 200th anniversary celebrations, Dal plans to offer at least 60 scholarships of $10,000 each to female computer science students entering first year.  The university said this week about 31 percent of the Canadian

A New Brunswick clean energy startup is participating in an accelerator that will help them develop their business south of the border.

Last November, Stash Energy was chosen to participate in the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) for clean-energy based in Denver, Colorado. The accelerator helps with selected high-growth, high-potential startups raise capital, do research and development,