BioNova, the Nova Scotian life sciences industry association, has chosen Nature’s Way’s acquisition of Ascenta Health as its good news story of the past year.

The association last night held its annual Good News and Blues festivity – a chance to celebrate a good news story in the biotech sphere, and listen to blues played by members of the life sciences community. And it announced the best news

Moncton-based Qimple, whose software helps companies recruit talent, has raised a $1.1 million round of seed capital from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Toronto-based Green Century Investment.

The funding means the two-year-old company, which last year attended the 500 Startups accelerator in Silicon Valley, has raised a total of $1.6 million. Having launched its product last year,

There’s a new social media platform to connect entrepreneurial Haligonians, and it uses that most ubiquitous of all networking sites, Facebook.

St. Mary’s University student Mike Cyr created a group on Facebook called the Halifax Startup Community on Friday and as of Wednesday it already had 160 members. You can find it here. In true Facebook fashion, it is a place where members can post

Tyler Wish named a Canadian Innovation Leader

Tyler Wish, the co-founder and CEO of St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, has been named one of 10 Innovation Leaders by Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.

Bains announced the 10-member panel on Wednesday while outlining his department’s innovation policies. These policies aim to foster science, entrepreneurship,

Last autumn, Mariner Partners concluded a sizeable transaction the way it does much of its business – quietly.

The Saint John technology conglomerate works with a host of startups, and one that captured a lot of its attention was Shift Energy, an Industrial Internet of Things concern that provides automated energy controls to large facilities. Mariner and several of its principals had great

The Atlantic Venture Forum, the conference that aims to link Atlantic Canadian startups with investors, has issued a last call to register for the event that starts one week from today in Halifax.

Critical Path Group, which is organizing the event, says people hoping to attend still have time to register here.

The organizers said that at least 39 investment and tech support groups will attend

When the Halifax startup Proposify wanted to tell the world how it had grown in 2015, it put out a press release with some pretty gaudy numbers.

Founded by tech entrepreneurs Kevin Springer and Kyle Racki, Proposify had already been going for half a decade with the goal of producing a Software-as-a-Service product that would help agencies and others produce a better quality of pitches. It

To appreciate how successfully some Atlantic Canadian startups are scaling, check out these two pitches – one by Kinduct and the other by Affinio – that wrapped up recent West Coast accelerator cohorts.

Travis McDonough, CEO of medical-data provider Kinduct, delivered his pitch in November at the Dodgers Accelerator in Los Angeles. And Tim Burke, who heads the data analytics company Affinio,

I often discuss strategy with the companies I meet, and there’s one piece of advice I am giving more and more frequently these days: consider a B Corp certification.

And I’m making this recommendation based economic more than ethical grounds. I say this because B Corp certification can help staffing immediately and – I believe -- will become more and more important in sales and funding as time

Last call for the Entrevestor survey.

We’ve almost wrapped up our annual survey of Atlantic Canadian startups, and we want to remind those of you who haven’t responded yet to please get your responses in.

We’re thrilled with the response we’ve had to the survey. A vast range of founders have taken a few minutes to fill out our 23 questions, and we’re getting a picture of what happened in the community last year.

You can find the survey here, and it only takes two to four minutes to fill it out. All the information we gather is confidential.

You should fill it out because Entrevestor’s