Having worked for decades in the technology industry in Israel, Alicia Ismach sees huge opportunities for Atlantic Canada’s tech sector in general and financial technology, or fintech, in particular.

The native of Argentina was hired as Entrepreneur-in-Residence by New Brunswick innovation hub Venn Innovation in October, 2018. And last year, she began to gather fintech players together to form a

Woodstock, NB-based Xplornet Communications Inc., which owns a hiybrid fiber wireless and satellite network, has reportedly agreed to be bought by a private equity investor for about US$2 billion (C$2.7 billion).

Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday that New York-based Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has agreed to buy the Canadian broadband service

The AquaHacking Challenge, a national competition that encourages post-secondary students to find solutions to problems plaguing freshwater supplies, has launched in Atlantic Canada.

The East Coast program was launched Wednesday at an event at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. The regional program is part of a national competition that awards a total of $50,000 to teams that come up with the

St. John’s-based PolyUnity has joined Eastern Health Authority’s Living Labs initiative, which will support the young company in its mission to help train doctors around the world with the aid of 3D printing.  

Founded by three med students at Memorial University of Newfoundland, PolyUnity has set out to produce low-cost 3D-printed medical simulation models, allowing medical professionals to

Dartmouth biotech company IMV on Tuesday revealed “breakthrough” results in the Phase 2 clinical trials of its flagship drug DPX-Survivac, which sparked a sell-off of its shares that was as puzzling as it was dramatic.

IMV, which specializes in using a person’s immune system to battle such diseases as cancer, announced an update on DPX-Survivac, saying the study of 22 patients with advanced

Appili Therapeutics Inc., the Halifax company dedicated to fighting infectious diseases, has raised $10.25 million by selling shares and warrants to mainly institutional investors.

The fundraising round – the company’s first since it listed on the TSX Venture exchange in June – comes after the company has undergone a series of changes in senior executives and its board. The company will use the

Milk Moovement of St. John’s has been accepted into the Thrive accelerator in Silicon Valley, and will receive a US$100,000 (C$133,000) investment on joining the program.

SVG Ventures-Thrive, the California group that says it operates the “agri-food innovation ecosystem”, on Monday announced the 13 companies that will attend its sixth cohort, which begins this week and lasts four months.

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Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Friday unveiled a $6.8 million program that will support the creation of more and better oceantech startups in Atlantic Canada.

The Ocean Supercluster – a private-public partnership formed with the support of the federal government’s supercluster program – held a media reception in St. Johns on Friday announcing its first Ocean Startup Project. It will help to

Two quite different jobs – a Data Scientist at Moncton-based Fiddlehead Technology, and an Instructor at Lab2Market in Halifax  – headline our Job of the Week column today.

Lab2Market is a new pan-Canadian program that aims to help researchers transform their discoveries into businesses, following the methodology of successful programs in the U.S. and U.K. The program will work with PhD

Eighteen student teams will compete in the 2020 Enactus Atlantic Canada Regional Exposition in Halifax next month, all hoping to move on to the Enactus national championships.

Enactus is an international organization that helps students form social ventures – that is, businesses that help society or the environment. Calling itself the world’s largest experiential learning platform, Enactus aims