Innovacorp has named Nicole LeBlanc, Director of Investments and Partnerships at Sidewalk Labs, and women's leadership advocate Eleanor Beaton to its board of directors.

The Nova Scotia early-stage venture capital group issued a statement Thursday saying the two natives of the Maritimes would be joining the eight-member board. All board members are volunteers.

A native of St. George, N.B,

The pillars of a startup ecosystem – working spaces, university, funding agency, support organizations, network of mentors – have been in place for well over a year. A recent visit to the P.E.I. capital showed how these components are now maturing.

The funding body Island Capital Partners has backed six companies, and has a pipeline of others. Startup Zone, the downtown entrepreneurship hub, has

Two fast-growing Nova Scotian companies have been named to the 2019 Global Cleantech 100, an international list of companies deemed most likely to solve clean technology challenges.

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, which is working to reduce the carbon footprint of the concrete industry, and Halifax-based Metamaterial Technologies, which has developed a new class of smart materials, were

Martin Yuill will step down as the head of Charlottetown-based Emergence life sciences incubator next month to head the new Cleantech Commons in Peterborough, Ont.

Under Yuill’s leadership, Emergence has grown into a business development support organization for biotech companies inside and outside Atlantic Canada, and has built up a portfolio of 73 Canadian companies. He is departing as the

Innovacorp and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are putting up a total of $1 million to help companies in Phase 2 of Propel’s Incite accelerator cover the cost of executing their sales strategy.

The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick early-stage venture capital groups will each put $500,000 into the program, which will allow companies from across Atlantic Canada to receive $50,000 each in

Those who know Kyle Racki as a Software-as-a-Service entrepreneur may be surprised to know about a project he did way back in grade school. The guy who would become the CEO of Halifax-based Proposify had to interview someone who held a job he’d like when he grew up.

So young Racki interviewed Nova Scotia-based author Lesley Choyce, who even then was known as a prolific writer.

Today, Kyle Racki

A team of students from Nova Scotia Community College is building an online platform to address a problem they know well: the cost of higher education.

Bursity.ca helps to match users to scholarships for which they are eligible, and automate the application process. Its founders plan to raise money on Kickstarter to help cover their startup costs.

“We’re going to use that to be able to go

Halifax’s Swept, which makes software for the janitorial sector, is searching for an Account Executive, which is our Job of the Week today.

Swept makes simple software designed specifically for commercial cleaners. Its mobile and web-based solutions promote communication between the companies and their cleaners, providing both with important information.

The Job of the Week column features

Saint John-based tech conglomerate Mariner Partners has announced it’s developing software that will assist communication service providers as the industry moves away from physical network infrastructure and into software-defined virtual networks.

Mariner’s solution, SONAR4 Assurance Analytics, will support agility in the industry and ensure the quality of customer experiences, Mariner and the

Construction AI, one of the winners in the recent Sprint competition in Nova Scotia, is negotiating with two major software companies to adopt its technology.

Based in Mosquodoboit Harbour, NS, and Alberta, Construction AI has developed artificial intelligence software that helps the construction industry plan the excavation of a work site.  The pain it addresses is something known only to