Propel Demo Day Set for June 21

Atlantic Canadian accelerator Propel ICT has announced that its next Demo Day will be held June 21 at Neptune Theatre in Halifax.

The event featuring company presentations will begin at 5:30 pm, and is being held on the eve of the Atlantic Venture Forum, which will take place at the Nova Scotian Westin on June 22 and 23.

Demo Day will include pitches from the

Executive search firm Venor has bought the assets of Equals6, a career-focused social network for students, for an undisclosed price.

Halifax-based Equals6 was designed to be a place where students could discuss career prospects, as opposed to other social media sites, which tend to be more about lifestyles. Students can communicate with one-another, or with companies that pay to join the site.

Innovation Week is taking place in New Brunswick over the next week with a range of events across the province.

The annual celebration began last night with the Open Data Awards in Saint John, which leads into the Canadian Open Data Summit in the port city today.  

This weekend, there will be a Startup Weekend New Brunswick at the Venn Centre in Moncton. Over 54 hours, teams will come together,

When the federal government announced funding in February for Charlottetown-based Natural Products Canada, it was the culmination of several years of effort by the PEI life sciences community.

The PEI BioAlliance first applied to create a natural products commercialization centre after the federal government launched its Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research, or CECR, program

Heather Anne Carson fully understood she was on to something big with her new startup Repable when she attended the KeSPA eSport championship in South Korea last autumn.

Operating out of Moncton and Toronto, Repable collects and analyzes data on eSports, or competitive gaming, a fast-growing international phenomenon. It’s estimated some 200 million people will watch competitive gaming this year.

Eigen Innovations Inc. has a new CEO and $1.4 million in fresh funds to help him grow the company.

The Fredericton-based Industrial Internet of Things company has been gaining international attention lately, and now it has named former CTO Scott Everett as its new CEO. He replaces Richard Jones, who will remain on the board of directors.

“Scott has grown from co-founder and visionary to an

Fish farming often gets a bad rap. New Brunswick scientist Dr. Amber Garber is working to make farmed salmon and farming processes healthier, more sustainable and more profitable.

She’s doing it by breeding for traits like fast growth rates and improved natural resistance to sea lice and bacterial kidney disease.

“Selective breeding programs use the fishes’ natural genetic variability to make

Jason Pearson hopes that chemists around the world will soon be using a machine-learning system to accelerate the discovery and development of new compounds.

In fact, he’s preparing to release such a platform to a restricted group in July.

A professor at University of Prince Edward Island, Pearson is a computational chemist — that is, a chemist who uses computers in the development and analysis

Ridesharing platform HitchPlanet has bought Maritime Rideshare, adding 8,000 East Coast users to its base of more than 20,000 customers in the West.

Vancouver-based HitchPlanet and Maritime Rideshare are both ridesharing services – that is, they allow drivers with empty seats in their car to link up with people who need a lift, cutting travel costs and reducing fuel consumption. The companies

I was really lucky in February to drop by the coolest accelerator I’ve ever heard of – Project Music in Nashville.

At an old brick transit garage in the heart of Nashville, two cohorts of music-related startups have been held, mentored by business leaders in one of the hottest music markets in the world. The focus is not, as you’d expect, on country music. It’s on any startup that could disrupt