Techsploration, a Nova Scotia-based non-profit, has been awarded the 2018 Leadership Excellence Award for Empowerment by the group Women in Communications and Technology.

The national award honours success in empowering girls to continue their participation and education in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM.

“Since 1998, our small, grassroots organization has been propelled by

Planet Hatch in Fredericton will host two free events this month that will highlight how startups can receive funding and partner with corporations.

Opportunities New Brunswick will host the first one on Thursday. The day-long event, called Access to Capital for Startups, is a part of East Coast Startup Week, a week-long series of private events across the region starting today.

ONB has

Innovacorp has exited from an investment it made last century, booking a return of 12 times in the process.

The Nova Scotia government’s venture capital and innovation agency said Friday that its portfolio company Kivuto Solutions Inc. has been sold in a private equity deal. No information on the price was released, but Innovacorp Vice-President of Investment Charles Baxter said in an interview

To keep up with its growing customer base, Dash Hudson has five positions open to join its team here in Halifax, all on our job board this week

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing, software-as-a-service company that helps corporate clients optimize and manage visual marketing strategies. It hopes to hire five new employees to fill the roles of: Senior Full Stack Developer, Account Executive, Data

Halifax-based Proposify has raised a significant funding round led by businessmen John Risley and Brendan Paddick, which should help the company more than double its staff to 60 this year.

The parties involved in the deal, which closed last week, are not revealing how much was raised by the company, whose Software-as-a-Service product automates the process of writing proposals. But CEO Kyle

Ubique Networks, a gaming platform company headquartered in Sydney and Toronto, is putting up US$10,000 in prize money for the CounterStrike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournament at the Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo, Canada’s largest gaming expo.

The expo, hosted by Enthusiast Gaming, starts Friday and wraps up Sunday at the International Centre in Toronto. Ubique is known for its Swarmio Esports

Having polished her e-commerce sites and quit her full-time job, Tara Milburn is building Ethical Swag, a business that helps companies buy sustainable branded products.

Sydney-based Milburn began Ethical Swag in 2010 and, until recently, worked on it part-time.  Now, with many businesses becoming concerned about their purchasing decisions, Milburn is making it easy for companies to buy

For the second year in a row, the Atlantic Region received about $100 million in venture capital investment, largely because of a handful of big deals in Nova Scotia, according to data from Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

The CVCA, as it’s known, released its data for 2017 this week, showing that Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador accounted for 58

Having been a scientist for more than 15 years, I’ve seen my fair share of science-based startups come and go.

Those that succeed tend to do so through a combination of good products, good business sense and good fortune. Often a good enough product or idea can compensate for a lack of business sense, and some companies succeed through sheer luck alone.

But many others fall by the wayside

Applications to join the Startup Yard’s first cohort at the Center for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship are now open.

COVE is looking for early-stage ocean companies in sectors such as energy, aquaculture, and marine transportation to join its incubation facility during its six- to nine-month program. Entrants have to be pre-revenue or with sales less than $1 million per year.

The program