Metamaterial Technologies Inc., the Halifax developer of special materials that alter light, has bought the business of Silicon Valley peer Rolith to accelerate the development of its manufacturing facility.

The purchase, the terms of which were

Healthcare and medical devices are the focus of this year’s IDEA Product Development Bootcamp. The themed approach is in contrast to last year’s bootcamp where participants worked on ideas in any field.

The Halifax-based project asks participants,

The Atlantic Biorefinery Conference will take place Monday to Wednesday in Halifax. Now in its fifth year, the three-day event aims to spark new projects that will turn natural resources into value-added products and business opportunities.

A Dartmouth startup has accelerated the launch of its mobile app because its founders believe the product could help distressed families rebuild their lives in fire-ravaged Fort McMurray.

Curbza has developed an app for Apple and Android devices

Halifax-based drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics Inc. has announced $3.3 million in funding and outlined a strategy based on “hitting singles and home runs”.

Standing in his recently opened lab, Founder and CEO Kevin Sullivan said the

Dozr, which has developed an online marketplace for construction equipment rentals, won all of the $100,000 prize money at Demo Day for Communitech’s Rev accelerator on Tuesday.

The Demo Day featured companies from the second and third cohorts of

Propel ICT, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, will hold a series of demo days for its current cohort in the next month, culminating with the main Demo Day June 21 at Neptune Theatre in Halifax.

Twelve companies will pitch at this event –

Beijing-based Skyline’s core founders have arrived in Nova Scotia through the Startup Visa program and are now starting to build a development team in Halifax for future versions of its enterprise software product.

Skyline CEO Hai Hu and his three

Genesis Centre to hold Evolution Program

The Genesis Centre in St. John’s is seeking participants for its Evolution summer program. The Evolution program helps entrepreneurs at or just past the conceptual stage nail down what their product does,

Growth is what Atlantic Canada’s startup community aims for, and the pursuit of growth motivates Anita Punamiya in her new role as CEO of regional accelerator Propel ICT.

Propel is Atlantic Canada’s accelerator for ICT startups. Begun in 2004 in

When Lexumo, a Boston-area cybersecurity company that protects automated machinery, needed an accessible user interface to complement its sophisticated systems, it contracted the work out to Norex of Halifax.

Norex, a website-development firm that

Halifax-based Health QR, whose mobile app helps people to manage their prescriptions, has received a $250,000 seed investment from Innovacorp, which will help to bring its product to market.

The Health QR app reminds people when to take their