Startup Genome, the San Francisco-based organization that assesses and ranks startup ecosystems around the world, has named Chris Crowell its first ambassador in Atlantic Canada.

Crowell is the former Vice-President of Corporate Innovation at

J. Regis Duffy, one of the pillars of the P.E.I. biotech community, and Mohammed Moin, Co-Founder and CEO of Somru BioScience Inc., are the inaugural winners of Synapse’s new Innovator Awards.

Synapse, the agency that oversees the commercialization

Innovacorp has announced the eight startups that have been accepted into its 2019-20 Innovacorp Accelerate Program and the five winners of the fall Sprint competition.

The Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency on Thursday

St. John’s-based CoLab Software, which makes advanced design and manufacturing collaboration software, has closed a $2.7 million financing round following its participation in Silicon Valley’s prestigious Y Combinator accelerator.

The company,

Spark Nova Scotia, previously known as the Spark Innovation Challenge, is making a change to focus on rural innovation and is accepting applications for the next two weeks. 

For the last few years, the contest, which was previously organized by

With post-secondary students back in colleges and universities, Bursity.ca is pushing forward with its mission of helping more young people find scholarships and bursaries and avoid the trap of student debt.

The company is developing an online

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The inner workings of a venture capital fund can seem mysterious to those of us on the outside, and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is eager to shine a light on how these funds operate.

NBIF is not your typical VC fund

It’s as if Todd Chant is driving on to a wide fairway with the wind at his back on a short Par 4.

The head of Sydney-based Easy Golf Tour isn’t under-estimating the task in front of him next year, but his two-year-old company is gaining momentum

A New Brunswick Biotech company is being recognized by BioNB for its contributions to the sector.

BioNB, New Brunswick’s bioscience agency, awarded anessa the New Brunswick Bioscience Achievement Award on Tuesday night at their annual industry

Yarmouth-based Ignite Labs has opened a second rural innovation hub in Pictou County to support the startup community in the northern part of Nova Scotia.

Ignite is a rural innovation hub that provides mentorship and opportunities for startups.

MESH/diversity, the Moncton company that helps organizations measure and improve diversity, has raised a $950,000 equity funding round, including a $250,000 contribution from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

This is the first time NBIF has

Halifax-based Dash Hudson, the fast-growing visual marketing SaaS company, has launched a new product to measure Pinterest campaigns for major brands.

Dash Hudson helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software is a