Propel ICT’s recent announcement of its latest cohort of tech startups illustrates just how quickly Atlantic Canada is developing a huge pool of expertise in launching and scaling high-growth companies.

The regional accelerator this month announced that 38 companies will participate in its first course of 2016, including nine in its elite Build program, which is tailored to more advanced

Minnesota Twins become Kinduct Client

Kinduct Technologies has announced that the Minnesota Twins are the newest addition to their growing list of high-profile sports clients. The two-time World Series champions, now gearing up for spring training, have adopted Kinduct's innovative suite of athlete management tools across their organization, including their minor league affiliates. The Twins'

Having finally secured seed funding of $650,000, Newfoundland startup HeyOrca! is looking to take on more staff and increase the sales of its marketing collaboration platform.

Until recently, the company had just three people on staff Co-Founders Joseph Teo, Sahand Seifi and web developer Nadia Sajjadi. Now it is in the process of bulking up to a five-member team, as well as adding some co-op

The University of New Brunswick Wood Science and Technology Centre is hosting a conference on March 1 and 2 titled Looking Ahead: Opportunities in Value-Added Wood.

The conference will look at the rapid innovation in the design and manufacturing of wood products, and the need for Atlantic Canada’s forest and wood product industries to keep abreast of trends. You can register for the event here.

The University of New Brunswick is now accepting applications for the 2016 cohort of its Summer Institute, which will include for the first time a program in clean technology.

The Summer Institute is a three-month accelerator in Fredericton, in which participants pursue entrepreneurial endeavours with a focus on artistry and passion rather than analytics and data.

Through this approach, the

Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc. has received positive initial readings from the Phase 1 trials of its flagship compound SOR-C13, including indications that it can stabilize some cancer tumours.

Sor-C13 is a peptide, or a naturally occurring biological molecule, that clings to the calcium in a cancer cell and deprives it of oxygen, thereby killing the tumour. Soricimed hopes to

B4checkin Launches b4golf and b4spa

Halifax-based b4checkin, Inc., which provides cloud-based hospitality software, has announced the release of two new products – b4golf and b4spa.

B4golf is a tee-time reservation platform that provides members, hotel guests and other golfers with a graphic booking system that can be stylized to match any golf course or property’s branding. Similarly, b4spa is

The origin of Orenda Software Solutions — Cape Breton’s top entry in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition — dates back to the days when Tanya Collier MacDonald was working in public relations for the Sydney Tar Ponds cleanup.

Part of her job was to monitor public perception of the $400-million task of cleaning up the industrial waste left by a century of steel production in the city. She wished she had a tool that could gauge what the public thought of the project.

“I kept thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to be able to measure it, or to illustrate what a public healthy reaction

Sociallogical, the Saint John-based social media consultancy, has issued the following press release:

Social Media Crash Course Set for Toronto

TORONTO, ON -- Canadian social media strategy firm Sociallogical will teach attendees of a three-day crash course exactly how to create strategies for their clients.

Aimed at new and established business owners who want to own this important piece of

Alpha Dog Games has released its newest mobile game MonstroCity: Build and Destroy in the Philippines, as a prelude to a global launch.

The Bedford-based mobile game company and its German online game publisher Gameforge hope to position MonstroCity in the top 10 games in the Apple and Google app stores worldwide.

Founded by Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods in 2012, Alpha Dog has developed console