Ascenta Health Ltd. in Dartmouth has received a $500,000 repayable loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to support the marketing of Ascenta Skin, its first omega-3-based product for the beauty market.

Founded a decade ago by CEO

BlueLight Analytics, whose technology ensures dentists apply the right amount of energy when curing resin-based fillings, has launched its new checkMARC product, which it hopes will serve as an entry into dental offices around the world.

The

All you North American sports fans out there: have you ever read a cricket report in a British newspaper?

My bet is any fan of the NFL, NHL, NBA or MLB will be lost in the talk of the wickets, creases, hits for six and the mind-numbing stats.

My old friend Gail Lethbridge highlighted Entrevestor in this superb column on Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurship on Saturday.

Lethbridge, whose column appears weekly in the Chronicle-Herald, makes the case that entrepreneurship is alive and

In the next few months, a Halifax startup will launch an online learning network that will deepen the relationship between some of the world’s leading personal improvement authors and their legions of followers.

The company, sageCrowd, was

Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software finds sales leads for corporate customers, has signed a distribution agreement with HootSuite, the Vancouver startup that allows people to monitor and manage their social media traffic.

The two companies

Green Power Labs of Dartmouth is celebrating its 10th year of delivering climate analytics to the power industry by launching an ambitious project that could reduce energy consumption in buildings by well over 10 per cent.

Founded in 2003, the

I recently witnessed a pitch by the representative of a Central Canadian biotech company that had a product that sounded spiffy, but damned if I could figure out what the guy was saying. The pitch involved a string of medical jargon—and while I

The Co-Founders of the new Halifax startup Modest Tree Media Inc. want to make printed training manuals — whether for assembling an Ikea bookshelf or operating a state-of-the-art jet engine — a thing of the past.

These entrepreneurs — chief

My latest article for USA Today, which is in today's edition, covers the programs popping up in the U.S. that help Canadian startups – C100, Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England and the Canadian Technology Accelerators.

The story features

Data analytics company Search2Go of Saint John is opening a development office in northern New Brunswick, supported by an investment by former premier Frank McKenna’s Miramichi Technology Fund.

Capitalizing on the boom in big data, Search2Go is

IPSNP Computing, the Saint John company whose software conducts industrial-strength searches of vast numbers of data banks, is looking for a few end-users to beta test its HYDRA product early next year ahead of the full launch in the late summer