Techsploration, an organization that aims to attract young women to science-related careers, is expanding its scholarship program with the launch of its 20 Scholarships to Celebrate 20 Years campaign.

The campaign has already received more than $20,000 in total scholarship commitments, marking the organization’s largest scholarship total to date.

“Our aim is to help remove financial barriers to

Charlottetown-based life sciences incubator Emergence and Fredericton’s Planet Hatch are teaming up to host a workshop focusing on intellectual property strategies for startups.

Noel Courage, a partner with the Ontario firm Bereskin & Parr LLP Intellectual Property Law, will conduct the 45-minute presentation. It will be followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity for one-on-one follow-up

In the Engineering Faculty at the University of New Brunswick, there’s a lot of talk these days about what they refer to as “TME Next” or “TME 5.0”.

A familiar abbreviation on the Fredericton campus, TME stands for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship. It is the university’s flagship entrepreneurship program, a 29-year-old program that now counts 540 students among its participants. Like

A Halifax CEO, who is paving the way for more women to succeed in ICT, has been recognized for the third year in a row as one of Canada’s 100 most powerful women.

Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, who has been President and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia since 2013, was named Thursday to Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 by the Women’s Executive Network.

In her nearly five years running the Halifax-based

EChart Healthcare of Fredericton has set a lofty three-year goal for its Software-as-a-Service product for seniors’ homes, but CEO Amanda Betts is undaunted by the task once she considers her first-year projections.

Surveying the young company’s current pipeline of new business, she believes eChart will hit its 2018 targets in July rather than at year-end due to strong customer response.

The

Fredericton-based Joint Economic Development Initiative has received more than $2.2 million in funding from the federal and New Brunswick governments to continue to support indigenous entrepreneurs.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency issued a statement last week announcing the funding, which it said would help JEDI continue its work supporting Aboriginal participation in the New Brunswick

Radient360, a St. John’s company that has developed mobile software for oil and gas companies, has closed a $3.3 million funding round from Build Ventures and Killick Capital Inc.

The company has developed a Software-as-a-Service solution that helps major oil and gas companies with such tasks as in-field inspection, maintenance, and logistics.

This funding increases the growing number of St.

Atlantic Canadian biotech entrepreneurs have to look beyond the region to exploit the benefits of other ecosystems, two leading East Coast life sciences CEOs said Monday.

Kevin Sullivan, CEO of Appili Theraputics, an anti-infective drug discovery company, and Mohamed Abdolell, the CEO of Densitas Inc, a medical software company, spoke at Get the Scoop: JLABS Canada. Their discussion at the

Ignite Fredericton will host an Engage Talk Nov 30 at Planet Hatch to highlight how the commercialization of research and business startups can drive disruptive social impact.

Rosemarie Truman, CEO of the Bethesda, Maryland-based Center for Advancing Innovation, will present the keynote. In it, she will share her organization's approach to fostering the development of startups that commercialize

The year 2016 was a tremendous year for the funding of startups in Atlantic Canada – maybe the best ever.

According to data collected by Entrevestor, Atlantic Canadian startups raised $73.3 million in 2016 from venture capital, strategic and angel investors.  That’s up by about one-third from $55.5 million in 2015.

And the great thing was that the deals came in a broad range of shapes and sizes