Moncton-based recruitment software company VidCruiter has given $20,000 worth of computers to the BGC Clubs (Boys and Girls Clubs) in Dieppe, Moncton, and Riverview, as well as $10,000 worth of computers to Youth Impact Jeunesse Moncton.

The donations are helping to bridge the digital divide, providing underprivileged youth with the tools they need for education, skill development, and career

Mulli Swing Solutions, which helps golfers improve their swings, captured the top prize in the Growth Category last week at the University of New Brunswick’s RBC Student Pitch Competition.

The Fredericton-based company has developed sensors that attach to the grip of a golf club, producing data that helps golfers and their coaches analyse the player’s grip and swing. Its co-founders are Brycen

Backed by a $5 million federal grant, a new 51,000-square-foot bioinnovation hub is opening in Dartmouth to offer badly needed lab and bio-manufacturing facilities to a range of customers.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency last week issued a press release unveiling the grant to Neptune BioInnovation Inc., a new non-profit that will oversea the facility. Neptune will take over an existing

Breakthru is returning to New Brunswick.

As it awarded a $50,000 investment at the Breakthru Accelerating Cleantech pitching event on Tuesday, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation unveiled its plans to resurrect the Breakthru brand, whose name was once given to its flagship competition.

The pitching competition winner, which received a $50,000 investment from NBIF, was AgroGene Solutions,

St. John’s-based CoLab Software has received $5.6 million in funding from two offshore oil projects to help develop its new artificial intelligence and machine learning tool.

The company, whose software supports collaborative 3D design and review, held an event in St. John’s on Wednesday to announce the funding from the Hibernia and Hebron Projects. This cash infusion will fund about 60,000

Seven groups in the innovation community have received about $1.3 million from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to hire staff, streamline operations, increase production and reach new markets, ACOA said in a press release.

Among the recipients, most of whom are based in Dartmouth, are the following innovation-driven companies:

Lab4 specializes in critical mineral processing and

Charlottetown’s Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator has received a $2.6 million grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to support the delivery of Emergence 4.0 by BioAlliance.

The PEI BioAlliance is the private sector-led non-profit that is responsible for developing and coordinating strategy for the Island's bioscience cluster. In 2014, the organization launced Emergence,

Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch is hosting Dragons’ Den and inviting founders to apply to pitch.  

Dragons’ Den is a running popular show on CBC where founders pitch their businesses to seasoned entrepreneurs and investors in the hope of winning funds, mentorship and connections.

Dragons’ Den producers are hosting in-person auditions in select cities for the next season of the

Fredericton-based Energia Ventures has announced the latest five ventures to participate in its program for innovative companies working in fields that include biotechnology, construction, recruitment, and AI.

Based at the University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, Energia Ventures is a three-month intensive accelerator for

Fredericton agtech company Picketa Systems has announced the addition of canola to its LENS (Leaf Evaluated Nutrient System) platform. Building on past success with potatoes and corn, Picketa is expanding its support of staple broadacre crops to meet the nutrient management needs of North America’s canola growers, the company said in a press release.

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