Our Jobs of the Week column this week features an opportunity for a developer interested in working for one of the hottest tech companies in the region.

The Fredericton agriculture technology company Resson, which this year announced it had raised

Cape Breton startups had to compete with Donald Trump, Jeff Hutcheson and Jim Balsillie at the Cape Breton Partnership’s Investor Summit on Thursday, but the young companies more than held their own.

The summit is the annual conference of the

Pathogens’ growing antibiotic resistance is a global concern. Halifax drug discovery firm Appili Therapeutics Inc. is developing its own solutions, and scouring the world for potential drugs with which to grow the company.

CEO Kevin Sullivan said

As it launches the pilot of its first product, Halifax-based Squiggle Park has been accepted into the Fierce Founders Accelerator, a new program in Kitchener-Waterloo for female tech entrepreneurs.

The Halifax educational technology company,

Kitchener-based Clearpath Robotics Inc. said  Wednesday it has raised US$30 million (C$39.5 million) in a follow-on round led by iNovia Capital of Montreal.

The funding is on top of a $14 million round it closed early in 2015.

The other investors

About four years ago, a trio of game developers came together to form a Bedford-based gaming studio called Alpha Dog Games, and quietly began to grow.

The team started with three founders – two of whom, Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods, are still with

As a former cabinet minister in New Brunswick, Craig Leonard knows how quickly and decisively public opinion develops on social media. It helps him as the CEO of Eyesover, a new Fredericton-based social media monitoring company.

Eyesover is the

Propel ICT is looking for a few good startups – with the potential of becoming a few great companies.

The regional Atlantic Canadian accelerator is hoping to identify successful startups that would be candidates for the Propel Growth program. This

Soricimed Biopharma Inc., the Moncton-based biotech company developing peptide-based cancer treatments, has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation to its flagship compound for the treatment of pancreatic

Our Jobs of the Week column this week features opportunities for a data scientist in Fredericton and sales executive in Halifax.

SimpTek Technologies, a Fredericton startup that helps utilities and homeowners better understand and predict their

Atlantic Canada should foster urbanization in order to build the kind of capital-attracting, wealth-creating culture the region needs, says New Brunswick-based academic and writer, Prof. John McLaughlin.

Exciting urban centres would be especially

Invest Atlantic, the pan-Atlantic conference for startups and investors, will open Wednesday in Moncton with a range of speakers from around the region and other startup centres.

The 2016 event – the first held outside Halifax – has assembled a