Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s entrepreneurship centre, has accepted four companies into the latest cohort of its Export Igniter program, which helps participants to scale in foreign markets.

The fourth cohort of the program, which has already graduated 15 Fredericton-area companies, began Jan. 21 with an official kick-off at Planet Hatch.

"We are very excited about the companies participating in

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, a company that enables concrete producers to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete, has been named 2020 North American Cleantech Company of the Year by San Francisco’s Cleantech Group.

This is the first time a Canadian company has won the prestigious award from the group that provides research, consulting and events to boost sustainable growth powered

Halifax’s eOceans, which is developing an online platform for gathering ocean data, has joined the latest cohort of the Seattle-based Washington Maritime Blue accelerator.

The company’s Founder and CEO Christine Ward-Paige is the only remote member of the 11-team cohort, joining the program online each day. But she will travel to Seattle in April for the closing presentation to the Maritime Blue

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, is seeking IT startups to participate in the coming cohort of its Incite Phase I program, which helps entrepreneurs establish their product-market fit.

The pan-regional organization in 2018 launched its Incite accelerator – a two-phase virtual program for early-stage tech startups across the region.

Because the Incite curriculum is delivered

Entrepreneurship is notoriously tough on founders’ health. Kevin Stephens, founder of Career Cinch, is walking a rough path: he’s fighting a rare cancer and has had to withdraw from Halifax’s Volta accelerator, but he’s sharing his struggles on social media in order to connect with others.

Fredericton-based Stephens has been developing Career Cinch, a Software-as-a-Service product that uses

Bloxo and Clean Catch Baits, a pair of enterprises that grew out of Saint Mary’s University, captured two of the top spots at the Apex Business Plan Competition in Fredericton last week.

The two-day competition hosted by the University of New Brunswick’s International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre had 41 entries from across the country this year. Last year, there were 18 entries from

The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is organizing a series of information sessions to highlight the advantages of the program, which helps scaling tech companies grow in the Boston area.

Sessions are now scheduled for Halifax and Moncton next month, and will include past participants describing their experiences with the program. Tanya Bellefontaine, Business Development Manager for USA and

Concert venue marketplace Side Door has inked a deal with South by Southwest under which the Halifax company will organize short concert tours for bands participating in the Texas-based music festival.

Side Door matches musical artists with hosts who have space for them to perform and takes 10 percent of the venues’ gross profits as payment. The venues can be peoples’ homes or other intimate

We’re absolutely thrilled with the response we’ve received to our survey campaign this year, and that we’ve already passed one-quarter of our target for help with Australian wildfire relief.

Last week, we launched our annual survey, which helps us compile data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community. And we added a new feature this year: for every survey response we accept by Feb. 3, we will

 

More than 400 people gathered in the old Scotiabank building on King Square in Saint John on Thursday for the official opening of the MBA program that has been relocated uptown from the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus in Tucker Park.

MP Wayne Long, on hand to announce that the Atlantic Canadian Opportunities Agency contributed $750,000 to help facilitate the move, said it’s