Fredericton-based Passiv has closed a US$2.2 million or roughly C$3 million seed funding round following the fintech startup's graduation from the prestigious Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator.

Passiv plans to spend the money developing its

At Entrevestor Live on Thursday, we’re teaming up some of the region’s top founders and their investors to tell about their companies’ stories together.

Entrevestor Live is a half-day conference at Volta that showcases some of the greatest

CareerBeacon’s purchase of Toronto’s Ruutly, the Moncton recruitment company’s second acquisition this year, was aimed at consolidating pieces of technology that work better as a software suite than as individual tools, according to the heads of

Entrepreneurs and investors converged on Sydney this week for Bring It Together, Navigate Startup House’s inaugural “reverse pitch event.”

Founders who have already raised capital delivered the pitches they used during recent funding rounds, and

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia has announced the finalists for its Tech Forward Awards, honouring players in the province’s information technology community.

The event will be held Nov. 17 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront at 5:30 p.m.

Moncton-based online recruitment company CareerBeacon has bought Toronto’s Ruutly, which allows employers to create interactive job ads.

Co-founders Yves Boudreau and Benoit Bourque started what's now CareerBeacon in 2014 to make backend software

Malcolm Fraser, the last CEO of Innovacorp, has taken a new position as Managing Director of NPC Ventures, the new venture capital arm of Charlottetown-based Natural Products Canada.

NPC Ventures aims to be a $50 million fund that invests in

Entrevestor Live is the best opportunity you’ll find to hear how to build a successful company in Atlantic Canada.

In just three hours, you can hear from 10 East Coast companies that have raised a total of $200 million, and they’ve done it by

The Richmond, BC-based Ocean Legacy Foundation, or OLF has announced it is partnering with telecom giant Telus on a public awareness campaign about plastic pollution in oceans.

Founded in 2013 and helmed by Executive Director Chloe Dubois, the OLF

The Ocean Startup Challenge, which offers idea- and early-stage bluetech startups up to $40,000 each, as well as specialized training, mentorship, networking and events, has revealed the 60-company shortlist for its third iteration.

Organized by

Awareness of the education and support offered free by the Black Startup Project is growing among BIPOC founders who are taking advantage of the training and mentoring available from the Halifax-based network.

Upcoming workshops will look at how to

Britain's leading global affairs magazine, The Economist, hosted its World Ocean Tech and Innovation Summit at the Halifax Convention Centre this week.

The event drew blue economy leaders from across Canada and around the world, including delegates