The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is looking for a new CEO, based in Fredericton. The non-profit announced last month that its leader Calvin Milbury was no longer with the organization. Since 2003, the non-profit innovation agency has invested

Patrick Hankinson, a Halifax entrepreneur and investor who specializes in information technology companies, will manage the new $17-million-plus pre-seed fund set up by the Nova Scotian government.

The government announced Thursday that Hankinson

When Mark Gauci, a retired veteran in Newfoundland, learned that his son had been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) he prepared for a huge lifestyle change. But one thing he didn’t foresee was the paperwork. Stacks upon stacks of it.

B-Line, a cleantech Software-as-a-Service company based out of Halifax and Toronto, has received a US$50,000 investment as it takes part in the Flywheel New Ventures Challenge accelerator in North Carolina.  

In early June, five companies were

The Atlantic Venture Forum this year will include a special panel of East Coast companies that have raised significant capital, reflecting the growth in scaling companies in the region.

The AVF, which will take place in Halifax on June 28 and 29,

Introhive has raised US$15.2 million (C$20.2 million) in equity and debt financing and signalled that it hopes next year to become the first Atlantic Canadian tech company to raise $50 million in venture capital.

Based in Washington, D.C., and

SomaDetect, an AgriTech company based inFredericton, received a $250,000 investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation according to a statement from NBIF on Monday. It did not say whether this investment was a part of a larger funding

Six years after he began dabbling in the Internet of Things space, Scott Everett is pushing his company Eigen Innovations aggressively into the automotive sector and courting investors. 

Everett is the CEO of Fredericton-based Eigen, which in the

Colin Deacon, who has led startups Bluelight Analytics and SpellRead, has been appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The Prime Minister announced Friday that the Governor General appointed Deacon as an independent Senator to

Chris Huskilson on Thursday evening showcased the recent improvements in the innovation ecosystem supported by Emera, the company he ran for 14 years.

Huskilson, who retired as the CEO of the Halifax-based energy company in March, was the keynote

Innovacorp’s posting for a Vice President of Investment is our one job in our Jobs of the Week column today.

The Nova Scotian venture capital and innovation agency aims to help startups commercialize technologies for the global market. Current

Kognitiv Spark, one of the hottest new tech startups in Atlantic Canada, has been named a finalist by Microsoft Canada for the tech giant’s 2018 Impact Awards.

Fredericton-based Kognitive Spark, which uses augmented reality to help workers in