Springboard Atlantic, the organization that promotes the commercialization of academic research in Atlantic Canada, has named Daryl Genge as its new president and CEO.

The non-profit network said Thursday that Genge would succeed former CEO Chris

With its indoor farm in Guelph, Ont., nearing completion, TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture is plotting its next phase of growth with more farms, a licensing model for its technology and a new round of funding.

Gregg Curwin, founder and CEO of the

Days after naming 18 winners of its Spark Innovation Challenge, Innovacorp has awarded a total of $920,000 to 27 companies in its oceans and cleantech competitions.

Partnering with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the Nova Scotia

BDC Capital announced Wednesday it will add $20 million to its Women in Technology investment program, which aims to support women heading tech companies. This investment builds on a previous commitment to invest $50 million, making the total $70

Charlottetown-based Rabbit Hole Studios has won Fan Favourite Digital Game at this year’s Gameacon Crystal Awards in New Jersey for its game The Lost Gardens.

The Gameacon Crystal Awards honour the best indie titles of the year, presenting awards

The Volta Cohort, a new micro fund for Atlantic Canadian early-stage companies, got its start last night by awarding a total of $125,000 to five Halifax companies.

Volta Labs, in partnership with Innovacorp and BDC Capital, launched the fund to

Let’s start with the good news from the Deloitte Technology Fast 50: Solace Power of Mount Pearl, NL, was named to the competition’s Companies-to-Watch group for 2017.

And now the bad news: for the second year in a row, not a single Atlantic

Winter might be moving in, but Jeff Thompson is lacing up his sneakers and hitting the road. One of the region’s most successful serial entrepreneurs, Thompson has recently moved on from his executive role at Contact-Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS)

The leap from web design to robotics is a big one, but Mike Rizkalla and his company are making the transition and preparing to bring their first robotics product to the market.  

Rizkalla heads Brave New World, formerly known as Raised Media, a

If there’s one piece of data that stands out from our study of the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2016, it’s the number of companies that are gaining meaningful traction.

Last week, at the Halifax luncheon we co-hosted with Charcoal

Venture Grade, a student-run venture capital fund at St. Mary’s University, has announced its successful bid to host the international Venture Capital Investment Competition.

VCIC is a tri-continental organizationthat hosts competitions at

The University of New Brunswick’s summer accelerator program—whose alumni include mental-health awareness clothing line Wear Your Label and energy storage solution Stash Energy – has opened applications for its fifth season.  

The Summer Institute