A Nova Scotia engineer is aiming to take energy-efficient housing mainstream.

Natalie Leonard is the founder of Passive Design Solutions, which sells ready-made building plans for energy-efficient houses.

The company originally specialized in

A year after the legalization of cannabis in Canada, New Brunswick is making a push into developing innovation into the sector.

The province is in the midst of a two-week campaign to draw attention to the potential of the field – especially the

Bedford-based Alpha Dog Games, one of the leading mobile-game developers in Atlantic Canada, has been acquired by Bethesda Softworks of Maryland for an undisclosed price.

Founded by Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods in 2012, Alpha Dog has developed such

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship was named one of five finalists in the emerging entrepreneurship centre category of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center’s annual awards.

Though the St John’s-based organization didn’t win, the

St. John’s-based BreatheSuite Inc., which helps people to use inhalers properly, has raised a $550,000 round of equity financing led by Venture NL, the Newfoundland and Labrador fund overseen by Pelorus Venture Capital.

The company issued a press

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is one of three Canadian innovation companies to be honoured at the upcoming National Retail Innovation Awards in Halifax.

The David Sobey Centre for Innovation in Retailing and Services, located at Saint Mary’s University

When the Channel Innovation Awards were held last month, one of the big winners was Moncton-based SnapAp, a small-but-growing company that makes payment software.

In the national competition organized by Channel Daily News, SnapAp captured the Gold

Halifax-based Densitas Inc. whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, announced this week its densitas densityai software will soon be available on the Nuance AI Marketplace.

In a statement, Densitas said the Nuance

One of the changes that have taken place in the East Coast startup ecosystem in the past four or five years is the region has ratcheted up its capacity for launching new companies.

As part of our mission to chart and analyze data on the startup

CarbonCure Technologies' Jennifer Wagner has been named to the Clean50, which each year recognizes 50 Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to clean capitalism.

As Executive Vice-President of Corporate Development at Dartmouth-based

Startup weekends are being planned for Sydney and Charlottetown in the coming month, giving aspiring entrepreneurs a chance to learn how to develop a business idea in a single weekend.

Techstars Startup Weekend, the international organization that

When the University of New Brunswick hosts its Future of Innovation conference on Saturday in Fredericton, one of the highlights will be Daniel Isenberg speaking on his Scalerator program.

In particular, he’ll be able to give a recap of Scale Up