Sackville, N.B.-based biotech Soricimed Biopharma Inc. said this week that the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. and Health Canada have given it the green light to proceed with Phase 1 trials for its main drug candidate, an anti-cancer

In a further sign that the ecosystem for startups in the region is continuing to evolve, Espresso Capital of Vancouver has hired Ben Forcier, Innovacorp’s former Vice-President of Investments, with primary responsibility for Atlantic Canada.

Afinin Labs Inc. of St. John’s is quickly becoming one of the stars of the tech community in Newfoundland and Labrador, largely because of the commercial potential of its stock-price prediction software, Zenquant. Recently, the company announced

The quarterly Herald Magazine came out yesterday, and its theme is a favourite of mine -- innovation. My column in the publication calls for a regional equity tax credit. I argue that ETCs are a proven means of channeling capital into innovative

The recent news has not all been good for the First Angel Network, but Director and Co-Founder Ross Finlay is focusing on the positive, especially his chance to once again host the National Angel Capital Organization, or NACO, Summit in October.

Smart Skin Technologies, the Fredericton company commercializing a thin material that relays information to a computer when it senses pressure, has closed a round of funding from a group of blue-chip New Brunswick investors.

Though he declined

Just as they used to say in an old TV commercial for Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale, the people putting together the regional venture capital fund are taking the time to get it right.

Of all the accusations that may be hurled against the

The $540 million exit of Dartmouth-based Ocean Nutrition has taught us three things: Ocean Nutrition is a really good company; Atlantic Canada has a good ecosystem for young companies; and the knowledge economy in the region has matured in just

TitanFile Inc. is a young company with a mighty full trophy cabinet.

The Dartmouth enterprise on Tuesday was named runner-up in the Alpha Exchange Innovation Campaign Live Pitch-Off Competition at the OCE Discovery 2012 show in Toronto.

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With the launch of its new Extrify product, Halifax website-design firm Headspace is taking another step closer to being predominantly a software company.

On Monday, the company headed by Kyle Racki and Kevin Springer launched extrify.com, an

Could there be a more auspicious time to unveil the program for the Pond-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick?

Doubt it.

New Brunswick is still basking in the glow of the Radian6 and Q1 Labs

Now that its only VC backer has converted its debt to equity, Halifax-based STI Technologies Ltd. Is embarking on a fundraising campaign it hopes will raise $5 million to $10 million in follow on funding this year.

The company formerly called