Startup Zone, Prince Edward Island's startup incubator, has named Patrick Farrar, the Co-Founder and former COO of Venture for Canada, as its new CEO.

Startup Zone provides resident companies with a workspace, advice in professional services like accounting and law and free information sessions.

Farrar stepped into the position on Monday, succeeding interim CEO Shannon Pratt as she becomes

Two indie video game development companies based in Prince Edward Island have signed exclusive publishing deals with Toronto-based game publisher, Throwback Entertainment.

Throwback announced last month that it had signed the deals to publish Rabbit Hole Studios’ game The Lost Gardens, and Queen Bee Games’ Onion Force.

Created by the acquisition of Acclaim Entertainment in 2006, Throwback

Kognitiv Spark and T4G were big winners Monday at Microsoft Canada’s 2018 Impact Awards in Las Vegas.

Fredericton-based Kognitive Spark, which uses augmented reality to help workers in remote locations, won the Innovation with Hardware category.

T4G, a Toronto-based company with large offices in Saint John, Moncton and Halifax, won twice – in the Data and AI Innovation category, as well as

Budding entrepreneurs in Bonavista, a town of fewer than 4,000 people on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, now have a place to grow and incubate their ventures with the opening of a business development centre, called The Commons.

The 1,500-square-foot space offers a co-working area and access to resources and professional expertise. It's located on the second floor of the Bonavista-Trinity

UNB TME – the six letters that spell student entrepreneurship in New Brunswick – will hold a mid-summer extravaganza this week to celebrate two of its programs.

The Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program at University of New Brunswick will hold a graduation ceremony Thursday night for the seven companies that have gone through its Summer Institute. The event will be held at

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is looking for a new Director of Finance, which is the lone entry in our Jobs of the Week column today.

NBIF, which is also conducting a search for a new CEO, is a non-profit organization that leads innovation policy on behalf of the New Brunswick government. It has a venture capital operation, which backs seed and pre-seed companies, and oversees a

We’ve just passed the halfway point of 2018, so this is a good time to check the pulse of the Atlantic Canadian innovation community. Note I wrote “innovation community” rather than “startup community.”

The key to understanding how this community is evolving is to try to avoid using the word “startup”. Talking to people in the community, I’ve realized that “innovation” and “scalable” are

The Ocean Supercluster leadership team will be touring Atlantic Canada next week to host information sessions as it continues to build its operational framework.

The sessions will be an opportunity for stakeholders to hear updates from the leadership team, learn more about membership opportunities and ask questions regarding the overall business model.  

The first session will be held in

The offshore oil fields around Newfoundland and Labrador have birthed a city of underwater drills and pipelines that are hard to monitor. New software from WhiteCap Scientific allows oil companies to see and interact with these underwater structures from a desktop.

The St. John's-based company has created ROV3D, which it describes as an upgrade on video inspections traditionally done by remotely

Charlottetown-based Somru BioScience on Wednesday announced it is receiving loans and grants totaling more than $4.4 million from the federal and P.E.I. governments.

The company, which is developing a range of products centred around antibody technology for research, diagnostic and clinical applications, told Entrevestor last month it was in the process of raising $7 million. Co-Founder Mohammed