Eight months after being named Investment Principal of Sandpiper Ventures, Danielle Graham has taken two new jobs, becoming a partner of both the Halifax-based business advisory group Imaginal Ventures and the U.S. venture capital group Aligne

Thursday night, Propel held its virtual Christmas party, at which the regional accelerator posted a video by me ranking the top 10 stories we've covered in 2020. 

Limiting the number of stories to 10 was difficult. For example, the accelerated

Moncton-based SnapAP, which makes payment software, has closed a “significant portion” of a funding round that it hopes will reach US$2 million (C$2.6 million). The money has come largely from angels in Israel.

The company, whose full name is Snap

The TME program at the University of New Brunswick is looking for scaling companies to participate in the next cohort of Scale Up Atlantic Canada.

Two years ago, the Fredericton university teamed up with Boston-based Babson College – long

Halifax-based Motryx, whose technology helps ensure the safe transport of blood samples, has struck a partnership with Germany’s Aerocom, a global leader in installing pneumatic tube systems in hospitals.

They will work together to distribute

Vertiball, the Fredericton-based manufacturing concern, appeared on Dragons’ Den on CBC last week and walked away with a $420,000 investment by marketing whiz Arlene Dickinson.

Once the deal closes, Dickinson will have a 17 percent stake in the

Halifax Innovation District has joined a network of similar groups convened by the Global Institute on Innovation Districts, or GIID.

Innovation Districts are defined as highly productive and densely concentrated city areas where people develop

Having completed its rebranding exercise, Sydney-based Mabel Systems has developed the prototype of its inventory tracking system for food industries.

Formerly called Tracker Inventory Systems, the company helps companies in such segments as

Innovacorp and its partners are seeking applications for two programs that fund innovation-driven companies in Nova Scotia – the Sprint competition and GreenShoots.

Sprint is a funding program that provides as much as $25,000 in non-dilutive

The National Capital Angel Organization has presented its Angel of the Year award to Mark Dobbin, the Founder and President of St. John’s-based Killick Capital, and given Gerry Pond a Lifetime Achievement Award.

The awards were announced Thursday

With only 16 percent of Canadian small and medium-sized businesses owned by women, there is still much work to do in all sectors to support the full and equal participation of women in the economy. As an Atlantic bio-business accelerator, Emergence

Trevor Hennigar, the former President of Hawthorne Capital, has joined Halifax-based Rimot.io as Chief Operating Officer, assisting not just in day-to-day operations but also strategy and fundraising.

Hennigar has previously overseen an investment