As it plots the expansion of its Cannaplex innovation hub, Dartmouth-based Dispension Industries has also just installed its first Verified Identity Dispenser, or VID, in a pilot project in Vancouver.

Dispension created the VID to allow authorities

The presentations of our 2018 Atlantic Canada Startup Data research will continue with a luncheon event in Sydney on Dec. 10.

Cape Breton Partnership and OnSide are hosting my presentation of our latest startup data at noon at the Verschuren Centre

We’re launching something new today on Entrevestor – our first Atlantic Canada Ecosystem Roadmap.

The Roadmap is designed to help anyone find information about the startup ecosystem in the region. It’s a new section on our website that helps you

After being elected Premier of New Brunswick, Brian Gallant gave himself the job of Minister of Innovation within his cabinet, and today he’s continuing that focus in a new role.

After being out of office for almost a year, Gallant last month was

Energia Ventures next month will hold the Demo Day for its third cohort – a group rich in cybersecurity expertise.

Overseen by the University of New Brunswick’s Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program, Energia is an annual accelerator

Chief Terrance Paul of Nova Scotia’s Membertou First Nation has been awarded the 2020 Aboriginal business award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.

Paul has been Chief of Membertou First Nation for 35 years and

Appili Therapeutics Inc., the Halifax drug-discovery company that listed its shares in Toronto last spring, has acquired the rights to develop a new anti-fungal drug candidate from a Japanese drug company.

Appili issued a statement Thursday saying

Verafin’s record-breaking venture capital deal showed up big-time in the most recent quarterly data report by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

The CVCA’s third-quarter data shows that Atlantic Canadian companies raised

Five founders carted off very big cheques worth a total of $125,000 at the standing-room-only Volta Cohort pitching competition in Halifax on Wednesday night.

In its fifth pitching event, the Volta Cohort invested $25,000 in each of five companies,

St. John’s-based Oliver POS is taking on about 10 clients a week for its online point-of-sales systems, so it now has clients on six continents. And it’s hoping to ramp that number up to 30 per week soon. The company, which began last year, says

The Sobey School of Business at St. Mary’s University is seeking startups to participate in its annual student venture capital competition and possibly join the international search for “the most VC-backable startup.”

For several years, the Sobey

The University of New Brunswick has released a new innovation ecosystem map, which demonstrates the importance of R&D to the provincial economy and makes a call to increase research spending.

The university on Tuesday released the New Brunswick