Sona Nanotech, a Halifax company that produces gold nanorods, has brought on board a new CEO from Great Britain and is preparing for a stock market listing within a few months.

In a statement in September that attracted little notice, the company said it had agreed to merge with publicly listed Stockport Exploration and raise about $700,000 in a private placement. The company is also bolstering

The regional tech accelerator Propel ICT has decided not to hold its customary Launch and Build cohorts this spring as it prepares to launch a new program later in the year.

Propel issued a statement Monday announcing that a new program is on the way and will begin in September. It gave few details of what the new program will look like, other than to say it will be focused on the founders of

If you were as disappointed as we were that Pints and Pitches was scrapped due to weather, here’s your chance to make up for it: Entrevestor’s Virtual Pints and Pitches.

The regional IT accelerator Propel ICT had planned to combine a pub crawl into the demo day for its latest cohort – staging pitches in craft breweries around Fredericton. Sadly, the gods were against the idea, and Pints and

We’re approaching our targets with the 2017 Entrevestor Survey, but we still need more startup founders and CEOs to fill in our questionnaire – especially in New Brunswick.

This survey is the foundation for the data we collect on the Atlantic Canadian startup community. Policymakers rely heavily on that data when making decisions about programs that affect the ecosystem. So the higher the

Our job board is really full this week with a total of five openings from Dash Hudson, Harbr and Community Forests International.

Dash Hudson, a Software-as-a-Service company that helps clients optimize visual marketing strategies, hopes to hire a Sales Development Representative and Customer Success Representative for its Halifax team.

Harbr, also in Halifax, has developed a mobile app for big

Atlantic Canada’s woodlot owners could benefit from the growing tendency of jurisdictions to require businesses to offset their carbon emissions, said Daimen Hardie, executive director and a co-founder of Sackville, NB-based Community Forests International.

Atlantic Canada has between 70,000 to 80,000 family woodlot owners who are ideally placed to form carbon offsetting partnerships with

Institutions that foster education and innovation are banding together to run the China Program, a series of free events for innovators in the Halifax area.

The programming begins on Feb. 26 and runs on a further five days through March.  It is designed to give attendees a better understanding of China, with the possible aim of exporting their technology into the vast Chinese market.

Organizing

When the chatbot-building company ChatFuel held a global competition for chatbot development recently, Halifax's Janet Chiang was delighted that her company, GoSky AI Digital Marketing, placed fourth. 

Taiwan-based GoSky is a global digital marketing and ad optimization company that builds chatbots, and has offices all over the world. Chiang, a graduate of the Sobey School of Business at St.

Shea Balish did at Super Bowl LII what Tom Brady couldn’t: he came away with a win.

Balish, who cut his entrepreneurial teeth at LaunchDal and Propel ICT, is now the Co-Founder and CEO of Toronto-based Curv, which uses artificial intelligence to help athletes improve performance and avoid injury.

Last weekend, the company was in Minneapolis to participate in a pitching event hosted by the

Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics Inc., has raised $4.3 million in equity financing to further its operations and add to its number of drug candidates.

The company said in a press release it raised the money through a private placement, which was over-subscribed. It received money from new and existing investors, including Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s innovation and venture capital