Launch36, the regional tech accelerator, has chosen its fourth cohort of startups, which reveals a diversification away from its core sector of information technology.

The six-member cohort includes the cleantech company Hyton Innovations of Fredericton, which is developing waste-water-treatment facilities that can be transported in a single shipping container.

“Based on our five-year plan, we are going to be diversifying our focus to serve other markets,” said Trevor MacAusland, the Executive Director of PropelICT, which operates the accelerator.  He added the only other non-IT company

 

Halifax-based green building materials company CarbonCure yesterday released the following press release:

Basalite bringing green concrete to the Emerald City

Basalite leading concrete sustainability with its conversion to CarbonCure 

March 17, 2014 - Seattle may be nicknamed the Emerald City due to its lush forests, but thanks to Basalite Concrete Products (Basalite), Seattle is about to get even greener. Basalite announced Friday that it will be expanding its green concrete masonry offerings by installing CarbonCure’s technology in its Dupont, Washington plant.

CarbonCure

Teknically, a startup from Wilfrid Laurier University that helps small businesses improve their websites, captured top honours at Canada’s Business Model Competition at Dalhousie University on Saturday.

The company founded by students Andrew Paradi and Brandon Chow beat out 15 other competitors at the two-day event, and an extremely strong field of four finalists on Saturday afternoon. As

In its search for the top 15 startups across Canada, Metabridge is inviting applications from Atlantic Canadian companies.

Taking place June 12-13 in Kelowna, B.C., Metabridge is a networking, mentorship and pitching event at which some of the leading North American investors and entrepreneurship specialists will get together with the country’s leading growth-stage companies.

Andrew Greer, program manager at Accelerate Okanogan and an organizer of Metabridge, said in a discussion last week that the targets are established tech startups enjoying a high-growth trajectory. These are

It’s been nearly five years since Jordan Smith stood on a street corner in Halifax wearing a sign that read: “New Grad, Need Job, advert/market/sales.”

Despite the recession at the time, he got 15 job offers that day, finally choosing a business development role with the Coast newspaper in Halifax. In 2011, he started his own company, OneLobby, which aims to be the premier analytics and data company for event and trade show exhibitors.

Now, Smith is on the move again. He has recently accepted a part-time role as entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick in

I want to make one final call for founders to get their surveys into us. We plan to calculate everything early next week so we’re putting a Sunday night deadline on the responses.

For those who are interested, we’ve had a fantastic response to the survey. Well over half the startups we contacted have responded. When we trim off companies that have fallen by the wayside or never really got started (this is the startup world we’re talking about), we’re comfortably over half the community.

And we’ve got some tremendous data from the people who have responded – all of which will be kept

This may be the perfect winter to illustrate the value of Jon Fraser and Victoria Smith’s new product. (At least we better hope there’s not a better winter for it.)

With the thermometer plunging and heating bills soaring, there probably won’t be a better winter to test Stromline Technologies, whose product measures and monitors fuel tanks in real time.

Stromline’s first product is StromSense, which is a sort of smart cap for an oil tank, or tank holding other liquid fuel. It screws on to a common oil tank and measures the level of the fuel in the tank. It then sends out readings via the

After a few years of producing dozens of smartphone apps, Moncton-based iCubemedia is focusing in on a single suite of small business products that its founder hopes will lift the company to a new level.

For the last five years, the brainchild of founder Guyverson Vernous has been putting out a range of apps for Apple phones and devices, most of which offer efficiency tools to small businesses. Though the company is relatively unknown in the region, its sales have soared, more than doubling last year so its revenue is well into six figures. Its customer base spans 20 countries around the

Homeowners may be a little safer and their homes better renovated now that a new series of online learning programs has been created by Nova Scotia-based energy-efficiency company Blue House Energy.

Shawna Henderson, company CEO, has written three programs for workers involved in building and renovating homes. Until now, Henderson said, there has been nothing generic that teaches workers

LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., a Halifax-based manufacturer of LED-based street lighting and wireless controls, announced today it has raised $9.5 million in equity funding, most of which has come from Founder and CEO Chuck Cartmill.

The company said $1 million of this investment comes from the conversion of debentures held by Nova Scotia Business Inc. into equity.

Cartmill said the investment will be used for working capital and the financing of inventory and for a reorganization of the company’s manufacturing facility in Amherst, N.S. But much of the call with reporters focused on his