Six student teams from the University of New Brunswick’s Master of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program pitched their startup ideas Thursday, with pet-sitting marketplace FURWARD taking home the $1,500 top prize.

The MTME program, managed under the umbrella of UNBs J. Herbert Smith Centre, offers students specialized training in how to commercialize technological innovation. The

Just a month after it raised a funding round led by California’s Kern Venture Group, Halifax medtech startup MIMOSA Diagnostics is heading to Chicago in August to compete in the North American finals of the AI Healthtech Innovation Challenge.

Founded by Dr. Karen Cross, a plastic surgeon, and General Leung, a magnetic resonance researcher at the University of Toronto, MIMOSA has developed

The Ocean Startup Project, a national industry group, has announced the 25 very early-stage companies chosen to participate in its Ocean Idea Challenge, which offers up to $7,000 of funding, as well as training and support services.

The Idea Challenge is a milestone-based accelerator program for entrepreneurs working on customer discovery and product-market fit, and for top-performing companies.

Two years after it raised $2.95 million to scale its software for speeding up back office operations at banks, credit unions and fintechs, Charlottetown’s PayTic has won the Accounting Tech of the Year award at the European Fintech Awards, a competition organized by trade publication FinTech Intel.

Held in London this year, the awards have at various times in their history been affiliated with

Tribe Network has hired Phillip Yoon, a finance veteran with experience on both sides of the fundraising table, as its new investment principal.

Yoon, originally from Singapore, holds a Master of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation degree from Saint Mary’s University and has worked for alternative asset managers and computational finance companies in Switzerland and Hong Kong, as well as

Economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to this year's edition of its Export Development Program for young companies looking to develop sales outside of Nova Scotia or Canada.

Successful applicants will receive $15,000 of funding to spend on either hiring a consultant to help develop their export strategy, or else attending an international trade show.

"The

In the wake of being accepted into Google’s startup accelerator for female founders, Saint John-based MedReddie has raised a $782,000 pre-seed round as it looks to scale its AI system that streamlines the procurement process for healthcare providers.

In a statement, the company described the round as oversubscribed and said it included BDC’s Thrive Lab, the Firehood industry group and angel

For the first time, Halifax-based Planetary Technologies can now cite published results from a field trial of its technology, released in the scientific journal Nature.

The article, titled Magnesium hydroxide addition reduces aqueous carbon dioxide in wastewater discharged to the ocean, includes results from a small-scale trial conducted in Hayle, on Britain’s south coast. Its findings offer a

Bell Canada’s purchase of Halifax IT service company CloudKettle, announced Tuesday, is far from the first such overture Chief Executive Greg Poirier has received. What made this deal uniquely appealing, he said in an interview, was Bell’s track record of not interfering with management of the companies it acquires.

CloudKettle was founded in 2015 and sells consulting services on topics

A Cape Breton startup has launched an online platform that helps golf course operators market their unsold tee-times at discounted prices, and is planning to release an app for players later this year.

Sydney-based InteGolf was founded by longtime IT entrepreneur Todd Chant, who previously ran a service company that specialized in working with golf courses. The platform’s Premium Tee Time