BOO! A sudden scare gets your heart pounding against your chest. Jump scares are the backbone of horror video games and Red Meat Games wants to up the scare factor by monitoring players' heartbeats and incorporating the sound in the game.

“We’re trying to find the opportune times when a player is scared but then also find out when they might be too scared,” said Keith Maske, the CEO of Red Meat

The Lazaridis Institute Scale-Up Tour will make a stop in Halifax on Tuesday, featuring a webinar on “blitzscaling” with Chris Yeh.

The Kitchener, Ont.-based Lazaridis Institute offers programs that help Canadian companies scale more quickly through a several-month accelerator. Spring Loaded Technologies and QRA Corp., both of the Halifax area, have both attended the accelerator. (Applications

Days after his departure as CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Calvin Milbury said he was taking time to review his options and looking forward to the next phase of his career.

The non-profit innovation agency based in Fredericton released a statement on Wednesday saying that Milbury was no longer heading the organization, and that it would commence the search for his replacement

You can still make last minute nominations for the 2018 Discovery Awards. The nominations, which close today, are looking for the best and the brightest in Nova Scotia's science and technology fields.

The awards will take place on November 22, 2018 at the Discovery Centre in Halifax. Tickets for the event go on sale in July.

The Discovery Awards began 16 years ago to recognize individuals and

Scott Stirrett, the Halifax-born Founder and CEO of Venture for Canada, has been named the Telus LGBTQ Innovator of the Year. Stirrett won the national honour for his work at the non-profit that recruits and trains youth to work for Canadian startups.

Stirrett, 26, founded Venture for Canada in 2013 while working as an analyst with Goldman Sachs in New York City. He modeled Venture for Canada

With its fifth anniversary looming, Planet Hatch, Fredericton's startup acceleration centre, has outlined its plan for the next five years and the team that will lead the way.

The team includes new Director Adam Peabody, formerly Investment Attraction & Growth Specialist at Ignite Fredericton, the community’s economic development catalyst agency.

He is being joined by Julia Ramirez, formerly

AioTV, an IT company with a significant development team in Halifax, has closed its doors.

The company was founded by Halifax native Michael Earle, a serial entrepreneur who is now based in Denver. The company had operations in both Halifax and Denver. Earle did not respond to a request for a comment on the company last week, but a person familiar with the situation confirmed it has closed.

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We at Entrevestor were deeply saddened Monday to learn of the passing of Ron Hanlon, the President and CEO of the Halifax Partnership. The city’s economic development body announced that Hanlon died Sunday after a brief illness.

Hanlon was a true champion of the innovation community in Halifax, and saw startups and tech companies as an engine for growth in the city. It was all part of his

Prince Edward Island biometrics company Stepscan (formerly known as ViTRAK) has been quietly raising a round of funding with the end goal of $300,000.

The Charlottetown company makes pressure-sensitive floor tiles that help analyse people's gait to identify walking disabilities or balance issues.

“We sell a medical product,” CEO Crystal Trevors said in an interview. “It’s FDA-, Health

Nexus Robotics, the Halifax-based startup that is building a robot that can identify and remove weeds, has won $30,000 at an agriculture tech challenge in Rockville, Indiana.

The third annual agBOT challenge took place May 17 to 19.  Nexus was a come-from-away win and took home first place in the Weed and Feed Competition, beating out teams from Indiana University-Purdue University of