Sackville, N.B.-based biotech Soricimed Biopharma Inc. has signed a contract to conduct Phase I clinical trials at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, meaning its drug candidate SOR-C13 will be tested at three

ClearRisk Inc., the St. John’s SAAS venture that helps mid-level insurance brokers assess risk, has closed a follow-on round of funding from GrowthWorks Atlantic and an arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada to help it continue its rapid

Oris4, the Halifax software company that has developed a cloud-based document organization system, has hired Salesforce.com veteran Wade McCallum to lead the company’s sales team.

McCallum had been Salesforce’s vice-president of enterprise

In the last 24 hours, the largest-circulation newspapers in both Canada and the U.S. have run articles on Canadian tech hubs. 

USA Today has printed my story on the tech community in Kitchener-Waterloo. I've already posted a few articles from

Magnet Forensics is everything a start-up should be.

The company is lean, produce incredibly strong revenue growth and grows by retaining earnings, not seeking investment. But what makes it stand out is that the company’s technology offers a

The Progress Magazine "People We Love" issue is now on the news stands, and it is rich in material about the startup community.

We'll be featuring more on the issue later, but several prominent people in the startup community made the People

Patrick Hankinson is not a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve, but he does post his business metrics by his door.

Hankinson is a soft-spoken entrepreneurial whiz who runs Compilr, an online development environment that allows users to learn,

Jonathan Robichaud recently completed a private tutorial on writing computer code with Java-Script, and he can’t wait to move on to Python.

In his Java-Script course, he received a full day of lessons from Connor Bell, a Dalhousie computer

A decade after starting as a research project at Holland College in Charlottetown, the Justice Knowledge Network is being spun off into a for-profit eLearning company called JKN Inc.

Executive Director Sandy Sweet said in an interview yesterday

In the midst of interviewing ABK Biomedical's new CEO Pat O’Connor on the Halifax company’s direction, I realized that the story I should write was about O’Connor himself.

Last October, the company announced it had raised $1.25 million in

Charlottetown drug manufacturer BioVectra Inc. said Tuesday it had received a $3 million funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Atlantic Innovation Fund, which will help to finance a $5 million expansion project for the company.

Build Ventures, the new Atlantic Canadian venture capital fund, launched Tuesday with a new name, new headquarters, new co-manager and $48.5 million in committed capital.

And soon it will have its first investment in its portfolio.

“We’re in