Innovacorp has named the companies that have made the shortlist for this year's Spark Innovation Challenge, the province-wide contest for early-stage technologies companies. 

Judges in four regions reviewed 122 Spark submissions to come up with the shortlist below.  Winners, who will be announced next month, could win up to $50,000 and guidance from seasoned business professionals.

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When analyzing our data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community over the past few years, we’ve noticed that startups that collaborate with post-secondary institutions outperform the broader community. Once again, with our study of companies in 2017, we have found that innovation companies working with universities (and in a few cases with communities colleges) have stronger

FREDERICTON – This week, Fredericton-based startup accelerator Planet Hatch announced anew leadership team as it approaches its five-year anniversary. This includes appointing a new director, Adam Peabody.

Huddle chatted with Peabody about the impact Planet Hatch has had on New Brunswick business, where he plans to take it next, and more:

Planet Hatch has been around for about five years now,

Dartmouth- and Toronto-based EdTech company Squiggle Park has closed an $800,000 funding round in a deal that strengthens its relationship with Indigo Books and Music CEO Heather Reisman.

Squiggle Park, which has developed an online tool that helps children learn to read, said in a statement today that with the latest round it has raised a total of $1.03 million to date. The statement said the

Female leaders and diversity champions working in ICT were recognized last night during the Digital Diversity Awards presented by Digital Nova Scotia, a non-profit that focuses on the growth and development of Nova Scotia’s digital technologies industry.

“Since 1843, women have led major advances in programming and software development, yet today women still represent less than 25 percent of the

Students enrolled in the St. Mary’s University Masters of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation program may have noticed some changes in how they access the university's Durland Innovation Fund.

In a recent overhaul of its funding distribution, the MTEI program will invest in its student-led businesses through a venture capital model, moving away from its pitching competition. 

“The

Twelve companies from the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic will head to Toronto this week to take part in the CDL Super Session – a celebration of the program’s graduates from across the country.

Operating out of Dalhousie University, the CDL-Atlantic just finished its first cohort, which began last December with 28 companies being mentored by some of the region’s top business leaders. The

The boom of Nova Scotian craft beer has blessed the province’s ale drinkers with over 40 breweries to choose from. And, with its new app, ImmediaC, a web development company in Halifax, will help consumers find exactly where they can enjoy their favourite local brew.

The app is called Craft on T’app. The company is currently doing a soft launch with a few breweries. The app is already available

Remsoft, the Fredericton-based company that produces predictive analytics software for the forest industry, reported steady growth after investing heavily in research and development for its new platform, Remsoft RISE.

RISE is a cloud-based, multi-user platform for planning and decision optimization. The software is made to find efficiencies in the forest industry value chain.

“For the company,

The Lazaridis Institute Scale-Up Tour is coming to several Atlantic Canadian cities, bringing with it webinars on “blitzscaling” with Chris Yeh.

On Friday, we mentioned that the Kitchener, Ont.-based Lazaridis Institute will have a session in Halifax on Tuesday. What we didn’t realize is that there will also be stops in Moncton, St. John’s and Charlottetown.

The Institute, named for BlackBerry