Charlottetown-based innovation hub Startup Zone has named Sheryl MacAulay its new CEO and local businessman Mikey Wasnidge as Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

An Islander herself, MacAulay is arriving from the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of

For International Women’s Day this year, we are celebrating some of the female leaders in Atlantic Canada.

Women are becoming a powerful voice in the community. More support organizations are naming women as CEOs and placing them in other senior

Passiv, the Fredericton company that helps passive investors rebalance their portfolios, has been growing so strongly that it can now say investors are using its software to manage $1 billion in assets.

The company experienced strong growth in 2020

St. John’s-based Genesis, Memorial University’s incubator for tech startups, has announced a partnership with the St. John’s office of BDO Canada, which is designed to benefit entrepreneurs in its Enterprise program. 

BDO, a global accounting firm,

After building up its business in British Columbia, Fredericton-based ServUs Health is looking to expand on the West Coast and in its home market of New Brunswick.

The web-based company helps seniors and their carers find vetted service providers,

Health Canada has awarded a $3.49 million grant to the MySafe Society to help fund the roll-out of five opioid dispensers manufactured by Dartmouth-based Dispension Industries.

The federal Health Department said this week it would make the funding

Health Canada has approved the Granville Swab, a new product created by St. John’s-based Granville Biomedical.

During the pandemic, company Co-Founder and registered nurse Crystal Northcott has been swabbing people for the COVID-19 virus in

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods, which makes powdered food products from rejected produce, has closed a $10 million funding round, half of which came from the fund led by Arlene Dickinson of Dragons’ Den fame.

Outcast will use the money to expand its

Agtech company SomaDetect has closed a $6 million venture capital round led by Ag Tech Canada, and intends to use the funds to accelerate adoption of its sensor technology that monitors the health of dairy herds.

As well as the Tillsonburg, Ont.-

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship on March 25 will host the 2021 Mel Woodward Cup, which will hand out $40,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students.

The virtual event will be a pitching competition for student

Snorble, an automated bedtime companion for children, has been chosen for a high-impact campaign on Indiegogo, says its Halifax-based designer Mike Rizkalla.

Snorble is a soft toy, about the size of a teddy bear, that uses voice recognition

For eight years, BioNB and partners have held the bioeconomy conference Atlantic BIOCON. For this year's event, the partnership is expanding to include the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub, CCNB-INNOV and IGNITE Atlantic, and young researchers are being