Marcato Digital Solutions, the Sydney company that provides administrative software for music festivals,  celebrated its 10th anniversary last month and outlined plans to further capitalize on the rise of major music events.

The company’s 13 staff

Rob Steele, head of Steele Auto Group and radio broadcaster Newfoundland Capital Corporation, has been named the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018 for the Atlantic region.

Steele was presented with the award at a ceremony in Halifax last week, as

Halifax-based life sciences company Sona Nanotech began trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange on Thursday, having closed a deal to raise $2 million through the sale of shares.

The company, which produces gold nanoparticles that can be used

Volta Labs, Halifax’s startup and innovation hub, will be co-hosting a one-day conference called Innovate Atlantic this November.

The startup incubator has partnered with the Rideau Hall Foundation, a Canadian charitable organization, to host the

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has selected as its new CEO Jeff White, arguably the most experienced accountant in the startup space in the region.

The non-profit corporation, which makes venture capital investments and carries out

After Anna Gosine, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, spent four months in Malawi. she returned with a better understanding of the world and a new idea to improve health in developing countries. 

Halifax-based BoomersPlus has closed a $1.05 million funding round, led by Innovacorp, which will help the company expand in Eastern Canada and beyond.

In a statement Tuesday, the company also said it is forming a partnership with the Centre for

Halifax-area transmitter-maker Nautel is working withGeneral Dynamics to upgrade and maintain underwater sensors on the Halifax-class frigates for the Royal Canadian Navy, the company said Tuesday.

In a statement, Nautel said the contract is part

Dartmouth-based Dispension Industries has built a machine that seems to be plucked straight from the realm of science fiction. But its real-world application has the potential to address a crisis that claimed the lives of 4,000 Canadians in 2017

Appili Therapeutics, a Halifax-based drug development company, has appointed its first ever Chief Scientific Officer.

Armand Balboni, the new CSO, will be responsible for the company’s clinical and scientific strategy as well as steering its

Diane Botelho, the Department Head of Air Quality Services at the New Brunswick Research and Productivity Council and adjunct professor at the University of New Brunswick, has won the New Brunswick Bioscience Achievement Award.

She accepted the

Nautel, the Nova Scotian maker of radio transmitters, has signed a “significant” deal to work with a Massachusetts partner to provide advanced navigation equipment to South Korea.

The company said in a statement Thursday that it will provide an