Volta Labs on Wednesday night awarded $125,000 to five startups – including two from outside the Halifax area – in the second Volta Cohort pitching competition.

Backed by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, BDC Capital and Innovacorp, the Volta Cohort is an early-stage investment program designed to provide about 10 young companies a year with initial funding. The program awarded the full

Highline BETA of Toronto has announced the relaunch of Female Funders Angel Academy, a national program that will help women become angel investors.

Highline, which supports and invests in new ventures, last year bought Female Funders and is now working with the National Angel Capital Organization to roll the program out across the country.

"There are a handful of incredibly talented women

Spring Loaded Technology on Tuesday used a press conference to show what its Levitation knee brace means to the people who use it --especially to users who suffer from osteoarthritis.

The manufacturer held the media event at its Dartmouth headquarters to announce a $460,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Business Development Program, and the launch of a new add-on product

The Halifax company devoted to fostering a culture of safety in the workplace has been awarded a $551,770 contract through the Government of Canada’s Build in Canada Innovation Program.

SayleSafety, a Software-as-a-Service company based in Hammonds Plains, received the funds for its app that digitizes and manages risk assessments for job sites.

“The vast majority of site safety is paper-based.

When Entrevestor featured Cribcut last spring, founder David Howe was deciding how and where to expand his company, which provides a software-enabled marketplace for mobile hairstylists. Almost a year later, Cribcut is expanding into Toronto.

“Launching in Toronto means a lot for us. It proves our model works in a city outside of Halifax, it gives us access to an estimated 35,000 stylists in the

CyberNB today will open CyberSmart 2018, a conference that features presentations by cybersecurity experts from around the world.

The conference will develop themes that were brought out at the inaugural  event last year, CyberSmart is the only cybersecurity skills and workforce development event of its kind in North America, said a statement from one if its sponsors, Saint John-based Mariner.

RetailDeep, the Halifax-startup that used to be known as Skyline, is currently in the running for some big prizes and was shortlisted to the Top 20 at the XRC Labs innovation accelerator in New York City.

XRC runs two cohorts annually and RetailDeep will travel to the Big Apple next week to participate in the final round of the application process, which had over 500 applicants. The applicants

How Dash Hudson launched (and killed) four products in two years and lived to tell the tale.

If you’re an early-stage startup founder, a successful pivot story is much like a modern-day fairytale. It’s got all the right elements—heroism, suspense, and near-death encounters.

Most companies that attempt a pivot will die on the battlefield. They’ll put up a good fight, but eventually, their time

Applications are open for Dalhousie University’s $100K Competition.

The competition, now in its fifth year, assists teams of early-stage ventures in harnessing their talent, resources, and technological know-how to build high-growth companies.

The ten finalists will receive $10,000 in non-dilutive funding and automatic entry into Dal’s 10-week LaunchPad Accelerator, which is part of the Norman

We have quite the list for our Jobs of the Week column today with six positions ranging from COO with Aycoutay in Halifax, to a Director of Research with the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation in Fredericton.

Aycoutay is an early-stage startup that is building software to measure and track your body’s well-being. Its technology allows users to capture and analyze data about digestive,