Recent Post

hero image

HCi3 Invests $1M in Oberland Agriscience

  • Jan 29, 2026
hero image

Lab2Market Ocean/Validate Cohort Revealed

  • Jan 29, 2026
hero image

Stroke of Luck: Tech for Stroke Survivors

  • Jan 27, 2026

recent news

CarbonCure Client List Passes 80

  • Dec 06, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, creator of a process that buries carbon dioxide in concrete, has partnered with St. Louis-based Breckenridge Material Company and Eastern Missouri Concrete to lift its number of concrete-producing partners

read more

HotSpot Closer to Regional Vision

  • Dec 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The logo of Fredericton startup HotSpot Parking is about to become very familiar to Haligonians, as the company has won the contract to offer mobile parking services in Halifax.

The four-year-old company — whose radiating parking meter logo is

read more

Rovault Plans Pilot for Its Seafood Tech

  • Dec 04, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Halifax-based RovaultAI has designed a marine camera solution that could potentially save $2 million per year for some of the region’s seafood plants.

The algorithm-based visual recognition software is specifically designed for the oceans sector

read more

Trispectra Aims To Help Fix Outages

  • Dec 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Trispectra is a Fredericton startup dedicated to solving a problem common to pretty well every electrical utility – quickly finding and identifying faults on their grids.

The company is made up of a trio of University of New Brunswick engineering

read more

Acadia Award $10K to Startups

  • Dec 03, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Three environmental studies students at Acadia University won $6000 to help launch their business Highway 101, a mobile food truck that serves healthy produce sourced from local farms.

Emilia Ganslandt, Gillian Hollebone and Alisha Christie won

read more

Jobs of the Week: Dash Hudson, NBIF

  • Dec 03, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting Dash Hudson’s search for a Sales Development Representative and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s opening for an Investment Analyst.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is a software-as-a-service

read more

Smart Grid Project Gains Steam in NB

  • Dec 01, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

While Atlantic Canada’s nautical types are pushing ahead with the oceans supercluster proposal, there’s another major initiative in the region that has captured less attention but still offers great potential.

Centred in New Brunswick, the Smart

read more

Ashored Wins $3000 from LaunchDal

  • Dec 01, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Ashored Innovations, a young venture that aims to help automate the lobster and crab fisheries, captured the $3,000 first prize at Dalhousie University’s Collide Fall 2017 Pitch Competition on Thursday night.

LaunchDal, the university’s

read more

NBCC Offers Cybersecurity Program

  • Dec 01, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

The New Brunswick Community College has announced it will offer a one-year program in cybersecurity beginning next September. By introducing this advanced post-grad program at its Saint John Campus, NBCC, in partnership with CyberNB, aims to help

read more

Aqualitis Set To Raise, Then Launch

  • Nov 29, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Aqualitas, the Liverpool cannabis producer, is set to close a $6.5-million funding round with private investors next month, with the hopes of getting to market next year.

The close of this funding round will bring the total equity capital raised by

read more

Gardner Named to Biotech Panel

  • Nov 29, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Chris Gardner, the co-founder and CEO of Sequence Bio, a Newfoundland and Labrador genomic data company, has been appointed to the newly created federal Health/Bio-sciences Economic Strategy Table.

“Canadians are known for finding the better,

read more

Bringing Life to the Island Sandbox

  • Nov 29, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Like the other managers of Nova Scotia’s innovation-promoting sandboxes, Darren MacDonald is an entrepreneur. He’s an ergonomist with more than 20 years’ experience of design thinking and seeing experiences from the perspective of the user. It’s a

read more