Three Nova Scotian biotech companies will compete today for $45,000 in prizes in the BioInnovation Challenge.

The finalists, selected from a final round of six competitors, are Biofix Medical Technologies, Help Method and RetiCAD.

The fifth

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested a record $4.2 million in startups in the 2015 fiscal year, more than twice the figure two years earlier, the not-for-profit agency said in the annual report released Tuesday.

NBIF said it made six

When Sunil Sharma, managing partner of Extreme Venture Partners in Toronto, attended the Atlantic Venture Forum in Halifax in June, one thing that caught his attention was how “capital efficient” Atlantic Canadian companies are.

In other words,

Ross Simmonds, a mainstay of the online marketing community in Halifax, has launched a tool to help individuals and companies find the content they need to reach a broader community.

Best known for his consulting and blogging work, Simmonds

As it prepares to close a new round of funding, Linkett has set the ambitious goal of tripling the number of its enterprise clients in 2016.

Waterloo- and Toronto-based Linkett is growth-stage company that helps marketers to assess and improve

Thinking Robot Studios is thinking big.

The Dartmouth 3D printing concern is developing a multi-faceted plant that promises to become a North American leader in the manufacture of medical implants. It has lined up $35 million in financing for

Waterloo drone-maker Aeryon Labs Inc. has closed a $60 million funding round from American investment firm Summit Partners, which will help to accelerate the company’s already impressive growth.

Aeryon is one of the world’s leading manufacturers

With new products and a recent sales-boosting partnership, B4Checkin, a site that creates hotel reservation systems, is feeling good about the future and crediting its Halifax location with enabling its success.

B4Checkin is the creator of a

With new products and a recent sales-boosting partnership, B4Checkin, a site that creates hotel reservation systems, is feeling good about the future and crediting its Halifax location with enabling its success.

B4Checkin is the creator of a

Halifax medical device company Densitas has raised $250,000 in venture capital funding from Innovacorp as part of a funding round including private angel investors.

The company will use the funds to finance the launch of its first product, which

UHWK, the maker of a lightweight video camera that athletes can wear during their games, launched a Kickstarter campaign for its initial project this week and has already raised more than half its target.

Founded by hockey players Shea Kewin and

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth multi-channel marketing company, released a statement on its third-quarter results this week, basically showing that its business doubled from the summer of 2014 to the summer of 2015.

But the fact that the company has