Halifax’s Talkatoo, which sells transcription software for veterinarians, has won a major pitch competition hosted by the North American Veterinary Community, or NAVC, industry group.

Talkatoo beat out 19 competitors at the fourth annual VMX Pet

Halifax’s Aurea Technologies is launching a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday to fund its first consumer product, a portable wind turbine called Shine.

The turbine is a portable power generator designed for campers and hikers who need to charge their

A team in Halifax has completed the soft launch of a new social media network focused on "talk", and hopes it will become the next big thing in online interactions. 

Watzan, a Halifax-based content curation platform for the pharmaceutical industry,

Software startup RIDDL has closed a $1.3 million funding round with investors that include Gerry Pond’s East Valley Ventures, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, and at least one angel.

The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick company is aiming to

Fredericton-based Anessa Biogas Software has finished a capital raise from a roster of investors that includes Halifax’s Concrete Ventures, Toronto’s GreenSky Capital, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Saint John’s East Valley Ventures.

Fredericton-based Smart Skin Technologies has closed a $10.7 million round of funding led by BDC Capital, and intends to double its staff with the new financing.

BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund led the round, which was joined by

Though remote work has become commonplace in the innovation economy in the past year, a distributed team had already become essential for the business model of one Halifax startup before the pandemic.

Founded in 2016 by Mario Comando and Alessia

The Energia Ventures accelerator is calling for applicants for its fall cohort, which will be its second program held this year.

The accelerator is part of University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management &

Halifax behavioural modification startup Habit Forming Technologies has raised just shy of $500,000 in an unplanned round of investment and is preparing for a second, more structured raise in the low seven-figures later this year.

Habit Forming

The Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund is now open to applicants, and will provide loans up to $250,000 to Black business owners and entrepreneurs across the country.

On Monday, the federal government said Black business owners and entrepreneurs face

With funding for many small-town startups languishing in the doldrums, rural innovation hub IGNITE is testing a new platform to match companies with investors, in hopes of making more capital available to entrepreneurs.

Talenca is being developed

The funeral industry ranks among the most staid bastions of the traditional economy, with practices that have changed little in centuries. To one Halifax startup, it looks ripe for disruption.

Dear Life’s goal is to move the process of