Forum for business resources takes place next week

Aspiring and established business owners will converge on the Mount St. Vincent University campus next week to attend a reverse trade show focused on the business resources available in Nova Scotia. “Navigating Businesses Through the Sea of Resources” is a free, half-day event at MSVU's Rosaria Student Centre in Halifax on July 14 from 8:30am to

A couple of opportunities for specialized developers in Halifax are the focus of our Jobs of the Week column today.

MindSea Development, a Halifax company that develops apps for iOS and Android systems, is hiring an Android mobile software developer.  Since 2009, MindSea has developed a team of developers and specialists who focus exclusively on apps. The company says that focus means it can

Halifax-based PhotoDynamic Inc. has raised funding from members of the First Angel Network, which will help bring its oral hygiene product to market.

Formerly called Fenol Farm, PhotoDynamic has developed a system that kills plaque buildup on teeth through a combination of light and an extract from a plant that grows wild in Nova Scotia. The company plans to launch the product in the Canadian

Shaw Brick, Atlantic Canada’s oldest concrete masonry producer, has implemented CarbonCure Technologies’ sustainable technology across its entire production line.

CarbonCure, a Halifax green building materials company, has been working with Shaw Brick for nine years as it was an early adopter of one of the startup’s early prototypes. This week, CarbonCure announced the brickmaker is extending

In about a year, the co-founders of NB Biomatrix hope their company will have a plant in Saint John producing a solution that can help to clean heavy metals from the most contaminated water sites around the world.

CEO Jeff Jennings and chief science officer Keith Brunt are now planning to open a test facility in Fredericton early in 2017 to demonstrate the commercial production of Naqua-Pure,

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth company dedicated to marketing automation, said Wednesday its revenue increased 37 percent in 2015.

With clients in 175 countries, SimplyCast is a leading provider of interactive and multi-channel communication software for organizations around the world. The seven-year-old company said its sales are increasing each month, but it did not reveal any specific information

Several members of the Atlantic Canadian startup community are featured among the 26 finalists named Wednesday for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Atlantic 2016 awards program.

The list of nominees includes entrepreneurs whose names appear regularly in Entrevestor, including Ed Clarke of Global Ad Source of St. John’s, Saar Fabrikant of Halifax’s B4Checkin and Travis McDonough of Kinduct

After the funding announcements emerged from St. John’s, the postings began to appear for job openings with the companies.

Clockwork Fox Studios, Sentinel Alert, HeyOrca!, and Sequence Bio had all just raised money from local institutions and were now hiring.

In the past year, St. John’s has witnessed an evolution that many in its startup community had been working on for a long time. It has

With a new CEO in place and a base of Canadian customers, Presenters Podium has set an aggressive expansion plan to get their oral presentation tool into a range of schools across Canada and the U.S.

Presenters Podium was launched about three years ago by Matt Fanning, a former medical device salesman and St. Mary’s University student. He perceived that professors with large classes can never

Umlah Joins Spring Loaded as COO

Spring Loaded Technology has hired Dawn Umlah, previously the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Innovacorp, as its Chief Operating Officer.

Dartmouth-based Spring Loaded, which makes knee braces that add power to the knee, is growing its team to meet the demand for its Levitation Knee Brace, which will launch later this year. As Spring Loaded Technology’s COO, Umlah