Dartmouth-based Ashored Innovations has graduated from MassChallenge with one of the top three prizes at the international accelerator.

Ashored, which is developing fishing equipment that reduces risks to marine life, was one of two companies to receive a US$75,000 (C$98,000) platinum award at the MassChallenge demo day Thursday night. They were exceeded only by North Carolina-based Tellus

A Nova Scotia engineer is aiming to take energy-efficient housing mainstream.

Natalie Leonard is the founder of Passive Design Solutions, which sells ready-made building plans for energy-efficient houses.

The company originally specialized in custom, one-off projects. But with $100,000 of federal funding, Leonard is looking to scale the business and sees standardized designs as a way to expand

A year after the legalization of cannabis in Canada, New Brunswick is making a push into developing innovation into the sector.

The province is in the midst of a two-week campaign to draw attention to the potential of the field – especially the opportunity to do more with cannabis than just growing it and selling it on the retail market. BioNB, the provincial life sciences organization, and

Bedford-based Alpha Dog Games, one of the leading mobile-game developers in Atlantic Canada, has been acquired by Bethesda Softworks of Maryland for an undisclosed price.

Founded by Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods in 2012, Alpha Dog has developed such games as the MonstroCity series (most recently, MonstroCity Rampage) and Wraithborne. The company has made a name for itself in the development of

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship was named one of five finalists in the emerging entrepreneurship centre category of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center’s annual awards.

Though the St John’s-based organization didn’t win, the MCE was the only Canadian centre, and one of four outside the U.S., to be recognized as a finalist in any of the eight award categories

The

St. John’s-based BreatheSuite Inc., which helps people to use inhalers properly, has raised a $550,000 round of equity financing led by Venture NL, the Newfoundland and Labrador fund overseen by Pelorus Venture Capital.

The company issued a press release on Thursday saying that Venture NL – which is backed by the Newfoundland and Labrador government, BDC Capital and others -- has invested

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is one of three Canadian innovation companies to be honoured at the upcoming National Retail Innovation Awards in Halifax.

The David Sobey Centre for Innovation in Retailing and Services, located at Saint Mary’s University, announced Wednesday the three winners for its annual awards luncheon. It will take place at the David Sobey Centre on Nov. 1.

“As the largest

When the Channel Innovation Awards were held last month, one of the big winners was Moncton-based SnapAp, a small-but-growing company that makes payment software.

In the national competition organized by Channel Daily News, SnapAp captured the Gold Award in the Next Generation Channel Innovator category. The SnapAp founders believe it is a validation of their company’s technology and ability to

Halifax-based Densitas Inc. whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, announced this week its densitas densityai software will soon be available on the Nuance AI Marketplace.

In a statement, Densitas said the Nuance marketplace provides access to more than 70 percent of all radiologists across the largest network of connected healthcare facilities in the U.S.

"AI can

One of the changes that have taken place in the East Coast startup ecosystem in the past four or five years is the region has ratcheted up its capacity for launching new companies.

As part of our mission to chart and analyze data on the startup community, we track the new companies that appear each year. As the chart above shows, the region’s ability to crank out startups underwent a steep