A year into its second iteration, Newfoundland and Labrador medtech support organization Bounce Health Innovation is working with 40 young companies, many in new programs introduced by the group.

Bounce is a few years old and in mid-2020 it unveiled Bounce 2.0, which included the hiring of its first Executive Director, Chandra Kavanagh. The organization last October said it was working with 14

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub has put out a call for applications for the fall cohort of its eight-week Evolution startup accelerator, with a September 22 deadline.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young companies for longer programs, such as its own, three-year Enterprise incubator. Evolution promises to help entrepreneurs clarify their

A group of Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs and business development organizations have launched a campaign for the four Atlantic provinces to create an investment tax credit bubble that would permit out-of-province investors to qualify for credits as if they were doing business in their home provinces.

Under the group’s proposal, the unified credit would still be offered only to Atlantic

Halifax sales software maker Proposify has raised $13 million from provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and the Canadian Business Growth Fund -- an investment fund backed by major financial institutions, including Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank.

Proposify’s software simplifies the process of writing proposals in the cloud with online proposal design templates

When we started planning Entrevestor Live, we set out to give founders and investors the biggest possible bang for their buck.

Entrevestor Live, an online conference that showcases the East Coast startup community’s greatest successes, is super efficient in terms of time, and priced so any founder can afford to attend.

But be warned: to make sure you get the best deal possible, you have to buy

Fredericton’s Eigen Innovations has announced a partnership with Intel that will see it use the chipmaking giant’s technology in an artificial intelligence system meant to improve the efficiency of manufacturing processes.

Founded in 2012, Eigen uses AI to help machines manage large amounts of data and identity the causes of quality control issues at factories. Recently, the company has

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Kevin Sullivan likes to reflect on how much the Nova Scotian life sciences sector has grown since he moved to Halifax to head a biotech company in 2013.

In those days, Nova Scotia’s bio sector had aspirations and enthusiasm, but few companies had products in the market, and no company had rewarded investors. It was a matter of potential for success rather than evidence of

Emergence, a bioscience incubator based on Prince Edward Island and targeting a national market, has inked a partnership deal with angel investor group Keiretsu Forum Canada.

Keiretsu is part of an international network that includes about 3,000 private equity investors, venture capitalists, family offices and institutional investors. Emergence offers its member companies, which number more than

On the heels of its successful crowdfunding campaign in the spring, Snorble has received commitments for three-quarters of its current US$2 million (C$2.5 million) equity funding round.

The brainchild of Halifax-based serial entrepreneur Mike Rizkalla, Snorble is an automated soft toy that helps kids go to bed with less fuss. It’s about the size of a teddy bear and uses voice recognition

Fredericton cybersecurity startup Gray Wolf Analytics has closed a $500,000 equity funding round, including $200,000 from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, and raised another $700,000 of non-dilutive funding from Mitacs and other sources.

Gray Wolf grew out of research by Dhirendra Shukla, the company’s President and Chair of the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and