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

Nova Scotia's Department of Seniors and the Halifax Chamber of Commerce are wrapping up their fourth annual Silver Economy Summit, called AdvantAGE: Embrace the Boom, at the new Halifax Convention Centre today.

The two-day conference brought together governments, businesses, and entrepreneurs to discuss the needs and interests of the aging population and find new ways to tap into the growing

If the Pokémon GO craze of summer 2016 has shown us anything, it’s the impact that augmented reality has on connecting consumers with the physical world around them. And Kara Holm, the CEO of Play the Field is piloting a project that will bring that same experience into the casino industry. 

The Halifax company has developed a demo for an app that can gamify the experience of visiting casino

BioNB, the umbrella organization for life sciences in New Brunswick, has published its first annual report, showing a rapid increase in the number of biotech companies in the province and highlighting several achievements.

Last week, the Fredericton-based group issued the 44-page report, which says that the number of bioscience startups operating in the province has doubled in the past four

Curtis Kennedy, a mechanical engineering student at the University of New Brunswick, was the winner at the sixth annual Canada's Business Model Competition this weekend.

Kennedy took home $15,000 for Vertiball, a wall-mounted roller ball for back-pain relief. His design has a suction cup so users can mount the ball to any height on a wall and roll out hard-to-reach muscle knots. He’s going to