St. John’s-based DNA sequencing startup eDNAtec has won an award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association recognizing its contribution to protecting the marine environment.

The Cleantech Innovation Award, announced

The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund is launching its first fund, Sandpiper Ventures. Danielle Graham, a well-known proponent of diversity in entrepreneurship, has been named the fund's Investment Principal.

Graham will oversee the distribution of a

Deloitte has opened applications for its 2020 Technology Fast 50 program, which recognizes the fastest-growing IT companies in the country based on four years of revenue data.

Now in its 23rd year, the Fast 50 is a benchmark for success in

A study sponsored by the PEI BioAlliance has found that the bioscience sector was the province’s second-largest export industry in 2018, but CEO Rory Francis said in an interview that infrastructure and labour constraints represent obstacles to

Halifax-based Outcast Foods has teamed up with Toronto's Greenhouse to reduce food waste by creating new products. Outcast will upcycle pulp byproduct from Greenhouse’s juice processing operation to produce dried fruit and vegetable powders.

A 2019 pivot has allowed Moncton-based social enterprise The Farmers’ Truck to become cash-flow positive and expand outside of Canada.

CEO Fredéric Laforge and co-founder Mathieu Reyjal originally conceived of the company as a mobile produce store,

Charlottetown-based Somru BioScience Inc. is adapting its antibody platform to assist in developing therapeutic and diagnostic solutions for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

The company has been developing a range of products centred around

Reazent, an agtech company that has moved to Nova Scotia under the Startup Visa program, has been accepted into the IndieBio accelerator in Silicon Valley.

Startups in the prestigious accelerator receive a US$250,000 (C$350,000) equity investment,

T4G has been purchased for an undisclosed price by national accounting and consulting firm MNP, which wants access to the target company’s expertise in data analytics and machine learning.

Though headquartered in Toronto, T4G is one of the pillars

In the wake of acquiring a division of a data analytics consultancy, New Brunswick legal software firm Datolite Solutions continues to see strong sales despite COVID-19.

Datolite, which used a distributed work model even before the pandemic, has

Dalhousie University and Dartmouth-based educational software startup Squiggle Park are key players in a seven-year, $2.5 million project funded by the federal government to study literacy in a digital society.

The initiative is aimed at “ensuring

Nonte, a new health tech startup spun off from Fredericton’s Populus Global Solutions, has a single early adopter for its medical research platform, and it’s the largest medical complex in the world.

Nonte has been beta-testing its platform, which