A Halifax human resources firm is pioneering a new service for clients that it calls “cluster employment”, which it hopes will improve working conditions for part-time or gig workers.

Placemaking 4G has launched the service that’s helping workers

Energia Ventures will hold a virtual demo day on Dec. 16, featuring the five companies from three countries that are completing its latest three-month cohort.

The program, which began Sept. 30, is part of University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert

There’s no shortage of winners from Verafin’s pending sale to Nasdaq, and one of the big ones is the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. The provincial government may haul in $100 million from the deal at a time when it could really use the

It would have been difficult for New Brunswick in 2019 to outdo its performance of 2018, especially in terms of funding.

The province in 2018 generated $84.7 million in equity funding, including three investment rounds worth more than $10 million

As it proceeds through the prestigious IndieBio accelerator, Kraken Sense is also working on moving its headquarters from Mississauga, Ont., to Sydney, Cape Breton.

Kraken has developed a culture-based test that tells food producers and water

SimplyCast, a Dartmouth-based automated marketing company, has launched a new solution to help businesses offer contact tracing services during the pandemic.

The company issued a statement last week saying the new mobile solution will help small

Atlantic Canadian startups are on track to raise more than $100 million in equity financing this year now that the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association said the region attracted $79 million in venture capital in the first three

CyberNB, the New Brunswick group that promotes cybersecurity, has signed a multi-year agreement with Ukraine, which will help its partners bid for work in the country.

CyberNB is a non-profit that coordinates industry, government, and academia to

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Venture Manager at the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic in Halifax, and the deadline to apply is end-of-day Monday.

The CDL Atlantic, housed at the Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie

Five early-stage startups -- three of them from outside Nova Scotia -- received $25,000 each in equity funding from the Volta Cohort Pitch Event on Wednesday.

This marks the seventh time that Volta Cohort has staged a pitching event to provide seed

CarbonCure Technologies believes it can accelerate its plans to reduce carbon in the atmosphere because of an unexpected entrant this year into the fight against climate change – Big Tech.

The world’s biggest technology companies in 2020 launched

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster announced Wednesday a new program to help young people across the country to find employment and pursue careers in the ocean economy.

The total cost of the new program, called the Blue Futures Pathways Project, is $2.4