One of the highlights of 2019 for me was transcribing a bunch of old family papers, including correspondence from the First World War when my grandfather and his brother were artillery officers.

Each Remembrance Day, I always think of my grandfather H.P. MacKeen, and his service in the Great War. This year I know more about his time overseas than ever before because I went through his letters

Relationship intelligence company Introhive has placed No. 10 in the 2019 Deloitte Technology Fast50, the first Atlantic Canadian company to break the top 10 in the prestigious pan-Canadian competition.

The global consultancy Deloitte on Thursday announced the winner of the Canadian program, which ranks tech companies based on four years of revenue history. Introhive, based in Fredericton and

Fifteen Atlantic Canadian tech startups have been selected to pitch at the fall 2019 Volta Cohort Pitch Event on Wednesday, Nov. 20 in Halifax.

As many as five companies will receive $25,000 in investment as well as mentorship, office space and other benefits.

Volta Cohort launched in 2017 to address the lack of early-stage investment and resources available to young tech startups in the

Fredericton-based augmented reality company Kognitiv Spark has been named to the Companies-to-Watch list as a part of Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast50 Awards.

The Companies-to-Watch award highlights emerging Canadian tech companies that exhibit strong growth and show potential to be a future candidate for the Technology Fast50 award.  Like the main Fast50 list, the results are based on revenue

Motryx, the Halifax company whose technology improves the transportation of blood samples, has won the $55,000 BioInnovation Challenge, Atlantic Canada’s top pitching competition for life sciences companies.

Co-Founder and CEO Franziska Broell pitched the company at the finals on Wednesday at BioNova’s Bioport Atlantic competition. The other finalists were Charlottetown-based AgTech company

Please join us Nov. 13 for Entrevestor's State of the Startup Community presentation at the Wu Centre at University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

Each year, Entrevestor charts the growth of the startup community, collecting data on such metrics as company launches, funding, employment and revenue. I will present our findings for the region overall and focus on the metrics for New Brunswick.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the keynote speakers at its R3 2020 gala will be Jeff Dahn, the NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair at Dalhousie University, and Vincenzo Guida, research fellow for Procter & Gamble.

First held 11 years ago, R3 is a biennial event that recognizes leaders in applied research at New Brunswick universities and research institutions.

The American private equity group H.I.G. Capital said it has completed its US$250 million purchase of Charlottetown-based Biovectra, which makes ingredients for drugs.

The private equity fund, which has $34 billion under management, issued a statement on Monday saying one of its affiliates completed the purchase from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, of the U.K. Mallinckrodt said in September it had

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation increased its applied research funding about 150 percent in its most recent fiscal year, though its direct venture capital investment dropped.

The Fredericton-based innovation and venture capital group has issued its annual report for the 2018-2019 fiscal year (which ended March 31). It shows the foundation invested a total of $5.2 million in 19 VC

Passiv, whose technology helps passive investors manage their portfolios, has partnered with Silicon Valley-based Alpaca, which should help the Fredericton company expand in the all-important U.S. market.

Alpaca is a stock brokerage that operates an application program interface, or API, that allows users to program their own “robo-advisor”, or a program that will automatically balance a passive